East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-25
DUCKAROOESBEATEN BY
PITCHER THEY HAD
CAST OFF
Mystificd by Mountains Offering, Lo-
Gals Give Rusty Poor Sup
port; Score to ).


La Grande started out a winner
yesterday and finished the same,
thereby taking her first game of the
series from Pendleton, the final score
being Z to 8. 1t took one of their for
mer teammates, however. to admin
lister the bitter pill to the Buckarooes,
Mountain, the twirler released by
Garrett last Monday, having persuad-
ed Bradley to give him trial in the
La Grande oox. With the exception
of the third inning when he allowed
a bunch of five hits for Pendleton's
only three runs, he was steady and,
though hit frequently, kept the bingles
scattered
Rustemeyer heaved the pellet for
the frontier brigade and his puzzlers
were solved in the first innings. A
little wild too, he was not steadied
a bit by his support which was as
ragged as has been accorded to any
local twirler during the season. Five
errors, four of which proved costly,
were made behind him and the whole
team showed some of the overconfi-
dence and listlessnes which comes
from a few easy victories.
On the other hand, the La Grande
players put up a better exhibition
than any since they began on the
series. With two new men in the
lineup and several of the regulars
shifted about, Bradley was able to
come back strong and take vengeance.
Story of the Game.
La Grande grabbed a couple in the
initial chapter by humping Rusty for
three hits With one down, Higgins,
a new performer, singled into right
field and, Garrett, in returning the
ball, overthrew first, thus allowing
another base. Owens followed with
a safe clout to short center and, after
Bradley had grounded out, Walters
dumped the ball and beat out the
throw, bringing a runner across the
rubber When Naughton laid down
the ball to Augustus and that player
made a bad peg to first, Owens also
ambled home.
In the second, with two down, the
Pippins nearly scored again by reason
of single by Cosgriff and a double
by Higgins but Rusty struck out
Owens and retired the side.
Having gone two innings without
a hit or chance to score, the Buck
-arooes opened up strong on Noun
tains benders in the third and took
the lead for a short time by chasing
over three runners. Augustus, first
up, slammed the ball over the first
base bag. fair by three inches, and
it skurried across country like a
scared hare, allowing the little short
stop TO make the complete circuit
Rustemeyer grounded out but RAIDER
came through with a hit through
pitcher and was put on third by Rob-
inson's clean hit to the left garden
A squeeze play was then attempted
but Lodell missed the ball and RAIDER
ran into the waiting arms Of Catcher
White for the second out. By way OF
. atoning for his failure to connect, Lo-
dell hit the next ball so hard that
Mountain could only knock it down
With two on, Nadeau came to the
rescue and poled out hummer Ioi
two sacks, registering both Robinson
and Lodell.
In the fourth it looked as if Pendle-
ton were due for another annexation
for the bases were filled with no one
down. Mountain. however, gathered
himself together and, aided by Tho
right break in the luck, extricatet
himself from the hole.
The visitors climbed again into th'
lead in the fifth, two passes, a sacri
flee. an error and a two bagger b!
Naughton sending in three more
runs. The remaining two were gar
nered in the eighth by reason of
four ply swat by White, singles by
Higgins and Owens and an error
Pendleton strove valiantly, and