Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-08-14
WON BY A SCRATCH.
MOSCOW. With the Aid Of Spokane
Sluggers, Wins the Second Game
of the Series.

As was predicted the game at Moscow
drew large crowd. Fully fifteen
hundred people gathered at that city
Sunday last to witness the second
game of the lewiston Moscow series.
Lewiston sent up a full delegation.
Colfa2. Palouse City and all the Pal
ouse country sent quota to swell the
crowd. The hotels were crowded to
Overflowing and many private houses
were called into requisition to meet
the exigencies of the occasion.
It is to be regretted that the opening
of the game was prolonged by u long
and vigorous kick that wearied the
crowd and exasperated the players.
There had been q verbal agreement be-
tween the managers that neither club
would be strengthened by outside
players, but despite this arrangement
Moscow had imported Semper and
Larrabee, of the Spokane Wheelers, to
play In their nine. Lewiston hearing
of this had engaged Spokane players
also. But by vigorous bluffing and
bulldozing Moscow succeeded in plac-
ing her players and discarding ours,
and Lewiston entered the game sadly
handicapped. 1t became evident from
the first that III spite of the new
players Moscow had no snap. While
the score shows that every run made
by Moscow was due to the batting of
the borrowed talent, it also shows that
Lewiston batted heavily and played
good ball. Smith, who boasted that
he could strike cut eighteen of the
Lewistons, was knocked out of the box
In the fifth inning and McNamee had
to be substituted.
The game was called at about three
o'clock with Smith and Semper and
Fryar and Mullalley at the points.
Lewiston went to bat first and sue
ceeded In batting out one run. The
Moscows received goose egg in their
behalf. In the second both teams
were blanked, while the third reversed
the first and tied the score. No further
runs were made till the fifth when
Lewiston hit Smith 80. freely that that
twirler was retired to third base, but
not before Lewiston had added four to
their score. Moscow made two in her
turn by the timely three-base hit of
Semper. The sixth was blanked on
both sides. In the seventh Mutually
made base hit and stole second.
Fryar was given q base on balls and
both men scored on dropped ball and
wild throw to short. Lewiston vir-
tually lost the game in the seventh
when by falling to make double play
they allowed Moscow to score three
runs. The eighth resulted in a couple
Of zeros, while in the ninth Lewiston
failed to increase her lead and Moscow
coming with her strong batters won
two runs and the game. The follow
ing Is the score:
Moscow........O O1 2 o 8 O 2S
Lewiston......1 90 40 20 o.
The splendid stick work of Semper
and Larribee won six runs for Moscow.
Moscow has no doubt one of the
finest race tracks in the northwest, but
it's base ball ground, allow US to ejac-
ulate, Is about the worst ever seen. It
seems to be the remains of vigorous
weed patch scalped by scraper, while
the refuse, dumped in an irregular line
across the left field, resembled the
earthworks of a frontier fort. Over this
the unfortunate fielder had to amble in
order to chase down the ball in the
weeds beyonds.