Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-08
Ashland Takes Two
Of FOur-game Series

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series. The first three games were
ragged In spots and more remark
able for heavy hitting than anything
else but the same Sunday witf
easily the fastest game of air-tlgh
baseball that has been played around
these parts for years. At least the
crowd thought so and II Is hard tC
please an Ashland baseball crowd
The spectators, and by the way there
was fairly good attendance, warm.
ed up to high pitch of enthusiasm
and rooted from start to finish with
a vim. Just to give you people who
weren't there an idea of the affair,
let 1t be stated that not single
spectator left the grounds until the
last man was out in the ninth. You
couldn't have hired them TO leave.
Despite the fact that Grants Pass
had a three run lead the locals were
coming from behind to the last sec
ond and thrills piled up on thrills.
But to get back to the beginning,
let us tell you about the four games
as they occurred:
First Yreka Game
Coleman got off to a bad start on
the mound and the Yreka lads slam
med the ball pretty freely for two
binnings, massing five runs. The
Ashland bunch couldn't seem to ov-
ercome the lead and altho both teams
kept right on swatting the ball the
locals got the worst OF 1t to the tune
OF IL to s. Shut tickled out four
hits and nearly everybody got at
least one but altho Yreka got the
same total of blngles, thirteen. rag
ged playing lost for Ashland. Ply
mate got split finger late in the
game and was replaced by Hill who
caught the rest of the series. Shoupo
pitched for Yreka.
Second Yreka Game
Bobby Pelouze, Stanford pitcher
who spends his summers fishing
and swimming in Little Butte creek
where his father owns farm, kept
the Yreka swatters guessing and held
them down to five scattered hits.
The rest Of the Ashland gang didn't
help him out much in the field and
forced him to strike out eleven men
to hold Yreka to seven runs but
made up for their failings by get
ting "beaucoup" hits which netted
them fourteen runs. Pelouze and
Shut each got three and the rest
got one or two apiece. 1t was a great
day for the fans who like lots of
hitting and lots of ruhs for the
home team. Anthony. the pitcher
who has made such rep for him
self with Weed and klamath Falls.
pitched for Yreka but nobody could
have stopped the Ashland boys the
way they were going.
klamath Falls Game
On the fifth the locals took the
measure of the klamath Falls Wis
itors in a fashion which won univer.
sal approval. Two or three pitchers
were bucked off the mound by the
Ashland hitters who clipped out fif-
teen bingles and rolled up fifteen
runs. Another one of those free
hitting contests. Chief Wilson made
his first appearance before the Ash.
land public and threw 'em over in
big league style. He struck out sew
EN- of the first nine men that faced
him and looked so good that when
Ashland piled up ten runs in the
early part Of the game somebody
got a hunch that 1t might be a good
idea to save him for Grants Pass.
Before he was pulled out, however,
he made 1t nine strike-outs In four
innings and retired to the outfield
amid frenzied hand-clapping. Harris
replaced him and didn't do quite as
we'll. He had trouble locating the
plate and couldn't get his splitter to !
going right with the result that
klamath got five runs and Harper
finished the game. Final score 16
10 Z In Ashlands favor Vance was
high man in hitting with four safe
'nes to his credit while Pelouze and
Harris got three each, Shut two and
Wilson, Harper and Trigilgas one
each.
"a. Last But Not Least
And now that We have those out
If the way we are going to spread
little on the Grants Pass game.
Even tho we lost 1t was the kind OF
game that will be talked about for
weeks and is surely worth writing
lbout. Four big factors lost the
game for Ashland; Lilly wasn't able
o play, Wilson couldn't come bacl,
lfter his efforts of the day before,
'ither too much celebration or too
much Pitcher Frye of Grants Pass