Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-06-13
HOPMEN
HAVE
SPORT
Portland and Salem Buyers
Contest on the Diamond
for HOnOrS


Enenss ball game in that city, as fol
EoNs.
There is baseball and baseball, and
there is the old time game of town
Hball from which evolved the national
mNne OF today. In addition to these
there Is the most recent game of In.
door baseball. Yesterday game was
played on the Hawthorne avenue
asrUunds, and Manager H. Uchtman
offers a prize to anyone who will tell
WHIST Kind of a game was played.
The contesting teams were made up
0f the hop men of Portland and Sa-
Hems with B. II. TrumbuN as the mas
Ner of ceremonies. The participants
sderlare il was game of baseball,
'but the spectators, after hours of
tdelSberation, are unable to tell what
sgnzne was played. To satisfy the
gsanyers, | will call 1t baseball Base
@ui1. town ball or indoor baseball,
There was enough to the game to sat
dsfy the 2O0O spectators.
The Portland hop men started off
I'm the very first inning as they meant
business, and when the man in the
arRmdstand rang the bell tolling the
uHuni1er of runs, he had yanked his
txFm 40 times. Everybody thought it
wEsH all on then, and they had good
TaEHsUn think so, for Salem's first
tih~ee men at bat were unable to con-
meTa, and the result of the first in
ming was Portland 10, Salem 0. The
ssecond inning, however, showed some
sign of a change, for the Salem men
had sized up the Johnson curves,
and before the side had retired had
piled up some nine runs Dorcas,
called Babe" was the one to start
4hS run-getting. With three men on
the bases, he put the ball over the
1efa field fence, which Portland's old.
'est residents say was the longest hit
ever made on the grounds. The
slaughter continued, for Pincus got
IN three-base hit and Louie Lachman |
another home run, with the result |
that when the third man. was out Sa.
lem had made total of nine runs,
making the score 10 to 8.
The Prettlest Play.
AZ was In the third inning the pret- |
aiest play OF the game was made. |
Portland had secured two runs
through Relstein's excellent place
AKffing. Llnesley, Weidner and Eel |
Ter were on the bases. A. ]. Ray hit |
"a line fly to right field. Babe" Dor
Gas saw the hall coming, and ran in |
ON it. He caught 1t about one foot
from the ground. No one player, or
had any idea he could |
reach II, but he did The impetus
wan too great for him to stop, and |
he ran on. touching first base, and |
then throwing the ball to Krebs at
medond completing the first triple |
play made in Portland this season. |
The 20OO people In the grant and
and bleachers went wild--hats, caps |
and overcoats were thrown In the |
air. and II was fully Ave minutes be.
fore order was restored. Despite the
Babes" great theft" he was carried
10 the bench by his fellow players.
When they dropped him the beer keg
snffered.
Johnson then famed out the Salem
crowd, pitching exactly nine balls.
The fourth was stand of, each
side scoring five runs. The least
aaid about the inning the better. The
1ifth both teams steadled down and
as the result of the brilliant playing
OF Reinstein, Harry Hart and Her for
Portland, aud Pincus Krebs, I4ach'
man and Irwin for Salem, neither
side scored The sixth was repe-
tetion. A. J. Kay. Llnesley, wiedner
and Her doing the brilliant playing
for Portland, and Cornoyer Wiprut
and Roberts playing brilliantly for
Salem.
II was In the seventh that both
went to the bad,
Didn't Touch Runner.
Pincus started the bali playing, |
zeller was running from second to
third; the ball was hit to the pitcher, |
who threw Il 60 third, Pineus had !
loads OF time to touch the runner,
but he evidently was thinking of
town ball, for instead OF touching the
runner ne simply touched the base,
and then tried to>ipelte riot because
Umpire Trumbull called the runner
safe. This evidently demorialized the
team. because before third man had !