The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-09
Weber Team Beaten BY Salt Lake
High School Team.
SCORE EIGHT TO SEVEN
GAME OPENED WEAK, BUT CLOS
ED WELL.
Salt Lake Team Broken Up BY La
COON Reorganization = Pocatello
Team Plays Saturday and Sunday
Entries for the Wheel Races
Good Sport Promised.

Che high school boys yesterday after
Jon defeated the Weber stake acad-
NY team of Ogden, the game taking
lace on the Lagoon grounds. The
score was 81, and the Salt Lakers have
every reason to feel thankful. that their
reputation did not suffer damage at the
hands of an Ogden aggregation.
The attendance at the game was not
SO heavy that any fear was inspired for
the safety of the grandstand. A dele
cation of $50 who came down from Og-
den, and fifty more from this city made
up the sum total. The rneager attend
ance was offset by the cheering pres
ence of the Weber stake academy
brass band which is composed of mu-
sicians selected from the school. The
band was all there. 1t is creditable
institution, and rendered several Sc
lections in pleasing manner.
The pleasing feature of the game was
the Unfolding on the part of both teams
during the last two-thirds OF the game.
Skidmore was found to be Inadequate
for the tussle at first, and was early
supplanted by Campbell, who put up a
creditable performance. Howell mad
pitched at Provo on Wednesday, and
was tired, but played seven innings,
AFTER winch smith went IN
The game was not errorless by any
means, but the greater number of these
We're made during the first three in
nincs.
Proceedings were hindered somewhat
by the disappearance Of two balls,
which lodged on the roof Of the grand
stand, and left the players with only
one, until a venturesome youth finally
climbed up and restored the missing
articles.
An Ogden rooter made himself dis
guStingly obnoxious to the crowd and
players by continually making sneer-
ing remarks toward the cOiored boys of
the high school team. Howell at last
complained, and an officer soon put an
effective quietuS on the fellows tongue.
An amusing feature took place in the
eighth; when Umpire Shaw was hit on
the heel by pitched ball. He wanted
to send Taylor to his base, but a kick
from the high school boys caused him
to change his mind.
The game, in it's earliest stages, gave
no promise of anything beyond what is
termed awful ball. Up to the third in
ming, when the score was Al. it looked
as though Weber stake would win, but
the Ogden boys, in this inning, COM
pletely lost their lead. Catcher Croft
seemed to be trying to establish an
error record, and no doubt did so. He
accomplished four. Shupe and Swan
son also hung one each at their belts,
and the inning at last simply died a
natural death. with the high school five
runs better off.
After that Ogden braced up wonder
fully, with the result that the re-
mainder of the game was a very cred
liable exhibition of ball. The pitchers
were hit often, mostly To the infeld,
where good work on both sides pre-
vented a long and tedious game.
Ogden was shut out completely in
every inning but the first, eighth and
ninth. At the beginning of the last
round the home team had things their
own way, with the score standing SIS.
Clever base running brought in two
runs for the academy, but the junction.
ers could not squeeze out another run,
and the last half was unnecessary.
The high school was smut out in the
first, sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
Tabulated score: