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Show ISaf laie Wins in Ninth, I WftA Bfood Stirring Rally ! Facing Lead of Four Runs, Skyscrapers Grit Their Teeth and Bat Out Victory; Helena Gets Quartette in Third. I T A TE should worry and Ret a step-lf step-lf tedder, and climb up the pole, V V a ntch at a. time. Yosterdaj- wo overtook j Helena and today we arc going to overtake Great Falls, with tho help of ' ' Butte, and then the Skyscraper's banner ban-ner Trill float jauntily from the top of the flagstaff. But, say, girls, listen! You've seen ninth inning finishes and you've read about 'cm, but you never 'saw such a finish as you didvcstcrdaj Now, lion- est. isn't that sof With Cooney pitching ball as tight as government, inspected armor plate, the Salt Lake bunch went into the ninth i'our runs behind. Looking that lend in tho teeth would have been enough to freeze tho toes off any bunch of ball players except that very bunch that lives and thrives and grows fat on ! ninth-inning rallies. Tt probably has been said before that a certain finish was tho greatest finish ever seen. And it might have been 1 true in times gone bv. but henceforth I -ill history relating to" finishes will date , from the game between Helena and I Salt Lake played -on Lucas field, Friday, Fri-day, May 23, A. D. 1913. Hair-raising Finish. Up to that ninth inning Coonev for the Vigilantes had hold tho loca'ls to two hits, one of them being the horn" run drive by Sehimpff in the fifth. The (other was made by Pendleton in the seventh and didn't count. Coonoy is the man who put it over Salt Lake, 4 to 0, in the opening game of the series I last Tuesday. He bade fair to repeat his periormancc. and there wasn't any-" any-" one in the enormous crowd that witnessed wit-nessed the gamo that wasn't ready to .give up. J LTt's. hls situation that confronted the McCloskeyylllo lads when thev started start-ed on the final frame. Bui thev rcmem-fmmVL7,lhey rcmem-fmmVL7,lhey had ,lon before similar predicaments and they determined deter-mined to do it again, if it wore within the scope of human effort to do it nu-a5- a?n. i!1,0 uhad falrl-v squared mJ?'J. ra.uhiff' ban zow'e! Four hits two of them two-baggers, did the business of bringing the score to a tie-& tie-& to 6. Then an error on the part of as nearly an errorless player as wears spikes was won Ver' a"d thc S Artie Sehimpff, Hero. Artie Sehimpff is the lad with the cu-lv f eyebrows that dr,ew down first prize yes. nVl il,lt U'C ,vh0 hIt th ball out or the lot for a home run in the fifth !and he it was. too, who hit the two-. two-. (bagger that brought in the tying score and fie it was. once more, who skidded home on the hard, hard ground wiin th : wfnVnalA' br'nSln WUh W . -wFa 8tarted Pitching for Salt Lake. ?i? had a very bad time of it in the third, when the rlelena men scored four ' iJl?e,i.i? hlm- . Erlckson relieved him and rtne visitors got one more, and that with-' with-' fe IjlL Then Morgan-old reliable rWr,en ,n ?nd only one man there-riaiter there-riaiter Pot as far as secona. t L1", relieved Cooney after four i-unp had been made off the latter in the Jjlnth, and Sullivan fell victim for the ) Huelsman starred in the field yesterday, yester-day, taking three fierce line drives and pegging like a thlrteen-im'h gun. Mc-Clain Mc-Clain s error yesterday was one of tho pery, very few he has been guilty of this Reason, but he made up for it by nabbing nab-bing venturesome base runners with that ..wonderful arai of his. Howard Murphy irff1 nVi,U.n d' al '8nsrulhed him: eIf,i .The H?10"3- learn played strong, consistent hall throughout. s' r ,thI" ,',vas- a re,fc'n ot terror for (McCloakeys bana. It netted the Vlei-jantea Vlei-jantea four runs, a fart whlrh was very i tudert"rendlnB" t0 thC Salt 1-akc muU1 Quigley. the first man up. hit for two bases LussI got a base on balls. Scratch nits by Clyncs and Cronlp sent in Quigley. Quig-ley. On one of these little hits, which was directly at him. Gaut threw l0 third, the ball arriving after the runner was safe by a, large margin. Had he thrown to nrst there would have been a certain putout. and, as It turned out. at least two scores would have be6n prevented, u hen thc mess was over I.ussI had arrived ar-rived at third. Mcngcs tiled out to Spencer. Spen-cer. Crittenden hit one down to Dressan, land the latter returned It to McClaln The throw was good, but so eager was McClaln to head off I.ussI that he dropped the ball, and the Vigilante ilrst sacker scored. Clyncs scored on a sacrifice flv bv Cooney Coo-ney to Murphy. Heinle Spencer, the next man to take up the hickory, lammed out a two-bagger into left center and Cronin scored. Crittenden tried to stretch it around third to home, but he failed In the attempt, for the relay. Spencer Spen-cer to Pendleton to McClaln," was accurately accu-rately done, and Crittenden was tagged out within a foot of the plate, retiring the side and stopping the agony. Erickson Goes In. j Right away after that third GauL was taken out and Brickaon went in. Helena, almost scored again in the fourth, on a nit batsman, a single and a base on balls. However, Erickson was saved, the side being retired bofore a runner crossed the pan. Erickson held his opponents to one. two. three music in the fifth, but the sixth was a period of sufficient evil for him. In that Inning the visitors scored a. run without so much as a safe hIL After tho first two