The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-26
OCCIDENTALS WIN
THE FINAL GAME
Before Great Crowd Mooney
ReignS Supreme Until Muir
rays Hope Is Gone.

ooh. somewhere in this favored land
the sun IS shining bright"
But what's the use. the Occidentais
won. Outciassing Murray In every de-
parlment Of the game. the unbleached
Americans walked home winners yester-
day at Walkers field. with the score 3
to in their favor. That the largest
crowd OF the season was on hand to-
see them win made no difference with
Murray's playing. and close to 5000
fans had but Mooney to smile at and
hope eternal which famed into a blaze
in the ninth inning only to be snuffed
out when the cat got tired playing
Il must be admitted that Murray
PLAYED ragged ball, running bases
poorly. allowing outs for hits ana
booting a little at critical times.
The jinks had not deserted Mooney
in his hour OF need. and despite all
his antics and his decision to play
horse I'm the last inning. he Is "A pitcher
and there Is no getting away from the
Things began looking bad for Muir
ray Ia the third inning. when Robinson
selected a choice one Of McCreery's al
lotment and slammed a. to deep left
center for three sacks. There Rad been
one out. and when Lane grounded out.
pitcher to first. while Robinson was
held at third, So looked as II Murray
might climb out OF the hole With two
strikes and three balls on him lang
ford fouled four times and then called
for a new bat and landed a Texas
leaguer back OF short which was any
one OF three players ball but they
played the Alphonse and CASTOR stunt to
perfection. and Robinson scored. Burns
then MT a sharp single TO right field.
ana while Means sat on the ground and
watched ~ roll behind him. Iangford
PLAYED the Ty Cobb stunt and scored
from first on the single. Two runs
ana the Occidentals were i'm fine spir-
"a Il Tnnw
For his lazy work IN the field. Means
was taken out and Manager Margetts|
went 10 right field.
There was nothing doing in the scor-
ing line until the sixth. when Burns
pulled OF another Texas Lacquer. and
reached second when pIake dropped
SCOTS peg. giving life out Of a Ger
tain out had Plske held the ball.
mooney MT then scored Burns.
Murray scores One.
Murray first touched rubber in the
last Of the inning and should have
scored more than one. plabe led Off
with hit. Gum grounded TO Hawk
ms. who touched second. retiring plake.
but his throw 20 complete the double
az first was wide. and Gum reached
second Mann grounded TO Hawkins.
VINO caught Gum at third and there
were two out. Here SCOTS hit filled
a hole
He purposeIy walked Book. nuing'
the bases. thinking no could retire
Castro the easier 81 the two Castro
finally hit 10 Hawkins. who booted the
BALL and Mann scored. but Scott frozc
to third bag when 20 looked as II he
could have made o. two runs. Kaefer
inen Flew TO LangfOrd. and it was over.
In the eighth a walk. errors at short
and left and a two Dagger by Langley
Melted three runs for the Occidcntais.
\ walk and three hits netted the same
amount in the first of the ninth. and
facing a lead Of eight runs Murray
went in for the final stanza.
with two out and nobody on. the
march TO the gates was arrested when
Mooney hit Plake- Mooney could NOT
resist the temptation 20 monkey. and
his antics walked Gum. Mann then
nit and two runs scored.
At this point Manager Black came
running in from tho field. sending
Mooney TO right and calling in Lang
ford. There was too much mp TO take
any chances with. off L.anEford Scott
Black and Hawkins got tangled ~ on
Books Texas lcaguer to left. three
more runs came In and Book reached
second
Murray was yelling itself mad. and
the way things were going 20 looked
like chance Castro. however. lined
one to- Hawkins. and sam put the ball
In HIS pocket. and the Occidentals had
won the five-Eame series. coming from
behind To take the final three games.
They outclassed Murray in the last
While both McCreery and Mooney al
lowed nine hits. the Occidentals' were
the cleaner. and counted FOR runs.
In the seventh. IangfOrd ca Eed "a ter
rifle line smash from Gums bat. Tor
the star catch Of the day. although
Mann and Gum each made good
catches.
After playing one inning and getting
tWo-ba gger. Manager MarZetts was
forced 70 retire from the play on ac-
count Of illness. Maggie Murphy going
10 right field. Margetts pulled FOR his
team as hard as a manager could. but
even Connie Mack could not have
turned the tide OK battle.
The turnout Of fans was. however.
the big feature or the game to many.
and gave proof that salt Lake can turn
out with crowd 20 support the best
ball Co be had. The score.