The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-21
Champions of the Inland Empire.
ANTELOPE, Or. June IS. g

ANTELOPE, Or, June 1S, '94.
EDITOR CHRONICLE: Last Saturday.
June 10th, the Prineville and Antelope
baseball teams crossed bats at this place
for the championship of Eastern Oregon.
Both these teams have claimed this
honor for the past year, and for this
reason an unusual interest was aroused
throughout the country when it was
announced that the real champions
would be made known by the result of
this game. The Prinevilles brought
along several ladies and leading citizens
to see Antelope get showed under, bring
Ing along large banner with the in
scription, Championship" and u
multitude of flags with which to decorate
their hacks and buggies on their wav
home. Their nine was in the pink of
condition and as they had a professional
pitcher and catcher, they were as sure
of carrying off the laurels as that the sun
would rise in the east and set in the
west. The Antelope boys lacked prac-
t1ce to an alarming extent, not having
had their nine together once this season.
and for this reason they had given up all
hopes of winning the game. The day
was splendid one and the game opened
up at 2:3O p. m. The Prinevilles first
took the bat and in the first inning
made one tally. Antelope also made
one tally in the first inning but up till
the sixth inning Prineville had the best
OF it and the betting was to L on the
Crook county boys. In the sixth inning
Antelope got down on her metal and
played ball, piling up seven runs. This
was deadener on Prineville and she
was never able to catch up again,
although every effort was exerted. In
Prineville's ninth inning she made two
runs only, thus leaving the score stand
IL to in favor of Antelope and an inn
ing to spare. At this stage the crowd
went wild, and old and young, little and
big threw their hats in the air and yelled
SO hard that the diamond fairly trembled. |
1t was the most humiliating defeat a
baseball team ever experienced, they |
having always been so over-sanguine |
that Antelope could never stand ghost |
of show with them. The Prineyille- !
ties were all perfect gentlemen and |
ladies, however, and seemed to take |
their defeat in as good-natured way as
possible.
A line ball was given in the evening
and everybody enjoyed himself i'm
The Prineville folks left early
sunday morning for home, but their
banner and the aforesaid
flags were not foated to the breeze.
They remained right in the bottom of
;he hack beds. It was the most COM
olete and grandest victory Antelope ever
and everybody is wild over
he success of our boys. With as little
practice as the Antelope boys had they
played remarkably fine game of ball,
md the score shows for itself that these
wo teams are not SO far behind the pro-
essional mines of the Pacific Northwest.
J. b. Shearer, our pitcher, is a dandy,
ind famed out the Prinevilles without
my effort. Harry Klepper, our catcher,
8 also bird behind the bat, and de-
Ierves great credit. This leaves An
elope the undisputed champion of the
inland Empire, and they are without a
loubt the finest amateur team in the
tate of Oregon.
The score stood:
Antelope ....1 100 OF COX
orineville ...-..-...1 ? o 0 / DOL 2
Hurrah for Antelope, the champion
baseball players Of Eastern Oregon.
An EYE WITNESS.
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