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Show I Once More $af iafee Spiffs Double-Header With Helena Visitors Hit Erickson at Opportune Times in First; Second Game Notable for Three Home Runs; Great Falls Next. Won. Lost. PC. Salt Lake 71 40 .640 " Great Falls 69 41 .627 .'i ' . Butte 49 59 .545 Missoula 48 62 .436 Helena 46 61 .430 Ogden 45 67 .402 First game Salt Lake, 1; Helena, 6. Second game: Salt Lake, 4; Helena, 3. At Missoula First game: Ogden, 16; Missoula, 1. Second game: Ogden, 2; Missoula, 6. At Butte Great Falls, 2; Butte, 1. , T A 7 LOLL, the 1)ig thing- is on tomorrow! Vy Great Fulls, with all that far-famed righting spirit, will he on Lucas ball yard for five games. Just a trifle more than one game separates the Skyscrapers and the Electrics. If Sail Lake loses a game and Great Falls wins it. the home club will have a standing of .034 and the contenders a position, of .631. President iUulroncy of the league sends figures by wire, which irives Great Palls half a game l)he better of their present standing. stand-ing. If the president's figures are correal, a win for Great Falls would give the Electrics the lead, .640 to .634. The figures have been checked from the daily dispatches, and according to that count, Ureal Falls has lost one more and won one less than Mulroncy Mul-roncy jiives them credit for. However, be it half a game or full game, the Skyscrapers must tear into it tomorrow and keep tearing until every one of those five games are dangling from their belts. Great Falls' luck prevailed at Butte. They beat, the Coppers in two games that wore the worst kind of flukes. Let it be hoped that; so much extraordinary ex-traordinary fortune as was with them in Butte will not accompany ac-company the team to this city. Saturday Great Falls won from Bulle, 1 to 0, when a hit by Galena, that should have been a single went for a home run, the only score ol; the game. Yesterday Yester-day a fly ball got away from a. Butte fielder and gave Great Palls two runs, wherewith they won against one tally for Butte. It's a dead certain cinch that these Skyscraping batsmen will have to use a potent eye wash for the Great Falls series. The Electrics' pitchers are all strong heavers and the very best, the home team has must be trotted out against "Williams, Duffy, Dolhi and Hildebrandt. Also, a lil' of th' pep in th' field, if y' please, gentlemen. After this week Salt Lake will go to Ogden for five games at Glenwood park, and will wind up the season on Lucas field with one game with the Knight Owls on Sunday, September 14. This week Ogden plays at Butte and Helena at Missoula. For the closing week Missoula will play at. Helena and Butte at Great Falls. I The best Salt Lake could do yesterday waft to get "an even break with Helena In a two-header. The llrst frame went to the visitors for the fame reason tbat the first one of Sunday's double went the tame way opportune hitting. Salt Lake pot within one of the number of hit? obtained by Helena, yet the home club lost by a pcore of f to 1. The second game was peculiar In many respects. It went only seven Innings, when It was called on account of darkness. dark-ness. Three home runs featured the same. Strlpp. for Salt Lake, and Menges and QulRley. for Helena, each hit the ball over the fence. Captain Qulgley of the Helena team protested the game on Slripp's home run. which the Helena captain charged was not a home run at yaj Hits the Chimney. X In the fourth Inning of the second game HI f Strlpp leaned on one of Fowler's offerings iWH and the ball struck the chimney on a SUj house beyond the left conter fence. The if! ball rebounded Into the lot and was fleld- inf' ed to the diamond, where the formality is of touching the runners was gone R through. Umpire Frary held the hit to be HI homer and it counted two scores. A The question of rebound from houstops Ml has been the subject of considerable dl?- m I pute throughout the season. Once Urn- ;yi3 plre LaRocque decided that a. ball thuE ml rebounding Into the playing field whs i5 not a home run. The ne:t day he ft) I changed hlB decision on an Identical hit. ijji 3 explaining that he had not understood rnl tne Kro,,nJ rules covering the point. The iHfj game In which LaRocque rendered his 1HA first decision was one that Ogden won tMH from Salt Lake. It was protested at the IWm time, but President Mulroney never was 1 heard from on the protest. Now another HB game Is protected under almost precisely BHrf Identical circumstances, save that the BBM situation Is reversed. Hi Menges Wins a Home. 90 stJ"nge feature, of the second game EH was that the four hits the Vigilantes fl got oft Morgan were made by Mengcs and M Qulgley, and were in thu form of n home H run and a two-bagger for each. M Bpeaklm of Mcnges, the little short- HHlH ?top ao won a. homo in Salt Uike. If HHr2l ,can ovr flx 11 ,0 hreak nway from y -'j Htlena. ha is assured a warm -welcome In Wins. NToxt Game. Loses. 