The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27


riously to consider and remark upon Ger
tain transactions of men. Good reason
exists for suspecting that some OF our
leading citizens have hidden their ath-
lctic prowess under bushel; that they
nave heen holding themselves out to the
community as tyros in game which they
can play with supeflative skill.
1t has been well and truly SAID that
half the world does not know how the
other hall lives. 1t may be equally wei
and just as truly said that one-tourth
OF the world does not know what the
other three -fourths has been or has done
or can do or would do. Men who have
moved among their fellows day alter
day. assuming to be just plain business
men, scientists and plutes; may turn out
TO be something else,
These statements and reflections are IN
spircd by the annual baseball game pc
tween the University club and the Ana
yesterday afternoon. 1t was presumed
and IL was natural thus TO presume
that the game would be we'll worth see
ing: not for the reasons that usually
draw persons In large numbers TO base
ball games but for other reasons An
1t could attend that game and be happy.
The public was misled and Amazingly sur
prlsed by men from whom other tinanSs .lSss
than those delivered might legitimaeeHy
Justice compels the statement tnat
spectators. They did the logical, the eN-
opportunity offered and occasionally be :
tween opportunities. II was not thelr
fault that the final score was IL TO 10,
that the confidence placed in them by
their friends was not misplaced.
rational ton e expectations of the spectators
For instance, the Salisbury family-Jlm
mie with eleven errorless chances at
third and Walker with four hits out IT, Q, y
four four hits out of six times up and five
errorless fielding. chances, and. moreover
pitching nine full innings stlmpseSn so
doubIe doe l,e'p pav l"p unaasisted, Worse than all
that final score of II to 10;
Il was wrong; all ,o2le5 Wrong, The n,ans for
the written. account Of the game; Inc
adding machine proved useless lncum,,
brance to the scoring department and
less than one book suffced for the COM
pete record OF the game.
However, what was still is, so let, us
HE US cheerily as we may TO review
ing thus to find q measure OF comfort
Certainly Ger the history of that encounter
will give us a new line OF lniorma'ion
on some OF our fellow citizens
It Happened Thus.
A
including only enough plain Iolks TO MAKE
II representative, awaited developments
when Judge R. n. Baskin, attired In a
regulation baseball uniform zda,ia dasned tbo TO
first ball The Judges winding, was OF OF
itself suitable for an epic but let II
pass, The epic market Is wen enoug,h
that that the Judge threw the ball nearly
half way to the plate and then retired
to make room for Charles A. Gillette,
ltpr nc n
and nothing else for some time now; but
who was discovered yesterday Gillette
was pitcher for the High Brows, 1t was
too bad that Judge saskIn e,kd bays rsyIef been IN
a much more interesting game had the
Judge remained on the slab throughout
Gillette proved obstreperous from the
catcher-whose name is suppressed by
request of the famiIy-lasted only mo-
mentariy, as 1t were, After Gillette mad
tired with two sprained thumbs Bob Bob
Porter, who has been accustomed TO speed
much OF his life. took the. mask and
managed to stick 1t out until the end OF
the game. at what cost in the way OF
physical Injury only his surgeons can tell.
Samuel Neel was the first gentleman
up for the Alta club. After his coun-
times by Gillette, Mr.. Neel hauled around
on one for single and scored on excel
lent singles by Mr.. Frank Botterill Mr..
Walker sslis6uTy and and Mr. MI sa,isngH L Wams snoE
ing in connection Herewith.
Ben Baum for the High Brows reached
first base as the result Of triflng mis-
ter got down on another mistake made
by Mr.. Samuel Neel and both scored
after Frank Roberts had singled and
nsou5 atsa and Of the the ke club had
took place until the third inning, when
Mr. P. L. Williams. Jr., ACCOMPLISHED
single by Mr., Albert Mccormick. 1t re-
mains mystery how Mr.. Williams got
around from second on single. Later
that about a three -base hit WAS required
10 give him time to make the distance.
In their half of the third the University
delegation made two runs Singles by
junction with trifing oversights by gen,
tlemen of the Alta club. explain the
matter
characterized the onslaught OF the Alta
club In the fifth. Mr Williams and Mr..
Albert Mccormick scored on two-base
Ames. the distinguished mining men who
played so exceIlently as catcher for the
Alta club.
In the second half of the fifth. several
things took place. among them hits by
Porter. Jim Salisbury and Gillette. the
result being four runs.
Thus we have the score 10 IN faVor
OF the University club. Feeling was in
tense,
Nothing happened in the first half OF
the sixth, except that DR.. Straup. who
PLAYED second for the University club,
neglected to touch Mr.. Samuel Neel. but
instead. held the ball high while keeping
his feet firmly planted on the bag. The
umpire. very arbitrarily. ruled that the
runner was safe, even after the doctor
explained that he was really first base
man and had made proper hrst base
play OF n. The doctor disliked the game
thereafter and. following several affairs
in which he took an interesting part re-
tired from the game In the seventh in
ming with ths remark that there was
some sort OF an epidemic In the field.
but 1t was not catchinS,
Philanthropist Gives Base.
In the second half OF the sixth. Herbert
Chids Brown, known as Brownie" and
passing himself on as a telephone en-
gineer. after putting out two batsmen-
one with his hands and one with his
shirt-was given a base on balls by Mr.
p. l.. Williams Jr. the we'll known phi
lanthropist. and subsequently, scored on
singles by Baum and Roberts.
The University got two more I'm the
I seventh, they being brought In by Tug"
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