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Club S eeking Ona More Win for City TitleWill Prep.ire for Third Game Next Si unlay Against House of lia.vid Tuesday Night.Harold Tackleson and the Mus- i catine Mu slues went two up in thej play-off lor the annual city base- i ball championship Sunday after- j | noon with u 5 and 3 victory over the Muse; it me Independents, de- j fending city' champions, in the series at L ague field.Tackles or, although wild at j times, guv-' up only four scat-tered hit#-* vhile his teammates were comb ng the offerings of \ ' •Boob” Eames, an import from | Rock Isl uhI, for nine bingles, , most of vl ich resulted in runs.()nlt; ''lore Win Needed.Another* victory by the Muskie3 j j next Sur d y wrill end the three-out-of-five games series with Manager .John Downey's outfit taking a clean swnep of three straight james. The Muskies nosed out the Indees, 1 to 0, in the l opening of the series last Sunday.The Muskies will get a real test, in prepa:*a ion for next Sunday’s i game, T it day night when they meet the He use of David club at League fi.-ld under the floodlights of the* Davidites. Two inn- j ings of hmkey ball are scheduled after the regular nine inning' j engagement between the team3. | Mildred ‘I abe” Didrikson, inter- (I nationally imous girl athlete, will be on tl e mound for a time for the House of David club.Tackles ’a slants were poison; to the de tiding champs Sunday j until the lt;ighth inning wnen his : first streak of wildness gave the j , Indees 11« r first opportunity to place mlt; r« than one man on the paths. In that frame the champions ta lied once on two singles and two v alks, and another tally j ! m the ninth was indirectly the result of tq« 1 fs? of Tackleson’s wild-; ness. But the Muskies, in the meantime, had piled up enough j j margin :o t arry them througn.Mi si it's Score in Third.The Mu. kies went to work on J their mar, m in the third, scoring i two run;i n two singlcs.a stolen base an«l a. walk. After Hofer had gro nicd out to open the ! inning. Ta kleson drew a pass and i scored tn two successive singles by Faulhe lt;*r and Vetter. Faul- \ haber to 3k third on Vetter's single 1 and scored when Gibby Jacobs; grounded mt, second to first. !The Indies knocked one run off the Must, s' margin in the fourth; when “Wi tey Sehroeder, Indees shortstop, drew a pass, stole second and third, and scored when(Con mued On Page 9.)
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Mon, Sep 17, 1934
Page 6
Full Page
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Michael W.
NA, 31 Jul 2023
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