Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-06-13
GRANTS PASS WINS.
Ashland Ball TOssers Meet Defeat
BY to 6 Score.


proved themselves able to hold their
own with the valley teams by play
ing the veteran Grants Pass aggre-
gaticn to a standstill last Sunday,
only losing by a couple of fluke de-
cisions. The final result was I to 6
in favor of the team which defeated
the Portland Northwesterners.
The game was replete with healthy
swatting and clean fielding on both
sides. Ashland's infield hit its pace
for the first time this season, only
one error being chalked up against
the inner gardeners. Sayles had Kid
Mohler of Frisco backed off the map
in a comeback role, successfully ac-
cepting seven chances and annexing
four singles and a triple out of five
times at bat.
Phillips was freer than usual with
his safe hits, allowing eleven in all,
but kept them well scattered.
Grants Pass started the fireworks
in the first cantO by landing on Phil
lips for three hits, which, together
with costly error and a stolen base,
netted the vets three runs. No more
serious damage was done by them
until the sixth frame, when two sim
giles, double, a triple and a sacri-
flee counted three more scores. In
the eighth another was counted when
Schmidt singled. The flying Dutch
man then set sail for the midway
coaling station, but Master Plymate
had the pill waiting for him when
the old boat was still two fathoms
from port. What was the surprise,
horror and incredulous amazement
written on the faces of the Ashland
crew when Deputy Sheriff Umpire
Caburn announced Schmidt's safe ar
rival to the dock! Even the rabid
Grants Pass fans were disguised.
Somebody shouted, IF you're going
to cheat, cheat fair" However, the
deputy's badge of office made his
decision law and Schmidt was scored
a minute later by Hopkins triple.
Ashland's first score came in the
fifth inning, when Fordney singled,
went to third on an error and was
scored by Eastmans sacrifice In
the next frame Sayles reached first
on a safety, stole second, advanced
to third by an error, from whence he
tailed when Phillips drove a safe one
through third. In the lucky seventh,
with one down Moody was presented
free transportation, Skeen drove one
to the second sacker which said
would-be big Lacquer was glad
to dodge. Sayles rode a liner over
the shortStop SO fast that it was in
visible to the man in the left garden.
The pill was located by a rustling
in the leaves, but, alas! the fleet
footed Sayles had completed the cir
cult and was peacefully at rest under
the canopy. But now in a very rude
manner the Grants Pass tossers no
tify us that the runner had followed
the example set by one Merkle in
New York and had failed to tickle
the second bag with his yam. Both
umpires said they did not see the
play, but after various modes of per-
suasion had been used by the Grants
Pass silver tongues on the deputy
sheriff he softly muttered that some
time in history an Ashland player
failed to touch second base; he
would not tell who it was nor where
At this juncture of the proceedings
gentleman who slightly resembled
Abraham Lincoln climbed over the
ropes and made mis- way toward the
center of the hubbub, announcing his
intention of quelling the disturbance.
| When approached as to his authority
he manfully threw out his chest, dis
playing a large star which bobre the
legend, DOG CATCHER NO. 15."
His Intervention was appealed to a
superior and he was led from the
field by husky policeman. The
! Ashlanders again came near tieing
the score in the ninth when Skeen
singled, was advanced on an error
and scored on Klum's One-base sin
gle. Klum was scored when Sayles
lit on the ball for his fifth safe mt
The jumps decided that Sayles had
made three bagger, but the G. P.
bunch didn't agree, and during the
ensuing argument Sayles endeavored
to steal home and was only prevent
ed from tieing the score by the heady
work of Pitcher Hopkins. Thorn was
hit by pitched ball but was caught
off first on a rather questionable
play. Score: Grants Pass 7, Ash
land 6: