The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14
SALT LAKERS WIN OUT
Defeated Short Line Team In Close
Game.
SCORE AT CLOSE 14-13
ERRORS ALL AROUND WERE
PLENTIFUL.
Contest Was Witnessed By a Fair
Crowd-Hughey's Pitching and
Miller's Second Base Play Were
Features-Same Clubs Will Meet
Again Today-Notes.

1t could not be truthfully said that
the game of ball which took place yes
terday afternoon on the Fort Douglas
diamond was of such a nature that it
would take words of high enconium to
| describe it. Yet it was swift enough
to make things very interesting for the
250 people who were present while the
Salt Lake team laid it on the Short
Lines to the numerous but close score
of ii to 10.
The latter have their excuses to Of
FER, but they also have their lucky
stars to thank for that home run fly
which Waller sent away over the right
field fence in the second inning. 1t was
the daisy hit of the game and ran up
! the Short boys score an additional
three runs. This had a natural ten
dency towards taking the starch out of
several Salt Lake boys, and Kimbrough
was one of them, making a wild throw.
which let Taylor in for the seventh
run.
He also gave Barnes a good rap on
the arm. kimhrough was evidently
not in good form, so Hughey took his
place in the box and the proceedings
took on a swifter aspect. The Short
Line boys had made all the runs they
We're destined to make for a few in
ningS to come. A wild throw by Miller
let Hopkins make a run for Salt Lake
in the first, but when the Salt Lakes
came to the bat in the second there
was a large piece of blood in each
mans eye. Griggs swatted an elegant
two-bagger to left and McCausland
got to first on an error by Waller, who
was slow in fielding the hit.
AnOth<r error by Waller gave Reed
his base, and a liner out to left again
by Martin sent Hopkins and Reed
dancing in home. The Short Lines were
ratified and their opponents making it
easy with Kidder. the whole thing be-
coming worse than Haynes called Mar
tin and Meinecke in on an elegant two
Dagger out into the much-besieged left
field. The score was to {, favoring the
Short Line, when the latter again trot-
ted in. And not mark did they make,
for Hughey'S massive arm held the
boys down to a lonely base hit.
The Salt Lakes did no better. Nc
Causland, Hughey and Hopkins fam
ming out, with Burns, the only man to
be credited with a hit.
The fourth was another empty spot
for the Short Line, the Salt Lakes in
field having narrowed things down to
a pretty fine point. The latter came in
and touched the score for three more
on errors by Taylor and Waller.
AGAIN IN the HfIh the railroad laOS
failed to score, going out in one, two,
three order on good Unfolding by Mar
tin.
Good batting and poor fielding We're
the orders of the day and the Salt
Lakes ran up two more runs in the
fifth. This made the score IA to 8 in
their favor. Hughey was a little wild
in the next inning and gave Miller his
base. This started things agOing. and
the Short Lines used the stick with a
royal good viii. Miller came in on
Hughey's wild throw, and Margetts
speedily made the leather sing away
out to center for a two-bagger. bring
ing in Taylor and Bowman. Hughey
seemed to be losing ground and gave
McFarlane a base. Margetts came in
on an error by McCausland. lifting the
score to Is to u, but the Short Lines
had had their say and two flies to the
field were quickly nabbed.
Two double-baSe hits by Burns and
Hopkins, the latter bringing in the for
mer and Burns hit bringing in McCaus-
fand, made the score change to 1914 in
favor of the Salt Lakes. The seventh,
eighth and ninth innings saw the boys
get down to hard playing. careful field
ing shutting both sides out.
A noticeable feature of the game was
Miller's work at second. Hughey was
in good form, combining the railroaders
to two singles and one double, all in
the sixth inning.