The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-06-22
A GENEROUS GIFT.

and OrOVille, at WaucOnda, last lnurS-
day, was one of the chief drawing card
of the celebration, and one of the most
Misunderstanding defeats that Oroville
players have ever suffered, for the boys
nad the game stored away on ice, and
then deliberately presented it to the
Republic contingent. 1t was one OF the
most generous acts ever seen on
diamond. To start with, the Oroville
club was heavily handicapped. Powell
and Frank Bartell, two of the most
reliable players, were absent at We
natchee, and Redhead, the catcher, was
hung up on the road in a broken down
auto, and did not show up at all. Geo.
Bartell, who has not played game for
several years, had to go behind the
bat, without players shoes or uniform.
He showed his old time form by doing
good backstop work, and swatting the
pill for a double. Considering the
makeup of the nine, and that they had
Just arrived on the ground from IS
mile drive, the Orovllans present
looked forward to a slaughter. But the
odds-and-ends surprised everybody by
putting up a nifty brand of ball, with
the exception of the last end of the
game. Then they had the aid of that
crack twirler, Tom Daily, who has few
superiors as a pitcher among amateurs
and plays the game like professional.
Republic had heady and dangerous
slab artist in the person of Dowd who
is yet young. With the experience OF IL
season or two he is going to make a
pitcher that will be hard to beat The
game was given away in the seventh.
Up to that time Republic had not made
safe hit off Daily, and the game
looked like a walk away. The first man
up in that inning hit to Daily, who
threw to first in time to catch the run
ner off 40 feet, but Jackson dropped
the ball. The next batter hit directly
to Stannard, who had been playing his
station like clock work. and he let the
ball go through. Then followed a sin
gle, the next batter hit to Daily for an
easy double play, and Stannard drop
ped the ball. This combination of err
rors netted three runs. In the ninth,
with the score tied, Prince dropped
Lowry's fly, after having made several
hard catches. Lowry worked around to
third while the next two batters were
going out. Then Dowd lifted dinky
fly to Moore, who kindly muffed it, and
the game was lost and won. Had the
Oroville lads played the last of the
game as they did the first Daily would
have had hitless victory to his credit.
But what's the use. The slips are what
makes the game so uncertain and also
interesting. The following is the tale
of woe by innings:
First inning-Stannard drove the
second ball pitched over center for two
bases; Moore sacrificed going out to
pitcher to first: Stannard taking third;
Baumgartner hit to pitcher and Stan
nard attempting to score was caught
at the plate, Baumgartner taking sec
ond on the play, and stealing third;
he then scored on a passed ball; Pro-
vo was given life when Lowry was
slow handling his hit, but was thrown
out trying to steal second. One run
Republic-Wm. McQuarrie struck out;
Mcintyre rolled one to Baumgartner
and was thrown out at first; O'Conner
hit to Moore and never reached first.
Nc runs.
-Oroville-Jackson hit to
pitcher who lost the ball and the run
ner was safe; Prince sacrificed Jack
son to second, pitcher to first; Dallam
sawed; Daley was hit by pitched
ball; Bartell hit to pitcher and was out
at first. No runs. Republican,. Higgins
hammered the ozone; Lowry hit to the
plate and was out BGrtell to Jackson;
Mccormick could not connect. No runs.
Third-Oroville-C Higgins broke a
finger in the second and W. Higgins