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Show MURPHY'S HIT IN NINTH WAS AW BLOW Scored Winning Ran After Salt LaKe Had Tied ' In First Half. UNION ASSOCIATION Won. Loat. P.O. Oreat Falls t 1 .4S Butte t9 4J .017 rRalt Lake 71 4.', -S1-' Bolre 42 J . 4f. Helena 45 . Missoula 31 0 .110 TE STEED AT ' 8 GAMES. At Oreat Falls Halt Lake. 1: Great rails, a. At Butte Boise. 4: Butte. I. At Missoula Helena. 5: Mlaaoula, 4. IF TODAT. Wins . Loses PC. p.f. Great Falls 48 .430 Butte S-'l .411 Salt Lake 416 .407 BT W. D. BKATZ, Tha Erenlng Telsgram's sporting editor, edi-tor, traveling with tha Bait Lake ball team. ' OREAT FALLS. Mont.. Aug. 18. With two men out end two atrlkes on him and no balls, Murphy, the Oreat Falls crack center fielder, picked off one of Schlmpff's spltters and aent It spinning down the first baae line In the ninth Inning In-ning yeeterdav. scoring Catcher Shennon. who had gotten hla base on balls and had been sacrificed to eecond. This ended the game, 1 to 1 for the home team. And to think that Murphy did this after Salt Lake had made the Montane fane eeaalck by tlelng the score In the first half of the closing session. Schimpff and Hlldebrandt pitched star games, but luck waa certainly on the side of the lonele. ... Until the sixth Salt l ake had not secured se-cured a sltrn of a hit off Reed's youna-ster youna-ster and Great Falls backed him up In almost flawless feshlon. Great Falls was able to fare better off Schlmpff's dsliv-erv. dsliv-erv. hut It waa not the hits that scored runs for the home team, errora or walks being responsible for every run scored bv the Reed birds. Salt Lakes few hits, on the other hand, were bunched two at a time and. In each case a run resulted. Scored In the Flrat. Great Falls won. of course, but Its victory may be attributed entirely to better bet-ter baae ball luck. It waa a splendid re me of hall, one of the kind over which Salt Lake fana would have yelled themselves hoarse. Both teame played as If their lives depended -upon the outcome and Oreat Falla' hlw column on paper does not itlve Artie Schimpff credit for the splendid article of pltchlna which he dished UP. . Great Falls aent In the first run In the opening Innlna after Salt Lake had gone down one. two. three In Its half. Murphy Mur-phy led off with a Texaa leajruer. went to seoond on Toner's slnals and scored when Schimpff wasted one a trifle wide that Blankenshlp was unabls to freese to. Foster, the next man up. new out to Orr, retlrlna the side. The Electrlce rana up another In the ' fourth. Oriffln hit one throuah the pltch-ero' pltch-ero' box. Schlmoff Jumped Into the air after the ball and deflscted Its course so that It eaue-ht Johnnv Pendlston out of position to field It. Schlmoff made aev-era! aev-era! peas to first In an effort to hold Oriffln to the baa and to keeo him from aettlnn- too blr a lead. The little pitcher threw the third one Into the dirt to the rlaht of Abbott and the latter waa unable un-able to block It. . The ball rolled far out under the autoa ' stsndlna on the baae lino and before Abbott could return It Griffin had crossed the rubber. From thle on Schimpff held Great Falls runless durlna the next four Innlnaa. Thlnas looked bed for fcchlmnff In ths eighth efter Abbott had booted Fostsr s arounder. but aasln Schimpff waa there with belts on. strlkina out one of the next men ud and forcing the other to raise an easy fly. Hlldebrandt Is Finally Hit. After five innlnas of helpleseneee before be-fore Hlldebrandt's nttchlnc. Sneneer sln-eied sln-eied In the sixth with one srons. Abbott slnaled on a line over eecond. Murphv permittlnn- the