The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-13
SPOKANE is. TACOMA q.


Ane IaHenders strike Cyclone In Yes
tsrday's Game.
TACOMA, July l2-Espeeisl before 400 PEG
pie the Falls city boys took fall today out of
Tanning, which that player viii not soon for
get he once said that they were ''desd Easy"
10 pitch against. Whether he still elings to that
opinion now would be hard 70 say. Al any rate
the spokanes did wicked days work with the
bat. and the scientist who computes loss Of
strength and wearing away Of tissue incident to
slugglng exhibitions. may now have his say,
and no doubt win prescribe moxie and oily
emulsions 70 the visitors 10 guard against de-
clines. They did not exhibit any fagged-out
qualities, with the possible exception of Hus-
ton, who might be inoculated with = little stony
heart 70 prevent any such let downs in the
ninth, az he did History viii tell whether that
lurking smile, accompanying the let down, was
q sarcastic allusion to the score board or some
thing else.
One lucky feature of the game was the prox-
unity of q schoolhouse, where the blackboard
scorer made frequent excursions to replenish
his stock of chalk
OF all the visitors batting Polhemus deserves
special mention, his three two-baggers over
various walls, combined with two bases on
balls. gave him loo per cent. in batting. OF the
rest of the nine, any of the boys who could not
make bit had TO eat q hay-stack. and those not
making more than two were trounced by their
companions in great shape. Turner and stencil
hit balls that are still journeying, and other
members OF the texn got the ball 30 far away
on drives that an inning or 80 would elapse be-
fore relays of urchins could return them. Fiji
teen hits, including SIX doubles, coupled
with five large, pink errors, usually
wins games. and a. this was no exception the
result was inevitable. The beauty of the con-
test was somewhat marred- Besides seeing the
ball brutality thumped at the base of the eers-
brum till it screamed through unoccupied terri
tory and into sequestered spots, Cody came IN
for . wound early in the contest. A finger
displsced-some thought il was jammed clear
10 his elbow-by one of Jacks finest, caused his
retirement TO the shade. where he witnessed
FuIler's gyrations behind the bat during the
rest of the game and envied him not. In fact,
the backstop work of Fuller saved many q run
Just what effect this change had on the playing
of the team would be the merest conjecture
March, who took Fullsr's place at first, helped
out the error column by bad muf. Van Zandt
tried to take q Fly that should have been Rout-
eliffes and the muf was followed by two runs.
This was in the nature of things very disheart-
ening to Tanning, and the sixth was simply
old-time game of FOUNDERS. six runs came in
on all kinds of yellow plays after the side should
have been out
Fuller, Maskrey and sippi played the best
ball on the home side. Berger had only one iy,
anu OF course il was an amazing catch. against
the center wall Routelitfe's fly catch in
the sixth was equally creditable. In batting
Sippi, Aaskrey and Berger drew the honors.
A base hit by Routeliffe. with q sacrifice and
an error by Stencil gave the home team the first
run. In the sixth, sippi hit safe and March
drew q bee line for Mount Rainier for two
bases. sacrifice and an error brought both IN.
In the ninth Betz saw 8 tesser thrown to him,
and sent il on a bird's-eye view of the south end
of town, and slowly climbed about the bases n
q seif-conscious state of mind
For the spokaues the first brought in three
runs, one earned by Stencils mufed two-bag
ger the same by PolhemuS, q steal, q sacrifice
and bad fly muf Nothing was attempted till
the fifth. when amid the smoke and dust of bat
tie, the scurryiDg feet sank their Elittering
spikes into the soft, even surface of the home
plate i've times. The yelp of Stencils bat for a
base was responded To by three singles more and
two layers of two-baggsrs. In the next was
repition OF the dark ages, in which echoes of six
large fat runs viii net soon be oblitersted. The
visitors last run in the seventh was . fitting
finale in the way OF base hits. steals ana sacri-
fees. The score: