White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-29
LOCALS RUN ROUGHsHOD
OVER VISITING CLUB

AttTdCteQ Dy the promise tllat CeS1il
made up of the best players available
in Pasco and Kennewick were coming
Ito give the fast travelling White Bllffs
club a real workout, and the Pep
Band" of Pasco, accompanied by a
good crowd of boosters for the Fourth
of July celebration would also be here,
the largest crowd of the season turned
cut last Sunday expecting to see a
real contest.
The crowd was sadly disappointed
for, except for the battery and the
first and third basemen, the visiting
club, as ball team, was pretty much
of joke. Warter of Kennewick was
on the firing line for the visitors and,
while he might not have won, he
pitched well enough willie he was in
the box to at least have made it an
interesting contest had he been
given anything like decent support in
the middle of tie infield and the out
field. But his help from those quar-
ters was terrible
For an inning or two, or until the
biggest ha'f of the visiting club had
demonstrated it's total inability to
play even good high school ball, the
fans felt they were in for real treat.
After that, however, it was a slaugh-
ter and the ball game as a game de-
veloped into farce.
Williams pitched good game as
long as the contest could be called
that, but during the last few innings
he merely tossed the ball up to the
batters. But even at that he was credi-
ted with IA strike-outs and allowed
but six well scattered hits.
An unfortunate incident to the
game was the injury to Warter, the
visiting pitcher. Cords, who was at
bat, drove hard hit ground ball di-
rectly at the pitcher. Warter did not
have time to get out Of the way and
instinctively put down his hand to pro-
tect his feet. The ball struck him on
his bare hand breaking the skin on
the under side and possibly disloca-
ting the thumb at the first joint. He
was unable to continue in the game,
causing another Of the frequent shifts
in the visitors lineup.
Except the outfield, which did not
seem able to get the ball cut of the
diamond, sul of the local players were
hitting the ball hard and often. Der
igio, Evett, Montgomery, Morford,
Cords and Williams fattened up their
batting averages and accounted for
nearly all of the White Bluffs scores.
They drove out number of hard hit
and well PLACED drives, the home run
of Montgomery being probably the
hardest hit ball on the local grounds
!, this season. The ball did not travel
much over 20 feet high, clearing the
fence a little to the left of center
field. Jay was rounding third when
the left fielder, who had gone in pur-
suit of the ball, picked it up.
The final score was 81 to 8 and the
locals margin would have been larger
had they cared to increase it during
the latter part of the game.
Next Sunday White Bluffs will
play in Pasco so as to become famil-
lar with the Pasco grounds. The man.
ager of the Pasco club says he will
have real team on the field that
day. 1t is hoped that he will for there
is not much entertainment for the
fans in those one-sided affairs, Man
ager Foltz has secured the services
of Hudnall of Kennewick to take the
place of Jack. Blair who, since he left
a couple of weeks ago, has sent no
word 90 to his intention, of playing
with the locals on the Fourth. Hud-
nall will pitch part of the game Sun
day to relieve Williams so that his
arm will be in good shape the follow
ing Wednesday against Connell.
Connell may capture that game on
the Fourth for anything is possible
in a ball game, but If they do it will
surely be a whale Of a game.