Yokohama, Oct. 10 The Fourth Marines were defeat-by the strong Kosho Baseball Club of Yokohama at the City Stadium here to-day by the score of 10 to 4. The Kosho Club boasts the strongest nine in Yokohama and in reality is an "all-star" aggregation. Tt was the best fielding and hitting team seen in Japan this season outside of the "big six" college teams.
The Marines were the first. to score, in the first inning, when Moore walked and came home when Passmore and Fogleman hit two Kimball, pitch-got off to a bad frame and inserted a base on balls between two hits with two errors by Parsons. Before the side were retired six runs had trickled across the plate. Kimball settled down after the first inning. and pitched good ball, mixing hhis curves and fast ball in good style and Maddes caught him in approved fashion, Errors again played an important part in determining the winners of this game, Lindstrom and Parsons being the principal offenders and contributing bobbles when runners were on bases. Passmore, Fogle man, and Maddes of two hits each, "Moore fielded in big league form, throwing a man out at the plate deep centre to bring a round of applause from the large crowd.
In the ninth inning, the Marines made a game bid for a rally when, with one down, a strike-out that went asa wild pitch put Lund on base.
This was followed by a base is, but Lund was guilty of ded base-running and the Inst man up Went out on an easy roller to short-stop, to wind up the game,
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