Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-05-14
GRAYS Win Them ALL
Home team TAKES every GAME
In FIRST LEAGUE SERIES,
GravS HarbOr Walks AWAY With Five
Games From the Butte Miners,
Some Fine Ball Tossing Witness
Attendance Very Good. YeSter.
days Game in Detail,

Attendance Very Good. Yester.
days Game in Detail.
They came, we saw and conquered.
was the burden Of song in the minds of
Grays Harbor fans as they joyfully
wended their way home from Electric
park yesterday, after witnessing the
home team pluck the fifth game from
Butte, in the first series PLAYED on the
home grounds.
The series..w asi the finest exhibition of
base ball ever seen on Grays Harbor,
and the attendance fully justified the
claim OF the promoters OF league ball,
that the people here would support good
ball. The attendance at the five games
was nearly 1000, the actual paid admis.
slons being 3,79l, being considerably
above the average at the seven games
PLAYED at Tacoma, although the weather
was much more favorable lat the latter
place, and the fact that the rain yester.
day kept fully 1000 people away.
The game Thursday resulted in the
following score:
r. II. f.
Grays Harbor. ................ 8 2
D"''e .''.'.... ................
On Friday the local team won in the
sixth inning. when two singles and
Schmidt's bad throw to first scored two
runs. Rain fell and the game was sus-
pended twice. Umpire Huston called
the game at the beginning OF the eighth.
Butte scored one run the first inning.
while the Grays' third run was made in
the second. Three fast double plays en-.
livened the game. Score:
r. II. f.
Grays Harbor. or................3 3 5 0
Dutte .......... ................. 2
SATURDAY.
For the fourth time in ono week tie
Lum bermen took the Miners into camp
Saturday. The game was fast and ex.
citing one, and when the smoke of hattie
bad cleared away the score board showed
3 to 2 in favor OF Dad Browns Lumber
Jacks. Tonneson was the box artist for
the locals. and Howard for the visitors.
Old reliable Dick Boettiger was back in
the game, after a slight illness, and
caught the big south paw. Tonneson
pitched splendid game. striking out
six men, walking two and giving but six
hits, no two OF which came in one inning,
No sooner was that game over and
packed away in the column of victories,
than the fans began to prepare for Sun
days game, and that night every one
sent up fervent prayers for as perfect
day as Saturday bad been. That dav
had been one.o those bright, warm, sun
shiny days for which the summers of
Gravs Harbor are noted. Fans and
players wanted another day just like
that, but the weather man had plans of
his own. Before Sunday morning dawned
rain was falling, and the hopes OF many
fan were crushed. With anxious eve the
sky was watched for.solne sign of blue to
cheer the. hopeful fan; the sun almost
burst through the clouds two or three
times before the game was called, but its
rays were as feeble as the chances of the
Miners proved to be. Despite the gloomy
weather about fifteen hundred loyal
Grays Harbor fans went to the park, re.
solved to take chances on getting wet to
see the Lumbermen make it five straight.
When play was called at three O'Clock
the grounds were very wet and slippery.
and it was this very thing which saved
the Miners from coat of whitewash.
Little Lewis, the lad who saved the day
for the Lumbermen last Thursday, was
on the slab, and right we'll did he per-
form, allowing but three hits; Bresino
got one in the first inning, one in the
eighth, and Baxter one in the ninth.
The game opened with Butte at bat
Bresino, the first man up, got safe hit,
but the next three men went out in
quick order, and he was left on second.
Not Miner got to first in the second.
In the third Hoon struck out, Doyle hit
to Hurley who slipped as he picked the
ball up, recovering himself too late to
put the runner out; this was an excusa.
BILE error. The fourth inning opened
little better for the visitors. Baxter get.
ting pass to first, was sent to second by
lrby's sacrifice. Mcintyre struck out,
Swiadells hit one that sailed upward and
outward until it seemed as if it would
never come down; it was in the territory
between that guarded by Dick Boettiger's
little brother Oscar and Dad Brown,
and when they saw it coming they both
ran toward the place where they thought
it would light. When that ball started
every fan held his breath, for it certainly
did seem good for a run, but you ought