The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-06
CALDWELL WINS
FROM NAMPAH HI
N CLOSE GAME
R..t Contest of Season
Goes to Locals when
Rail- r oils through
Fence for Homer

When Clancy drove a liner ove'
..;,a that found its way through
,., hole in the left field fence a
p.-,.,,ion park for a home run
airing Kim zhead of him, he paved
=. wzv for a baseball victory for
r,ldrell high school over Nampa
..r, Friday afternoon. Caldwell had
,Ire,dy collected one tally in the ninth
;ouiug and these two counters in the
,u.kv seyenth were enough to win
Th. su,l score was 81 in one OF the
,a,;est high school baseball games
aver played at Rec-sation park and
i vha, was undoubtedly the best
,r,;cle OF the national pastime dished
M 10 Caldwell fans in several sea-
so,s Those who stayed away. ex-
o,et;ng another OF these frequent
track meet" scores missed some
thing
While Earwood, pitching his sec
oud game Of the week, was touched
up rather freely in the early innings,
ne improved as the game went on
and in the latter part OF the contest
vas practically unhitted. His per-
iormace Fridly was easily outstand-
ing in his high school twirling career.
Deiensivcly. with CLANCY shifted
from short to first and Bardsley de-
serting the first hassick for the short
field, the Caldwell team looked like
a new aggregation. Only two errors
we're charged to the locals. Each
was excusable and neither marred the
exceptionally clever work OF the in
field in handling many chances with
ont bobble. Bardley's stop Of hot
drive with one hand to retire the run
ner At first was thing that fans wait
for weeks to see and then don,
see it.
Ofensively, the team didn't look
so good. In the sixth inning, the
Caldwell team threw away enough
runs 10 win with pure bonehcad base
ball and bunk haserunning. Just
how bad il was may be gathered
from the fact tha, two clean singles
and double that ratified the boards
Of the left field fence failed to tally
count. Albertson got a nice single
over second and Mutch, next up with
none down. drove the ball to the
fence. Albertson hesitated at third.
finally decided to try for home and
was out mile. Heath, next up,
again hit TO left field for a single, ad
vancing Mutch to third Lawson.
head OF the batting list, on the first
pitched ball while Heath was already
ambling to second. crossed every
BODY by bunting on the first pitch.
he was out at first and Mutch nev-
er tired to score. Stephenson ground
Cd out to complete the inning.
Caldwel's real rally came in the
seventh Pete Kim drew his third
walk OF the day and scored on Chan
ty's drive But that ended the fun.
.arwood and Bardsley were easy outs.
aloertson doubled and Mutch hit
sharply at third. Nampa's third sack
r. made nice stab at the hall. field
q It olcanly and robbed Mutch OF
what had every carn.ark OF safe
'lout IN any league. That bit OF work
'hared honors with Bardsiey's stop
'arlier in the matinee.
both Of Nampa's scores came early
n The contest Clean hitting netted
tally in the first inning and Smythc's
nTee base hit. followed by Woods
''nsle gave Nampa her second run in
he third canto.
The only cxci,ment OF the contest
vas that in the seventh AFTER Caldwell
'ao aken the lead. Pete Kim started
. leave the field followed by the re-
"a'noer OF the local team In the be-
'.' that tina, game was over. c-s-s
interposed an objection
,'er verbally agreeing to 4 seven in
''ns' were played to complete rcgu-
'"on contest withou, altering the
core.