The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
NEW MEN ARE IN UNIFORM
BUT NO ONE OF THEM DlSTiN-
CUISINES BY HIS WORKS.
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? Pacific National League. 7


Did you ever catch wet ball on a
chilly afternoon? Try it some time and
after you get so you can live through
that. get someone to hammer 1t at you
hard across a ploughed field When you
get 50 you can stand that, sit down and
roast the game.
ExtenUating circumstances III favor
Of the suffering players do not relieve
the dreariness of the game, though To
saS il was d good exhibition would be
10 rnishandIc the truth. which is mighty
and shall prevail. If not the limit, the
came was powerful close to it. close
enough to kick the goal any time.
II was rather terrible. beyond d doubt
o. course. there was streak of sun
shine sueakiug through the general
gloom here and there. but not enough
10 take the chill of the game in its
entirety.
Those who could muster sufficient
philosophy to forget their fOndness for
salt Lake victories managed to eX-
trtct much undiIuted fun from the
thing They beheld with mirth the
Spectacle of dignified and high-saiaTied
specialists skiddinE across the slippery
diamond on one ear they chuCkled
When "a Shiny and mUshily-inclined ball
PASSED easily through hands trained to
eHtrap II; they Toared in unholy glee
when the sang ball caromed high from
the thoughtful head of an unsUSpeCt-
ing player who sought 10 begUiIe it into
MS mitt. they rose e nlasse TO applaud
throws that were gOod for from one to
three bases.
Yes, the game had its saving features,
as well.
New Faces Are Seen.
Three new faces surrounding Salt
Lake uniforms confronted the $50 uu-
terrified fans who rambIed out TO the
oCiugS- One of them did not stay long,
hut the others were still in evidence
when the curtain fell Two of them are
lads with amateur records Lindsay
r Rogers is said to have discovered
trem, and to have dragged them from
their peaceful homes i'm Eureka into the
cruel glare of professionalism and into
game calculated to give d seasoned
veteran the gTisly horrors. Douglas,
an amateur infieIder. was driven into
the SeCEe that ddorDS left field. His
troubles began early. In the first in
ming two were hit TO him and he lost
both This was evidently the result of
stage fright and swamp ague combined.
because he Strengthened uD later and
handled five other chances in good
shape. Il was said the boy had never
therefore up against something tough
especially since the muck was about
three feet deep in his precinct and he
had forgotten his rubber boots
The other lad, Beck, aid not survive
the first inninE. Fulmer hit an infeId
fly at him that struck him somewhere
and glanced of toward right field. let
ting in two runs. \ moment later
BveSiRO hung one on him somewhere,
taking second on il while another brace
OF tallies sCampered home. Reilly
ditched the boy at this point and
Peer got two chances later and lost
both, so 1t was easy to comprehend that
quite a vacancy existed in the short
field
The new boys were not alone. how
ever The error column was resoUted to
often by both sides. with grand
total of thirteen fielding mispIays for
the game II was certainly bum sled
ding for all hands, though. SO il would
be unjust 10 cali hard names
The bloody first Uudid salt Lake
with five runs lost. Clark singled and
HeTwiE doubled 10 start il off Four
errors for total of fifteen bases should
suffice to explain the rest of that in
ninE-
Two hits. Il wild pitch. an error and
a brace of steals put two more TO the
column i'm the second. three singles
added another i'm the seventh and two
others came in the ninth I'D uucventful
fashion.
Runs BY the Elders.
IT, HE - IN $500. r--.-r-- - -