The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-05-26
A HARD ONE To LOSE
And it Took Walla Walla, Portland and
Three Pitchers. IL Long Innings
to Win From Athena, 7 toe.
Standing of Teams.

1t took all Walla Walla bad, in
oluding three pitchers and a pinch
hitter, together with four professional
players from Portland. to hang the
skidoo sign on Littlejohn's Millers
Sunday, in the Garden City. by mar
gin of one run after 10 innings of the
best ball ever put up in the town.
Anyway, that's what they think of
the game over there, the Walla Walla
Union saying:
"If any one desires to say that
Happy Boewer is not the king of
pinch hitters, that the peer less infield,
Parrot, Houston, Edwards Siegrist and
Waldron are not there with the goods,
that Manager Bade doesn t know when
to resort to the shift, that the old
burg is not baseball mad, that Athena
is not some team, or that yesterdays
game was not the best without any
question that has ever been played on
local sod let him whisper it gently
among the weeping willows of Clark
Woods back yard, and forever after
hold his peace.
And through it all, Athena led the
pace. Knocked Hanson and Shrader
out of the box, showed up the Port
land infield like thirty cents in wood
en- ducats, won the game twice and
then, through hard luck. lost it.
But there are no sore places. The
100 fans who accompanied the team
on the trip were waited back in mem
ory to the old "Yellow Kid" days by
the terrific pace of the game, and ev-
cry one of them knows that had luck
broken anywhere near even, the game
would have been ours in the ninth,
to 8. And so they are satisfied, glee-
fully awaiting Weston's slaughter
which is scheduled to take place on
the local diamond promptly at $3.50
p. M, Sunday, May %.
Twenty five hundred people wit
messed the game, and twenty five hun
dred people rose from their seate in
the last half of the ninth inning, to
leave the grounds, with the score
standing 4 to 8 in favor of Athena,
two down aud two strikes on clap
picus' Boewer. Then twenty We
hundred people were suddenly stricken
with palpitation of the heart. for
Happious-but that comes in the story
later on.
The game started at three O'Clock.
Picard, first man up. beat out an in
field hit, Lieuallen famed and FIink
hit to Houston at second, for a double
play, Houston to Parrot. The Millers
were finding Hanson right along but
the ball was dropping into the field
ers' mitts. In the third, Bundy,
Owens, and Clark were retired on
flies Up to the fourth. Walla Walla
had done nothing. Fripk was groov-
ing them over. allowing but one hit,
and striking out five.
Athena broke the monotony in the
fifth, one run coming over. Pelland
drew a pass and Brown neatly sacri-
feed him to second. Smith struck
out. Bundy singled, scoring Pelland.
Owens dropped onto the fast tiring
Hanson for smash that scared out to
Ssaohrist in center.
CLARK opened the sixth with a sin
gle. took second on Pioard's infeld
hit and negotiated double steal with
Picard. both runners scoring on Lieu
aliens single.
Seaohrist came up for Walla Walla.
grounding out to Clark. Harmon
came through with the second hit
Frink had allowed, and stole second.
coming home when Nadue's fly got
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