The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14
SAINT CA5T0FF
DEFEATS 0X|[s
Byrd Pitches Superb Ball and
Junction City Wins,
3 to l..
HAS GOOD CONTROL AND
KEEPS HITS SCATTERED
Today's Games to Furnish Line
on Strength Of Respective
Teams.

In one Of the best and hardest fought
games Of the State league season Ogden n
yesterday defeated the Occidentals at
Walkers field by score of to l. Dave
Byrd. the discarded Salt Lake pitcher OF
the, Union association. was In the box
for Ogden and pitched superb ball. He
was particularly effective with men on
bases. l
The U.den team. strengthened by the
addition OF some new fast players, holds
Its position. tied with Murray, at the
head of the State league and appears 10
be one OF the fastest and best STATE
league teams ever organized The Occi-
dentals were materially strengthened by
the addition of MoAdoo. the star negro
player. who covered the first sack In an
elegant fashion. The oXies. however,
were unable to hit Byrd at critical times
and remain at the bottom OF the per-
centaEe table despite the fact that they
have played we'll in all their games and
have lost the games by only a narrow
margin.
Real Test Today.
Murray continued its winning streak
yesterday by beating the Salt Lake team
in a close game at Murray by score
the State league teams Will come today,
when Murray meets Ogden at Ogden and
Salt Lake and the Occidentais play a
double header at Walkers field. The. re-
mate one of the two teams now having
a perfect score. while the double he ader
will determine whether Salt Lake is
stronger than the OXies.
Mooney pitched good ball for the Occi-
dentals but was a little wild He walked
four men, while Byrd, who was released
by Blankenship because he was unable 10
acquire control had perfect control and
did not walk a man. He struck out
seven Oxies and allowed only six scat
tered hits
r1t- ,ff-J,-
er for Ogden. caught well but was woe
fully weak in throwing to second. the
negroes stealing easily ON him. slew
foot. new outfielder for ogden. gives
He lelded and batted we'll and demon
strared that he has an excellent Vhlr
by long throw to the plate. Rawllns
a new infielder acquired by Gimlin. hao
catch a runner, which he handled well
nabbing the fleet Hawkins by a yard
The game was the shortest Of the sea.
son, 1t was completed In one hour ane
twenty six minutes. which comes close
TO being a record for a baseball game
hereabouts.
Ogden Bunches Hits
Ogden punched three hits in the thirc
and brought in two runs. Wessler oPcnec
the inning with a double; After two mer
had gone out Kutina brought Wesslel
home with a long single. kutina wen
to second on the throw to catch Wessle,
at the plate and then stole third. Ing
volstead brought him home with sin
gle. The other run came the next In
| ming. After two men were out Ream!
and Plale were walked and Reams came
| home on Gimlins single.
The Oxies got their lone run in, tn
| fifth. Kyle doubled and went TO thirt
on Plake's tumble of Langley's grounder
Mooney drove hot grounder into Byrd
! shius and Kyle scored before the lon,
/ pitcher could recover the ball
Spencer. the State league umpire sta
! toned here, was considerably on ant
both sides suffered by his poor decisions
! Despite the manifest errors OF judgmen
the PLAYERS refrained from the usua
wrangling which has frequently charac
! terized State league games and the re
lief was decidedly pleasant