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guess that makes me one too
many apologies!!
Elmer
The Red Sox and the Sanford Professionals met at Goodall Park Wednesday afternoon in a game which will probably stand for a long time as the real classic event of Sanford's baseball. The score was 4-3 in favor of the Red Sox when the last little dust cloud stirred up by a player's toe cleared away. The Red Sox attack was led by Babe Ruth, the champion home run getter of the world to date. Babe connected for a full circuit clout in the eighth inning. He was obliged to do it to win his fame. It wasn't a case of just letting the big swat artist bat the ball for four sacks to please the crowd of fans, who had been reading of his tremendous wallops during the big league season. When Ruth caught the old pill and sailed it over the right field fence, thirty feet or more inside the foul line and with a clearance of full forty feet, Sanford had his team in the hole 3-1, and it was the eighth inning. There were two out, and Gilholey was on third, with Roth on first, the result of a base on balls and a fielder's choice. Ruth had swung hard at the first ball pitched, and missed. Then came a called strike. There were few present who expected the blow that followed. Sanford's pitcher tried to pass the batter, but Babe reached out for a ball eight or ten inches wide of the plate, picked out the seam he wanted to hit it on, and slammed the sphere out of the park, whereafter taking his time in jogging around the bases in the wake of the two men who preceded him across the plate, putting the score at 4 to 3 against the locals, which count remained without change until the finish. It was a hard game for Sanford to lose, and one of the best aside from the big home run feature, ever witnessed here. One error only was credited to each team, Ruth, playing at third, making one of them, and the favorite "Pink" the other. It was a battle of pitchers, Barclay, twirling for Sanford, allowed three bases on balls and struck out four men. Golden for the Red Sox had that same record for the game. Sanford connected safely five times, two of the hits contributed by Jim McKeon. Red Sox players corralled eight hits. NcNeil, the redoubtable catcher, landing three of them. Next to Ruth's homer the batting feature was a long triple by Rowe in the fourth, which, with Ruth's error and singles by McKeon and Kincaid, gave the Sanford team its three runs. Sharp fielding featured the fray, two double plays being worked by each team, Pinkerton starting Sanford's and Shean getting the double killings off for the Sox. It was a grand good game to watch, and many watched it-the biggest paid attendance of the season for the stores and mills were closed for the occasion. There was something doing all the time. No inning was featureless, the fourth and the eighth sharing high honors. It was in the fourth that Sanford piled up the three runs. It was in the fourth, also, that Ruth started a four-ply drive for the same fence he afterwards sent one over, but started it too low. At the crack of the bat, seemingly, there was a smash in the mit of Sanford's first baseman, and McKeon, nearly tumbled by the blow, had the ball safely caught. Then in Sanford's half of the fourth inning McKeon, not to be outdone by Babe in this first baseman-killing stunt, slammed a hard one at Stuffy McInnis, the catapulted horsehide taking that worthy off his feet and humbling him in the dust, with Big Jim safe on first. It was a great game. NOTES OF THE GAME A song, written somewhere, sometime, by somebody was sold in the grandstand and along the sidelines during the game. The chorus was sung at intervals by a man with a megaphone, and a younger man did the selling act. The song was all about Babe Ruth's batting prowess, and had a real swing to it, to, just as Ruth's bat has a swing to it, and Babe was portrayed in batting posture, on the cover. Many copies were sold. When Ruth made his error, in the fourth inning, a fan watching the game from the sun-bathed bank on the east side of the park expressed himself this way, viz. -"G'wan you lout, get in there and play baseball. What d'yer spose I paid a quarter for you pictures for, anyway!" That was a pretty close decision, when Hayden was called out at second in the third; and another fine question, decided in the affirmative by McCann, was whether or not a ball from Roth's bat was fair or foul, near first base, in the sixth. The umpiring, it may be said, gave general satisfaction throughout. When "Hypie" slammed out that three-bagger in the fourth inning, he went around second base like a flash, and Shean, on getting the throw from Bailey, thought he had him at a mile; but, after "Hypie" had slid to safety, Shean just stood and looked at him and wondered how he got there so quickly. Some speed artist, "Hypie!" "Mike" Hayden got one awful wallop on the knee from a foul tip off Ruth's bat, and it laid him out for a few minutes, but he resumed play amid loud cheers from the fans. Umpire McCann stopped a couple of foul tips during the game, and it was hard to distinguish whether he said "foul" or "ouch" each time. As many have called up the Tribune in regards to the men at bat during the Red Sox 8th inning, and to show that Ruth did not bat out of order, we will give the plays as they were made, and how the two men got on bases: Golden, first man up in this inning, singled to the left of second base and was thrown out, Kincaid to Parent, when he tried to turn the hit into a two-bagger. Gilholey reached first on a free pass, and took second on an error by Pinkerton of Shean's ground hit to right of second base. Roth reached first when Pinkerton intercepted his hit to the right of second and put Shean out by touching him as he ran for second, then trying to double Roth on a throw to McKeon. Ruth then came up, being the fifth batter to come to the plate, and did what the crown wanted him to do, pasted it over the fence. McInnis went out, Rowe to McKeon, for the third out. In the seventh inning, Ruth led off and was passed. McInnis short one down to "Pink" who tossed to Parent, and then Parent shot it over to McKeon for a snappy double play. Malone and McNeal then singled and Bailey went out on a ground hit to Jim McKeon at first, leaving Malone and McNeal stranded on second and third. Before the game started, Ruth gave an exhibition of "fungo" batting that delighted the crowd. Ruth bought all the league balls he could find in Sanford before the game, in order to have enough left after hitting them over the fence during the warming up batting practice.
guess that makes me one too
many apologies!!
