The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-17
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PIX City. July 16-The baseball sea-
son,pened here this afternoon with the
new Park City nine lined up against
tbeDregon Short Lines. The two teams
nile 10 a total of twenty-nine runs
andthe visitors had the heavy end Of
thelivision, the score being is to 13 in
the favor. -
Although the summary does not indl-
cat it. the game was full of interest
froi start to finish and the spectators
wee on their feet much of the time
The feature of the game was the bat
fins of Waller. The Short Liner had
bot eyes on the ball and netted sin
gle;a double a triple and a home run,
besSles being once hit by a pitched ball
and once giving Holmes a chance Tor
a ocus catch in left field. Shannon
wal the batting star for the locals.
Ouiof five times up he got three cork
ing, two of them three-baggers and
onea single.
Kdder started in to pitch for the
Shot Lines, but was pounded off the
sIal in the first three innings and IN
thefourth Taylor relieved him. Tay-
Tor pitched a brilliant game allowing
onl' three hits during the six innings
in Which he officiated. All three by one
of hose condolences that make base
baliinteresting were for three bases.
Both Had Bad Spells.
Bth teams had bad innings. The
locas had two and the visitors one.
1t vas in the second that Manager
Ross men fell onto the railroaders
wit. great effect. Shannon led off with
a single and Hardness got jolt on the
elbOv from a pitched ball. Edwards
the laced out a triple, scoring Shan
EI1nOh =
WIN Bowman let his grounder go
thpugh him and Edwards scored on
the error Hughey was thrown out
WIN trying to steal third after Bur-
roghs had famed. Then Bennett,
Red. Holmes and Hickey singled and
WIEN the excitement subsidized the PARK
its had scored six tallies. The visit
or had previously made four runs,
willie the locals drew a blank in the
fist.
rhe Short Liners came back with six
iutheir half of the third. Five hits and
acouple of errors did the work. Then
tie locals settled down to their knitting
aid gathered three each in the third
AID fourth, making the score II to 10
fl their favor. In the fourth, fifth and
sixth the railroad players were goose
eyed. In bringing this about Park City
made a couple of lightning double plays,
Iughey, Burroughs and Hardness fig
Iling in the first and Burroughs, Ben
lett and Hardness in the second.
Short Lines Batting Streak.
It was in the seventh that the Short
Lines proceeded to do some sure enough
digging. After Knickerbocker had
.awed Groggs got a life on Hardness
error; Kidder followed with a long four
,acker TO left, Taylor pushed out a
Jingle and then Waller leaned against
.ne of Hughey's outs for a beautiful
home run over the center garden. Mem
cke was the next and he in turn
Strengthened out an in-curve for four
bags to center. The net result was five
runs.
The visitors got one more in the
eighth on hits by Griggs and Taylor.
They were BANKED in the ninth. The
locals drew ciphers in the fifth, sixth
and seventh. In the eighth they got
one on Walkers error and Shannon's
triple It looked dangerous in the ninth.
After Edwards had flied to Waller,
Barnes made a miss of Hughey's
grounder and Burroughs was ticketed
TO first. The chance for scoring seemed
excellent but Taylor settled down and
famed Bennett and Holmes.
The Score.