The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-18
Intermountain Leaque.


A thousand yelling fans, many of
whom were women. saw the banner base
bail game of the season at Walkers
field yesterday when salt Lake gave
Helena a shut-Out, winning by score
of to 0. From any standpoint one
wants to take IT, il was the real article
of the great national game 1t was fast.
taking but one nOuT and twenty minutes
from the time Bill Carney called play
ball until the last man was out. This
is the fastest game ever played IN tne
state in league ball with one exception
This was on July %. 1904, between SAT-
Lake and Spokane. with Stats Davis az
umpire, and the time was one hour ana
fifteen minutes.
But the real sensational article of the
game was the remarkable hit Of Lussi
the eVer-smilng first baseman- In the
second inning Lussl met the Bau square
on the nose and sent it sailing in the
direction Of the Salt Palace. The bah
struck one of the trees standing OUTSIDE
the grounds. 1t hit the trunk OF me tse
suuarely fully twenty-five feet above the
top of the ten-fOOt fence and bounded
back into the grounds. Cahiu in iett rielo
saw the ball sailing through the ar ana
stopped to watch it's flight, knowing ~
was far beyond his reach. When the Dali
bounded back it Dit almost within Canilfs
grasp. He fielded the ball and held Lussi
on second.
The tree was full Of kids and men who
were watching the game from the top OF
I the fence, and how the flying Dall missed
/ them all is a mystery. The ball was hit
[ hard enough TO dlSlOdge any person u
might have struck.
/ But the play was not over yet Kelly
/ sacrificed Lussi to third, and after tIick
struck out the first squeeze play or the
! season was successfully pulled or ana
/ Lussi scored. while on the next bali
pitched Whaling struck out, making the
/ third out LussIs hit equalled the FAMOUS
/ record drive Of Strong about eight years
l ago when the ball was hit through the
/ ton branches Of the same tree. The tree
1 has grown several feet in height since
I that time or Lussis fly would nave
/ cleared the top branches. as Strong dld
on that memorable occasion
Heads Hard Drive.
This was the only hit salt Lake got
for the first six innings. The next one
came from Heads bat and went down
through short. Morse tried to stop il
! and split his hand open. so hard was the
ball hit In the eighth Salt Lake pounded
in two runs with a sacrifice, single. stolen
base and two twO-baggers. This was the
only inning of the game when AnDes was
moi absolute master Of the locals.
Helena got away with three scratch hits
in tine first inning and TOT a run elsht
innings after did not get anything Jnal
looked like a hit Cahil opened up win
a twO-bagger down the right field fou
line. safe by inches only Two bunJs
were successfully beaten out, Filling inc
bases with none out. Elsey came UP auo
sent a liner to Flick. who forced Cahii
out at home. Whaling nailed Elsey az
first I'm one Of the fastest doubles seer
this season Helena was out or II Tor
the rest of the day.
| Salt Lake PLAYED errOrless ball, Good
man in left pulling down a drive thal
looked safe mile and high flies caught
bv Kelly and Whaling were also features
Of the game
much can be said of Ames. barring the
eighth inning. The score