The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-04-20
CALDWELL HIGH
/. TAKES MATINEE
IN z FRAMES
Wins from Nampa in a
Great Extra Inning
Contest Wednesday
Evening, 5-4.

Caldwell high school took one more
step toward the baseball champion
ship OF this district when Coach
Berry's team wailoped Nampa We'd
nesday evening by a S-4 score.
But the local athletes had hard
time doing il. They handed Nampa
three runs in the first inning. gave
them another in the third and then,
playing a great uphill game. tied the
score in the last half OF the seventh
and nosed out victory in the twelfth
inning. /, was as fine game of high
school baseball as has been played on
he Caldwell lot in manv moons and
100 fans who turned ont forgot dinner
home and family to see the last and
deciding rim clatter across the pan.
F. "Josh" Lowell copped the gam"
COR the local after lawson and Kim
rad driven .screcching singles through
he inficld. Rardslev had whitfield To
start the inning and Kim's hit had
placed lawson on third and the
dimunative second sacker promptlv
stole second base while the Nam>a
'wirIcr held the hall. Darkness had
settled on rhe field and fans were
having difficulty following the hall
Lowell had been walked twice in suc-
cession in preceding innings under
identical conditions and once more
he signal was given TO clutter the
hags and take a chance on Jensen.
who hadn't been hitting. R'u Lowell
anxious for a chance to hit. reached
across the plate TO foul of had one.
And Johnson. Nampa twirlcr. saw IN
opportunity to cross the hitter by cu'.-
ing one inside instead OF wide of the
o'ate. Lowell chopped at the hall
drove il directly over second base fo-
clean hit Lawson trotted home and
the game was over.
Bonnie Bardsclv pitched a nice
game. He is not the steady. compel
-nt machine that Field was but after
steadying recovering from an early
game incffectivcness. he twirled stellar
Nall Rotten support paved the wav
FOR every one of Nampa's runs Parti-
-ularly poor was the showing of the
Caldwell outfield, Jensen alone drop-
ing three flies and Mutch coniribut-
ing one bad error. Morris on shor,
and Kim at second had bad fielding
days and the sum total of the boots
proved near disaster.
On the whole. the Caldwell team
IS not the well oiled impressive mach
me that waded through every thing
j, the state last season. Costly hobbies.
in,erspcrsed with seeming inability TO
seize opportunities on offense mark
he team. Several possible scores were
tirown away by boneheaded baserunn-
ing.
After the seventh inning when
had error at first lei two men cross
the platter for Caldwell and tied the
score. the contest became real ball
game. Shrap fielding. fine pitching
and enough hitting to make each team
dangerous at every turn at bat fca-
,ured the five frames that followed
Two beautiful double PLAYS nipped
Nampa chances to score. Earwood
Kim and Lowell uncorking one aroud
the diamond and Lawson spearing a
line drive in right field to double a
runner off first starring in the other
incidentally. d. smyth. Nampa left
gardener. make a wonderful one hand
ed scoop Of Kims drive and doubled
off second TO nip Caldwell
rally in the bud.
The victory gives Caldwell clean
slate with two wins and no defeats,