East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-07-16

the Walla Walla Bears Go Down to
Defeat-Berger in Form Pitches
Great Game.
Let whistles blow and bells ring out
Sound 'em loud and long.
Let voices raise in gladsome praise
Let lips burst forth in song.
On with the dance, forget the crouch,
To all the world proclaim
The joyous news, 1--WE did not lose'
The Bucks have won a game"
Yes It's fact. Pendleton shattered
the tribe goose-egg that has stood op-
posite her name for a week and broke
into the win column. The victory was
clean-cut. decisive, complete, four
to one affair and that which makes
it seem like watermelon to starving
darky is the fact that the defeated
bunch represented our ancient ana
hereditary foe of the two Wallas.
1t was the most satisfactory game
the fans have yet with ssed this year
Though the lineup of the Bears was
slightly disarranged owing to the alb
sence of Harmon and Lundstrum, the
Bucks too were shifted about. 1t
was Pendleton's time to win and that's
all there was to it. The psychology
of the situation all favored such an
end Fresh from series OF SIX de-
feats the Terrymen knew that 1t was
ND to them to do something or be tor-
ever damned. On the other hand the
Bears had taken their last four
games from the strong Yakima team
and were now pitted against ciuo
going bad and which had always been
easy pickings for them.
However that may be. the Bucks
played winning ball and they earned
their victory with their clubs. But
the one man of all to whom the big
gest slice of credit belongs is Joe Ber-
.er the Joe Berger as We like to know
him. His control was perfect and his
spitters were breaking wickedly' Inc
Bears simply couldn't locate their
course of travel and sixteen times
! they took three swings and went back
to the bench. Twice he allowed
clean hits and twice others were
scratched by the infield, and that was
| all Brown and his men were pretty
| lucky to escape a shutout.
That lonesome score of theirs came
in the first frame. Johnson, first up
managed to scratch a safe one through
sort and then after he had stolen
second and Childers and Davis had
both breezed, Martini connected for
a beautiful drive to right, sending
| Johnnie across the rubber.
/ 1t was in the second and third in
nings tha the offerings of Welch
looked fat to the Bucks. With one
/ down. in the second. Manager Nc
| Kune himself started things by ter
rifle drive to center for three bags
King followed with a beautiful single
over second and it was good for two
bases when Kelly, playing center, al
lowed the ball to elude his NIT. An
other drive in the same territory by
Augustus sent King over and Augie
took the second bag on the throw to
the pIate Berger thereupon, laid his
willow against the pill for three
ply drive through center, chasing In
one more run The signal for the
4.
to connect and Berger was caught al
the plate.
In the third, Lodell, first up. got
life when his grounder to Brown took
a bad hop Reid and Haworth both
struck out but Naughton's bunt hi
1 put men~on second and first. Again
/ McKune swatted the spheroid into
safe territory and Lodell sailed into
harbor. A double steal was started
but Davis pretty peg and Johnson's
pretty tag caught Naughton at the
plate.
That ended the scoring for the game
for Welch steadied down and retired
the Bucks in one, two, three order un'
til the eighth when two hits put mer
on bases only to die there. Walla
Wallas best chance to break into the
} run column again came in the nintf
when Davis. first up, laid hot one
: toward McKune which the manager
} knocked down but could not handle
!. cleanly. AS Martini stepped to the
plate, Berger tried to slip a strike
across on him but instead sent the
ball against the Italians broadside
! This put two on with none down
Sheely breezed but the runners ad
vanced a base on Kelly's infield out
Big Bear Brown was up but Berger
had his number and whitfield him fol
the third time.
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