The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-12
TWIST TIGER
TAILS AGAIN
TOPPtNISH WINS 6 TO 3
High Wind, Dust Storm, Bad Umpir-
ing, Bone-head Plays, Wild
Heaves DisappOint Crowd.
Club Standing.


Toppenish !.......... 500
North Yakima ...... 500
Ellensburg ......... S33
PrOSSer 0oJ
Sunday Games.
Prosser. g.; Ellensburg s; batteries.
Gregg and Gains; Heinrich and
Paige.
Toppenish, g.; North Yakima, 3;
batteries, Mckinney and Price; Nell
son and Chisholm.
1t was the same sad old story that
was waited back from Toppenish
Sunday evening. Eye Tigers lost"
The rumor that Colonel Payne
bunch was going to trample on Mr..
Hilyer's tribe was unfounded and not
based on facts and though 800 fans
yelled their heads off trying to win the
conquering heroes lost by the score of
to 3. The vanquished attribute
their defeat to the wind, the umpire
and hard luck, but there is something
wrong with the inner workings OF the
Tigers that will have to be remedied
in hurry or they be tail-end team.
Battery Work Not Smooth.
Wild throws were responsible for
the loss of the game, aided by n cou-
pie of errors when they helped the
other side the most. The Tigers
mixed in 10 errors. Messrs. Nelson
and Chisholm, the Tiger battery, are
not working together and they get
their wires crossed at critical points.
Half the time young Mr.. Chisholm
has no idea whether Nelson is going
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more balls with his shins than his
mitt. Nelson is a classy twirler and
Chisholm a nifty backstop. but when
neither of the gentlemen know what
the other has on his mind they are
worse than high school battery. 1t
is more than likely that they will get
together this week and figure out a
simple set of signals, so they Will
know what they are doing in future
games.
KOhls Gets Home Run.
Captain Kohls, the demon hitter of
the Tigers, raped out home run in
the seventh with the score 10 0 aud
Growers came across with another
run, making two for the Tigers. In
the eighth Mitchell scored on two
Dagger, tying up the score tighter
than wedding knot. With the score
a tie in the ninth, Price of Topper
ish raped an easy out to Nelson. The
spitball artist cast the horsehide over
the right field bieachers and before
the bunch Gained down three runs
had been annexed to the Toppenish
end of the proceedings. In the last
chance for victory in the ninth Nissen,
ich nj nd ho ~,
first base.
Mckinney No Good.
Reports from Toppenish say that
Pitcher Mckinney of that gang is no
good and has no curves worth men,
tioning. Nevertheless the Tigers have
collected but seven hits off his deliv-
cry in two games, three of them be-
ing harvested Sunday. The young man
seems to have something up his sleeve
that fools Colonel Payne's aggrega-
ton of ball tossers despite his report
ed shortcomings. He also uses his
head in the pinches, and Sunday he
had the Tigers on his list from the
tap of the gong. Yes Susan, Mr.. Nc
Kinney is a bum pitcher, all right.
Big Crowd at Game.
Colonel Payne's special was loaded
to the running boards with 800 fans
and third as many more would have
gone If there had been any room or
the train. The rooters and rooteresses
were armed with megaphones and die
a good job Of cheering for naught
Throughout the game a 60-mile-an-
hour Ellensburg gale swept the dia'
mond, blowing dust in the ballplayers
eyes and adding to the discomfort OF
the patrons of the game. Toppenisf
citizens and the noble redmen from
the reservation stood on the edge o.
the sidewalks and gaped at the GROVE
in amazement.
Umpire De Priest Resigns.
After the game at Toppenish I'm
pire De Priest of Prosser threw up hi
job, according to reports. Captain
Kohls of the Tigers, after his poo
work Sunday, entered a protest, ant
the indicator man gave up the strenu
Gus life. On the two occasions tina
the Benton county assessor 'has stoot
behind the pitcher and tried to tell
ball from a strike he succeeded ii
proving that he was never intended
for an umpire. The league director
will decide this week upon a man t,
take his place.
PrOsser Makes Faux Pas.
The Prosser baseball team, heade,
by Doc" Angus and biting under tn
defeat of the week before, executed
flank movement and defeated the Ell
lensburg team Sunday on their HON,
grounds. The move was a faux pas,
according to the Prosser Record. TIL
baseball lights of Prosser hire,
Pitcher Gregg of the Spokane team il
the Northwest league for the gam
and kept his identity under cover t
all hands until the psychological mo
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