The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
Short Lines Snatch a Game From
the Fire.
WAS A GARRISON FINISH
SCORE WAS SHORT LINE 8, oG-
DEN 5, WHEN NINTH BEGAN.
Then the Short Lines Went In and
Beckwith Went Up, With the Re-
suit That the Locals Secured
Three Runs and the Game-Base-
ball Tournament Proposed.

With the score to 3 against them
In the ninth inning yesterday, the Short
Lines made Garrison finish of it and
pulled the game out of the fire.
Mr.. Beckwith of Ogden, although
the game, kept his head until the fatal
ninth. Unnerved by bad error by Nc
Gregor, he allowed a hit and gave two
passes in succession, forcing in a run.
A neat single by Bennett scored tive
more, and for the first time in nearly
three months the Short Lines had beat
en- Ogden.
The game was good one all through,
only married by wrangling. This was
of the most approved Short Line-Og-
den order, served up with the usual
pleasing acecmpaniments of cuss words
and fist-shal<ing. 1t required three UNI
pires to finish the game. Two of them,
Billy Griffiths and Frank Groesbeck, got
Disguised at the compliments handed
them by the players and retired after a
couple of innings apiece. There was
some difficulty in finding another mar
tyr but at last Tom Osborne consented
to act
He's all right shouted fan. as
Osborne peeled his coat and took COM
mand. Hes got sand; he's in the
sugar business" And the players evil
IDENTIFY hae healthy respect for Toms
-eputed prowess with his fists, for they
let him discreetly alone and he finished
the game.
But barring the kicking, the game
was well worth seeing. 1t was re-
markably FREQ from errors and was
sprinkled with nice stick work and neat
work in the field. Both pitchers were
steady as rocks and gave very few
-o1l ND
received capital support on the whole.
Tallies Were Scarce.
Runs were scarce as .icicles in sum-
mertime, in the earlier innings, and the
game was anybody's at any stage. The
Short Lines got one in the first by a
hit by Bennett McGregors wild throw
and Taylors sacrifice. Taylor poked
out a long hit into deep left center in
the fourth. which he succeeded in
stretching into home run McFarlane
got first on Ferrin's poor throw in the
fifth. was advanced to second when
Beckwith passed Kidder to first, and
scored on Benefits hit.
Ogden got her first run in the NTH,
when Schnable hit for two bases and
scored on Bluth's hot liner to center
She tied the score in the next on a gift
to- Ferrin. McFarlane's error, and two
successive hits by Schnable and Bluth.
kidder gave signs of weakening IN the
seventh and Ogden got two more.
Hansford singled, Crandall had four
bad ones. Beckwith hit to Hughey and
he threw over Taylor's head, allowing
Eansford and Crandall to score.
The scoring ceased then until the
ninth. Taylor relieved Kidder and
pitched steady ball, shutting out Ogden
twice Then came the ninth Griggs
pasted hot one to McGregor, which
he did not gather in; McFarlane put
out clean single past first base. and
then Mr.. Beckwith went off his feet and
sent Kidder and Hopkins to first on
balls This forced in Griggs, and the
crowd went wild. On the sidelines a
small mob of bowling boys Jared the
atmosphere with yells and catcalls like
an insane asylum on a spree, and the
result was that Beckwith let Bennett
send out a single into right field, which
scored both McFarlane and Kidder and
wen the game.
Ogden was weakened by the absence
of Gimlin and Greenwell, which &C
counts in part for their poor batting.
The same teams meet in Ogden tomor-
row.