Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-14
GRANTS PASS TAKES
GAME FROM ASHLAND

(FOr The Courier by I. F. Hanley. }
Coming to bat in the first half of
the ninth inning yesterday on the
Grants Pass A. A. c. grounds with
the score standing to against 1t,
the Ashland club Of the Rogue River
Valley league, battling with Spartan
courage, sent terror into the hearts
of the 800 loyal local fans when,
with one out, Skeen and Klum sing
led In succession, and Sayle, Ash
lands great second baseman, drove
out his fifth hit of the day-a triple
to left, scoring his batting order pro-
genitors. With the score I to 6,
Sayle on third and one down, the
heart and brain Of the populace reel
ed and sickened.
Strong men went into paroxysms
Of rage and spasms of hysterla. Wo-
men, moved by the tenseness of the
ordeal, quivered and shivered at the
crucial situation. which might spell
defeat for the mighty champions and
had recourse to the smelling salts,
and hid, ashen-faced, behind fan
and handkerchief.
Then Sayle, seeing the Grants Pass
infeld go into an apparent executive
session without notifying the UNI
pires, and thinking with no little
reason, that it was up in the air, :"
darted for the plate with the run
that would have tied. Fast and in
genious work by Catcher Baker, who
played the best game Of his career,
nipped the Cobbasque effort of the
daring Ashlander.
But the danger was not over Thorn
was hit by a pitched ball and Hop
kins, probably disheartened by rag
ged support, seemed to have shot his
bolt Groans OF despair, symbolic of
a nocturnal convention of coyotes, or
an Irish wake" or a burning circus
menagerie, came from grandstand,
bleacher and field enclosure. Quick
thinking and quick execution of their
thoughts by Hopkins and Williams
caught Thorn off first on a very Ques-
tionable decision, and the sangun-
arv struggle went into the Dague
archives a I to C Grants Pass vic
tory Gaudeamus igitur
The runs We're made thus
Ashland made one in the fifth on
Fordneys single. a base on balls, and
Williams frenzied heave to second,
which rolled to the tall grass in CEN
ter field. Chalked up another in the
sixth on Sayle's hit and steal and
Phillips clout. Two ir the seventh
on a base on balls, an error by T..
Riggs. Sayle's slashing single, the
latter being called out on the allie
cation that he did not touch second,
although It seemed neither umpire
knew that he did not the final ruling
being the result of a wordy protest
by the entire home team. Ashsnd's
last two came in the ninth on Sc
quential singles by skeen and Klum
and Sayle's triple.
Grants Pass .cored three In the
first on hits by Weckler. Williams
and Smith aided by an error by
Thorn. Three more in the sixth on
two-bagsers by T. Riggs and Schmidt.
a sacrifice. a triple ty W. Rigs and
Wecklers second single And added
It's eventually much-needed seventh
run in the eighth on schmidts single.
his pilfer Of second, and Hopkins
vicious triple to deep left
The features OF the game were the
sll-round playing Of Sayle Of Ash
land who drove out four ngles and
a triple in five times mp stole base
and had FIVE putouts and assists.
the steady. head catching c; Bake.
who saved he game several times bT