The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-13
PLAY ELEVEN INNINGS
High School BeStS Saints In Long
Contest.
ROW OVER A DECISION
AN OUT AT SECOND CAUSES
CONTROVERSY.
Game Was Full of Gingery Playing
By Members of Both Teams, the
Final Score Being II to 8 Against
the L. D. S. Business College
Boys-Game at the Fort Today.

There has not been a closer or more
exciting game of baseball in Salt Lake
this season than that which was played
yesterday afternoon on the university
campus. Three hundred people, mostly
students, held down the bleachers to
see the high school and Latter-day
| Saints business college teams play
what turned out to be an eleven-inning
contest, and most of it was redhot
baseball, too. The high school boys Won,
II to s.
1t was after o'clock when the con-
test began, three-quarters of an hour
later than scheduled. The game was a
hot one after the third inning, and al
most eliminated in fight in the ninth
on decision by Umpire Augustus
The first part of the game was a lit
tie slow, but when the third inning had
been played and the score stood 6 to
; in favor of the high school boys, the
business representatives went to work
in dead earnest. A high school man
crossed the home plate during the next
three innings. In the sixth the L. d.
5. boys scored two runs, wild throw
by Tregea to Campbell at first letting in
Margetts and AIidgeley.
The next stage of the game added two
more to the high school score, thus
making the contest stand to 4 in favor
of that school 1t looked as though the
Saints must play swift ball to catch
up, but they did catch up, the high
school, by a series of errors in the
ninth, letting in four runs.
This tied the score, each side being
credited with eight runs. Another in
ming showed no change, each side GO
ing out in one, two, three order, and the
crowd was aroused to the very topnotch
of enthusiasm when Tregea went to
bat in the first half of the eleventh. He
went out on a grounder to short. Skid
more faced the pitcher and hit to left
field, and then it came Billy Smiths
turn to try his luck with the stick.
Trouble Breaks Loose.
He lined the leather to johnson at
short, who Immediately turned and al
most handed the ball to Castleton at
second. Skidmore reached that spot at
just about the same time, and Umpire
Augustus called him safe. Bedlam
broke loose at once, and players and
crowd surged about second base, where
Captain Margetts was giving vent to
his wrath in indignant language. Skid
more was undoubtedly out at second
but the umpire acknowledged he didn't
see the play, and after a half hour of
wrangling, during which Margetts vain
ly commanded his men to leave the
Ielu, compromise WAS eHeCleu, smith
being sent back to the bat and Skid
more taking his previous position at
first.
The L. D. S. boys We're both so wild
and ratified after this that the high
school scored six runs during the in
ming, making the score IA to s, as it
finally stood.
Yesterdays game was not a pitchers
contest, both men being hit freely.
Howell was in better form than Holt,
but was replaced by w. Smith in the
tenth. Smith made a good record,
striking out four men and keeping the
Saints down to one basehit. The re-
markable part of the contest was the
fielding, both of in and outfield on both
teams. Margetts was excellent at first
The game was very good one, both
sides playing lively ball almost through
out the game and very few errors be-
ing made. Home runs by Gardanier,
Margetts and two by Howell were fea-
lures of the contest.
Tho Summary