The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-07
Standing of the Clubs.

DalQ OF DiGe SIOCklH2S mas met Win
its first defeat since the opening Of the
Utah-Idaho league season. This hap
pened at ogden yesterday, the heroized
ball tossers from that burg winning by
a score Of twelve to nine.
1t was net the kind of game that
would occasion spasmodic outbursts of
joy from the unprecedented onlooker,
but the Ogden roOters thought it was
just about the SWEETEST thing that ever
hapDened ana they yelled and yelled
and yelled. And then they yelled again.
The spirit Of revenge seemed to have
animated their pipes. Smarting under
the defeat administered in Zion on
Saturday. the players went into the
game determined to win back the love
and respect of the Junction City pOpu-
lace. From the genuine manifestations
Of delight waited diamOndwards from
the bleachers and the grand stand, they
surely did it.
But ragged as the game was at
times. there would have been an eX-
cuse if it had been twice as raw and
II there had been no cases of fast work
amid the desert of errors. The field
was a quagmiTe-One of those muci-
LACED mud holes that prohibit anything
Ike good Playing If a player was
fortunate enough to eXtTicate his feet
from the slime for a period of suffi-
cient duration To enable him to make
connections with the mud-eniarged
sphere, his difficulty then was in Oc-
casiOning a separation and getting the
ball anywhere near the base he want
ed. Some of them did this better than
others, and deserve their mOdicum of
credit for the deed.
EESandy's' Bunch of Errors.
GoOd-natured Sandy Mcfarland
wasn't one of these. He heard some
body say "HOOt mOnr at the begin
ming Of the contest, and after that he
lost hi nerve. He fielded every ball
that came to him as pretty as any Of
'enl, and his work along that line is
worthy Of most favorable comment.
But when he raised his whip to put
the hOrsehide over to Shannon. all the
control he ever had went to the four
winds Of heaven and the bail evidenced
a tendency To familiaTize itself with
the white hecked clouds in the blue
ether. This happened two or three
times, and then Sandy was determined
10 get them down, but he lowered them
too far and they began to hit the
ground some distance in front of the
initial Finally, the Scotchman became
discouraged. and every bad throw that
he would make he would pull his cap
down over his eyes and look real sore
at himself
It was in this way that Sandy piled
up those six errors. And as the iron
zeal fates had decreed, nearly every
error was a costly one. When the ball
went past Shannon, it was due east
every time for some distance over d
heap of ground before il stopped. and
by the time the first baseman had re
covered it everybody on the bags had
gone two nearer home. Several OF the
runs Of the OgdeniteS were made in
this way, and the general opinion was
that had it not been an off day for
Mcfarland, the score would not have
been so large, and it might have read
in a different way
In striking contrast was the work Of
Clark, who held down the third bag
for the JunctiOnites. He accepted
eight chances without an error, and
the way he put the hOrSehide over TO
the initial was enough TO make the
most hardened fan grow enthusiastic.
He again wore the miniature lid that
distinguished him in the game at Salt
Lake, and those amOrOus hose were
again utilized to the wonderment OF
he bleacherites and the intense ad-
miration Of the bright-eyed maidens.
Gimlin's Good Arm.
Gimlin, in the box, pitched a beauti-
full game considering the condition of
the ball The Rios found it no easy
task to place them out where the lilies
grow for Gimlin was playing ball all
the time He also got in his share of
the assists and putouts, and altogether
played a fast game.
But Gimiin was no more in the game
than Risley was although the juno
tionites got three more hits from the
latter than the Westerns did from
.simlin. But those Of the fans who are
competent to talk on the subject &C
credit this more TO the fact that the
Ogdenites are better Stickers than are
the Rios, and not that Gimlin pitched
any better ball. Risiey again excited
the admiration of the fans by his
graceful, easy handling of the bal
and his deceptive delivery. He showed
all through that he was a ball player
every inch of him.
Scare once more led the Salt Lake
boys ia stick work, getting two hits
out Of four times up. This makes ais
average 800 for the games that he has
plaved so far this season, which is the
kind Of smuggling that is very seldom
seen in any lea que anywhere. Meinlck5
and Risley broH5ht up q close second
in Yesterdays game. each Of them get
ting two hits out Of FIVE times at bat.
The smuggling of the Ogdenites was
right up TO the mark Every man or
the team got a hit, and two Of them
Plake and McGregOr put two Ou-
where the willows line the creek. one
each Of these was a good double anC
h.-lpea things out wonderfully.
Too much cannot be said regarding
thu most excellent street car service K
ths game. It was SO prompt and 81
ac, emmodating, and the cars ran s.
nicely. etc Fat" SchOuler, who ac
cO,1Danied the Rio Grandes to the
JUNCTION city, and who is cOnnoisseul
in such things. wanted to know few
things about the cars, which he per
sista1 in designating by the most an
pro9riate cOguOmen, automobiles"
30 you know what We would de
wfts these automobiles IN Salt Lake,
he asked the ccnductor-mOtorman
No." was the surly reply.
FIEe'd make ham and egg sandwich
stands out of EN- answered Fat.
and the conductor looked real angry.
How it Happened.
The game was scheduled 10 start q
1896 but it was not begun until almos
4 O'Clock. The delay was OccasioneC
By q desire to allow the sun to dry TIT
field. But while they were waiting {
light shower came up, and after it haC
stopped they got into the game al
speedily as they could
Hopkins was the only man who go