The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-10-04
MARYSVILLE
WINS SECOND
HANDS OUR TRIBE A BEAT
ING IN SECOND GAME OF
THE SERIES-THE SMOKE
STACKERS MAKE A DES-
PERATE NINTH-INNING BID.

A chronicle of last Sundays game be-
tween the Smokestackers and Marysville
would read like Diamond Dick serial
if accurately told for those two teams
"fit and fit and fit" until there was
blood on the moon and heart palpitation
in the breasts of a thousand howling
lunatics who filled the stand and bleach
ers. Not for years has there been such
fierce rivalry between an Everett and an
outside team nor such heart breaking
baseball finishes as have marked the
last two games. Scrapping for every
inch of advantage, every break in base
ball, those boys have gone down the line
neck and neck. The writer would not
yet venture an opinion as to which is
the better team. They are so evenly
matched, man for man, as well as in
team work, that the smallest kind of a
break in baseball luck will throw the
game to either side.
Welsh was in fine form, holding our
boys to seven hits and driving in the
first run for Marysville with a clean
single in the third. Singleton was not
so fortunate, being touched up for ten
hits and wild pitching a man home in
the eighth. At that he pitched remark
able ball in the pinches. The sixth in
ming is sample. With one gone Marys-
h. aol- l. o,,I
clean singles. nilsson" tightened and
struck out Keppler and Schmutz in a
row, leaving three runners stranded.
1t was in the eighth that the mischief
was done. Quigley singled and was ad-
vanced to third on Browns smashing
two base drive. Singleton wild pitched
Quigley home, Brown going to third. In
an attempt to trap Brown at third Ladd
aimed for the empyrean blue and Brown
scored. Then Duncan singled and Kep-
pier scored him with a two-base smash.
The ninth opened with the score stand
ing to in favor of Marysville and it
appeared that all that remained to be
done was to say the last sad rites.
What followed illustrates the old saw
that "the game isn't over till the last
mans out" Levin, first up, smashed
the pill for two sacks and Giddings drove
Levin home with another two-base drive.
Paddy got wobbly and Welts walked.
Giddings and Welts then pulled off a
beautiful double steal. Two on and no.
body out and two runs needed to tie.
Krause came to bat and every bug in
the grandstand got down on his 81 pants
and prayed for one little hit. The best
he could do was fly to Brown, who
ate it up. Hoover, who won a medal
the Sunday before for his pinch hitting
ability, was sent in to bat for Wleborg
and like the immortal Casey, struck out
mid the groans of the populace. Hope
revived when Brown fumbled Ladds hit
and Giddings scored johnson, substi-
tute pitcher, was sent in for Singleton
and thousand hopes hung breathlessly
ON the university player. And then, and
then, Welts got trapped trying to steal
home and our perfectly good, ls-karat,
ninth-inning rally was nipped in its
prime. "'Tis true, tits pity, and pity
'tis, it's true" Marysvile won.
Next Sunday will witnes the deciding
game of the series and it will be no
parlor croquet. Rather, mixture of
football, lacrosse and jiu jitsu, judging
from past performances. We expect to
see about the warmest mixup ever, but
we wouldn't bet pants button on the
result. AS the coming game will prob
ably wind up the season for 1912, it is
up to every fan and fannette that has
baseballittis in his or her system, to give
the boys who have played so Loyalty and
successfully in Everett uniforms rous-
ing send-off.