613 Salt Lako do Salt T-ake ...Ml Ml... Great Falls BB Great Falls. ..fi22 150 Tiutte BEr Butte 150 ill Missoula HQ Missoula 432 1H5 Helena IB Helena. I2fi 407 Ogden Ogden MS the Skyscrapers' lineup and a. cute little uniform, Juat his size, will be built especially es-pecially for him. "Snookums" got more applause from the grandstands yesterday than all the rest of the pfayers put together. to-gether. When he hit the ball over the fence, ho was given an ovation. Menges has been playing a star game at short during the series closed yesterday yester-day and has been a regular whale with the stick. The little fellow chokes his bat until there appears to be only about an inch and a half left of It with which to smash the hall. That he smashes It all right, all right, has been made manifest mani-fest to Salt Lake's sorrow many and many a time. Come on down to Zlon, Billy: the fans want you! Lose Chances to Score. Salt Lake hi the first game had opportunities oppor-tunities to score, but Ames would not allow the hit that was necessary to bring In the tallies. lirlckson was sparing enough of his hits, but the visitors got them when they counted mout. and that just about tells the tale. Erickson got himself Into hot water several times when men were on, but hp pulled out In surprising fashion. In the first game Helena, ncorcd In the firat Inning. Spencer uras Hit, wont to second on Cronln's sacrifice, to third when Menges and Qulgley drew passes In succession and scored on Lussi's sacrifice sac-rifice fly. . There were two visitors on when the third man wns retired. Salt Lake got thrcr. men on In their half of the inning, hut they died. Helena Gets More. Helena got two more In the third. Sponcer doubled. Cronln was out for bunting the third strike, Menges doubled dou-bled to left center, scoring Spencer. Qulgley flUd, and Menges came home on Lussl's single to right. One more for thc visitors was counted in the sltb. Qulclev hit to Davis, who made a wldn throw to flrt, Qulgley go- (Oontinued on Following Page.) SALT LAKE SPLITS DOUBLE WITH HELEM (Continued Prom Preceding Pago.) Ing to second. Ho went to third on Lussl a sacrifice and scored on Gibson's single. There was some fast fielding on Salt LakeH part In this inning. After Gibson had singled, Murray doubled to the loft field fence, putting Gibson on third. Crittenden Crit-tenden hit to Brlckson, and Gibson was run down between third and home and Murray wan run down between second and third on the same play. Salt Lake Makes One. Salt Lake got their onlv run in the sixth. Huolsman doubled to deep center. Tt waa a trcmondously long hit. but was fielded swiftly, and the captain could make only two sacks on It. He scored on Spencer's single to righL Two more for the Vigilantes In the eighth put the game In the Ice box for sure. 'Mongcs doubled, it being his second sec-ond two-base hit of the game, and he scored on Qulgley's single over short. Lussl hit to SchlmplT. Erlckson, who covered first, failed to take the throw. Qulgley went to third when Gibson got a base on ball3 and scored on Murray's sacrifice fly. Second Close Battle. The second game started off with promise of a desperate battle all the way. For three lnnlnes there wan noth ing doing In the way of crossing the plate, both Morgan and Fowler holding their opponents level. In the fourth, Menges doubled lo the left center fence and scored on Qulgley's home run. a clean drive over the boards Salt Lake got those two back In practically prac-tically the same manner Morgan lived on a fielder's choice, which put out Schlmpff. Pendleton filed and then FTcd Strlpp hit the chimney. There was much argument. Jack Flannery. president of the Helena club, was fined 5 by the umpire for protesting too vigorously, and later he was put out of the grounds for failure to keep to his own bench. Captain Qulgley gave notice of protest, which was duly and formally recorded and will be communicated to the president of the league. The home club gathered In two more In the fifth. Spencer hit the left field screen and wont to third on Huelsman's single to center. Huclsmnn went down towards second and Crittenden made the throw short to Fowler. Spencer was hustling hus-tling back to third as fast as he could when Fowler heaved