Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-16
CAME IN AND PICKED THE Bios
SOM FROM OUR PUMPKIN
VINE.
Standing Of Clubs.

laughed as only the victor is en-
titled to laugh-a good natured, jo-
vial, victorious laugh, which we all
Joined in, promising to defeat them
y a good margin in the next game.
That is the way with baseball.
Enterprise up to the fifth inning
had the game we'll in hand, but
whole lot of things can happen be-
tween the end OF the fourth inning
and the final. In this instance one
persistent thing happened several
times-about eight times according
TO the score, which gave Elgin the
game.
Up to the fifth inning Enterprise
held the lead of two to nothing, and
all Enterprise was happy. Elgin was
Mt happy, but hopeful. Then the
Elginites got down to brass tacks
and began pulling together, and what
occurred sank heavily upon the heart
If the Enterprise fan.
at that it was an interesting game
% watch and was in doubt until the
Iast man was out in the ninth, for
he locals were finding Aubin reg
ilarly and threatened every time at
at to start big batting rally. In
Iced they came back gamely in their
laIf of the seventh, right after Ell
gin had rolled up five scores, and
put two over the pan on a three
Dagger by Bauer, his second one, and
singles by Odle and Bilyeu, aided by
Odle's daring steal of home while
pitcher Aubin held the ball.
Elgin won the game because that
club played the better ball-out-
fielding, out-running and out-batting
The home team. Carter, the ex-Cove
player, was ct short for Elgin and
las tightened the infield up 80 per
cent. The Elgins lived up to their
regulations as batters and gave
Bilyeu the hardest lacing he has re-
ceived in two years. Eleven hits,
including two two-baggers and a
home run, tell the sad story.
Our boys were hitting Aubin hard
enough to win any ordinary game,
Dut could not bunch their hits to any
effect except in the seventh inning.
Gauer and Bilyeu did the heft of
INnta-nricai,t hitti1,uY hn clo
ming out two fine three-bagGers, and
Gilyeu getting three hits, one of them
Il double.
The home boys fell down lament
ably on their strongest suits-field-
ing and base running, especially the
latter, losing at least two runs by
failure to take full advantage of
heir opportunities and by that most
iaexcusable of all base ball sirs, loaf
ing on the vay to first.
Both teams did some fine fielding
stunts to offset the errors. In the
first inning, after Hooper had ground
I'd out to Pace, Carter reached sec
ond ON Savage's muff of his long fly
% deep left near the foul line. 1t
vas an excusable muff as the wind
carried the ball uncertainty and Saw
lge only managed to touch the
sphere after a hard run. Hallgarth
followed with a base hit, and stole
second. Two ON and only one out
out Bilyeu was equal to the occasion
and famed Towner and Aubin, two
Of Elgin's heaviest stickers. In their
half, Enterprise scored twice on
Billy Bauer's long three-bagger, Car
ter's miss of Hugs hot grounder,
Hugs steal of second and Christian
sons miss of Bilyeu's scorcher
through third. That finished the
scoring until the fifth inning. Things
went along in one, two, three order
except Deboie gave a foretaste of
what he had in his bat by lacing
out a single in the fourth after two
were out. He died on second. Sat
isfied by that experiment that he
could expect no help from the sue
ceeding batsmen, he came to the
plate in the sixth with blood in his
eye. Aubin was perched on first
by virtue of neatly placed single.
when little Debo!e with a mighty
swing landed on swift shoot for
a home run to deep right center. He
rounded third before Crumpacker
reached the ball. This made Elgin's
total three as Patten had scored in
the previous inning on his single,
Russells two baser, and Bauer's
miss of Savage's good throw home
after making splendid catch back
of the crowd of Carter's high foul.
In the seventh came the deluge.
Russell first up, made a base hit.
Hooper followed with a two bagger.
Carter drove little one between