The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-05
Railr0aders Gave the Salt Lake
Team Surprise.
SCORE OF TEN TO SEVEN
REQUIRED THREE UMPIREs TO
RUN THINGS.
Disgraceful Wrangling MARRIED a
Good Game and Disguised the
Spectators-Short Lines Scored
Six Times In the Eighth-Thous-
and People Saw the Game.

Ten to seven is the way in which the
Short Lines gave the Salt Lakes their
first defeat yesterday afternoon on the
Fort Douglas field. One thousand peo-
pie were present to see the game, which
did not begin until nearly o'clock. The
delay was owing chiefly to the fact that
the street car service was overtaxed
and the spectators were late in arriv-
ing.
The game was exciting and full of
surprises, and good ball playing was
witnessed, but the sport was somewhat
marred by disgraceful wrangling
among the players and attacks upon
the various umpires. All together, it
required three men to umpire the game,
and spectators were Disguised by the
frequent outbreaks over the decisions.
Umpire Quit.
In the fourth inning Hopkins sent
grounder to Margetts, who fumbled it,
and Umpire Griffin called the runner
safe. a mighty howl arose from the
Short Line ranks. 1t was a prolonged
one, and hot words danced about the
field. The result was that Umpire Crit
fin suddenly lost all patience and quit
the game. Will Griffiths and Charley
MARYLAND We're called for and jointly
took upon themselves the task of UNI
piring the game, whereupon the sport
proceeded.
McCausland went to bat and was i'm
mediately hit by a pitched ball. Crit
fifth gave him his base and again the
shrill voice of the kicker was heard. 1t
certainly did look as though Nc had
purposely placed the small of his back
in the way of that ball, and the game
was temporarily stopped in order that
rSe situation might be thoroughly dis
cussed. Taylor asked Kimbrough if he
wanted to steal the game, and ac-
cused him of whispering to the umpire
kim" denied the allegation, and Tay-
lor called him a liar. A fight was i'm
minent, but peace-loving friends sue
ceeded in cooling the belligerents The
game proceeded. When McCausland
got around to home he ran into Shan
non with such force that good-sized
section of the latter's hip was carried
away and large crimson drops stained
the home plate. Shannon was game,
and received the applause of the spec
tators upon resuming his position.
The pitching yesterday was of a
rather slow order, Taylor being pound
ed for six singles and three doubles.
and Haynes letting loose on the same
number of doubles, besides nine sin
giles.
tame In Detail.
A two-bagger in the first by Nc
Causland of the Salt Lakes sent Reed |
in and the inning ended thus In the
second the Short Lines didn't do a /
thing but fill the bases al the start !
whereupon Shannon hoisted a beautiful |
two-bagger into the far-off Jungle. |
bringing Bowman and Barnes in. Mar
gets followed closely on an error bv
McCausland, and Shannon's run was |
counted when Reed made an error at !
third.
This moved things forward, to 1.
ana the Salt Lakes began to realize
that the railroaders were not so slow.
The latter did some good Unfolding, but
could not keep their opponents away
from two runs
The Salt Lakes made two more in the
next and another in the fourth. thus
making the score to in their favor
The fifth and sixth innings saw some
swift fielding on each side. Walters
double play, putting Hopkins out at
second, and throwing Reed out at first.
was very neat piece of work
Inc seventh was productive of one
run Tor the Salt Lakes by Hughey. who
got IN on an error by Margetts in let
ting grounder go between his legs.
Runs Piled Up.
In the eighth the Short Lines went to
"oIh anu maze things hum 4 two
Dagger by Taylor brought in two runs.
and an error by Kimbrough allowed
Taylor to score. A good hit bv Mar
gets TO center filled the bases again.
ana ne came in on an error by Hughey.
VINO failed to get his clutches on
not grounder from Shannon. This made
the score to in favor of the Short
Lines, and the Salt Lakes showed a
rapid tendency towards being slightly
ratified Knickerbocker hunted to third
and Bowman beat it in. A grounder :
TO right field by Waller was fielded too .
slowly, and the consequence was a run , ,
by Knickerbocker and one by Kidder
This sent the score flying up to 10 on !
the part of the Short Lines, the Salt ]
Lakes being still Z, the score remaining 5
he same during the remainder of the
contest. {
An awful muff by Kidder and a good
pickup by Taylor in the fifth eyened
things up nicely. A running catch nv
plays. e''u /
Tabulated score:
Short Tina