The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-06
A RED-HOT RED-HAT SPECIAL
Over 200 Fans Go to Wenatc1ee to Help
Play Ball-LeaVenworth Wins Fourth
Consecutive NctOry-10 to 3

also was Jim hill railroad company.
The special train of three coaches was
not anywhere near large enough to seat
the crowd of enthusiastic fans and
boosters who had decided to go down
to Wenatchee and help win the ball
game for Leavenworth.
Seats, aisles and platforms were
packed with enthusiasts, and the doz-
ems of linen busters and red headgear
reminded one of a Turkish procession
to Bagdad barbecue.
At Cashmere thirty or forty more
fans pried themselves into the train
and when the special reached Wenat-
chez the crowd that Immediately trans
formed the sleepy streets of the county
seat into thronging thoroughfares made
the Wenatchee people rub their eyes
and wonder what had happened.
At the ball park, which, by the way,
is one OF the best in the state, there
were more Leavenworth people in the
grand stand than were town folk, and
the way the red-hatted bunch vocifer-
ously tolled off the tallies that Leaven-
worth piled up would have taken the
heart out of any opposing aggregation.
The duty of a historian is to be
exact, and not let sentiment swerve his
judgment. Therefore we are COM
PEELED to say that the game wasn't
what it was hoped it would be. The
Leavenworths displayed but little of the
brilliant, professional playing of the
week before, with which the three runs
Wenatchee scored would have been
impossible.
And Wenatchee! Well, a glance at
the various uniforms showed the team
had been picked from the Firemen,
Republics, High School, etc., in order
to get winning bunch. AS result,
there was a painful lack Of team work,
and at times the playing verged on
what our friend Kringel would call
r-r-r-rotten."
Leavenworth went to bat first and
Wenatchee put in pitcher by name
of Mudd. That was his name, all
right, too, for of the eight men who
faced him, all whanged the leather,
totalling four safe hits and five runs.
Tholin, first up, got single, stole
second and took third on tumble by
third of Mahoney's grounder. Mahoney
stole second, both he and DAILY lrun-
ming for Tholin, who had twisted his
ankle stealing second) coming home
on Souder's hit to left. Souder stole
second and was caught at third later by
felder's choice Of Coulson's hit. Bee
went out on grounder to third to first.
Coulson reached first on fielder's choice
and second on tumble by second, COM
ing home on Keppler's single. Kep-
pier scored on Smiths hit, and Smith,
stealing second and third, came home
on wild throw by Mudd. The agony
was over when Raymond went out on
fly to left.
Balloon ascensions in first innings
are bad. They take the courage out Of
the involuntary aeronauts, while the
large and rapid expenditure of hosting
energy lessons the fighting capacity Of
those who sent up the balloon.
Wenatchee decided they had had
enough Mudd for a sunshiny day in a
dry town, and a young, tall, lean,
lanky parsonage by the name OF Dixon
was put in the box. Barring a little
wildness, resulting in four passes, he
proved to be something Of a pitcher.
He kept the hits well scattered, and
with proper support behind him the
five other runs would have dwindled to
one, and a pass to first was responsible
for that.
In the second inning, after Miller
was passed to first and Tholin had sac
rifced, fly by Mahoney to second re-
tired the side. In third, on combi-
nation of single by Souder, sacrifice
by Bee, a pass to Keppler, wild
throw and two fumbles, Leavenworth
grabbed two more. Nothing in the
fourth, out in one, two, three.
In the fifth Souder touched Dixon