FIGHTING Marine baseball team pounded out a 7-4 victory over the Amateurs to regain the coveted Community Cup before the largest crowd of the season.
The annual Fourth of July classic was played off yesterday afternoon on the Race Course diamond with appropriate ceremonies to mark the observance of Independence Day.
Immediately before the game got under way, " flag raising ceremony took place in which both teams marched across the diamond behind the Marine band and stood at attention as the National Anthem was' being played and the flag raised.
C. E. Gauss, American Consul-General, pitched the first ball of the game to Col. H. C. Pierce.
Judge Milton J. Helmick, umpiring. ruled it a strike.
Thanks to a concentrated artillery display in the fourth inning in which Captain Fenton's men pushed across four runs, the Marines secured a lead which was never topped. - The Amateurs put-en their fireworks in the fifth inning and managed to tie the score. Their hopes of victory were soon dashed as the Leathernecks scored one run in the sixth and two more in the eighth.
Lindsay, pitching for the Marines, allowed eight hits, a like number being secured by the Marines batters off Heubner and Liboon, who shared the mound duties for the Amateurs. Both teams played indifferent ball in the field making a total of ten errors, five miscues being chalked up against each team.
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