The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-22
HERALD TAKES RE!tBIIC
INFO CAMP NJ BALL.
Iaitcn Erwin ANA MilIard Mrloy
i'tCNe to BE Features of
RrpIblic's Undoing.

lie team by score of to $. The
game was very exciting from The be-
ginning 10 the end and was watched
by about 800 Interesting spectators,
who saw one of the best games ii
ball put up this season
II wasn't like tying the game mp IN
a blue baby ribbon and handing il
over to the Herald Willard Meloy
Is something of ball player him.
self. He acted as box artist for the
Republic during the first four in
nings. He looks something like Jack
Chesbro but doesn't chew he same
kind of tobacco. At the start of the
game when he reached down.
grabbed a big handful of gravel. put
it in his face and heaved over a spit
bal the crowd sighed for the sake
Of the Herald bunch and let out q
moan that sounded like a bale of
tin cans falling down an elevator
shaft. The bunch never figured on
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game, however. and so things went
swimmingly until the fifth, when
Erwin became nervous and went in
the box himself. Then the stuff was
off and Wild William Rdgway
planted out two-bagger which
brought in couple of winning
scores and Erwin started to figure
out how he could cop enough from
the Pinafore to pay all bets as we'll
as theatre rent and the price of the
lights.
For genuine artistic swatology the
game made a big league binglefest
look like pie face mutt on windy
day. Tut and Meloy are both good
pitchers, as skookum by gosh as any,
thing on a hotel washstand, but the
guys behind the hickory made the
hit and the whole game was a noise
like small boy, a father, a single
and woodshed
1t would be like slandering major
league ball players TO tell just how
fast the players all around the bags
and in The sagebrush pasturelari
played the national game. When it
comes to playing behind the bat
either Hamilton or Hare would make
Johnny King feel like a last year 5
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out mo,hballS and down at third base
BILLY Nerran made the hit of the
day with the petticoats by his clever
maneuvers and his natural grace
fulness. Away out in field one VIII
liam Horsley had his trouble. The
sun was never shining quite right
when a ball happened to sail Will
liams way and he dropped two or
three just to give a scientific and
practical demonstration of an optical
illusion, but otherwise he PLAYED like
an old warhorse. McVeigh, the
pressman. at third, went through the
game in tragic trance and broke
the web two or three times at critical
iunctures, whatever they are. Beryl
Cory was the candy kid. Despite the
fact that he was negotiating around
shortstop with three small corns and
one big bunion besides an unpaid
laundry bill in his hip pocket which
wrinkled his ball suit every time he
went after sizzling swat, he played
the game almost as if he came from
Iowa and on one or two occasions
looked to be nearly human.
All around the bags the science
shown was bully. by love. but it was
cut ON the greensward where the tall
grass was growing that the real joy
came in The. fielders were kept as
busy as man trying to support three
wives and a goat, which is going
some Ridgway and Hoffman were
the particular stars that looked like
airships on clear night. Walter
Tuesley. Iiggett and stephens were
also a long ways from home and had
more exercise than a woman running
labor saving washing machine
There are lots Of other stars, but We
happen to need them all and too
much praise would result in a gem
eral emigration to the big leagues,
SO nuf sed.
About 800 rooters kept things
lively throughout the game and the
big noise was always with the Herald.
which demonstrates that the want
ads in this paper, which are only one
cent word. always bring results.
We kind of like the way the game
ended. In fact. it is more or less ex-
hilirating and the Republic bunch
has our heartfelt sympathy.
The lineup was as follows:
Republic-Erwin. shortstop; Hare,
catcher. NTa1o-- ,f+nbor. cof-- g.