the ball over Cro- nln' head and both Spencer and Hucls-man Hucls-man scored. In this Inning Salt Lake came within an Inch of making anothor. Davis singled sin-gled to left and Schlmpff hit a long one to center. Davis tried to make home on it. but Murray and Menges fielded the ball home with lightning speed and Billy was nailed at the pan. Helena's third and last scoro and the last tally of the game was made In the sixth, when Menges smashed the ball over the left field fence. Both side went down In order In the seventh, and when Huelsman fouled to Gibson the umpire called the game. Sensational Fielding. The grandest circus catch of the series was Murphy's spear of Spencer's line drive In the sixth Inning of the second game. The ball was caught with one hand high In the air while Murphy was on a dead backward run. Jack Murray made a rattling good grab of Davis's low line drive in the third Inning In-ning of the second game. Murray picked the ball off his Bhoetops after a thrilling sprint- Bobby Gibson's catch of Huelsman's Huels-man's foul In the seventh, the last put-out put-out of the day. was a spectacular play. Jake Bauer had hard luck with the bat yesterday. The sun-kiHSed agriculturist agricul-turist hit the ball hard, but somehow he always drove It squarely at somebody. some-body. Thus, he drove two liners directly direct-ly into Mcnges's hands. Bert Spencer made his usual number of star grabs In' center. Brilliant work on the part of this most graceful of all fielders has become be-come so common that the people have come to expect nothing else. He is certainly cer-tainly a prize fielder. Captain Huelsman made a couple of beautiful catches yesterday, yes-terday, picking them off the fence. Dressen was out of the game yesterday on account of an Injured leg, received In Sunday's game while sliding Into second. HELENA. (First Game.) AB. R, H. PO. A. E. H. pcncer. rf 4 2 1 2 0 n Cronln, 3b 4 0 0 2 3 0 Menges, s. 2 2 2 6 0 Qulgley. 2b 3 2 2 4 0 0 Lussl. lb 2 0 1 7 0 fl Gibson. If 3 0 1 2 0 0 Murray, cf 3 0 1 0 fi 0 Crittenden, c 4 0 0 7 0 fi Ames, p 4 0 0 0 0 D Totals 20 6 8 27 3 0 SALT LAKE. AB. R. II. PO. A. E. Murphy, rf 4 0 1 2 0 0 Davis. 3b 3 0 1 0 3 1 Bauer, lb 3 0 0 9 2 0 Huelsman, If 4 1 2 1 0 0 A. Spencer, cf 3 0 1 4 0 0 Pendleton, ss 3 0 0.2 .1 0 Schimpff, 2b 3 0 0 3 2 0 Erlckson. p 4 0 2 1 4 1 McClaln. c 4 0 0 1 2 0 Morgan 1 0 0 0 0 0 Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 1 7 Z26 16 2 zCronln out; bunted third strike. Batted for Pendleton In ninth. Batted for Schlmpff In ninth. Runs and hits by innings Helena 1 2 3 4 5 fi 7 S 9 Runs 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 06 Hits ....0 0 3 0 0 3 0 2 03 Salt Lake I 3 3 S fi 7 S 9 Runs 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 01 Hits 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 17 Summary; Two-base hits H. Spencer, Menges (2). Murray, Huelsman. Sacrifice Sacri-fice hits Cronln, Lussl, Bauer. Sacrifice Sacri-fice flies Lussl. Murray. Stolen bases Qulgley. Lussl. Runs batted In Menges. Men-ges. Qulgley, Lussl (2). Gibson, Murray, A. Spencer. Bases on balls Off Ames 2, off Erlckson 4. Struck out By Ames 5, by Erickson 3. L.eft on banes Helena n. Salt Lake 8. First base on errors Helena Hel-ena 1. "Double play Erickson to McClaln to Davis to Pendleton to Schlmpff. Hit by pitcher H. .9pencer. Time of game 1 hour and 31 minutes. Umpire Frary. Second game HELENA. AB. R, H. PO. A. E. H. Spencer, rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Cronln. 3b 3 0 0 2 2 0 Menges. ss 3 2 2 2 3 0 Quigley. 2b 3 1 2 0 3 0 Lussl, lb 3 0 0 S 0 0 Gibson, if 3 0 0 2 1 0 Murrav. cf 3 0 0 3 0 0 I Crittenden, c 2 0 0 4 0 0 Fowler, p 2 0 J) 0 J! 0 Total? 25 3 4 2l 11 0 Game called In seventh Inning; darkness. dark-ness. SALT LAKE. I AB. R. H. PO. A. E. ! Murphy, rf 4 0 1 2 0 0 Bauer, lb 3 0 1 0 0 A. Spencer, cf 2 1 1 3 0 0 Huelsman, If 4 1 1 i J I Davis. 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .Schlmpff, 2b 3 0 2 fJ 2 0 ! Morgan, p I 1 - X Pendleton, ss 3 0 0 0 2 0 (Strlpp. c 3 l 2. 1 1 Totals 2R 4 9 21 5 0 Score by Innings; Ilolena 1 2 3 4 o C 7 I Runs .. .. . 0 0 O 2 0 1 0-3 IlllS O i. V - V X V c;.,lt t akf 1 2 3 4 5 fi 7 nuns .... 0 0 0 2 2 0 01 lilts HI 2 4 0 0-9 Summarv: Two-base hits Menges. Qulgley, Schlmpff. Hpmo runs Menkes. Qulgley. Strlpp. Sacrifice hltA. Spencer. Spen-cer. Stolen bases-Huelsman (2). Runs batted In By Menges. Qulgley (2), StrlPP (2)7 Base on balls-Off Fowler, 1. Struck out By Fowler. 2: Morgan. C. Left on bases-Helena. 1; Salt Ike, 6 Hit by pitcher A. Spencer. Time of game 1 hour 18 minutes. Umpire Frary. |
