The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-07-09
RESULTS AT CHELAN.

Chelan put across the most preten.
ItiOus 4th of July celebration that has
ever been attempted In the Inland EN-
Ipire. Towns have held one day cele-
|brations, two day celebrations and
three day celebrations, but this year
|Chelan went it one; better and had
practically four days celebration
,,Of course Chelan had the good taste
to say nothing about the celebrating
of the 4th proper. but the bills an
nOunced that the celebration would
cover the End. 3rd and 5th, and In or
der to hold the crowd it was necessary
to have something doing on the 4th,
which. no doubt was of a mild nature.
Those who were present, and have
witnessed other gatherings in the state
say that the largest crowd assembled
at Chelan on this occasion ever seen
at any of the small towns of eastern
Washington on similar occasions.
The people of the Lake City had rails
ed large purses to meet the expenses
of celebration of such magnitude.
but the results amply repaid the cost.
Visitors were present at the Chelan
doings from Chelan. Douglas and Okla
hogan counties in large numbers.
while other parts Of the state were
we'll represented.
There were numerous attractions to
entertain visitors, but the chief inter-
est centered on the base ball games
in which clubs representing Chelan,
Omak. Mansfield and Oroville took
part. The interest of this community
centers naturally upon the part that
the Oroville team took in the tourna-
ment, for Oroville has,a team in which
the people take vast amount of pride
and which is superior,in general play
ing strength to any team that has
represented the town in past years.
Over to circumstances over which the
club, collectively and individually, had
no control, the team that went to Che
Ian last Saturday morning was very
much of make shift, and some of the
regular players who did go were not
wholly up to form Notwithstanding
this crippled condition the Oroville
boys were pitted against the strong
Mansfield organization Saturday
AFTERNOON. 1t Is not necessary to dwell
upon that game 1t was very much of
ia nightmare. Mansfield managed to
defeat Oroville by a score of 10 to Z,
but had to 60 ten innings in order to
do SO. The game was simply a gift.
We are here say, give Moe. the sup.
erb pitcher Of the Orsyiiie club, the
right backing. and the right backing is
only the backing given him by the To-
cal aggregation in previous games,
and the game played against Omak
Monday, and there is not an amateur
team in the state that can score ten
runs against him. But that is ancient
history. A patched up team, playing a
patchwork game, handed the same to
Mansfield on a platter.
The great game of the series was
that between Omak and Oroville Mon
day. On that day the old Oroville play
ers were in fine fettle and although
short the services of such reliable
players as Stapleton, Balmes and Ker-
nan, put up one of the finest exhibit
tions Of ball that has been seen in
north central Washington. Moe, the
local pitcher, states that it was one
of the hardest fought games he has
ever participated in, and he has taken
part in a multitude. Omak had stren-
gthened 1t SHINE and considering the
exhibition that Oroyille had mada
against Mansfield, everybody supposed
that Omak had soft snap. But as we
have remarked before when that Oro-
Vile infield is in proper form, every
one OF whom are home boys, that part
of the diamond is as stone wall, and
few clubs can boast of better defen-
sive quartette. Moe was in slashing
good form and though he had to de-
pend upon a substitute catcher, both
of the regular catchers being absent,
he managed to make monkeys of his
opponents. And those opponents were
not so slow in making monkeys out of
the Oroville outfit, for hits on both
sides were few and far between, and
it was battle royal for every run
scored. The crowd was kept in an in
tense state of excitement and the ex-
hibition fully repaid them for the trip
to Chelan and remaining over to see
the windup. So close was this game
that Oroville could only nose out by
the narrow margin of a single run.
the final score being to 3.