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Show I U I f Gimlin's Youngsters Lose to the Skyscrapers by a i I Score of 5 to 3 Common Case of Hard Luck !i 1 I I and an Umpire Is Cause of Locals Losing. J - ri Somebody "jinksed" the Ogden team 1 1 ' beforo it left this city for Salt Lake !i yesterday and the hoodoo stuck so ' persistently that Gimlin's men drop- ped the first game of the five-gnnie series with Manager Cooloy's Union association bunch; The figures were 5-3 ' There Is no ribberi-iip excuse for , failing to grab off the long end of the 1 score It Is Just a plain hard luck ' story with realistic settings. Or course W there were one or two little things I V. which helped the jinks; one of them I "was Iooney base running and another I ) was Drultt, a meal ticket baseball player who, among ton or twelve oth- ers, Is sojourning In Salt Lake and in- L ' cldentalh trying to rullect a month's J . salary from .Manager McCloskey of , the ihitte club Drultt was the ar-J ar-J biter i A little thing like tho unexpected B bound of Just one bard-hit ball does not usually play such a very important impor-tant part 'in a whole game, but this identical thing probably cost Ogden ". the game jesterday when, In the sev-ft sev-ft enth Inning, of course. Perkins hit Iff one dcmn t0 Jo1inn Rawllngs at II short. p5S There was one down and all the m corners were occupied. This Just hap-I' hap-I' pened to be a art of the jinks' wcll- lald plan. Also it just happened that Rawllngs was not more than six feet from the second sack with the odds no less than S to I that he would double dou-ble them up, when tho ball took an unnatural bound mid ducked far beyond be-yond his reach. This let two across and tied up tho count, I3ut it didn't end here The bases became clogged once more and Shea polod It over second and brought In Salt pake's margin of two counts before tho third man was retired. Can you beat It? Woakencd no doubt by tho loss of "Dad" Clark, the Ogden club demonstrated demon-strated in spite of this that the Skyscrapers Sky-scrapers cannot loaf on tho job and expect to grab a majority of the games In this post-season series. It was demonstrated dem-onstrated to the fullest satisfaction to the members of three baseball clubs and the fift or more Ogden fans who, epltomizingly speaking, thronged the grandstand. If the Salt Lake fans continue their patronage during tho remainder of tho series along the same lines of lib-'crallty lib-'crallty which was shown yesterday somebody will have to take up a collection col-lection Sunday afternoon to pay for tho balls which go over tho fence. About four-fifths of the entire crowd yesterday consisted of the personnel of the "Butte. Occidental and Sioux Indian In-dian ball clubs. With uot more than three exceptions excep-tions Gimlin's former state leaguers wont up against the lineup of the regular reg-ular Salt Lake team ' Tho exceptions were Klllilay on the mound, Shea at second ami later In, right field, and Perkins as backstop. The first two named were members of the Boise club and Perkins has not been on regular reg-ular duty at tho receiving end. Klllilay lias nothing on tho Ogden bunch. He was panned for Ogdcn's sum total of eight drives in the sovon innings In which be was on duty but Morgan, who succeeded hlui, had the old Indian sign working Of tho six men that faced him in the last two rounds four wore wJilffcd. At that his greatest asset Is smoke and his measure meas-ure Is not beyond taking. Ogden outplayed tho Unions yesterday, yes-terday, but failed lo show an equal speed in the hitting department. Also they run bases in a manner which -would havo brought down upon their heads the wrath of "Dadus" Gimlln had that worthy tutor been on the job. Among tho stunts staged by the Junction boys were attempts to purloin pur-loin third and the plate, while two attempts to score on drives to the outfield resulted disastrously. Tho Skyscrapers no doubt revised their estimation of Ogdon's capabilities capabili-ties with a suddenness yesterday when a snappy doublo was pulled off in the very first round. Spencer, the first inim up for the Unions, bad singled to right and when Shea laid down the ball In front of the plate Alexander unbuttoned his million dollar whip with tho result that Spencer was tagged tag-ged by Rawlings at second and with all kinds of time left for Shea's consideration con-sideration at first. Devereaux was an eas out. Gimlin's men can at least claim the distinction of spilling the first counter over the plate. This came off in the second time uu. Orr booted Scott's grounder and Rawllngs hit Inside the third base line for two stations. Drookb drew a pass and In an effort to tag Rawllngs on second Perkins throw a wild one, Scott scoring. Raw-UngH Raw-UngH did not go to third, but stole that bag a minute later and Devereaux failed to negotiate Perkins" throw, which was none too good. Rawllngs acored. Frelno, following Hrookfc, poled a beautiful two-saekcr to the center field 'fence, font unfortunately the