The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-23
GREAT BASEBALL GAME
Park City Giants Defeat the
Ogden Boys
PUT UP THE FIGHT OF THEIR
LIVES.
Two Thousand Five Hundred People
Witness the Contest-Many Dis
putes Over the EMPIRES Rulings
The Score Stood Seven 20 Three.

When the big silvertes from the Park
went 10 Fort Douglas yesterday it was
with the calm expectation of plucl1ing an
easy victory from the Ogden Y. NJ. c. A $
and dragging the victims at their chariot
wheels. Before the ninth inning had ar
rived they were fighting for their lives
and their smiles of confidence dad van
ished. But their lead proved too strong
for the Ogienites TO overcome. and the
exciting contest ended with a conquest
for the miners on score of Z to B.
The struggle made by the OgdeniIes was
stronger and more Duissant than either
the Parkites or the $3.50 people IN the
grand stand expected 10 see. The Ogden
ties made much harder opposition tnan
when they met the JuDslees, and with the
exception of the weakness OF ferguson
on second base, exhibited some very
clever team work Mostly II was in the
handling of the batting rod that the Os-
denites showed their inferiOrity 10 the
drill-pounders from the mines
There was the usiial assortment of rows,
and in the eighth inning, when the UNI
psre declared Kuhn out because the ball
rebounded and struck him after his alb
brevtated hit, the game seemed on the
verge of coming 10 a close The Ogden
men claimed that the umpire had irsc de-
clared the ball foul and then reversed
himself. After the discussion had gone
on, loud and rampant. for half an hour,
ready to declare the game off if Kuhn did
not retire from the home plate, where he
stood obstinately, bat in hand The dis
pute ended finally by the Junction CITY
men submitting to the umpire's ruling.
The umpires apparent lack OF hrmnesS
and his readiness to dispute with the
players afterShis decision had been an
noUnced was the cause OF the tedious and
unnecessary delay.
Emmett did steady and clever twirling
for the Ogden visitors. and although there
We're only three strike outs to his credit,
he ned down the miners 10 small hits.
The other Ogdenite who gained especial
distinction was Kuhn. who lowered over
the first bag and captured the sphere
every time il went athwart his path.
The playing in the early part of the
game was close and rapid. and when to-
wards the end of the game the score took
a sudden expansion. it was mostly by rea-
son of wild and hapless throws. In the
ninth inning Hewey hurled the sphere to-
wards the firsE bassman with such feroc-
ity and inaccuracy that II tore large
hole in the DleaclerS, and WAen the traS-
ment of the ball that remained was found, !
by Kuhn, two men had ambled over the
home plate. Il was in the seventh and
eighth that the Ogdenites almost succeed
ed in SCATTERING the wire nerves of the
miners by twice lifting the ball into dis
tant and secluded places beyond the fence.
But n each instance the star plays of
the Y NJ c. AS occurred when there
were no men on bases.
w Kimmel unwound the sphere from
the box with unusual skill and precision.
and ten Ogdenites tore the atmosphere
iHeffectively in searching for his curves.
In the fifth inning he performed the spec
tacular feat of striking out three Y. NJ.
G. AS in succession.
Near the end of the game. when the
fates of war seemed ready to swing vic
tory to the Ogdenites, the Junction City
rOoters Swarmed over the side lines and
shattered the air with vociferous yells.
But their bliss was short lived, and when
the ninth inning closed the victorious
Parkites had the blotch of but one defeat
for this season upon their eScutcheon.
The score:
Park City .....O l 1 o o o 0 2-7
Ogden --..-..-.....0 0 0 l .O-3