The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-26
SKINNED OUT IN THE TENTH
4 Ninth Inning Rally Almost Puts
0rO,ille to the Bad

on the diamond, on the local grounds.
Sunday afternoon, and the home boys
won out by the skin of their teeth. the
game going to an extra inning. Bryan
pushed them over the pan with clock
! like regularity, in the most perpleX-
ing grooves. Then the shocking in
ability of the visitors to hang on to
the ball, or to figure out what to do
with ii after they did get hold of it,
permitted to Oroville collection to put
the game in cold storage, from which
H. came mighty near getting away. Up
to the ninth inning Tonasket was able
to connect with the ball safely only
twice, and Oroville to all appearances
had lead pipe cinch, with a score of
. to /. Then the unexpected, that puts
the condiment in base ball, anyhow
happened, Men who had struck out
repeatedly stepped up to the rubber
and smote the spheriod on it's most
prominent feature, and romped around
the bases with reckless abandon. By
| the time the smoke cleared away five
swats had been registered and four
runs had trickled over the plate, bal
feet was at the receiving end. Fred
Hart did splendidly as backstop, hold
ing every thing, but his wing is on the
blink, and he could not heave the ball
to second in time to head off a runner.
When a man got to first he could
take the next bag with impunity.
With runner on second a safe hit
netted tally. With a sure pegger
| behind the bat there would have been
nothing to it. Hart was used because
| the club is shy a catcher. That he
played the position well is indicated
| by box score. Bryan may have weak
ened, too, but if he did he pulled him
self together quickly, as he struck out
three in row in the TENTH
The game was remarkable in the
fact that 26 of the 80 put outs were
negotiated by two men, the catcher
a. hb III ol pioCilloh Hc ScCOuu Ddoc-
man put out three and the short stop
one. The balance of the aggregation
might as well have remained on the
bench so far as anything they had to
do with retiring the side. Hart, the
Tonasket pitcher, deserved a better
| fate. His support was so coarse that
| il bordered on the criminal He de-
serves credit for the work he did in
the pinches. Several times Oroville
had runners on the bags with none,
or only one out, but Hart never lost
his head and managed to swim ashore
with no harm done. In the tenth in
ming Bryan was undoubtedly out at
first, but he was behind the baseman
and it was impossible for the umpire
from where he stood to see the play.
The baseman had to step several feet
off his base to stop a wide throw, but
he swung back and touched the run
ner. The umpire w. j. Ludin,
stranger to all the players, but an
old and experienced player himself,
was fair and impartial in his de-
cisions, and the mistake made in this
instance was unintentional. The fol-
lowing is a resume of the proceedings
by cantos:
First-Tonasket-B could not
find the sphere, Mayberry rolled
slow one to Wilson at first, and J.
NnI I'D Il Ii,,lr 10 Do
| tell No runs.
Orovile-On the second ball pitch
ed Bartell smashed a pretty single
to right He made dash for second,
| and Mayberry letting the throw get
by him Bartell raced on to third. Hart
| put neat sacrifice over by second,
scoring Bartell and going out May
berry to j. Nelson. Powell was given
| his base on balls. Wilson hit a high
| fly to left which was taken care of
| by Monroe. Prince punched a long
| fly to center, which Sig dropped,
Powell scoring. Salings foul fly was
gathered in by j. Nelson. Two runs.
Tonasket-Monroe caught
one of Bryan's slants in the Stats and
took first Sig dropped Texas leag
uer back of third. A. Nelson swatted
the atmosphere. Elder got himself
in front of the ball and was given his
base. Hart slipped down on three
easy ones. No runs.
Oroville-Chrisman was out pitcher
to first. Bryan deposited a single in
short right. Hart did the juggle act
with Blackler's hit, Bryan reaching
third. Bartell made a nifty sacrifice,
scoring Bryan, putting Blackler on
second, and going out Mayberry to J.
Nelson. Blackler took third on a wild
pitch, and was run out by the catcher
and third base when he attempted to
reach the plate on Hart's hit. One
run.
| Third-Tonasket-B fell a vic
tim to three strikes, Mayberry lifted
short fly 20 Bartell, and j. Nelson
failed to connect on three good ones.
No runs.
Oroville-A. Nelson let Powell's hit
get away from him and the runner
was safe. He started to steal second,
the catcher overthrow and the run
ner reached third. With a man on
third and none out Hart was in the
hole but he tightened up, striking out
| Wilson and Prince, while Saling's
short fly was taken in by Beck. No
| runs.
Fourth-Tonasket - Monroe and
Sig hit to Bryan and perished at first.
A. Nelson sawed No runs.
Oroville-Chrisman placed a single
in left. Hart threw wild to first to
catch the runner mapping, and Chris
man took second. Hart again threw
wide to head off Bryan, Chrisman 60
ing to third. Bryan stole second.
With two ON and none out Hart was
again in a tight fix, but the young
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