The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-09-06
A SPLENDID CONTEST
The Story Told Of How the
Great Labor Day Battle
Was Finally Won
and Lest.
Vlmlta, q.
coIumbns, 10.

coIumbns, 40.
Seventeen innings-count 'em-sev-
enteen, we're played Yesterday TO de-
teT1nine the victor In the contest be-
TWEEN the former "Invincibles' Of
Yinlta and an aggregation OF sure
enough ball tossers from Columbus,
Kansas.
In many ways this was the most
interesting game ever put up in this
|. neck OF the woods. True, there was a
multiplicity Of errors, those made by
the home team occurring mostly at
inopportune times, while the mistakes
Of the Kansans we're not 80 costly.
There were times when the big crowd
shouted wildly for their favorites, and
this yelling and roofing and crowding
OF the diamond by the fans from the
bleachers cost Vinita the game in the
last half OF the fourteenth inning,
when Ridenhour, who replaced Jordan
in the ninth, had reached third base
with the ball thrown wildly into the
crowd. Ridenhour couldn't see for
himself where the ball was, and IN re-
sponse to the varied shouts ran toward
home, back TO the base and towards
sxlome again. During his see-sawing
fne ball was recovered and the decld-
Ting run FOR Vinita was lost.
Both Henderson ana Harlan pitched
good games and they were. IN the
main, ably supported. There we're
those, however, scattered here and
there throughout the crowd who criti-
cissd every play, believing themselves
competent critics and "know.it-allsn
By having at one time or another wit
messed a game between big leagners-
Tinney, who took EN- of the bat for
the visitors was the prop that kept
his men closely 10 their knitting. He
is a player that can hold his own in
decidedly faster company.
ShortstOp Williams and second base
man Leggett erred frequently, but
the former redeemed himself by sew
eral really brilliant plays, especially
in the thirteenth when ne brought
down Etter's ~ after a hard run. He
brought In two runs, Harlan and Tin
ney. in the third by an opportune hit
and smashed out "a home run with
three men on bases in the seventeenth.
walker and Tinney were also good
with the stick.
Torbit, q Vinita boy loaned to the
visitors for the occasion, nailed every
thing that went into the center garden
and was applauded for making a spec
. tacular running catch Of Meade's high /
drive in the twelfth, saving a run and l
the game.
For the home boys Meredith's play
esng and fast fielding evoked frequent /
applause but. with the Others, he joined 4
in presenting the comedy OF errors
along about the thirteenth inning. In
the fourth Higley lined out home
run down the first base line into right,
the ball rolling under the carriages.
He also made splendid catch Of
Clary's cloud-scraper in the twelfth.
with the score two and two Steven.
son scored in the fifth on wild throw
in Of Meade's pop back Of second. The
latter crossed the plate on a tumble
by Williams Of Parks liner to short
left.
Walker opened the seventh for the
Kansans with a safety to center. Tor
bit famed and Harlan was struck by
the pitcher. Both scored on Tinney's
drive to right and Etter's wild throw.
With the score az ! to 4 the pitchers
settled down to business, carefully
guarding the game. For nine innings
neither side succeeded in scoring and
the excitement was intense.
Twice during this time a runner for
the visitors was caught on close decis-
ions al the plate, and Ridenhour's op-
portunity was thrown away in 18th.
In the first half Of the seventeenth
Harlan went to first on a liner to
right. Ridenhour dropped Tinney's
~ to center, ClarY drove the ball BE-
tween Higley's legs and Williams
chased them AL in With his home run.
feggett sent a grounder past sam.
Who came IN 70 relieve Meade. John
Mafrs going into center school