Sioux Indian runner on second had not made tho acquaintmce of Dres-bnn's Dres-bnn's powerful wing and was tngged after a -beautiful heave to the plate from deep center. Alexander ainglod to right and purloined second, but both he and Frelno died a natural death on the" lines wLcn Flake failed to connect with u safe one. Salt Lalco'a 'first fuu came ovor In their half of this sanio-round when Orr tJouuectod with one of. .lonscn'J " slow ones .and It rambled '16 the value Of tlirao sacks. He came over when Jensen failed to negotiate Van's easy roller. Van, after stealing second and third, tried the last lap. too, but failed to got hv with il. In the seventh Freine singled to right and came on around on Alexander's Alexan-der's double to the left fence. It was here also that tho Sioux Indian backstop snowed rather poor judgment judg-ment on thc bases. After Jcnten had sacrificed him to third he attempted to slip one over on Klllilay. The angular an-gular hurler from Boise was sleeping peacefully, hut Perkins awakened him In time to tag Alexander at the plate, Plake was not so deep in the hoh but what he Btill had the big end of his chances left. This concludod Ogden's run getting, for Morgan was sent in tho following Inning and ho had four of the next six hitters swinging swing-ing at tho shadows. Tho Skyscrapers' halt of Iho sov- onth proved to be Ogdcn's undoing as a result of thc unluckj drhe which eluded Rnwllngs. As previously mentioned men-tioned they not only tied up the count but laid two up besides and stowed the game away on the shelf While four safe drlvos served as a foundation founda-tion on which to build as many runs, the pass which was Issued to Captain Cap-tain Blankonshlp and the heanlng of DresBan assisted materially. The score: SALT LAKE. AD. It. BH. PO. A. E. Spencer, If ....'! 0 I 2 0 0 Shea, 2b-rf .. 4 0 2 0 0 0 Devereaux, 3b . A 0 0 2 3 1 Orr, rs '...4 2 a 1 3 1 Van, lb .'.I 1 2 S 1 0 Drossan, cf '2 1 0 0 1 0 Schlmpff, rf-2b 3 0 0 2-2 0 Porkins, c . . . . 8 d 2 12 - 1 1 Klllilay, p..,,2 '0 0 03 0 Morgan, p . . . '0 0 . Q 0 1 0 Blankonshlp- .VO 0 Q 0 0 U Totals 30 5 10 27 15 3 ' 'OGDEN-. , AB. R. BIT. PO. A. E. Plake. If :! 0 1 0 0 0 McGeehan, 3b ! 0 1 0 1 0 Wesaler. 2b . .,:'. 0 Q ,. 2 1 0 ScotL cf . . .j..1 1 , 0 v li 0 0 Bawllngs, ss ,v4 1 2 1; 2 0 Brooks. Ih .... y 0" 0 0 0 0 Frelne, if ..'i 1 2, J - 0 0 Alexander, c . . i', 0 - 2' 7 4 0 Jensen, p ...T2 0 0 '0' 2 1 Totals 30 3 S 21 10 I Batted for Klllilay in tho soventh. SCOHE-BT iNN'INGS. Salt Lake Hits .....: Ill 101 41 10 Runs 010 000 40 .'. Ogden Hits 030 120 200 S Runs 020 000 1003 SUMMARY. Two-baso hits Rawllngs (2), Frelno, Frel-no, AJexandor, Orr. Three base hit Orr. Bases on balls-Oft Jeusou 1. off Killllay 2, off Morgan 0. Struck out By Jensen C, by Klllilay C. by Morgan 4. Ivcft on bancs Salt Lake 4. Ogden 3. Double- plays Alexander to Rnwllngs to Brooks; Alexander to Wesaler. Sacrifice hits Jensen. Sac rifice fly Dressan Stolon bases Rawllngs, Alexander, Van (2), Perkins, Per-kins, lilts Off Killllay S In 7 innings, in-nings, off Morgan 0 in 2 innings, off Jenson 10 in S Innings. Time 1.37. Umpire Drultt. Attendance 200. NOTES OF THE GAME. Brooks as tho successor to "Dad" Clark wag entirely satisfactory. He seems to bo aomowhat weak with the stick, however. Ogdcn's new backstop. Alexander, was tho object of many twelve-pound IookB from the several Union managers mana-gers who attended the gaino. Tho Sioux Indian performed like a big leaguer. He has a wonderful arm and in three tlmos up connected for a double dou-ble and a single It is quite probable that ho will he glvon nn opportunity to sign a contract hefoic tho series is ended. Drultt was either so hungry or so partial to his Union association friends that he could not sec thc plate, much less a ball going In that direction. Tho Ogden players will heartily protest the Butte man working in today's game. Murphy will probably be delegated for the "hurling duties In today's game. With tho support which was glvon JotiBen yesterday. "Mnggle" should bo ablo to take the Skyscrapers Skyscrap-ers Into camp. .hist another little instanco of what Walter D. Ural thinks of Ogden: In the fnco of his little "yelp" which put "Dad" Clark out of thc spries. he prints a picture of this pfn,er along with the bouond mention of Ogdcn's sorlcs with thc Skyscrapers. As a I booster for baseball in genoral and Ogden In particular. Bratz Is the cop-por-rlvctcd notion of nothing to rave about. Ladies of the G. A. R. Mrs. Eleanor Elea-nor Burns of Salt 1-akc. past district dis-trict president of tho Ladles of the G. A. IL, visited tho Lincoln Circlo I In thiB city yesterday, and addressed tho momhers in regard to tho national nation-al eucampment which was held in Now York recently. She told of the progress which is bolng made by thc apoBV jam ' "VOX ' MBME Ladies of the G A IL. how the auxiliary aux-iliary Is growing rapidly and of what Is being accomplished Her address was ven interesting and was greatly great-ly appreciated by the local members. |