men were down, Erickson gave Quigley a base on balls. He stole Becond. L.ussl also got a base on balls and Clynos was lilt, fjlllng the bases. Erickson lasted long enough to throw a wild pitch to Cronin. on which Quigley scored. Then Erickson went and sat down and Willis Morgan as sent to the rubber. Not only did Willis, finish off Cronin In double quick time, but also only one batsman got as far as second during the remainder of the game. That fortunate Individual was Menges. who hit a double-bagger in thc seventh. How 'Twas Done. Now. let's tell about Salt Lake: The Skyscraplng bunch got the Ilrst run Just as easy an shootln' fish, if you call a home run drive angling. It came in the fifth. The first man up. Dressan, filed out to Mengcs. Then Artie Schimpn! bit an extra sized chunk off his plug and stepped up to the plate. The second one over collided with Schimpff's bat and sailed uwav and sailed afar and finally sailed over the ten neia ience. i tie next two men went down. The tale worth telling is the account of what happened in the ninth. Up to the ninth the Salt Lakers had bcn able to garner only two hltn off Cooney. one or them Schimpff's homer. The Skvmen were due. They felt It in their muscles and they went to It. Murphy got a walk. Spencer singled. Huelsman hit to Cronin, who tagged Murphy at third. Spencer going to second. Spencer scored on Davis's two-bagger and Huelsman Huels-man came home on a single by Dressan, Dres-san, as did also Davis Winning Run Comes In. The Vigilantes then took Coonev out and put Sullivan in. The switch Vailed to benefit the Shay team, for presently Sehimpff lifted the ball for two stations, scoring Dressan. That tied the score. 5 to p. It was up to Pendleton to do-his do He laced into one and sent it skimming down to Menges. The little shortstop had some difficulty in picking it up. but he handled it in time to have retired Johnny had he not thrown the ball Into the ground in such a way that Lui couldn t handle It. It took some time7o do all this and by the time LussI had regained possession of the ball Sehimpff came home sliding on his ear. Ho beat (Continued, on Following Page). SKYSCRAPERS WIN 1 ITU II (Continued From Preceding Page.) the ball to It by six Inches, and thus won the game for his team. Another Battle Today. A mighty shout went up, and the excited ex-cited crowd went home, satisfied tha.t for tho fourth tlmo thla week, they had got the worth of their money five tlmoa over. It sure was some game, especially especial-ly thnt last Inning. Again tho two teams will come Into conflict this afternoon. Neither manager mana-ger had decided last night who would do tho work on the scantling today. Yesterday's demand for oirtra. pitchers put the Salt Lake captain up to the proposition of waiting to see which of his available men works out best In the warm-up today. Tho same situation, In lesser degree, confronts Shay. Luncheon for Players. The members of tho Salt Lako City baseball club will bo the grielH at luncheon lunch-eon at tho Commercial club today of the directors of tho club, this compliment being be-ing paid tho players as a recognition of their excellent work during tho past fortnight fort-night and also an an appreciation of their splendid depnrtmont both on and off the ball field. Many members of the Commercial club will bo present at the luncheon, and lalor a reception will bo held In the parlors of tho club, at which the players will meet a numbor of the business men of the city. This Is an unusual compllmont to pay members of a baseball club and is an evidence of tho high regard In which Manager McCloskoy and his men aro hold in this city. HELENA. ' AB. R. H. PO. A. E. H. Spencer. If ....... 4 0 12 0 0 Kelly, cf Jo 0 0 0 0 0 Qulgley. 2b 4 3 2 1 1 0 Li5El. lb 1 1 1 10 0 0 dynes, rf -I 1 1 2 0 0 Cronin. 3b I 1 1 1 3 0 Menges, ss -1 0 1 6 1 Crittenden, c' 1 0 0 S 0 0 Cooney, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 Sullivan, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 TotalB ,..,31 5 ' 7-25 10 1 One out when winning run was scored. SALT LAKE. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Murphy, rf . 3 0 0 2 0 A. Spencer, cf 4 1 1 3 0 0 Huelsman, If 4 1 0 3 0 0 Davis, 3b 4 1 1 1 1 0 DresBan. lb 3 1 1 5 3 0 Scblmpff. 2b 4 2 2 3 0 1 Pendleton, ss 1 0 1 1 4 1 McClaln, c 2 0 0 4 2 1 Moore, c .....0 0 0 1 0 0 Gaut, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 Erlckson, p. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Morgan, p 2 0 0 2 1 0 Baucr 1 0 0. 0 0 0 Totals 32 6 G' 27 13 3 Batted for McClaln In eighth. Scorn by innings Helena ,....0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 05 Salt Lake 0 0001 000 55 Summary: Two-haao hits H. Spencer. Spen-cer. Qulgley. Menges, Davis. Schlmpff. Homo run Schlmpff. Runs batted in By H. Spencer (2). Clynes. Cooney, Davis. Da-vis. Drcfson (2). Schlmpff (2). Sacrifico J hits Qulgley. Moiirhs. Sacrifice fly' Cooney. Bases on balls Off Coonov, 2; Gaut, 3; Erlck.non. I. Struck out By Cooney. S; Morgan, 1. Hits Off Coonoy. o in 8 1-3 innings: Sullivan, 1 in less than 1-3 of an Inning: Gaut. 4 In 3 innings: in-nings: Erlckson, 1 In 2 2-3 Innings: Morgan. Mor-gan. 2 In. 3 1-3 Innings. Left on baaes Helena, 10; Salt LaJce. 3. Wild pitch Erlckson. First base on errors Helena, 2: Snlt Lake. 1, Double play Murphy to McCTaln. Hit by pitcher H. Spencer by Gaut: Kelly by -Erlckson. Time of game 1:65. Umpire Wright. |