The Regina Elks retained the Saskatchewan senior amateur baseball championship by defeating the Moose Jaw Robin Hoods three games to one in the 1923 best-of-five provincial final. Earlier, in a best-two-out-of-three semi-final match-up, the Elks had disposed of the Saskatoon C.P.R. in two straight games.
SEMI - FINALS
(September 8) The Elks, champions of Regina's metropolitan circuit, advanced to the provincial final series against the Robin Hoods of Moose Jaw when they soundly trounced the C.P.R. champion team of Saskatoon in both games of a semi-final doubleheader. The Capital City champions were too much for the visitors and ran the score of both games of the twin-bill into double figures, spanking the Hub City railroaders 19 to 9 and 16 to 3.
Jack Farquhar, "Casey" Moroschan, Cliff Moses and "Rancher" Snell each banged out three hits for the Queen City nine in the opener with a triple being included in both Farquhar's and Moses' total. Southpaw hurler Tommy Green struck out 6 Saskatoon batters to earn the pitching decision.
Cummings (L) and Robinson
Green (W) and Snell
Regina's heavy artillery continued in the late game as winning chucker "Casey" Moroschan had the support of 16 base hits in cruising to victory. His batterymate, "Rancher" Snell, contributed a triple, double and single while Tommy Green, Fred Brundage and Leo Vineberg all had two doubles and a single.
Moroschan (W) and Snell
Bennett (L) and Robinson, Goggins
PROVINCIAL FINALS
(September 12) The Moose Jaw Robin Hoods and Regina Elks divided the spoils in the first double-bill in their best-of-five playoff for the provincial senior amateur baseball championship. Playing at Regina's Park de Young, the opening game was annexed by the Robins 10 to 4 while the Antlered Tribe rebounded for a 5 to 2 second game victory.
In arrears by a 4 to 1 count entering the seventh inning of the matinee encounter, the Mill City gang staged an epic comeback, plating four counters to take a one-run lead. Then, in the ninth, they ran wilder than ever and, assisted by numerous Regina fielding miscues, tacked on five more tallies to walk away with the game. Third sacker Chuck Robinson was a standout defensively for the Hoods and also produced three base hits, one of which was a double. Regina shortstop Leo Vineberg had three singles off the slants of winning twirler Andy Dale.
Dale (W) and Mills
Moroschan (L) and Snell
In the evening event, the Elks looked as if they would hold the Robin Hoods scoreless. A supreme effort by the visitors in the eighth averted the whitewash but failed to pull the game out of the fire. Portsider Tommy Green picked up the win with an eight-hitter, besting George Haigh. Green also picked up a pair of hits in this contest as did teammates Leo Vineberg and Cliff Moses.
Green (W) and Snell
Haigh (L) and Mills
(September 14) The Regina Elks grabbed both games of a double-dip with the Moose Jaw Robin Hoods to decide the Saskatchewan senior amateur baseball championship in four games. The first game fell to the Elks 7 to 3 while they won the evening contest 9 to 8 after 8 innings of exciting baseball. The double killing secured three games out of four for the visiting Reginans.
The Millers threw the opening game away with errors at crucial moments in the fifth frame when the Elks scored five runs. Moose Jaw out-hit their guests 9 to 8 and had all of the game's extra-base hits. Catchers "Rancher" Snell of the Reginans and "Haddo" Mills of the hosts were the contest's leading hitters, Snell pasting a trio of one baggers while Mills had a double and single.
Moroschan (W) and Snell
Dale (L) and Mills
With fully 2,500 fans filling the stands for the game which ultimately decided the championship, the Elks broke an 8 - 8 deadlock in the bottom of the eighth and final inning after "Scotty" McEachern singled to leadoff the frame and, with one out, scampered home with the go-ahead tally on Jack Farquhar's booming triple. Darkness ended the affair and series at that point. Farquhar wound up with four safeties, two of which were three-baggers, in leading the winners at the dish. McEachern followed with a trio of singles as Tommy Green picked up his second hurling victory of the four-game set-to.
Haigh (L) and Mills
Green (W) and Snell