Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-04-18
Countyseat Team Won Over Kooskia
By Score Of Four to Five
on Last Sunday.
BALL BUG BUSY ON PRAIRIE
Cottonwood to Get Fast Team in Shape.
-Karr to Boise and Rustic
meyer to Pendleton.

Last Sunday the Grangeville base
ball team played their first game of
the season, at Kooskia, which resulted
in victory for our boys by a score of
to 5. Kooskia started with rush
and got two runs on two hits and a
tumble, but Grangevile pulled together
and hits off Ingram were scarce ar
ticle for the rest of the game-only
three more. Grangeville was weak
with the bat but took advantage of
some kooskia misplays. In the third
the first man got first and scored on
Ingram s three-bagger, and after that
tallies failed to come until the seventh,
when Hollisten got first and got to
second on two outs, when Ingram S
drive through the infeld sent him to
third, Ingram taking first, and Newton
drove the ball past third, scoring Hol-
LISTEN and Ingram going to third and
Newton to second. Then Schnell clean
ed up the bases with two base hit and
scored moment later on Litchfield s
drive. This ended the run-getting for
Grangeville.
In the fifth Kooskia got another man
around the horn on an error and a hit,
but in the sixth, after a man got to
second the next three men eouldn It
bring him home. In the seventh Koos-
kia IS fourth tally came in, and that
ended the tallying. In the ninth a man
got as far as second but couldn t get
the rest of the way around
Jesse James umpired the game and
his decisions were satisfactory in every
way.
The work of all the Grangeville boys
was first class, considering the lack of
practice, and especially the playing of
Chas. Branscombe, Elmer SchneH and
Chas. Litchfield.
Next Sunday Kooskia will come here
and try to even up but the home team
will be strengthened and good game
is assured. The battery will probably
be Hollistein and Jarvis, with Brans.
combe first, Ingram second, Newton
third, Carrothers short, and "Boss
Brown, Tom Ward, Chas. Litchfield and
Schnell in the field.
Fast Team at Cottonwood.
From present indications and expires
sions heard around town it is believed
the team this year will be composed Of
many of last years players, with pos
sibly two or three new faces in tn,
lineup. Fred Lange, Cottonwood s oil
standby, and the envy and fear of ou
neighboring towns, will be seen in
{, Cottonwood suit this year and will am
BILE around third base and take an occa
sional turn in the box. George Lang
will probably play his old position a
second and Hughes will take care o
the first sack in his own good style
The other positions are still open t
question but it is believed that in ar
other week most of the selections wi
have been made.-Chronicle.
Fouls and Strikes.
On account of the rain the hig
school game with Sites, which wa
! scheduled for Friday OF last week, wa
called off.
Cottonwood and Grangeville higf
will meet on the local diamond Satu
day.
! Lou Karr, who was signed wit
Boise, will leave for that city tn
week Karr is getting in fast cor
pany but no doubt will be able to ho
his own.
Rustemeyer, the Cottonwood crac
pitcher, who was tried out by the Va
couver, B. G., taem, has been farms
out to Pendleton and will play in Il
Tri-State league. Included in this lie
. que is the city of Boise and no dou
f RUSTY will be pitted against his o
q rival, Karr, who is now on the pitc
. ing staff of the Boise team.