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GRAYS SHADE MONARCHS IN 3-GAME SERIES/KANSAS CITY. Mo.—The Homestead Grays made {It two out of three with the Kansas City Mon-archs here, last weef:, the locals winning the first gameiif the series. 8-7. with the visitors tAlng both games of a doubleheader 4y 7-5 and 8-4 scoresIn the first game. Cooper, the Monarchs' starting piteher, . was knocked from the mound with one out in the. eighth, and Brown, who replaced him, was also a target for the Gray hitters, five runs in the rally placing the invaders only one run behind. Beverly, however, went to the mound in the ninth and stopped the scoring.Indifferent fielding was costly to the Monarchs in the double :blU, hits that should have been held to singles being allowed to' tricklethrough for expensive doubles and triples. Kadcliff's hit In the fourth of the first game rolled through Stearns's legs for a 3-bagger, accounting for thre eruns.In the fifth Scales got away with a triple which should have been held to a single, allowing two more runs to count. After allowing one run in the first, three in the fourth and two In the fifth. Brewer was pulled. McHenry finished the game, yielding only three hits and a run. After tying the score in the first, the Monarchs went runless until the sixth when a desperate rally put over four runs on a double by Mothel and successive singles by Joseph, Allen and Harris.Outhit eight to sir in the second game, the Monarchs made four expensive ralscues. • while the Graysplayed errorless ball. Following the series the Monarchs left for a tour of Iowa. South Dakota and Nebraska, returning her for a night game with the House of David team on September 28.MONARCH* PITTSBURGHAB H POA AB H PO AMoth et.lb 5 1 3 Isiarrla.cf 4 0 4 0inincan.c 5 3 4 Opage.rf 8 1 4 0Allen,ss 2 I 0 lWll.ion.3b 5 1 1 3|Stearos.cf 4 0 3 OchT«t'n.lb 4 2 9 2!Harrl-.lb 4 1 9 03cales.2b 3 13 4! Donal'n If 4 2 2 Opibson.lf 4 1 1 01Joseph.3b 4 2 0 ORadcllffe.c 4 2 4 1|RoRert.rf 4 3 4 OBrttt.ss 4 0 1Cooper.p 2 0 0 SWIlllamS.p ( 0 1 ijBrown.p 110 1Beverly, p 0 0 0 0Totals 35 12 24 8 Total 37 8 27 12:Pittsburgh ..................010 010 050—7Monarchs ..................500 030 OOx—8 IErrors—Pittsburgh. 4 (Wll'On. Radcliffe.Britt 2): Monarchs. 2 (Mothel. Joseph).Two-base hits—Gibson, RadcllfTr, Duncan. Brown. 8tolen bases—Stearns. Rogers Double plajs—Wilson to Charleston to Wlb aon. Britt to Scale* to Charleston. Left on baseswPlttsburgh, 5; Monarchs. 8. Bases on balls—Oir Williams, 3; og Cooper, 2. Struck out—By NVlUlams. 4; by Cooper. 3: Hits—Off Cooper 7 In *ecen and one-half Innings; of! Brown, 1 in two-thirds Innings;off Beverly 1 in one inning. Wild pitches— - ----
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1931
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