The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-08-23
EVERETT COPS
ANOTHER One
GETTING so THE SMOKE
STACKERS JUST CAN'T
LOSE-THIS TIME IT is THE
IROQUoIS TEAM THAT RE-
CEIVES A BEATING.

The Smokestackers proved themselves
good mud horses Sunday in the game
with the Iroquois, anneXing the long end
of a to ! score on a diamond that
was half mud and half sawdust Con-
sidering the condition of the field the
game was fast, two double plays featur
ing the matinee. Singleton and Hem
rich ran a close race for pitching honors
with the laurels pretty evenly divided.
Singleton whitfield 9 and walked while
Heinrich famed s and walked 2. The
classest work of the game was the re-
ceiving of McJannett for the Iroquois.
That boy has a peg that is joy to OBJ
serve. Not an Everett man stole base
during the game though it was not for
want of trying. Strong and Giddings
were each thrown out the length of
city block trying to stretch clean hits
! for extra bases. 1t looked to the stand
as if some brain food should have been
scattered along the coaching lines.
The first two innings were as tame as
an old ladies' sewing society. The fans
divided their time between discussion of
the bull moose and an idle survey ofthe
candidates signs with an occasional jibe
at the umpire to keep their hand in. In
the third the fans came off their shoulder
blades with a jerk. McJannett walked
and Heinrich singled. Two on and none
gone. Shaffer singled, scoring McJan
nett Still two on and none out. Mercy
Then Nilsson got busy aud a big load of
trouble lifted from the diamond as the
third man went out with two still rest
ing on the sacks.
Iroquois went down in order in the
fourth but in Everett's half the game
was put away in the locker Twas
thusly. Strong got life and Giddings ad-
vanced him with a bunt too slow to
handle in time for the out. Krause
scored Strong with a clean hit. Weborg
hit and tumble put Giddings over and
a moment later Krause came over on a
wild throw and costly boot by McJan
nett.
That ended the scoring. Both pitchers
tightening and getting stronger every
inning. Each team killed off incipient
rallies by fast double plays, the one from
Singleton to Giddings to Ladd being a
peach.
Errors were plentiful but were excus-
able. The New York Giants would have
looked like bushers on such soggy
grounds. 1t was impossible to gage the
speed of ball or tell when it was going
to take bad bound. All fielder could
do was stick out his mitt and utter a
prayer for divine guidance. Giddings
was the swatting demon with three hits
out of three times up, while Bobby
Welts was the hard luck kid, hitless and
runless.
Weborg umpired good game but has
not yet found his way back into popular
favor. If this were the year 1880 in
stead of 1912 the gentle fans would be
for boiling an umpire in hot oil, la
witches.
Do you care for statistics? Here are
few: Runs Everett 3, Iroquois |;
hits-.Everett 10, Iroquois 4; errors-Ev-
erett 6, Iroquois Z; two-base hits-Gid-
dings; three-base hits-Strong; struck
Singleton 8, by Heinrich 8; bases
on balls-off Singleton 3, off Heinrich
.; stolen base Thompson; hit by pitched
ball-Roberts, Giddings; double plays
Everett |, Iroquois |, Singleton to Gid
dings to Ladd, Cloudy to Tilton; time
of game-two hours; umpire-Weborg.