The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-06
THE CITY VS.. COUNTY
Hot Ball Game, in Which the
City Wins.
THE SCORE WAS FORTY TO
TWENTY-SIx.
It Was a Contest For Which Both
Sides Displayed Wonderful Bat
ting Powers and Showed Them
selves Good Fielders and Base
Runners.
Gate receipts-sl1.5O.

| Gate receiDts-s11.5O
Contributions-Two kegs of beer.
score-4o to IS in favor of the city.
The above only begins to point ous
some of the results of the most excit-
ing contest on a diamond. Jimmy
Lynch lost his $3.50. but he is a wiser
man today. He frankly admits the city
boys can play ball.
FOR BLOOD AND BEER.
1t was a great game. From the time
/ Charley Stanton called out play ball"
1t was contest for blood and beer.
The former was up to the boiling point.
the latter was kent on ice in a corner
of the grounds and furnished wonder
full insDiration 10 the rooters.
1t would be difficult 10 describe the
game in detail. The errors alone would
take ND column or two. But there
were some good plays. too. on both
sides, indicating that a very excellent
nine could he selected from the daily
toiiers in the ca 3itol building
To begin with, the crowd was not
large. 1t was enthusiastic, however,
and the city side had much the best of
1t from the rooters, particularly after
the keg of beer had been opened. New
service for his fellow councilmen in the
way of coaching. Barney Quinn, who
rooted for the county, stood no show
at all with his tenor voice against the
basso Of the city councils head, and
the assessor wore a countenance piSiful
to behold.
They've got US skinned" was his
mournful salutation TO neighbor when
the north-enders made five runs in the
RET IN Do
Frank Matthews, who is going to
play in the jubilee team, was on the
city side, and Councilman Morris, who
used to play in the Deseret nine. COW
cred first. Then there was Archie Nc
Kay in a pair of football knickerbock-
ers that made him alone a sight worth
the price of admission.
FOR THE COUNTY.
For the county boys Dave Dunbar
covered first in a faultless manner,
coming out of the contest with less err
rors to his credit than any of the rest
of his side. Lynch is a good coacher,
but as a ball player-well, he can talk.
Jimmy bet his money, then swore he
would find the ball every time he went
to bat, and then-well. he struck out
twice. Andy Burt distinguished him
self for the county by falling every time
he ran for ball. AS a result he had to
take a. bath last evening. Groesbeck is
a wonder as pitcher. He and Dunbar,
saved the county from having more
goose eggs to its credit.
OPENED UP WE'LL.
The city side went to bat and five
men scored in succession. Jimmy Lynch
said it looked like rain and suggested
to the umpire that the game be called
off. The city then and there decided to
encourage the county lads and accord
ingly let them make nine runs. This
caused some swelling of heads on the
county officials. but they collapsed COM
pletely when the city end turned in
and scored seven in the next inning.
Pretty much every time the city hit
the ball they made home runs. The
city would bat the ball over the fence
and the county boys would peep
through the cracks and swear until
some small boy would bring the ball
in and let the game go on. The county
side scored only two men in the last
half of the second and walked out with
long faces.
Mathews went into the box for the
city lads and kept the county en-
ployees tanning the air. For the next
two innings they made no runs, while
the north-enders scored three each
time Dull was substituted for May
and finally put in the box. doing about
as we'll as Mathews. Mckay then tried
his hand at twirling the ball and did
it in crack-a-jack style. The only rea-
son the county boys made IL runs in
the sixth inning was because Archie
dislocated his arm, so he said.
A STAR PLAY.
But it would not be possible to de-
scribe all the plays. Both sides
pounded the ball in elegant style and
the only fly that was caught was by
Archie Mckay at a time when bases
were full and two men out. This was
in the seventh inning. In the last the
city batted the ball all over, but some
fair fielding on the part of the county
prevented the score reaching the half
hundred mark.
The batting order of the two mines
and the runs by innings were as fol-
lows:
City-Mathews, jr., 5; Proctor, c, 6;
Morris, 1b. 5; Mckay 2b. 6; Munson,
90. 4; Clark, IS, 9; Gillespie, If, 3; *Sa-
very. Of, 5; s*Dull, IF. 3.
Substituted for Wiscomb in the
third.
%s-Substituted for May in the fourth
County-Groesbeck, p, 3; Seddoway.
c, 2; Dunbar, 1b, 2; Lynch, 2b. 2: Burt,
Sb, 4: Corbis, SIS, l: Wood, If, 8; Jen-
nines RI . sWilson cf 3