The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-07-03
TOOK in THE
BANANA BUNCH
No-Hit-No-Run Foran Touch
ed up by Locals for IL
Hits; Score 6 to5.

The Camas Eaters took a change
OF diet last Sunday when they excurt-
ed to the big Forks Town" and
skinned a bunch of bananas on the
subirrigated plot at the outskirts of
the Lewiston city limits. Hot? Well,
yes; something like the Arizona town,
Yubadam, would feel to returned
arctic explorer; the sweat ran as
freely as creek water after the recent .
cloud bursts, and the pores of the /
highlanders were 80 open" they were
while they mopped their perspiring
brows Such sudden changes in alti-
tude and temperature in base ball,
Is like giving the tall man the under
hold in wrestling bout-but, some
times the tall man needs it.
| Anyway, it was a cracking good
fellows who won that excess score.
But even the disgruntled ones, of
which there were some. (more than
three should be- called 1t "a good
game, but -
The sporting editor" of the Lew
iston daily had been paying the way
for an easy fall, by playing up the
Grangeville twirler as ''Loucks, the
former member of the Spokane and
Oakland league teams" and "Loucks,
former member of the northwest
league" the last day propounding
tn ! query: "Wil, the Lewiston play
ers be able to hit Loucks, the form
er league pitcher?" The answer to
which viii be found in the appended
tabulateds score, which shows H. hits
for lGrangeyille to for Lewiston,
with strike-outs each, and the score
to in favor of the "highlandeTs- y
And this does not include all there
was meritorious or interesting in the
, game. Both sides did some good
work, the error list standing Lewis
, ton Z, Grangeville 6. Lewiston, as
, usual hit fortunately, three of its
, eight hits by right handed batters
going into right field. OF course Their
r is no law against such conduct but
, it may certainly be termed "fortu
q nate hitting the same as two OF
q the deep field fly catches and the
r blocking by shortstop playing out o
b natural, position of hot one hi
: through the pitcher, may be termed
: lucky fielding.
It The Tribune says some very com
,. plimentary things regarding the worl
t. of the Grangeville players, especial.
o the manner in which Karr handles
d. third; but it is mistaken in the state
is ment that outside of the second inn
% ing Grangeville did not have chanc
er to score" if it means that they di
y not continue to hit the Lewisto
ID pitcher and get on the bases. In tn
le third inning there were two men
1t bases with one man out, and in ever
lie inning but one thereafter there wa
tn a man on bases when the side wei
es out. Nor Is it correct when it Int
m mates that the six scores wh1c
ly Grangeville secured in the second I'M
Is Ing "was due to a bunch of errol
which Lewiston piled up by loos
fielding and wild throwing" for ha
D. the two wild throws which were MAJ
,r- in that inning not been pulled OF
cd Brown and Branscombe would ha'
Nv been brought in on Tigglebeck IS tw
ee bagger, following Branscombes h
mt grounder into left field. The san
I'm is true of the scores of Mcintosh al
nv Moen who went to first on good hi
cd and were scored on straigt hit
II Ingram and his after play betwe
,st first and second, in which he was
in- out Loucks scored when the attem
ts was made to put Brown out at III
or. on the grounder which he sent
,er the third baseman. So when t
90 plays are analyzed there is not mu
= -, to the claim that the scoring W
Tho done on errors, and were not earn
30, runs. The only errors that really
Tho fected anything were those letti
m, Karr and Brown to first. Grangevi
IN made six clean hits in the inning II
,a they made the six scores, besides p
ouo Joining several bases. Fox, of Gran
~ Vile, and Young, of Lewiston
pired, and but for the manifest
fairness of the latters work In call
balls and strikes on Foran in
20 last inning, two of the hits accredi
~ to Lewiston would never have bt
made. Foran admits this hims'
The game by innings follows:
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