The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03
Tail-EnderS TrounceAdverseries
in Good Style.
MADE AN UPHILL FIGHT
FINAL SCORE WAS 8 TO Z IN
THEIR FAVOR.
After the Rio Grandes Had Obtained
What Looked Like a Commanding
Lead, the Clippenger Boys Pulled
Themselves Together and Jolted
Pendergraft for Enough to Win.

The hoOdOO that has been working
overtime against the Short Lines. took
a much-needed day off yesterday. As
a result, the CIppenger outfit trounced
the Rio Grande Westerns in very hand
some style. The score was to and
the victors deserve a great deal more
credit than the number of TALES would
indicate. They seemed ilopeIessIy beat
en- at one stage of the game, but they
settled down to their knitting in great
shape and. aided by the pitching of Mr..
Kidder. who obliged on the slab they
caught and passed the league leaders.
The good spots in the game were
more frequent than the sloppy going.
Both sides had bad innings but the
Short Lines had the worst This was
the second, when hits and errors came
together for a total of six runs. In
this section of the matinee four safe
ones and a like number Of misplays
gave the Rios what looked like COM
handing lead. The Shorts had made
two in the first and had whitewashed
their opponents. Then came the sec
ond with its slaughter and the crowd
settled down to see some punk ball
playing.
Short Gather Four.
nv ANiN vi eillAAFS maui SQDu again III
the fourth, pushing Risley across the
plate on three hits. Ciphers were the
portion of the Shorts until the fifth
and there the balloon went up After
Taylor had turned his toes to the dali
sizes at first Margetts damned out
TOuble TO right center. Barnes scored
MN with ripping single. Game died
on weak grOunder to Pendergraft
Kimmerer Strengthened out an in-shoot
for = Cinoia M
up trying to return the ball Berkeley
and Kidder followed with one aggers
and the net result was four tallies.
With the score 6 to the supporters
OF the Shorts again took courage and
the air reverberated with their yeIls Of
encouragement. They missed cOnnec-
tons in the sixth and seventh, but in
the eighth they gaTneTed three This
happy result was brought about
through three errors and Margetts'
triple, combination of threes that
gave the Shorts enough TO win the
game. The Rios got no TALES after the
fourth, for kidder was in his best
form and didn't allow them anythine
that looked like a hit
Good plays were numerous. TAYLOR
had a VeSy busy afternoon in right
garden aid made two or three catches
that brought the rOOterS to their feet
came, the new third baSeman failed
TO do anything at the bat, but he field
ed well, particularly happy play fall
ing TO him in the ninth, when he stOp-
ped hard hit gTOunder with his left
hand and lObbed the ball over to first
In time TO prevent Pendergraft from
starting toward another run. Kimmer-
er's work at second was excellent. An
other feature was the batting of the
Shorts. They got a total of seventeen
safe hits OF this number Asbury, Wal /
Ter and Berkeley got three each. All
We're timely as We're Margetts' d0-,btn /
and triple Berkeley also distinguished /
himself at the receiving end of the
Shorts battery. The summary follows: (