Vancouver Beavers Outplay Tacoma Tigers in Season Opener
A tough weekend at the Tacoma Athletic Grounds sees the home team fall in back-to-back losses to the Vancouver Canucks.
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After nosing out the Tigers in a Saturday battle of pitchers—1 to 0 in favor of Vancouver—the Beavers rubbed it in on Ben Haverkamp’s bunch yesterday by taking the second game of the season's opening 9 to 6. Saturday featured great ball playing; the Canucks showed a clean record without an error, and Tacoma had but two. Sunday the contest was full of action with four errors for Tacoma and two for the Vancouver fellows. Tacoma never got a chance to yell for the win, but they finally whooped it up just on general principles.
“Tacoma never got a chance to yell for the win, but they finally whooped it up just on general principles.”
Early 20th-century baseball in Tacoma was a cornerstone of community identity, often played on grounds that have long since been paved over or repurposed. While the names of these local leagues have faded, the passion for minor-league ball remains a staple of the city's sports culture.
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