The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29
HATS Off TO MR.. LEE, PLEASE
lie Pitches Better Ball Than Opponent,
and With Almost Perfect Support
Applies Whitewash

last Sundays contest between Leaven-
worth and Wilson Creek a red-lettel
event of the season, even if Leaven-
worth hadn't won. 1t isn't always a
victory the fans want; they want to see
real ball playing, and when they do,
the matter as to which club wins is
a more or less unimportant incident.
The crowd that packed the grand
stand and bleachers Sunday certainly
got their moneys worth. Russell, for
the visitors, and Lee for Leavenworth,
both did some clever twirling, with
Lee few shades ahead in effective
ness, and this, together with almost
perfect support by both teams and an
occasional clever stunt pulled off by
some fielder, contributed to present as
classy an article Of ball as some of the
big league clubs dig up.
The visitors, in the first two innings,
went out in one, two, three order, as
also they did in the ninth. The great
est number OF Wilson Creakers that
faced our Mr.. Lee in any one inning
was FIVE. This happened in the third.
The first two men up got singles, but
it didn't do them any good, the next
three men going out on flies to center
and left, Raymond making hard run
and pretty catch of hard drive. The
visitors got only four men to the bat in
each of the other five innings, but four
times they got a man on third, and
only quick head work and rapid garner
ing of apparently safe hits kept the
nice hatful of goose eggs unbroken.
The six hits gotten by the visitors
should have been sufficient for score,
even if they had been all singles. They
were not properly punched, and though
one of the hits was three Dagger and
two were two baggers, aided also by
one error and pass, the visiting aggre-
cation could not make good their boast
to take home Leavenworth's scalp.
There was better team work by the
home bunch and some brilliant indi-
vidual work, notably the catching by
Souder, the stop by Kepler of high
throw, the catch by Smith Of tremen
dous hit by Scott clear to the right
field fence, and the work Of Bee, a
new acquisition at first.
For the visitors, the best work was
done by Schiel, who is a ball player.
He covered second so well that he got
three put outs and one assist, while at
the bat he touched Lee for the first
real three Dagger this season. In
another inning Schiel stole the only
two stolen bases for the visitors.
The salvation of the locals proved to
be in their superior team work, in
which base running and sacrifice hits
were a feature. In the first four in
nings Leavenworth did not score, in
spite of the fact that but three men
struck out, six OF the eleven hits garn-
cred, and a sacrifice made.
In the fifth, after Raymond famed,
Tholin got single, Mahoney sacrificed,
Souder and Lee both reached first on
fumbles by first Of throws, Tholin scor-
ing on Souder's hit, Souder on Lees.
Daily, running for Lee, gave the visi-
tors a touch OF high life by stealing
second and third so rapidly that he
almost got home before the next man
up famed.
One more score was annexed in the
sixth, when Kepler, who drew a pass,
got second on sacrifice by Bee and
came home on hit by Smith. The
latter stole third, and Raymond, first
on hit by pitched ball, stole second,
both dying there when Tholin went out
on foul fly to third and Mahoney on a
fly to second.
In the seventh, just to be sure, and
after two men were down, two more
runs were put over the plate. Coulson,
third up, reached first on hot ground
er and second on passed ball. KEEP
ler was passed to first, and both he and
Coulson galloped home when Bee lined
out the only two bagger gaInered of
Russell. Bee was retired trying to
stretch his hit to cover three bases.