East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-28

BY the grace of Tiny Leonard s
mastery twirling, the heavy hitting
of his teammates and the umpiring of
Cooney Starkell the Walla Walla
Bears yesterday afternoon took the
opener of the series from the Pen
dleton Buckarooes by to 2 score.
What promised to be a close and ex-
citing contest in the beginning devel-
oped into a one-sided slugfest when
the jumps required Osborne to break
his curves squarely over the pan be-
fore he would give him a strike. With
the balls coming down the groove, the
hard hitting Bruins pounded the pei
let all over the outfield and when
they didn't come down the groove,
they drew. passes to first, so that run
getting was comparatively easy.
So'incensed were the fans at Star
kell that after the game was over
they surged on to the field and threat
ened for a time to carry him to the
river and dump him in. Only his
good judgment in keeping his mouth
shut to the angry tumult about him
saved him from harsh treatment.
Leaving a discussion of the "um-
piratical" acts to another column. we
will proceed to tell the story of the
game. While Starkell may have been
one of the reasons why the Bears
garnered their hits and runs. Tiny
Leonard was the biggest reason why
Pendleton did not figure more fire.
quently in the tally frames. The big.
auburn-topped twirler, after a rest
of two weeks. was in great fettle ex-
cept in the sixth inning when the
Bucks punched four hits for their
only scores.
The game started in way that
pleased the fans Walla Walla went
down in the first in one. two, three
order. and then Dougherty, first man
up for Pendleton, swatted the pill for
a single. RAIDER sacrificed him to Sec
ond and it began to look like score.
Varian. however. breezed. but Ha-
worth delivered another single which
pushed Dougherty to third and then
purloned the second bag. Mckune
poked out a long one which Martini
gathered in prettily, retiring the side
Both sides got a man to first in
the second frame but both were
caught out before reaching second
Martini dying on a double play and
Byrnes being tagged when pilfering
II was in the third that the Bruins
started their slugging. Lundstrum
first up. poled out a beautiful drive
for three bases and then Brown drew
a walk. Leonard whitfield the ether
but Cotton Harmon delivered three
sacker into left field which scored
both runners ahead of him. Childers
hit to RAIDER and was thrown out and
the next play should have retired
the side. but Haworth would not have
IL so Davis lifted a long, high fly to
right which would have descended
into Haworth's hands had he remain
ed in his tracks but he ran in some
fifteen. feet or more and allowed the
ball TO sail over him Even then Da-
Wis would have only made second had
the fielder thrown the ball back into
the diamond instead of pegging it tc
Varian. who was i'm deep center. As
It was. Davis got to third, where he
died when Martini made an infield
out.
The fourth inning was even more
disastrous for osborne and his mates
Sheely. first up, drove to center and
the ball. taking a freaky bound. was
not retrieved until the crippled first
sacker had reached second. Then
the bases were filled when both
johnson and Lundstrum were given