The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-19
Errors and Bad Throws by Sky
scrapers Enable Electrics to
Win the Game.
SPENCER MAKES LONGEST
HIT EVER SEEN UP THERE
Takes Record Away From
"Hippo" Huelsman, but One
Swat Does Not Win.
Bv w. d. Brdtz
Special Correspondent of The Tribune.

special correspondent OF Inc Illpuno'
GREAT FALLS. Mont, Aug. 1s.-Scv,,
eral pennant aspiring Skyscrapers played
very much of bush article of baseball
before the big boosters crowd this after
noon. and as q result Great Falls took the
fourth game by the score of to ..
OF the dizzy things pulled OFF in the salt
Lake iniield would have given Cooley
park audience heart disease. especially at
this crucial time in the pcnnant race
In marked contrast to his good form Of
tho opening game. Bill Morgan got away
badly today and when he finally dld GH-
the bunch behind him took the balloon
route The retirement of Abbott as "A
result of being hit by pitched ball nc.
ccssltated sending Perkins behind the Dat
and Blankcnship 10 first,
Perkins Not in Form.
Perkins caught listlcss game and
threw so badly that the Ecctrics almost
ran wild on him, and to make matters
worse he permitted two third strikes TO
get away from him. each OF the men get
ting TO FIRST One Of them scored. Twice
Perkins threw so badly to second that the
runners were advanced base WIN
anything Ike the usual team play behind
MIN Morgan should have got by with his
game. because Salt Lake pounded enough
hits 10 win and several Of Great Falls
long hits which scored runs, should never
them,
Great Falls scored two earned runs in
a sacrifice by Prout and a home run by
Toner. The latter hit the ball on a line
over short and before the outielders could
get to II 1t had a rolled ,,S so Tar Tar omnds tMaI the
In the second Vance hit at Devereaux,
the ball taking a bad bound and rolling
safe. Vance purloined second Orr falling
10 back up Perkins,s bad throw. so the
ball rolled out to Schimpff: who threw IL
badly to Devereaux and the sphere dis
appeared into the bleachers, sending
Morgan permitted Great Falls to open
the third with walk 10 Toner, The
latter took second when Orr booted Fos-
ter's srounder He took third on an In
field out and scored a similar play.
Kane singled with no one out in the
fourth and was sacrificed to second by
third. Prout started TO steal second and
Perkins hcaved the ball far wide OF that
base, Kane scoring and Prout going on TO
third,
With one down In the sixth Kane hit
the ball on line over short as Toner
had done in the first, The balls again
rolled to the woods for home run,
Morgan sent Great Falls out one, two,
three after that.
Spencer Makes Longest Hit.
The Skyscrapers rang up their first in
the opener. Spencer drew walk. ABB
bott was hit on the left arm by pitched
ball Bankenship sacrificed them each
along an additional sack, Foster fumbing
the bunt and Blankenship was also safe.
Orr flew out to right. but Spencer was
dnnr dnu e ecornd rnFa nn,ent IateS Nf ibnneb ON
n hit and run with DevereauX, the latter
going out TO first Pendleton struck out.
Kane's benders until the third. when a
double by Orr, a. single by Pendletou and
a three-saclSer by Schimprf netted two.
Spencer scored Salt Lakes other run in
the seventh. when he took run at one
of Kanes slow ones and drove It out for
the longest hit ever seen on the local
lot. Huelsman had previously held the
players and fans alike state that Speu-
GERS was the longest ever. A similar
drive at Cooley park would have hit the
OF right field.
SchmpT hit for two bases In the first
kof the eighth, but all other hands iizzled
out and the usual eleventh hour rally Of
the Skyscrapers went g!!rnmerlne.
Twenty-Five hundred persons saw the
game, and 1t is estimated that more than
The day was known as Boosters day
throughout the town and all Of the re.
ceipts. with the exception Of Salt Lakes
guaranty. went into the local baseball
fund. One of the amusing features Of
the day occurred during the middle OF
the game. when Howard Murphy. Great
Falls center fielder. was handed a tele-
gram that the Murphy home at Fort
Worth. Tex, had been blessed by visrr
Of the stork, Murphy told some of his
friends and they told the crowd Murphy
the plate, and he lined out "A pretty sin
gle.
Schimpff Likes Field.
One of the playing features OF the game
was the fielding Of Schimpff i'm center
The spacious level plains which constitute
the local outHeld are to Schimpff's Hiking
and In each OF his appearances In the
local center garden he has grabbed flies In
q manner that has made Blankenship wish
that he had enough reliable pitchers so
that he could use Schmpfr as a regular
outfielder. He hit The ball splendidlY.
he was somewhat off at short.
Morgan again had big Huelsnan on his
staff. striking him out twice with men on
bases and forcing Hippo" to submit TO
easy outs In each of the times up
Manager Blankenship was fined So for
disputing strenuously with Umpire To-
| man over third strike called on him.
George Hummel will do Salt Lakes
pitching honors tomorrow. Blttrolff or
Carlin VIII pitch for Great Falls.