Show Base Ball The base ball matchthe third of the series of three gamesbetween the Wood River men and the < Olympics of this city was played on the Washington Square on Saturday Sat-urday and resulted in a victory for the Wood River boys In view of the fact that the championship had already been earned by the Salt Lakers and that no bets had been made which the result could effect the game though the result contrasted con-trasted strangely with that of the two preceding gameswas an hon nest one and can easily be accounted ac-counted for The Wood River men were allowed Graves who is considered a fine player and a catcher of unusual excellence > ex-cellence Barker who has pitched for the Olympics two games through developed a swelled arm which unfitted un-fitted him for the work and which 1 resulted in the better batting of the Wood liver boys then the Olympics Olym-pics had three substitutes which made considerable difference j and last but by no means least the Wood River nine improved materially mater-ially in their playing and on Saturday Satur-day snowed themselves to be astron a-stron nine The Olympics oa the contrary were decidedly weak so that their defeat under the circumstances cir-cumstances was not an unnatural one Mr D C Dunbar short stop of the Olympic nine did some unusually un-usually excellent playing and was on several pccassions applauded for excellent judgment and cool and collected plays The game stood at the close Olympic 8 Wood Hirer 15 Umpire 0 E Allan Scorer D A Engler Time of game two hours Runs earned Wood River 8 Olympic 4 First base on error Wood River 5 Olympics S First base on called balls Wood River 3 Olympics 0 Left on bases Wood River 4 Olympic Olym-pic 9 Passed balls Graves 3 Barlow 9 Struck out Wood River 2 Olympic 5 Wild pitches McBride 1 and Barker 2 |