The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-28
81 rlrCWTERED At REPUBLIC

ra.r;ag M, an excursion to Republic.
s,rg forth with the anticipation OF
sa,ng the local ball team take the
..slns of the poor, delndcd Republic
sr;n,lators of the ball and bat, il
snd 10 experience the painful ODer-
.s,on of submitting to having their
III lifted. The special was in charge
y ronductor D. f. Wilson. with old
.sl;able Jeff ID. lrby at the throttle
oe ()leson fed the furnace. While Bert
SIlvernail and A. G.. Getsel were the
brakies. The excurSionists feel that
vote of thanks is due the crew for
,he Uniform courtesy extended to one
and all throughout the trip.
The train pulled olt at 6 a m. and
niekng ND few of the Chesaw bali
alayers 1t Brideswell, and On occa-
,onal passenger en- route. reached Re.
public about 10 o'clock. Through a
Misunderstanding as to the hodr OF ar
rival. no one was at the depot to meet
HE visitors. which was freely com
mentci upon as & very chilly recep-
ton And so it would appca". but it
must oe sait on behalf of the Republic
hall players that the train was billed
10 arrive at 1l:30, arrangements had
been made to be at the depot at that
hour with vehicles, and they were TAX
IN by surprise at the unexpected early
| arrival Members of the club express
| ed much regret that the seeming lack
/ Of appreciation on their part had oc
Cured. knyhow, there was but one
conyeyan,e at the depot when the
train arrived, and 70 or so mon strag-
ged up the hill through the hot sun
| from the depol TO -he main part of
town The weather was hot Indeed,
hot Is a mild word with which to eX-
press the degree of temperature on
tap, aud from the hour OF arrival to
the hodr at which the game was sched-
uled, the visitors strolled up and down
the shady side of the main thorough
hfe, killing time as best they could.
When the hour for the game arrived
several hundred people collected at
he grounds, and a noisy keenly in
terested crowd it was. The OrOville
contingent filled up quite a space in
tie grand stand, and from the noise
they made, when they had yell COM
ng which was not any too often. one
would have declared that there is no
Indication of pulmonary trouble
among the inhabitants of the Okan-
egan valley. AS to the game itself, it
~ q wild, weird and wolly eXhibi-
~ one Of the poorest in point of per-
nepeA h ths~6eld seensin ths.- ssp--
: country this season. 1t hardly
had a redeeming feature, except in
ending before dark. The Oroville boys
never made such a punk showing. 1t
vas day off with every member, and
there was complete absence of vim
and Hgor. The Republic boys did not
DO much better in the way of sharp
playing. Mcintyre, the crack ChesaW
player. had been imported by Repub-
lie, and the revenge he had for the de-
feat on the Fourth was a grim salts
action to him. The Oroville batters
we're almost at his mercy, and the few
runs they managed to assemble in the
fourth inning were largely gifts. He'd
ger was not as effective as usual, and
the Republic batters jumped on him
hard the first round That opener
seemed to take the starch out OF the
visitors. There was some dissatisfac-
ton expressed with the umpirlng,
aroused by the very first decision,
which was somewhat rank, but the
umpire is generally held responsible
lor the loss of a game, anyhow. In the
main the umpire, on this occasion, was
ialr and impartial, and any error ne
may have made was wholly unlnten-
tonal. 1t simply was not Oroville 5
day ont. The following details by IN
nings will give the reader an idea OF
now things happened:
First inning --Oroville-Frank Bar -
tell led off with hot shot to third; Mer-
rill Wits Il triflc slow in handling the
Oall, out got it down to first in time TO
save an error, although the decision
was 80 very close that a roar went VI
from the OrOville contingent and ms
jumps lost caste with the visitors at
once. Powell ;,laced the ball exactly
IN the same pace, but in this cas-,
Merrill handled the ball cleanly ana
nailed the batter at first. Hart tried
aard enough to locate the ball but the
twisters that Mcintyre handed over
lne Rubber were deceptive, and Hart
missed connection No runs Repup-
nc-Merrill slammed a siZzler to snort
'ne ball carroming off EatOns ankle
giving the batter life, and he was I'M
mediately advanced to second on a
wild pitch. McClung is patient
waiter and was awarded with GIT Oh
nrst Reimars came TO the rescue ahu
Mt sharp single between short ano
second. scoring Merrill and sending
hcClung to third. Reimars stole sec
ono and on R Lowery's two-baggeii
poth McClung and Reimars scored. p
pitched ball hit Z. Lowery's bat ano
ne was out. pitcher to first. Cooper
dropped short fly between secono
ana center fell, making first. scorlh&
n Lowery. In trying to steal secont
Oooper was arrested, catcher to snort
VINO ran in and took the throw. Jones
ended the disastrous initial inning bl
strlking where he thought the pal
ought to be, but wasn't. Four runs.
Second-Oroville-Eaton could no
negotiate the horse hide and retired u
lne mourner's bench. George Bartei
met one )f Mclntyre's shoots fairly oi
.he snoot as it came down the lane
ana away it sailed to the right, tn
cleanest and longest hit Of the game
Inc hopes of The visitors scared np
ward with the sphere, but they Wer
snort lived Wilson dallied with IN
circurnamtienJ atmosphere. A rltch
" pail bounding few feet from TN
catcher Baltell tried for home. but III