The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-23

PLAYED PRETTY BALL
Rios Defeated Shorts in a Clean
Game.
SCORE WAS FIVE TO TWO
HICBEYITES PLAYED ALMOST
WITHOUT ERROR.
WAS FIVE TO TWO
Standing of the Clubs.

DuIrv Risley, erstwhile one of the
r,ify of Dan Hickey's congregation, but
f,r some time the pastor c the choice
flock dubbed the Rios, was in a good
bumor Yesterday. Several times dur
ing the little game out at Walkers
f.rd smile iIlumined his classic fea-
fires ami his noble brow beamed with
b-nevoIauce. Probably this was because
his team was playing errorless ball.
and was winning a pretty game-mOst
likely that was the reason.
But whatever the cause of it. Dud
rrfuued and lObbed the benders over
fna sack ina a manner beautiful to be-
hold. while gilt edged support behind
him nod down any that did. perchance.
come iu contact with the willow. The
result was that the Shorts. who so
uaauih.rutly demonstrated on Satur-
dav that they really know how to play
nalI. were overcome by the score of 5
to-
10 came about in several ways. Bill
Eeuupr. q friSky youth in a cOmbina-
rfun of "a ragtime cakewalk costume
ana "a ballet girls fluffiness, was the
mascot for the Rios. He also had a
face. which wasn't quite as pretty as
his costume But he was lucky. even
if he did accompany the team on its
Hl-fated juHkct to Idaho, and almost
every man to whom he carried a bat did
something with tiff il wasn't a hit
that De- got it was a strike out. That's
the kind of luck Bill brought, which
VAS "a whole lot better than his can
eating namesake Of Ogden furnished.
buds Good Twirling.
As has been intimated before. Dud
Tis.eys pitching WAS a big feature. and
the wise lad who sQuints his nose as
hello salute handed uD a few that
were several. But nine hits were Sc
cured from him. the same crowd of
gti kerS WHO had fattened out eight
of Izzv Hansford's on the day prior
being at the stick and feeling stronger
than ever. But bud really held them
down better than Ivy, To- the Shorts
gauered two triples from the Holsters
shaaf while they didn't begin to find
anything like three baggers from bud.
Une double was the best they could GO
in the way of charging upon the horse
hide
That hit was secured by Kimerer,
who was in the game all of the time.
When Kim plays the .niddle garden,
you know there's somebody out there.
just as When Hoppe sojOurns in that
delightful spot. Kimerer made one
beautiful catch yesterday after a hard
run over into left middle. being barely
able % keen his feet after recovering
the sphere The crowd let him know
that they appreciated it, and hearty
applause was waited gardenwards from
the elite i'm the grandstand.
Might Have Been Perfect.
The real fundamental reason for the
game ending as it did was the fact that
The Westerns played beautiful ball all
oi the time. 1t was almost errOrless
ball. and but for one error on the part
of Sears in left field il We nd have been
as clean as it is possible for a game to
De. Eight and a half innings had been
pdJed. and two men were out in the
iat half of the ninth.
10 looked like an errOrless game. for
not black mark had cTeDt into the
Nos score. and there seemed but little
indication that one would before the
game was over. Bowman placed a low
-E odt iu left Sears miSjudged il, ran
up i'' far and couldn't get back in
Time FOB entirely close his mitS on it.
Aa mark went down right there, and
The perfect fielding of the Rios was
spoiled just that much. 1t was really
too bad
When the biggest part of the game
happened WAS i'm the third inning. and
me- Shorts passed it all UP right there.
MD She'herd was back on the slab
WIN his green cap and his pensive look. /
DE- hasn't had a haircut since he went
aNaN-nnt une-and he looked for all
On" world like an epic poet or a stu
e.oi OF the Panishads. He held the
H.'N-Ntas down 10 one hit in each of
I'D. various innings. but they treated
MN .' the uyrotechnics in the third to
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