Show i v HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD OF SPORT Baseball r J CLUB MEN PlAY BALL I Ogdenites Disport Themselves On the Diamond + ALL FOR LIBRARY FUND GOODLY SUM RAISED BY THE GAME 4 Columbia Club Defeats the Weber Club By a Score of 20 to 9Game Was Full of Startling and Brilliant Bril-liant Features t Special Correspondence Ogden June ISThe most interesting interest-ing game and in many respects the most satisfactory game of ball this season was played today at the Driving Driv-ing park grounds when the Columbia club nine met the Weber club players on the diamond Those who did not enjoy the sport took satisfaction from the circumstance that over 250 was raised for the public library hut there r was plenty of sport I to enjoy There 3 iint j was tt kinds of fun crowded into live innings as well as into a couple of hours preceding and succeeding the came I The score stood 20 to 9 in favor of the Columbia club though according to one contention the score should be 20 to 1U the question being whether a run scored on a hit which retired the side should be counted or not The Columbia Co-lumbia club boys had each man in his > laie and they did not change The Weber nine however tried three successive suc-cessive pitchers Joyce Shealy and Kuhnin their fruitless endeavors to keep the score down For a few brief moments the Woberites led ill the score but the staying powers of the Columbia boys carried them ahead The game was one of wild excitement and was full of startling plays Some of the Features George AV Jones made a running catch in right field that was positively brilliant He ran and reached for the sphere closing on it and then rolling over a few times Again when George was behind the bat he ran for a foul fly stumbled and sank to his knees remaining re-maining unconsciously in a position of supplication till the ball settled between be-tween his palms and then rolled out Gus Scudder and Fred Burt made an excellent battery for the Columbias while the bases were looked after inline in-line style by Smith CroKer and Burton Bur-ton Lamkin Feeney and Noble did the field work for the buys of the red white and blue while Frank Wright did z excellent work at short The winning club showed a disposition I disposi-tion to get rattled at critical times but the other club did likewise at all times The Weber nine were game all the time and graceful some of the time AH those who had pjayed with the Ogden nine this season were barred leaving out both Ferrin and Horn Kuhn of the Weber club had not played this year but was a star player last 3 ear He made a heroic effort to succor suc-cor a hopeless cause and yielded gracefully grace-fully to defeat Score by innings 12345 Weber 24120 9 Columbia 3257 320 The lineup was Tones C Burt Joyce P Scudder Kuhn 1 B Smith healy 2B Croker Conlisk 3B < Burton richer S S Wright Matson It F Feeney Molntosh C F Lflmdin bbott L F Noble Umpires Ferrin Glasmann Krrors Columbia 12 Weber 6 Hiis Columbia 12 Weber 6 Home Runs Wright Notes of the Game The band played Hail Columbia at the end of nearly every inning Hail to the Chief was the tune when Frank Wright made his home runGeorge W Jones made almost a beeline bee-line from second to home but as neither umpire saw it his work went George was excited just as when he embraced Fred Burt the base runner till the ball was fielded in The Columbia colors red white and blue predominated though there were many wearers of the blue and orange Previous to the game there was a procession of the members of each nine headed by the band and followed by ft number of tally ho parties The S O O B club members were jut in a rig decorated with red white ind blue with orange and blue trim I Aiings Clarence the Weber club mascot I headed the procession mounted on a steed gaily caparisoned with orange and blue livery He followed each Weber ba erunner around the diamond for the first two innings when the gloom of defeat settled over his countenance coun-tenance and he watched the game in mute anguish All the stores closed even the cigar stands and wholesale houses Feeney was presented with a stuffed batThe The management of the Ogden baseball base-ball team has arranged for a game with the Lagoons at Lagoon on the 25th |