The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-09
PASC0 DID IT
TO US AGAIN
But it Takes Ten Men Ten Innings
---Umps Couldn't See a Box
Car Rolling Down Siding

In last ten-lnnlng game before
a big crowd at Pasco last Sunday
the Kennewick diamond artists were
defeated by the Pasco bunch by a
score of to 2. Two coaches full
of fans and fanettes accompanied
the team across the river.
The game was marred by very
coarse work on the part of the Pasco
umpire, one Herring. Why the
Pasco boys let the fellow handle the
Indicator instead of competent men
like Conley or Sylvester, is a mys-
terry. But they gave him the job
and kept him at it, though the
kennewick contingent and even
some of the Pascoites, "hollered"
themselves blue in the face trying
to get a change of umpires and
square deal.
A great many of Herring's raw
decisions could no doubt be put
down to inexperience, as Pasco suf-
fered, too, in several instances; but
it looked as if he, on at least two
occasions, deliberately handed Ken
newick the dirty end of the stick;
and both of these decisions cost us
a run.
Despite the painful exhibition of
umpiring the game proceeded with
surprisingly small amount of
'beefing'' by the players them
selves, the boys evidently being de-
termined to swallow the Herring,
make no bones about it, and put up
a hard scrap to win out against the
1O-man odds.
And the grounds were slower than
the proverbial molasses in January.
The only way to knock the ball
out Of the diamond was to hit it in
the air. A grounder, no matter
how hard hit, simply plunked into
the sand and stuck. The fielders
bad to dig it out, all same dog
paving in a gopher hole, while the
runners, up to their ankles in sand,
were wallowing around the places
where the sacks should have been.
A town with a ball ground like
Pasco's certainly had their nerve
when they invited Cohn's Indians
to come down there from Spokane
and work out this spring.
Stull and Howe carried off the
batting honors for Kennewick and
Sullivan for Pasco. In fact "Sully"
got to first four out of five times at
bat. He discounted his stick work
however, by very poor fielding, one
of his boots" being directly re-
sponsible for one of Kennewick's
scores.
Kalb, who was switched from
third to first for Kennewick, also
had an unfortunate day, one of his
errors, a wild. heave over third,
allowing Pasco to tie the score in
the lucky seventh. -
Kennewick started the scoring in
the second session. Conroy and
Ward reached first on errors and
Conroy scored on Cryderman's sin
gle. Pasco evened up matters the
next inning. Sullivan got a two
sacker, stole third and came home
on wild pitch.
In the sixth Kennewick got
another man across and should have
scored twice, Howe led off with
a clean two-bagger, went to third
on wild pitch and came home on
a nicely executed squeeze play, with
Huntington at bat. Honey was out
at first but Stull singled, stole Sec
ond and came home on Conroy's
81 ngle which was fair by a yard
inside third base. Sullivan told
his jumps" it was foul, however,
and Herring took his word for it
and sent the runners back. Conroy
came back, tried it again, and struck
out. Ward was out, on grounder
to short and Stull died on second
with the run that by all rights