The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-23
TACOMA TAKEN Into CAMP.
OLLIE BIRG. SEAT'TI.E-s NEW
PITCHER. Is A WONDER.
He Has His Opponents Completely at
His Mercy and Fields His Position
I'm Mastery Style-His support

yesterday AFTERNOON from MaulsoH street
park swearing eternal allegiance to Man
ager DugdaIe's pets They had seen To-
coma taken into camp to the tune OF II
TO 1, and to cap the climax. the home
team had played an erroriess game on a
field that is very uneven in spots. If the
third inning could be brushed away il
would leave the game one Of the prettiest
exhibitions ever seen in Seattle. As IL
was. the home team took every advantage
OF the visitors in this inning when the
rain was falling, and before the circus
had ended eight men had crossed the plate.
1t was one of those cases when hard luck
for one side was good luck for the other:
then again, the Seattle boys hit the ball
in this particular inning just when it was
needed. and that tickied the crowd. The
score does not Indicate the general excel
lent quality OF ball put up by the visiting
muffs in center field but only one of them
proved factor IN producing runs.
The particular shining light OF the game
was Ollie Brig. the new pitcher that Man.
ager Dugdale secured from the Minneap-
Oils team. after it got into squabble with
Peoria. ILL.,, over his services.
He looks like some of Swinnerton's ia
nous pictures OF baseball payers. He is
about five feet seven inches tall, and when
attired in baseball toys that were intend
ed for heavyweight, has the appearance
of boy In his fathers clothes. He may
weigh 145 pounds, but the size OF his legs
does not back up the assertion to any
l. IL. \, H.
one feel that he needs a pair of interfer
Ing boots. One spectator insinuated that
he had been down on the beach copying
the regulation siwash walk. He ambles
along In a most deceiving manner. Just
when one becomes convinced that he Is OF
the easygoing, calm, deliberate Sort he
suddenly bobs up as an electric man. He
can get over ground like 2-year-old, and
when it comes TO covering first base, even
John Clarkson was not quicker and more
attentive TO duty.
When ne gets ready 10 pitch he jams
his cap far down on his head and TO one
side. Then he looks at the batsman and
tries to hypnotic him. Sometimes he
wears an infielder's glove on his left hand,
and then again he will throw II away ana
handle short hit balls just as well. There
is nothing OF the grand stand player about
him. He Is there for business and moth
ing escapes him. The way he wound the
Tacoma boys UP was a caution Just
when they thought they had him started
down Hill he would give an additional
swing to his right wing and pass them up
to the plate with such lightning-like rapid
ity, combined with a mean little inshoor.
that IL was all of with the "Dooleys."
Even Billy Work, who has a most dis
agreeable faculty. Of giving a pitcher the
blind staggers, could not locate the ball
until the last inning. Then he corked il
INT rtyyht fnr txxyn no zero, hatn a4
him TO third with single ana tried 10
steal second. Cricket" Hartman shot the
ball down to Page In time to retire Egan
and Work felt IL unsafe to try steal
home With one out and man on third.
Brig let himself out and retired the next
two men on strikes. He did it as easy as
rolling off a log, and was in prime con-
dition for more trouble.
The largest number OF men he allowed
TO so TO bat in one Inning was five, and in
that inning no scores were recorded. Up
10 the eighth he allowed only three hits.
and not one of these counted in producing
runs He had such absolute control of the
bali that when he got IN t.cklish place
he had no trouble in solving the problem.
He had all kinds of delivery and with
each change there was no apparent loss
Of control. Sometimes he would take
double swing before letting the ball leave
his hands, then again he would confine
himself 10 Il Single circlS. again ne WOulI
simply shove the ball Straight up into the
air and let it go as he brought his hands
down. Another variety was the side throw.
The first three men that faced him went
out in order. The next man up got his
base on balls and tried to steal. but Hart
man made a quick throw to second and
Short Stop Page taking the ball on the
run got his man. After Anderson had
retired Egan on a pretty pick up and
| throw to first Whitcomb made pretty hit
over second. Brig grinned slightly and
retired Stotler on strikes. In the third
inning. Birgs nerve was tested. Camp
bell. the first man up dropped a fly in
left field between Gaumnit2 and Page Al
| though it was a mean ball 10 reach it
seemed as IL one or the other ought 20
have had II. Brig then hit Andrews with
| the bali. Gates drove hot one 10 Dea at
third and he shot II across 10 first in time
| 10 retire his man. Meanwhile. however,
Campbell reached third and Andrews sec
ond. It looked like 4 score but Biofldo
captured Kheber's fly in night and got
| Il back 20 the place in time to hold Camp
| bell at third. On the next ball Hines put
| up a sky high foul which 'Cricket' Hart
man took running toward the grand stand
| Three men out and no runs. The crowd
get enthusiastic and howled in wild glee
| Some boy suggested that the new pitcher
| was all right and the yell went around
| Up to tho third inning Seattle had
| scored only one run, and that IN the first
! on two hit by baIls' and Il single over
| second by Blonde. As the home teaa
| went TO the bat in the last of the third
F, 4 commenced 10 rain and the bail became
| slippery. Andrews hit Anderson. Page
! gave kieiber = chance at short and he
| tried 10 retire Anderson at second but
| failed. Dea followed with a diuky hit
| over th.rd and the bases We're full Muir
pay fled ont to kaieber. Blonde made
| hs second hit By dropping a single into
| short right. scoring Anderson and Page
| Hartman got his first on halls and Rand
! followed with Il clean single over second
| scoring Dea- Gaumnitz hiE 10 Whitcomb
| who threw TO the plate Hines dropped
| the ball and Blonde Scorei. Brig picked
| out a wild pitch for a third strike and
| before the circus was over Rand and
| Ciaumn.tz had crossed the plate So far
| nine men had been al bat and seven runs
| had crossed the plate. On the second
| round Anderson hit 10 Stot.er who shot the
| bail 10 first after making a pretty pick up,
| retiring Anderson. The next two men
| yyera f,lt By pitched balls the thfra reach