The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-05
KIDS DROP TWO
BOISE BATTLES
BASEBALL SEASON CLOSES
WITH DOUBLE BEFEAT

Winnings "Kids" should have coppej
the first game of the two game series
played at Boise last Sunday and Mon
day, Labor Day. AL Wells, his jumps,
who showed an inclination during the
entire matinee to call his decisions
fractions of a second ahead of the
play, pulled his biggest bone of the
afternoon when he called Chapman
out at third in the last half of the ninth
He was clearly safe and the 500 peo-
pie who witnessed the game, pulling
as they were for the Boise aggrega-
ton, nevertheless rose to a man and
hooted the decision long and Justify.
Chapman made the third down A ruin
would have won the game. 1t was
clearly the turning point of the game.
The game was good one. Twelve
innings were necessary for Wyman's
cohorts to trim the locals with their
star HEAVIER, Jack Wyman, in the box.
The crowd which witnessed the game
was far too small for the merits of
the exhibition. 1t made the fourth
game of the season that Caldwell had
dropped to the capital city aggrega-
ton by mere baseball luck.
Vining Takes Up Burden.
Johnson pitched a nice game until
he went out in the ninth, relieved by
Stewart who batted for him and then
took Hendon's place in left field
Vining, as usual, was good for exactly
three innings. His hooks made Boise
batters look sick until each man had
faced him just once. The rest is too
horrible to relate. About three conse-
cutive bingles in the twelfth with no
one down Melted the needed run to
win the game, although Coffey might
have caught Snaps drive to center
which scored Sherman.
Johnson got his hand in front of a
hard one early in the game and took
time out long enough to have the
member pulled back into place. A few
innings later, the redoubtable Ike"
Westcott clumsily caught one on the
finger with the result that he sus-
tanned broken bone. He retired iii
favor of Miller, Nampa first sacker.
Boise Artists Look Poor.
Siffert at third, redeemed himself
tor the exhibition he gave here against
Burley by some nice stops and clean
bingle while Cornell got his usual
quota Of neat fielding chances. No
particular member of the Caldwell
team scored heavily with the stick.
Snapp tor Boise was the heavy stick
man OF the day, but his work other
wise looked poor beside the quality
OF ball played by Clint Ford. Ernie
Wells and kerwin, at third and left
field for Boise also maneged to do L
couple of poor baseball stunts that
looked anything but nifty from repre-
sentatives OF championship claiming
team.
Withal. the game was rather slug
gishly played. There were only
flashes of the snap and ginger which
characterized games early in the sea-
son and feeling apparently per-
meated both aggregations that the
baseball season should properly. be
relegated to the garrett for another
season.
How the Scores Were Made.
Boise scored in the first following a
boot on a hard drive by Chapman.
For several innings, it looked like a /
one to nothing game with Boise OH
the long end of the score. Both
pitchers were working smoothly. In
the sixth. Westeott and Cornell scored |,
tor Caldwell and in the eighth Boise
came back with three more runs.
Caldwell staged a rally in the ninth |
that would have meant victory but for |
the questionable decision at third |
when Miller drove nice hit into cen
ter field. Thornton lifted a fly to
left that kerwin as usual, muffed. He
scored from second when Ford /
clouted one and the latter also tailed
on an out, an error and Miller's hit. |
With Miller safely resting on second
and Wyman apparently weakening,
Wells decided that Kerwin had caught
Chapman off third and the game went
into extra innings.