East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-05-07
BUCKAROOES ENJOY A SPUD FEAST;
WIN OPENER FROM LA GRANDE 9.3

By gathering little clusters of hits
and hitlets off the delivery of Collie
Druhot and by taking advantage of
costly boots made by said Druhot's
teammates, the Buckarooes yesterday
afternoon succeeded in sailing down
the first game Of the series against
La Grande. Score Pendleton 8, La
Grande 3. Berger was in his old hot
weather form and had the Spuds COM
pletely mystified until the later part
of the game when, with victory assur-
ed, he eased up.
Druhot started off in great style
and for four innings looked like a
good horse to play. True, Pendleton
had put a score across in the second
frame but. the responsibility did not
rest with the HEAVIER. Two errors, one
by Nadeau and one by Beck after
McKune had hit safely, did it. Thus
the game was a one to nothing affair
until the fifth when Druhot lost his
moorings After striking out both
Cowan and Varian and walking Ra-
der. he shot slant in the groove at
McKune and the manager met the
pill with a healthy swing. The ball
went into left field for three bags
and RAIDER was across the rubber.
Krause, who had relieved Lodell
at first when the big fellow had been
fined and benched for beefing at and
threatening the umpire, singled
through third. scoring his manager.
Then Bladen scratched a hit through
third and there were two on with Au-
gustus at the bat The little short
stop put a hot one beween first and
second which Beck did well to stop
However, he was not content with
stopping the ball but insisted on
| throwing it to first after the runner
was safe. He heaved it high and
wide and Krause sped across the pan.
Berger flied out, ending the inning
When the first three men up,
/ ~ougherty, Cowan and RAIDER, had hit
| 81 q ones in the sixth and one run
hfG Neen chased in, Manager King
yanRa1 Druhot from the slab and sent
him cut to relieve Jameson in the
| field. C~och was sent to the firing
| line with two on bases. Varian hit to
third and "orbin threw to second to
catch Rade~ but Naughton muffed
the ball and 0owan cantered to the
plate. RAIDER taking third. a sacrifice
flv bv McKune finished the making
of the third tally, after which the
side was retired.
A homer in the seventh by Angus
tus and another in the eighth by Ra-
der finished the scoring for the
Buckarooes.
In the seventh the Spuds earned
their first marker. Naughton hit
safely over second, took second on an
infield out and scored when King
banked out his second safety of the
Il day A double play. Mckune 10
Krause, retired the side.
In the ninth. oerger began lob
bing the ball over the plate and the
visitors did some hitting. With one
down, Nadeau who had failed to de-
liver in sixth inning pinch. poled
out one of his famous two-baggerS
and Naughton got life when one OF
Berger's benders connected with hi:
Stats A hit by Peterson into right
scored Nadeau and put Naughton or
third from which point he was
brought home by Kings sacrifice fly
Walters came through with a single
but when Gooch laid the ball dowr
to McKune, the game was over.
There was some good ball played
during the afternoon but much time
was lost between innings and the
game was further marred by much
Raging at decisions on both sides
Umpire Burnside had a bad day OF
it but it was not apparent to anyone
in the grandstand or bleachers that he
was trying to hand a package tc