The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-05-13
tBy Tigh cobb.)

Old Man Precedent got his bluff call
ed at the bali park Sunday afternoon
when the home boys walloped the voll-
mer club in an opening game hitfest
that finally yielded a 10 to victory
for the locals.
Years and years have gone by, as
years have custom, and almost always
generally Grangeville has lost the
opening bali game OF the season It's
been mighty near hand runnin," this
dropping into the lost column right at
the start. and then fighting up against
that kind of handicap all through
the season. but this time the boys
landed on the pellet too often and too
hard to cough up the ghost to the
precendent so firmly established In
previous years.
That's the one redeeming feature of
last Sundays game. The local boys
hit the ball.
strong as. ever and the members who
have been weak with the willow In
former years came through with
wallop or two while the new faces on
the lineup-and they're mighty promis-
ing-nearly all showed willingness
and an ability to connect with the
phi 81 6IathyA inteiNdlS II Was
a verdtable batfest, was Sundays game.
True. 1t would have warmed the cookies
of the heart of the fellow who penned
that immortal baseball classic, The
Observation-Disclosures - could he
have seen our pet hopes slam that
old ball on Mothers Day.
The home club choked the error
column at the start and then crammed
IN aana0ffx fha. oon WIG
over, and it's a fact that our infield
is not what you would choose to call
a smooth working machine.
There seems to be some trouble about
slipping from low to high in the
pinches without hanging onto intermed-
late. With a couple OF new working
parts, however. the infield could be
brought up to the standard and it is
likely that winthin a month or six
weeks we will see a classy, self-start-
Ing high powered aggregation represent.
ing this little burg on the baseball map.
To tell the story OF the game, play
after play, would be hardly worth the
time for. after all, the best that can
be said of such contest where the
score assumes the lop-sided 10 to
count Is that the home team won and
that out OF the chaos of 1t all we have
seen our players under fire and have
had an opportunity to pick out the
stars and the flawspots.
II the club keeps on welding the
willow like the record hung up SUM-
day we can look for the pennant per-
haps, but the boys must learn more
unison on defense. Sundays contest
disclosed a world Of bright Individual
play at times but depressing though
1t may seem, even the most rabid fan
must admit that the club woefully lacks
teamwork. Manager Wood knows this
and is working with the boys to remedy
IT.
Sutherland, the new pitcher, works
well in harness ana Is an old head at
the game. He made a hit with the
fans Sunday, both by his fine work on
the slab and his slashing drives with
the ashstick. Behind the homeplate
Coash Robinson proved a whirlwind
backstopper, quite capable of coping
with Sutherland and working smoothly
and effectually with him, while the
catcher's batting was much to the
merry. Speaking of batteries, 1t might
be we'll to add that If some of the
pitchers and catchers we have had In
the past, passed as the home club
battery, this pair Of real stars surely
do constitute one whole power house.
Skinny Day. at third, is the bright
and shining light of all the new cogs
in the infield machine. He fielded
his position splendidly and worked like
a veteran both in the field and at the
bat. Here's the budding Of a ball
player OF class. see II he isn't,
Janasco and BWnscombe in the
field stung the ball hard practically
every time at bat and looked to be
ever bit as good as in their palmiest
days. Janasco besides batting brilliant
ly. pulled down a long fly In the
field and Branscombe drove the ball over
left field fence for what would have
been an IS karat home run had not
the wind blown the ball across the
foul line. Ingram was at the keystone
sack and played in his usual form. con-
trfbuting one OF the prettiest sacrifice
hits over seen at the home park when
such a hit was popular. Boss Brown
was acceptable at first base and the
way he marked the pace for the
others by landing on the ball was a
delight to us all. Bowman at shortstop
had an erratic session in the field,
but was effective at bat and got
around the paths as often as any one
else, Allen in right field must have
had the Vollmer batters leary for they