East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-07-10


sumed and Tuerck started a double
steal Albrecht threw to Pickett,
who chased Tuerck back. f. Will
liams on third started for home and
Pickett winged the bali to Albrecht.
Williams slid and Umpire Christian
motioned him safe. claiming he slid
under the ball 1t was at this point
that the Pebbles shouldered bats and
departed. Some Is or more minutes
elapsed before they could be induced
to return Cox and Christian ex-
changed positions at the resumption
of play
After this little row. both teams
settled to playing real ball, In the
first few innings each team had
shown the effects of nervousness or
lack Of practice during the past two
weeks and errors were frequent.
The pitching Of the two southpaws
Daling Of Pilot Rock and Shick Of
Athena. was beautiful exhibition.
But for the errors behind them the
scoring would have been very limited
AS the contest went into the extra
innings, the Athena crooked arm
seemed to be getting stronger In the
last few innings Darling's offerings
were pounded pretty hard but by
good fortune or bad fortune as the
case may be, the outfielders were
generally camped where the balls
flew
Shick's worst inning was the first
one and the Pebbles took advantage
of it by chasing three runs across. He
walked the very first man to face
him, his only pass of the day, was
touched up for two hits and a sacri-
flee and sent one OF his curves into
a batter's ribs With the East End
champs unable to fathom Darling's
hooks. the game looked in the begin
ming like victory would easily settle
upon the Blue Mountain boys. The
Rockers made it 40 in the fourth on
two hits and an error.
Darling had extricated himself
from a bad hole in the third by a
beautiful exhibition of pitching. strik-
ing out Lieuallen with men on sec
ond and third. In the last of the
| fourth the Athenas broke into the
score column, f. Williams leading off
with single ana Tuerck following
with a triple Tuerek scored on the
next play, making the inning end
with the game AZ,
II was In the fifth that the fuss de-
I veloped. couple Of errors by
Hayes put two men on with one
down and f. Williams scored both by
wallop to right that was good for
three bases Tuerck banked back at
Darling with such force that the
/ pitcher crippled a finger in trying to
catch it. Williams broke for home
and then retreated back to third
when Daling recovered the ball and
threw to Hayes. Apparently he was
caught fully six feet from the base
but the decision was hands down
affair. Then followed the double
steal and the resented decision that
put Athena one run to the good.
Pilot Rock tied it up in the sew
enth on three hits and two errors and
had an opportunity to win the game
had not the baserunners been too
anxious and ended their own lives.
From the seventh to the thirteenth,
| the fans We're treated to a pretty eN-
hibition. Few were the men ON
either side to get on bases and in
ming followed inning in rapid order.
The East Enders came up in the
! lSth with the head of the batting or
der. The chance to win had come,
Brooks, first up, stung out a neat
single and Lieuallen followed with a
pretty bunt that went for a hit. An
other bunt and the game was over.
( Hames came in so far that he could
not get back to third in time to take
Darlings throw The ball went
through him and Brooks romped over
with the winning run.
Athena suspended all business for
the afternoon and turned out big
crowd to watch the game Roofing
was uproarous at times and the vic
/ tory-making score was received with
Wild yelling
The Pilot Rock team was greatly
handicapped yesterday ny the absence
of the veteran Gilbert on third Not
only would his hitting have helped
greatly but his presence in the infield
would have doubled the defensive
strength Of the club Hays was In a
strange position and his three errors
all developed into scores.
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