ball to net away from him so that Sneneer eeored and the Salt Lake first bessmsn went to third before the ball could be returned to the Infield. In-field. Blankenship and Orr were easy outs and Abhott remained on third. Bait Lake aaaln went hitless and run-leee run-leee In the next two Innlnxs and looked aood to continue so throunhout. Abbott, flrst to face Hlldebrandt In Salt Lakes hslf of the ninth, struck out. but Blank enehlp hit one on the aoee for a sinale over Toner's head and then stole second. Orr went out on an eeey fly to right. Over half of the fans Bled out of the park, considering the game over, and but few of the remeinder staved after Brick Pevereaux had two etrlkee en hint. "Brick" brought them all back Into the perk, however, when he combed No. 1 for a clean three-sacker over MurphVa heed, scoring Blankenship with the run needed to tie, . . . BlsnkenshlD1 sent In Morgan Jo bat for Van and BUI earns mighty close to proving himself a real hero. He met the ball equarely on the nose and hit it ; rn a line that would have dented the screen on the left field fence at Coolev park, but "Big fe'tack" Hueiaman happened to K plavlng so far back In left field that he looked like a midget while going efter the bell. The big left gardener made a grandstand catch and luck was again on the other aide.. Tlx a Bad, Bad Story. . Morgan went In to succeed Van In Great Falla half of tha ninth. Blanken-shlp's Blanken-shlp's klda took the field full of pepper and determination, but Sohlmoff uoeet their good Intentions by walking Shaa-noa. Shaa-noa. the flret man to face him. on four belle pitched. Clothier sacrificed to second, sec-ond, but Vance, betting for Hlldebrandt. hit to Schlmoff. who threw him aut at flrst and held Shannon at eecond. Murphy, Mur-phy, whom Bait Lake fene have had oc-eaaion oc-eaaion to fear many tlmee at Cooler nark, waa tha next man up end on him the fana plaeed their hones. Murphy made aood when, with two etrlkee and no balla on him, one of Schlmoffa eoltter belle broke badly on tha Inside and Murphy hit It 8a handle down the first base line, hannon creasing the elate with the run that broke up the day'a pastime. Morgan . fielded the bail cleanly and made a good return, but not In time ta bead off Bhaa- . "Xt 1 JO o'clock thia afternoon the two teams will meet In a benefit game for the cause of baae ball In Oreat Falls. Bill Morgan will be cent back at the birds and Harry Kaaa will ao doubt ba Reed s pitching choice. . SALT LAKE. AB. R- BH. PO. A. K peneer. If. 4 I 1 I 0 0 Abbott. Ib- 4 0 1 I 1 Blankenship. a. .... 4 1 J 1 0 Orr. so. 4 0 0 1 0 Devereaux. lb. .... J I ' J Van. rf. -- f - Pendleton, lb. 1 J J 1.1 0 , Cordis, d. I Schimpff, p. 1-0 0 0 I I Morgan "Totala . ...... ...U "I "d xJ4 1 i .1 . Batted for Van In ninth. sTwo out when winning run Ocorad. OREAT FALLS. AB. It BH. FO. A. Murphy, ef. I 1 1 I 1 Prout sa. !!?!!! Huntsman, It Toner. Ib 4 0 I I 1 0 Poster, lb. -- I 0 TOO Orlfhn. rf J 1 I J 0 Shannon, c I '' Clothier. b. I I I 1 J Hlldebrandt. P. .... 0 0 0 1 0 Vance 1 a 0 0 0 0 Totala . II "i 1 Betted far Hndebrandt' In lath. Score by Innings ......... , Salt Lake 00000100 11 Oreat Falla ....... ..1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-1-1 Bummary: Earned rnne Belt Lake 1. Oreat Falla 1. Flrat on errors Oreat Falls 1. Salt Lake L Three-base hits-Abbott. hits-Abbott. Devereaux. Sacrifice hits Devereaux. Dev-ereaux. Foster Clothier. Stolen becse Blankenship, Toner. Baaea on balls Off SchlmpB t, off Hlldebrandt 1. Struck out By Schimpff A by Hlldebrandt I. Left en baeee Salt Lake 4. Oreat Falla t. Tlma I hear, 40 xsiaates. Umpire . |
