East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-13
OSBORNE SPELLS WIN
FOR BUCKARO0 TEAM
OLD FAVORITE GLADDENS THE
HEARTS OF THE FANS, PITCH
ING GRAND GAME.

ING GRAND GAME.
Pitching in the form that has en-
deared him to the baseball bugs,
Chief Osborne yesterday celebrated
his return to the Buckaroo field by
twirling the first shutout game of the
season and thereby enabling PEN
dleton to take the long end of the
opening series. The score was to
at the end, 0 to until the last of
the eighth. II was a beautiful game
to watch and there was a pretty good
sized attendance despite the fact that
two lodges ran excursions out of the
city.
Osborne never was in better form
for slab duty. His curves were
breaking nicely, his fast one smoked
that fooled more than one batter. He
was tickled for one hit In each of the
first three innings but from then on
improved with each ball delivered.
and ended by striking out all three
batters in the ninth.
While passing the doughnuts
around, Sutherland. who did the
chucking for Baker. must not be ov-
erlooked. This elongated sapling has
a choice assortment of benders and
really pitched winning ball. 1t was
the second hard game of the week he
has lost and he has ample excuse for
cursing the luck that attends him.
While Osborne's pitching and the
support given him never gave the
Kubs much of an opportunity to cir
Gle the bags. their failure to prevent
the Buckarooes from making the cir
cult must be ascribed to the fact that
they did not play good baseball at
the critical times. King has a new
third baseman and new second
sacker in the game and Watts was
playing his first game at short. Per-
haps this was one reason why the
"heads up" stuff was lacking.
Sutherland was lucky to get by the
first frame without score against
him. He issued his only walk of the
game to Naughton, first up. and
that player Immediately stole second.
Lodell hunted to Sutherland. who
mussed up the ball, making all hands
safe. A double steal was then start
ed but perfect peg from King to
Togneri and back again caught
Naughton at the plate. Two flies to
McLinn ended the inning.
1t was not until the fifth that the
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board was broken. In the last or
this inning a lone marker was hung
up. With one down, Pinkie Colvin
clouted out a clean single and stole
second. Naughton hit the ball to
Watts who overthrow first. allowing
Colvin to reach home. Lodell stung
the ball for hot one down the third
base line and Sigsbee was lucky to
knock 1t down. Naughton slid into
third on the play and Lodell stole
second. With two down, 1t looked as
If Varian were slated for q walk put
the jumps called him out on alleged
strikes which aroused Varian's Ire
and almost precipitated trouble.
In the eighth came the other two.
Osborne opened with his second sin
gle of the day. Naughton bunted.
King fielded the ball. turned ana
whanged 1t to first without hesitation
Togneri. however, had gone to sleep
and failed to cover the bag, thus per-
hitting the ball to pass on to the
bleachers. With men on second and
third. Lodell hit a ground ball al
Watts who cut Osborne off at the
plate. Lodell stole second. Briggs
hit over second and Naughton scored
Watts threw to first too late to eaten
, Brigges and Lodell took advantage oil
the momentary hesitation after the
decision to dash for home when ne
reached safely by pretty slide,
TnbulatCtl Score