The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-21
leagueFs Drove Them Away Down
Deep in the Cellar.
HEAVY STICK WORK WAS THE FEATURE
SPRAGUE is HERE AND WILL
PLAY WAllA WALlA TO.
MORROW AFTERNOON.

Stanley's Indians gave the Boosters
an awful drubbing at the city ball
| park yesterday that made the small
number of spectators fairly weep. 1t
was something awful how the Spo-
kane leaguers clOuted the ball and ran
bases. Those who expected to see the
Boosters do some good work We're
greatly disappointed. The local team
was affected with greater degree of
fright than in the first game and when
it came to handling the sphere they
played worse than nine of school
boys. The Spokane aggregation dur
ing the first part of the contest put up
an excellent fielding game, but when
the game was nearly over they all
took it easy and tried their best to
let the Walla Walla team get a few
runs.
The game was quite expensive to
Will Upton, the cigar dealer, who was
compelled to dig up IS three times to
players who batted the ball over the
fence between the left and center gar
dens.
Rumnell started in to do the box
work for the Boosters and he was
touched up for Is safe hits. Croker
relieved him in the last of the game
and he was found four times for safe
ones.
Off of Simonds and Rush the Walla
Walla team only got seven hits,
Crocker and Blackburn both coming
in for home runs.
No score was kept of the game and
the work of the players on the two
teams cannot be given to the fans
who remained at home.
This afternoon the Spokane team is
playing a game with the Yellow Kids
at Athena and tomorrow the two
teams will meet on the PendletOn dia-
mond
WaIIa WaIIa and Sprague.
The Sprague ball team, one OF the
best in eastern Washington, arrived
in Walla Walla this morning and this
afternoon are playing with the
Boosters Tomorrow another game
will be played, the time set being 2:3O
o'clock.
School Teams Play.
Sharpstein and Green Park schools
played an interesting game of base
ball yesterday afternoon. There were
no dull moments during the game and
every man was right on his toes TN
til the last ball was pitched Green
Park School pulled off the victory by
score of Is to II. The score by in
nings was as follows:
Sharpstein School, 0 1 0 2-12
Green Park 7O1O5 0 9 2-15
Benefit Game Monday.
The game of ball to be played Mon
day afternoon by teams from the Elks
and knights of Columbus for the ben
efits of the San Francisco sufferers,
will draw an immense crowd. The
committee that has been making
canvass of the city report that large
number of tickets have been pur-
chased by the citizens. Every cent of
the proceeds is to be donated to the
relief fund. The grounds have been
donated by the baseball association.
the Walla Walla Military band and
the Fourteenth Cavalry bard have vol
unteered their services to furnish mu-
sic for the occasion. All the mer-
chants have agreed to close their
stores during the hours of the game
and let their employees help swell the
crowd. While the gone may not
prove equal to a league contest there
will be enough fun to give the specta-
tors their moneys worth. The hour
of the game has been changed from
2:3O to 4:3O o'clock p. M, business
houses closing at 4 o'clock.