Volume 13 , Issue 44

Baseball 1904 - Guthrie, Oklahoma

In The Guthrie Daily Leader, June 21, 1904, page three, there is an article about "Baseball" that starts out with the subheading, "Grandpa Bennett Won the Game." It was June 21, 1904, Enid Oklahoma when The Blues took the first of the local series in a game that had ginger in it.

The Blues, as I take it, was a baseball team that held the locals down despite the heavy sticking, and in the last inning won the game by a sensational catch by Bennett. The score was six to five in Guthrie's favor, two men down, a man on third, Cooley hit what looked like a safe one but "Grandpa" Bennett stuck his thumb in it and pulled it down. Hoffmeister was hit for two home runs, two two-baggers and five singles, but ginger won out.

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