White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-23
BALL TEAM CONTINUES
ITS WINNING STREAK

league was arranged this spring, the
directors did not consult the weather
man. If they had they wouldn't have
scheduled a game in Kennewick fol
that day for that was the date fixed
by the said weather man for good
old fashioned dust storm in the lower
valley metropolis. Sometimes the vino
blew from the west and sometimes
from the south and there were times
when the dust was so thick that play
had to be stopped until the air clear
ed up bit.
As fast clean game the contest
left much to be desired but from the
standpoint of the up-river folks the
result was highly satisfactory for
White Bluffs won by score of Is to
much to the joy of the large number
of rooters who accompanied the club
to Kennewick.
White Bluffs started right out in
the first inning to cinch the contest
and they just about did it by scoring
five runs. One or two of these runs
were due to errors but the others
were scored on hard and timely hit
ting. This first inning total was added
to, during the game, in blocks of one,
two and three until by the end of
ninth White Bluffs had rung up Is
tallies. Kennewick's runs were made
one at a time but they were never
within striking distance of their OPP
ponents.
Kennewick used three pitchers. Hud-
nall started, to be followed in the
third inning by Linden who stayed
until the eighth when Warter went
in. The latter was the only one of the
three who was very effective, he be-
ing credited with five of the ten
strikeouts chalked up against the
White Bluffs club White Bluffs col
lected IL hits, among them two, two
baggers, and two, three baggers
from the trio of Kennewick Hur-
iers, while Cords and Wagner yielded
eight hits to the Kennewick batters.
Cords pitched the first six innings for
White Bluffs and Wagner the last
three. Between them they struck out
ten men.
White Bluffs was charged with six
errors while Kennewick made five.
Some of these misplays were due to
the weather it being exceedingly
difficult with the wind and dust for
the fielders to Judge batted balls.
Swede Cords, playing his first game
with White Bluffs, held down first
and showed about 100 per cent i'm
provement over the form he displayed
while a member of the Hanford club.
Excepting his last turn at bat when
he struck out, he hit the ball hard
each time he was up, one of his blows
being two-bagger.
In the other game in the league,
Hanford, winning it's first game of
the season, took close contest from
Benton City on the Hanford grounds
by score of to Q.
The results of the contests last
Sunday makes double tie in the
league standing. Kennewick and White
Bluffs each with four wins and one
loss are tied for first and second
places while Hanford and Benton
City are tied for third and fourth
places with one win and four losses
each.
While Kennewick expected a hard
battle last Sunday they did not feel bit
good about losing the game and are
determined, if possible, to even things
up when they play here next Sunday.
The boys on the local club are just de-
termined to win and to step out into
undisputed possession of first place.
1t should be whale of game and
it is expected that the largest crowd
of the season will be out to witness it,
Hanford plays next Sunday at Ben
ton City.