Elmer
The Red Sox and the Sanford Professionals met at Goodall Park Wednesday afternoon in a game which will probably stand for a long time as the real classic event of Sanford's baseball. The score was 4-3 in favor of the Red Sox when the last little dust cloud stirred up by a player's toe cleared away. The Red Sox attack was led by Babe Ruth, the champion home run getter of the world to date. Babe connected for a full circuit clout in the eighth inning. He was obliged to do it to win his fame. It wasn't a case of just letting the big swat artist bat the ball for four sacks to please the crowd of fans, who had been reading of his tremendous wallops during the big league season. When Ruth caught the old pill and sailed it over the right field fence, thirty feet or more inside the foul line and with a clearance of full forty feet, Sanford had his team in the hole 3-1, and it was the eighth inning. There were two out, and Gilholey was on third, with Roth on first, the result of a base on balls and a fielder's choice. Ruth had swung hard at the first ball pitched, and missed. Then came a called strike. There were few present who expected the blow that followed. Sanford's pitcher tried to pass the batter, but Babe reached out for a ball eight or ten inches wide of the plate, picked out the seam he wanted to hit it on, and slammed the sphere out of the park, whereafter taking his time in jogging around the bases in the wake of the two men who preceded him across the plate, putting the score at 4 to 3 against the locals, which count remained without change until the finish. It was a hard game for Sanford to lose, and one of the best aside from the big home run feature, ever witnessed here. One error only was credited to each team, Ruth, playing at third, making one of them, and the favorite "Pink" the other. It was a battle of pitchers, Barclay, twirling for Sanford, allowed three bases on balls and struck out four men. Golden for the Red Sox had that same record for the game. Sanford connected safely five times, two of the hits contributed by Jim McKeon. Red Sox players corralled eight hits. NcNeil, the redoubtable catcher, landing three of them. Next to Ruth's homer the batting feature was a long triple by Rowe in the fourth, which, with Ruth's error and singles by McKeon and Kincaid, gave the Sanford team its three runs. Sharp fielding featured the fray, two double plays being worked by each team, Pinkerton starting Sanford's and Shean getting the double killings off for the Sox. It was a grand good game to watch, and many watched it-the biggest paid attendance of the season for the stores and mills were closed for the occasion. There was something doing all the time. No inning was featureless, the fourth and the eighth sharing high honors. It was in the fourth that Sanford piled up the three runs. It was in the fourth, also, that Ruth started a four-ply drive for the same fence he afterwards sent one over, but started it too low. At the crack of the bat, seemingly, there was a smash in the mit of Sanford's first baseman, and McKeon, nearly tumbled by the blow, had the ball safely caught. Then in Sanford's half of the fourth inning McKeon, not to be outdone by Babe in this first baseman-killing stunt, slammed a hard one at Stuffy McInnis, the catapulted horsehide taking that worthy off his feet and humbling him in the dust, with Big Jim safe on first. It was a great game. NOTES OF THE GAME A song, written somewhere, sometime, by somebody was sold in the grandstand and along the sidelines during the game. The chorus was sung at intervals by a man with a megaphone, and a younger man did the selling act. The song was all about Babe Ruth's batting prowess, and had a real swing to it, to, just as Ruth's bat has a swing to it, and Babe was portrayed in batting posture, on the cover. Many copies were sold. When Ruth made his error, in the fourth inning, a fan watching the game from the sun-bathed bank on the east side of the park expressed himself this way, viz. -"G'wan you lout, get in there and play baseball. What d'yer spose I paid a quarter for you pictures for, anyway!" That was a pretty close decision, when Hayden was called out at second in the third; and another fine question, decided in the affirmative by McCann, was whether or not a ball from Roth's bat was fair or foul, near first base, in the sixth. The umpiring, it may be said, gave general satisfaction throughout. When "Hypie" slammed out that three-bagger in the fourth inning, he went around second base like a flash, and Shean, on getting the throw from Bailey, thought he had him at a mile; but, after "Hypie" had slid to safety, Shean just stood and looked at him and wondered how he got there so quickly. Some speed artist, "Hypie!" "Mike" Hayden got one awful wallop on the knee from a foul tip off Ruth's bat, and it laid him out for a few minutes, but he resumed play amid loud cheers from the fans. Umpire McCann stopped a couple of foul tips during the game, and it was hard to distinguish whether he said "foul" or "ouch" each time. As many have called up the Tribune in regards to the men at bat during the Red Sox 8th inning, and to show that Ruth did not bat out of order, we will give the plays as they were made, and how the two men got on bases: Golden, first man up in this inning, singled to the left of second base and was thrown out, Kincaid to Parent, when he tried to turn the hit into a two-bagger. Gilholey reached first on a free pass, and took second on an error by Pinkerton of Shean's ground hit to right of second base. Roth reached first when Pinkerton intercepted his hit to the right of second and put Shean out by touching him as he ran for second, then trying to double Roth on a throw to McKeon. Ruth then came up, being the fifth batter to come to the plate, and did what the crown wanted him to do, pasted it over the fence. McInnis went out, Rowe to McKeon, for the third out. In the seventh inning, Ruth led off and was passed. McInnis short one down to "Pink" who tossed to Parent, and then Parent shot it over to McKeon for a snappy double play. Malone and McNeal then singled and Bailey went out on a ground hit to Jim McKeon at first, leaving Malone and McNeal stranded on second and third. Before the game started, Ruth gave an exhibition of "fungo" batting that delighted the crowd. Ruth bought all the league balls he could find in Sanford before the game, in order to have enough left after hitting them over the fence during the warming up batting practice.
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