The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-05
INDIANS GRAB
CLOSE SESSION
&eSBly WORK OF The Jumps"
sasaes,er Nelson Is Tardy. Tigers Lose
ap Toppenish and First Place Ninth
snssiae Rally Fails Ellcnsburg Win
Sunday Results.

Sunday Results.
North Yakima. 3; Toppenish, d.
Esrosscr. 9; Ellensburg. IS.
A batch of umpiring. which for pure
syafteness has never been excelled on
stxsy field, some wobbly work by the
~gsgers in the opening inning, and the
lsSrdiness of Mr.. Lars Nelson, spitball
wonder. in getting to his work, gave
Me game Sunday to the Toppenish
vS.dskins by the close and exciting
score of to 8 and incidentally tied
gCoi Payne's aggregation, for the top
IT the heap in the percentage column,
1890 people. including several hum
bred fair fans in spring finery, fumed
s&nd fused at Kelley De Priests fee
ole attempt to arbritrate the balls and
strikes, stood aghast at three instances
Of boneheaded baserunning on the
essart Of the Tigers. and prayed and
rcoted for the home guard to win in
me final heat. The boys failed to
draw out. despite vigorous vocal en-
couragement from the side lines, and
SOW rest in the second notch.
MFR. Nelson Is Tardy.
The Toppenish team were outhit
from the kickoff, but the clouts of the
Tigers came at inopportune times
with no one on bases. Mr. Nelson was
Souched up for four hits, while Mr.
Mckinney of Toppenish was Slapped
zen times. A few critical errors at
critical stages, also aided the indians
LII accommodating scores. Pitcher Mel
son came poking out to the grounds
fve minutes before the game started.
and went into the box after a three
minute workout. His arm was cold.
and during the first inning he was
gild and hittable. Had Lars saunter-
sd out fifteen minutes sooner, the
score might have been different, for
after he got warmed up he pitched
gske q house afire. Col Payne ough
90 appoint a committee to see that his
star twirler gets around on time, in
mead Of keeping the crowd waiting,
and everybody on the anxious seat. A
tight fine for failure to be on hand at
she right time is said to be a good
comedy to cure tardy inclinations in
ed a good game, barring the opening
stanza. The Tigers hit hard but the
call would always land in somebody's
nft.
A Rally That Failed.
The Tigers played a game uphill
SIGHT. and came within an ace of win
ming out in the ninth. Toppenish an
a..
and another in the third. Two base
ticks by Johnny Nis~en and Chisholm
chased two runs across in the third In
soe seventh the enemy managed to
grab another tally. In the last spasm
Ehe Tigers got men on bases, and
showed one Bengal across with two
tnep roasting on the bags. the fans
swarmed out Of the bleachers and be-
gan to root, in an effort to rattle Pit
cher McKenney. He would not rat
uc worth whoop, and Steele the
Shird man went out on an easy
gsrounder to second base. During the
closing minutes it looked as if the
ginish but they missed tieing the score
by finger, and the rally failed
Miserable Umpirine.
Kelly De Priest, assessor of Benton
county, with main stamping grounds
at PrOSser, made a horrible mess of
umpiring the game. There is no clean
er cut, squarer man in the Yakima
valley than this good looking chap
nut he missed his calling in trying to
be an umpire. He was rather frigh-
tened at the sight of so many people.
for every time he had a chance he did
the wrong thing. on the three occas-
sions that he did manage to get a cor
rect decision off his chest, it excited
MIN 80 that he bawled things up worse
chan ever on the next move, and he
mad the fans and the players of both
teams rs sore as a boil before the mat
inee was over. Mr.. De Priest saws that
ne was not stricken with stage fright
and Cod Payne says he is sincere, but
the fact stands out in bold relief. that
his umpiring needs fixing, if he holds
down job in this league. If he de-
Ivers the same brand of Judging balls.
when he goes to Ellensburg, as he did
here, he will have to do some tall
Bprinting, or be chewed up alive by
the man eating fans of that burg, for
they don't stand for putrid umpEing
very well. Mr.. De Priests redeeming
feature was his impartiality, both
teams suffering by his errors of judg-
ment.
Eiicnsburg Slaughters Prosser
The Ellensburg "Rowmakers" had
their batting eyes with them at Pros
ser Sunday and numerically pound
ed Pitcher Rolf, gathering seventeen
hits and fifteen runs off his delivery.
Heinrich, a discarded pitcher of the
Seattle team, twirled for Ellenspurg,
and held Prosser to a handful of hits.
After the game the Prosser team de-
cided to reorgani2e, get a better bunch
of ball players and try retrieve their
lost fortunes. This will probably mean
the passing of Doc Angus as a base
bah light, and the fans of that town
are having baseball revolution.