Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-05-01
BONNERS FERRY
WINS GAME
Captures the Big End Of Baseball Score
In the Opening Game Of
the Season
Is TO 7 TELLS THE STORY
Priest River Proves Easy Prey For the
Local Aggregation

The opening baseball game of
the season was pulled off before
rather small crowd of fans last
Sunday at the Eagle Park grounds,
when the local team chalked up
big victory against Priest River.
The whole story is told in the score,
which resulted 10 to in Boomers
Ferry's favor. The chief char
acteristics of the game were a lot
of heavy hitting by the local stick
swingers, with more or less of the
same work by the visiting team,
and with a goodly number of errors
counted up against both teams.
The game opened with Burchette
on the mound and Barber behind
the bat for the locals. Burchette
didn't have much on the ball to
start with and it looked rather dis
couraging for the local fans when
Priest River crossed the plate for
two runs in the first inning. This
temporary fear was turned to hilar
ity, however, when the Boomers
Ferry bunch came to bat, for they
landed on Smithson with great
gusto and the inning closed with
six runs to the locals credit. 1t
appeared right then and there that
the locals had the game sewed up
and at no time thereafter was the
result in doubt.
Priest River crowded one man
across the plate both in the second
and third, while Boomers Ferry
scored two in the second and again
started to galloping around the
course in the third, with six more
runs to their credit. This was too
great a slaughter for Manager Fest
to stand, and at the beginning OF
the fourth he pulled Smithson from
the oox and sent in big Rex
Hydorn. The complexion of mat
tiers began to change at once, and
| Hydorn threw a very good game,
retiring the locals in one-two-three
order in the fourth, fifth and sixth
and letting in only one run each il
the seventh and eighth. However
the lead obtained by the locals wa:
to great to be overcome and the
Priest River aggregation were only
able to chalk up one more run il
the sixth and two in the eighth
AS an exhibition of baseball it lief
much to be desired, but the fan
were not to be denied their spOr
and obtained bunch of fun out o
the game.
Coins, the new pitcher Bonner
Ferry had secured for this season
was unable to be here for the open
ing game but will arrive later
2 Barber, the new catcher, was oil
a hand, however, and played his posi-
? ton in a very satisfactory manner
In the seventh inning, he got tn
ball on the right thumb in such
manner as to split the flesh, causing
D a bad wound. He was plucky
g however, bound up the injure
a member and played the game ont
6 In the third Gay, while at bat
was struck in the abdomen by
pitched ball and put out of tn
y game, Carlson taking his place.
G While the game Sunday was to
r one sided to be of great interes
vet it can be seen that Bonner
Ferry will have team this seaso
20 that will give a good account {
=, itself. With Coins and Barber fC
. battery and with a little MOI
: work, the team will be ready
meet anything in this section. tt
inheld is fast and the outheld SUI
20 day easily nabbed anything tn
|, came their way.
Z Boomers F. 6 2 % 0 l l -.
Priest R. 2 l 90 l 0 2 O.