East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-08

Well. We lost. Tragic truth, mourn
fully muttered. The fates would have
!. SO and. therefore, while repining
that 1t Is so, We chronicle that II was
SO. Kings Kubs Of Baker took the
opener. gave the Buckarooes a rough
ride, made them pull leather and
handed them the lemon end of a 4 to
2 score to suck. That's the tale
tersely told.
A thousand patriotic fans witnessed
Lodelrs proteges suffer defeat in the
game that opened the third season
OF the Western Tri-state league and
they suffered along with the players.
Not that the game was not a good
one to watch. Forgetting the second
inning. which We cannot, the contest
was one good to look upon. The
bungles and blunders, mishaps and
mistakes all transpired In a few mo-
ments, made their sad history. and
then gave way to clean, snappy, scrap
py playing
Baker did not win that game by
hitting the ball. 1t might almost be
said she won it without hitting. Only
three clean hits and three scratchy
ones were allowed by Mcclure and
they did not figure materially in the
run getting. No, 1t was the Kubs'
good fielding backed up by daring
baserunning and assisted by a tenn
porary suspension OF the Buck ma
chinery that shaped the ends of that
Battle. The Bakeries were surely
outpitched and outhit and certain II
was they got the breaks of the luck.
but they won, and all honor to them.
Mysterious" Mcclure started off
like the wild man Of Borneo. but aft
er the second frame he settled down
md worked in masterful style. His
fast one and the one with the hop
per on 1t had the Kubs making wild
guesses as to the course it would
take. and but for that second inning
oatrastrophe. they would have been
left where Pendleton now Is.
King started Tallpine He'll on the
Mound but when that human flagpole
began to wobble in the fifth. the der
rick was quickly brought into NAV
and Boeller. southpaw youngster.
took up the slab duty Aside from
little trouble now and then. the
BOY worked in nice style. pulling him
self out of several holes BY his hooks
and control.
AS has been narrated already. the
game was won and lost in the sec
ond canto. In that short time. three
runs were chased over for Baker nv
reason of scratch hit, two errors. a
walk, three stolen bases and a pass
eu oali. Perhaps there was a sprin-
n,e Oh pone essence present, too.
There was most everything else.
Inc feature of the game was the
hitting of Naughton. In the first in
ming he was robbed of a home run
through freak of fortune when the
oaii struck the topmost part of the
overhead trolley of the gate which
reads through the backfence. In the
second inning he made another gal
iant try for the circuit swat but this
TIME the ball went too high and was
captured just inside the fence. His
third trial. however. was more sue
cessful 1t sailed over the fence with
ten feet to spare
DICK Monahan umpired the game.
and while he seemed To miss a good
many balls and strikes. he did not
discriminate between teams. He
made just enough bad decisions To
get the fans in good voice.
The game was formally opened by
three prominent businessmen. J. V.
Ialiman in the box. Leon Cohen he
hind the bat and Jack Robinson at
the plate. With their thinly thatch-
ed domes covered by bail caps they
took their places Like q real back
stop, Cohen sQuatted, signaled and
held out his arms like a fond papa
teaching his offspring TO walk. Rob-
nson took firm grip OF his war
club and measured the distance with
his eye TO the cottonwood grove.
rallman whirled his arm. wound up
his handspring and let fly with the
pellet. With malice aforethought he
aimed 1t for the batter and but for
4 wonderful agility. Robinson would
have stopped the bullet-ball with his
short ribs To the cry of dirty ball"
The three heroes LEFT the field and re.
lred 10 the grandstand