The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-27
GOSSIP
FOR THE FANS
interesting Dope" About Play
ers You All Know.
Votes OF YESTERDAYS GAME
NEWMEYER AND WIGG PITCH
IN DoUBLE-HEADER TODAY.

what should be one of the greatest
exhibitions of baseball seen this wear is
scheduled 20 commence this afternoon al
clock, when the Elders and the Butte
champions line up for a double-header.
Big Jimmy Wigs and ''Zeke" New
meyer are the two Elders selected to do
the pitching for the locals while In AN
probability Pete Bowling and Baudeln
VIII be the opposing pitchers. Manager
McClOskey says this combination ought
To beat Butte. which If done. win tie the
two teams for the series this week.
Jim MAR received word from Frank
AlcNichOls yesterday that he had LEFT
Dugdale.s Seattle team for the season
and had gone to the coast. NcNiChoIs
has been playing star BAH for the ST.
washes All season.
Catcher Anderson was signed yesterday
by Manager Wilmot 60 play out the rest
Of the season with the Miners. AudcT-
son appeared in a Butte uniform yester-
dey and played q remarkably good game.
Did someone say Jimmy McHale OF the
Butte team was not much Of a hitter2
Wen. If anyone did il is up to this per
son 10 guess again. Jimmy has done the
pest STICK work of all the players on
both teams this week. He has been sew
enteen times at bat made ten hits for
fourteen bases. giving him batting
average for the past week of SIS 1t
viii be remembered that one of these
hits was a home run, which won the
SAINT AoA ouAlt.
Pitcher Eugle who OBLIGATED for the
Elders yesterday, put up remarkably
good article OF twiriing the last time he
played for the Seattle team when they
were IN salt Lake on their recent trip.
he pitched a thirteen-inning game
against Wigs and lost out by the small
score OF 10 8. The game was won by
the Elders in the thirteenth inning on
errors. This would indicate that ne can
do little in the pitching line once i'm
awhile.
sunny Jim. who holds down first bag
for Butte. had the bat throwing habit
YESTERDAY Three times Shaffer let the
hit the BAH with the bat. once making a
nice single.
Hausen's weather eye was away to the
Dad yesterday and he let three foul flies
drop However, the fans know Hansen
can catch this kind of bah, as he has
turned the trick successfully for Ogden
for the past three years.
If Stats Davis could only have mado
good with hit in the eighth yesterday
there would have been a different tale
TO tell, With the bases filled and one
out Stats swung wide three times ana
tnen McNeeley tried his luck at Lawyer
Roachs curves The Colorado Springs
boy however. was no more equal TO the
occasion than Davis. and it was all Oft
John McCloskey tells story OF base
baI in Tacoma when bread tickets were
used Tor admission tickets but they
served the purpose all right Ii was In
lhe spring of 1901, when McClOskey was
manager of the Tacoma team. One sun
dav they had a game scheduled with
EOruand- II began To pOur down about
. p m. and IL looked for a while as TT
me game was all OFF. The grounds at
Tacoma are situated on top OF a hiu
which were reached at that time bv cable
car. The crowd, and it was a large one.
hanl-
started for the grounds, but something
went wrong with the cable line and the
car company dumped the people at the
bottom OF the hill to stand around in the
rain McClOsl1ey, who was at the
grounds. sat on the fence. anxiOusIv
watching the clouds, and about $3.50 the
sun began to shine and dry ND tho
grounds. Mac then stood ND on the fence
ana waved that red coat. which he wears
on al occasions. for the crowd TO come
on. lie says that there was mad scram-
ole up the hill like "A lot Of ants overrup-
ming an ant hill while he stood on the
fence waving his red coat TO urge the
fans on. When they arrived McCloskey
discovered his ticket man had gone home
but this did not bother McCIOskey any.
lie walked across the street to a ba ker
shop ana borrowed all the bread tickets
the baker had in the store and began TO
sell them for admission TO see the game. =
IL worked all right. and according to Nc
Closkey the crowd saw one of the best
games Of the year, Portland winning by
score Of to J.
Arrangements have been completed be
tween Buck Weaver and the management
OF the c. +. d l. Co baseball team Of
Pueblo for series Of two games to be
played Oct 10 and IL at Pueblo between
a picked team from among the PLAYERS
of the Pacific National league and the
Pueblo team Most of the PLAYERS of
the Pacific National are going east after
the season closes and Buck intends 10 nut
them up against the strong agsregation
at Pueblo The latter team has defeated
me Denver and Colorado Springs teams
this season and is considered fast