Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-10 | Page 57 | Sea Gulls Win Grand Victory from Infants

SEA GULLS III Game Is Most Bitterly Fought of the Season Thus Far; Is Won in the Eighth. MURRAY ALMOST TIES WITH RALLY IN NINTH Blankenship Comes Within One of Squaring Count; Carman Hits Ball Over Fence for Homer. UNION ASSOCIATION. 5Pls! w w w 3 ! S gig. 5' S sr " ; m 3 ? g : o I . ; teden . .1 3!. .J. .1 41! 7! .636 Jut 21.. I.. I 4 .. ..! 61 .600 lurray 3! J 3L. .. ..' 6 .646 loise I.. ...- 1 6ii 6: .646 :.Jt Like ... 2.. .. 3;..j Sj .500 -felena ! 1! 2 .182 1 5 61 4 6 4! 9- 1 - At Salt Lake Murray, 3; ialt Lake, 4. ,' At Boise Butte, 3; Boise, 2 eleven innings). ' At Ogden Helena, 6; Og-en. Og-en. 8. Hev, hey! Some ball game, what? ;By far the at iff est battle of the sea-;j)D sea-;j)D was fought on Lucas field yestef y afternoon and turned out a vic- ;iry for the Sea Gulls by a score of , to 3. '-.With the count standing at 2 to 1 c)r Murray at the beginning of Salt r'ako's half of the eighth, Hester "s boys -Lopped into their hitting clothes, and ith a triple by the manager himself, double by Davis and a single "by Ga-tna, Ga-tna, put across three runs. The Infants waded into the ninth Mth "do or die" written in large let-(rs let-(rs upon their classic countenances, end they very nearly did. at that, for hen the inning closed they had put "ie over and there was a man on both jird and second hovering between life -id death meaning victory or defeat, .hen Johnny Galena threw Carman -it and retired the side the score stood 4.0 3. and one of the best ball games -ler seen in this town was over. plenty of Excitement. There have been better ball games;, course games with fewer hits and wer errors and with more startling ays. But there has seldom been one -at offered more opportunity lor ex-' ex-' ierncnt than yesterday 's. " L?fty ' : .Tim Allen pitched splendid r 31 for Salt Lake. His curves broke I Ceiy and lie had excellent control. ;ie veteran Fred Brown was on for J array. He, too. pitched steady ball ; A except in the eighth he had things ; ettv much as he would like to have " em alwavs. .. In the eighth Fred Carman, .Murray's ; e left fielder, lifted oue over the ft field fence for a .circuit. Ft was noble clout. "Billy Davis can be given the credit t winning yesterday's game for his fir,i, so far as any one individual play-cRn play-cRn be given credit, for a victory "lercin uine men plav excellent ball. Ily batted in two of the Sea Gulls' us. coming through with a two-bag-r in both the fourth and eighth. ip and Tuck Baseball. 1 urray got, a score in the third on a igle by Brown, a base on balls and f error by Allen! Menges, who was B recipient of the base on balls, was ;rppcd at the plate od a fast double Potts to Hester to McClain. The second score of the game was jT'ide by Salt Lako in the fourth on a iflle by Craig and a two-bagger by ivis. 8n it stood tied until the eighth when i(ed Carman brought the Infants' int up a notch with a souse over the Unfortunately for tho Murray fni. no one was on when Carman ked it over. ia Gulls Lead. llVre was a great upheaval of hu-jnity hu-jnity in the grandstand when Hester, t man up in the eighth for Salt ike, hit a stinger to center fiuld. It tjit for three bases, although perfoct lumg might have cut it to two bases, icven to one. Caldwell was an in- ;.ill out and Huelsman was passed Ji' rposely. ,i;:H was then that Hester, with Craig 'Ve the stick work, pulled a perfect .neeze, am Hester counted. So fast ...is the plav that the manager was 0-thirds of the wav down the line -ien Craig's bunt reached Brovftn 's nns. 1 al nut Huelsman on third, whence vr) on Davis 's double, and the CKiter fielder himself came home on Ga- single. .fants Battle Bravely. Two to the bad, the Infants walked C'a the ninth in a last desperate at-iP'ipt at-iP'ipt to overcomo the lead their op-j5 op-j5 gents had. ysfcifgg starteil things off merrily with S two. bagger. Cavenev, hitting for .Ongnoii, struck out. and Blankenship '?' n to hat for Brown. .' Blank'' hit the hnll a little, clip i '1 it looked like a dead certaintv for tlY ' ''Blank" is one of those m ?, Vers, however, who isn 't out. "'.'he ball is caught,' and be beat it L frt as fast as' he could. imp of mischief sat on Johnny ontlnued on Following Page.) SEA GULLS CAPTURE ANOTHER OF SERIES (Continued from Preceding FagcQ Cfaletia's shoulder as bo got under that little fly and the ball dropped limply to tho ground.' Then Mcngcs got a single and Kueh counted. Blankenship going to third. Menges 'stole second and thus there were two 'readv to fly home ou a hit if it CK,t Fi batted for Gay and went out on an easy one to Hester. Carman, who had n reviously made a home run was the bright-eyed lad n whom the Infants placed their trust in due course Carmau slammed a wicked scooter at Galena, and tins time , tl e little, gamester froze to it although it almost carried him away. Carman thrown out at first, and .the game was over, and Johnny Galena had redeemed Today's game starts at 3 o'clock-