The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-31
WATERv[[E TEAM
SUFFERS DEFEAT
FOR THE FIRST TIME in SEW
ERAL YEARS WENATCHEE
WINS FROM STRONGEST RIVAL
FOR BASEBALL HONORS.

uCy Cdut, tuCy SdW anu they
bit the dust The Waterville people
raised thousand dollars this year
to get a championship ball team, and
they got a good one. Even Wenat-
chez fans were timid about making
any rash predictions about what
would happen until after the eighth
inning yesterday. At that time the
balloon had scared so far into the
sky that even Watervil1e enthusiasts
lost all hope of it's return to terra
firma.
Yesterdays game may not have
been as free from errors as last
weeks contest with Leavenworth,
but no league team could escape
bone heads when bingles come as
thickly as both sides scattered them
in this "hit-fest." Every player hit
the ball except big Flanagan, the
brother of the famous Vancouver
slugger who carried off the highest
batting average in the Northwestern
league last season. Home runs, two
and three baggers, were the order of
the day. Wenatchee got II hits and
Waterville's total was 13-unlucky
number. Yet the pitchers did great
work, as may be judged from the
fact that Longanecker famed four
batters while the two crack pitchers
from Waterville caused six of our
players to strike out. 1t was simply
a case of everybody having his bat
ting eye and determination to hit
hard. What wonder that the field
ers had their troubles.
The visitors could not do much
first time up, and the locals seemed
just as much perplexed in their half,
except that Ames knocked beauti-
full three Dagger which would have
scored Triplett from first had he
not been caught a little too far off
the base, he having reached the
iuitIdI SdCh Wucu IIit DS INC Udil.
Wenatchee drew first blood in the
third inning when Triplett walked,
stole second, ana then came racing
on home when he was hit by a good
throw by Ward, the ball rolling out
into center field. But Waterville
more than evened up this hard luck
in the fourth For our boys indulged
in melee of errors. Triplett made
an overthrow to second, which
scored a runner from third. Black
got the ball and tried to catch the
runner from second base to third.
But he threw the ball too low and
another tally came in. Marney had
already knocked a home run, and
the nightmare ended with the score
sheet reading g to / against us.
But we had to descend still fur
ther into the mud Of hard luck be-
fore victory was to reward tenacity.
In the fifth, Longanecker was hit
freely Costly errors contributed to
give the visitors five tallies, making
the staggering tota1 against us of
s to /.
Then is when some blatant knock
ers whose names ought to be pub
lished began to taunt their own
players. But they were soon put to
shame, for in our half of the in
ming, nearly every player hit the ball
and hit it hard, bringing in seven
runs and making the tally sheet read
to s. After the damage was about
done. Waterville changed pitchers
from Hayes to Flanagan. The
Irishman celebrated his arrival by
making a balk which brought in
Whelan from third base after he
had knocked a three bagger.
In the eighth, four hits were
punched by the locals and they net
ted three runs. Score 12 to 8.
Waterville was helpless after that |!
and Wenatchee won without going