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Show COUCH, NEW PITCHES MAKES A COBB IMPRESSION The scores in yesterday s game at Glen wood came in bunches, the Can j ner.-- getting 8, 4 and 8 and ihp Boise I Irrigators getting a irio of threes Two pitchers were used by each man 1 ager, Melter, Jensen's Mrst choice, going down In the fourth, with eight hits against him and Knight, the big Canner, being jerked In the seventh, sev-enth, after he bad bepn touched for 11 safe ones Wood replaced Mel ter and Couch replaced Knight. There were two features Is the j game which made the local fans Joy- ful and one that dashed their joy The two first were the snappy pla ins of "Ducky1 Jones who pulled off two sensational plays, and the p.vellent showing of Couch. Cimiin's npw twirler Couch showed so much "smoke" tn the one and one-Milrd one-Milrd Innings that he was on thp mound that he was only found for one hit His work really saed the da) for Ogden The ;ad evjent was the spraining of Howard Murphy's an kp which occurred in the sixth In-Ding In-Ding and which will probably put him out of thp gamp for thp remaining 1 two weeks of the first half of the split season. Murphy's mishap occurred just af ter he had beaten out a bunt. With Woolums at bat and two strikes on him, Murphy attempted to steal second sec-ond on the next ball pitched Catch er Buck Weaver, however caught thp ball strike putting Woolums out and pegged to Bostick. catching Murphy, and completing a double pla Murphy made a desperate slide for the bag and doubled up his I ankle He was In agony for a num ber of minutes and after a couple ot physician! had eased hi6 pain to some j ptent. he was carried from the field The players of both teams had their batting shoes on esterda. -den getting 13 hits and Boise 12 Ith the exception of a home run by Pitcher Wood and two doubles b 1 Wessler, t?w Canners had the edge! on the Irrigators in the extra-bae hit column Dowllug getting two doublet) Woolums and Risberg one each an.l Jones a triple Neither Pid scored in the f 1 r-1 Inning. For Boise, Bauer filed o Jones Ke)l went out, Jones to Woo! urns and Thomas went out. Knight 10 Woolums In the second half Mn-phy Mn-phy sent a hot liner to Melter nd thp Boise pitcher saved his life a id si oiled Murphy's chance for a h.l by holding onto the ball Woolums filed to Bauer and Jones went out. p6sler to Thomas In the second Inning Bostick got to first on Risberg's boot and Weaver advanced him with an Infield hit, which was too close in for Jones to field quickly enough to get Veaer at first. Bostick went to third on the play and then Weaver stole second sec-ond Knight Bettled down and fanned fann-ed Moorehead. As Wessler went to bat, he was cheered by the fans, but the best he could do was to send a fly to Risberg Melter went out, Dowling to Woolums. In their half the Canners got three runs. Cobb fanned and Risberg 6in gled. Dowling sent out a hot grounder ground-er just inside third base, sending Risberg to third and registering a two-base hit for himself Ellis fol-'owed fol-'owed up with a fly behind second base, which proved good for a single, scored Risberg and sent Dowling 'o third Ellis then stole second. Sea-bough Sea-bough registered Dowling and sent Ellis to third with a long sacrifice fly to Moorehead. Wessler straddled strad-dled Knight's grounder, allowing El lis to score, and Knight to reach first. Wessler followed up by booting boot-ing Murphy's grounder and Murphy was safe on first, with Knight likewise like-wise on second Woolums went out, Bostick to Thomas. Both sides were blanked in the third, the only feature being Jones's sensational one-handed catch of Kel ly's high-line drive between third and short. Boise tied the score in the fourth Thomas started off with a single an! Bostick followed suit. Weaver also got a eingle, which scored Thomas, but Murphy booted the ball and Wea ver went to third on the error, while Bostick registered. Moorehead hit a little one into Knight's territory, but the latter fielded It too slowly and Weaver made the third score, and Moorehead was safe at first. On the next, Knight again showed bad Judgment He received Wessler'd grounder and threw It to second to catch Moorehead and both runners were safe Things again looked bad. but "Kit ty" pulled himself together and fanned fan-ned Melter Bauer hit one just over the inside boundary of Cobb's territory terri-tory and ti.e latter caught 1t after making a brilliant run. On the next play Knight threw Kelly out at first In the second half. Ogden failed to advance arid at the first half of the fifth Ogden's batters poled in four runj. Murphy singled, stole Bocond and went home on Woolums' two-bagger. JoneB went Woolums one base better on the next play and scored that player Cobb ended Mel ter's career for the day with a single sin-gle on which Jons crossed the plate. Wood replaced Melter and the flrsi thing he did was to hand Risberg a pass to first. Dowling sacrificed, advancing Cobb and Risberg. Ellis went out, Wessler to Thomas, Cobb . scorlns on 1 tv- play Senbought filed to Bostick. Undattnted by the Canners' big lead, the Idahoans went in to overcome over-come it m the Sixth ;md almost did so. Weaver singled and Moorehead filed to Murphy Wessler then scored scor-ed Weaver with ; two-bagger. Woods a right handed hatter, hit one over the right-field fence, very clos to the foul line, for the circuit, pushing Wessler in ahead of him Woolums. claiming that the hall was a foul. Htngpd a little llpstpr stuff" which was not at all approved by the tan?. Thp home-run hit evidently rattled Knight and hp muffed Bauera a8y flv allowing the runner to reach first. Kelly went out, Risberg to Woolums and Blausser wpnt out, Dowling to Woolums. in the second half Knight struck out. Murphy be;it out a hunt and was doubled out nt second on Hie lila- 111 which Woolums struck out. It was in this play that Murphy re ceived the sprained ankle. He was replaced In right fipld by Ballinger. In the first half of the Seventh, Boise was blanked and in the second half Ogden ot three more runs Jones reached first on 1111 error by essler ami Cohh was hit by a pitched ball Risberg hit for two bases, scoring Jones and sendinc Cobb to third. Howling "hen sent ;i clean single over second hasr and Cobb and Klsherg both registprprl. Kills flipd to Moorehead Moore-head and Dowling went out on an attempted steal. Weaver to Wessler Seabough singled and went to see ond on-Bostick's error. Knight reaching reach-ing first on thp same play Ballln- 1 1 ger retired the side by going out at j first. The Irrigators ramp up with three more In the first half of the eighth I Moorehead was passed and Wessler got his Becond two-bagger wood: struck out and Bauer scored Moorehead Moore-head and WesSler with a single Bau er went out at spcond and Kelly reached firs, on a fielder's choice Blausser singled into centerfield and continued on to third when Cobb straddled the ball. Kelly scored on thp amo fluke At this juncture Knight was pulled hv Clmlin and replaced re-placed by Couch Thomas ended the inning by going out. Dowling to Woolums Tiat ended the run getting get-ting for the day The box score fol lows . BOISE. AB R H PO V. E Bauer rf 6 0 1 2 0 0 Keiley, cf 5 1 0 1 0 Blausser, 3b 4 0 1 1 1 0 Thomas; lb . S 1 l 6 0 n Bostick ss. 5 1 1 4 1 8 w eater, c 5 2 3 6 3 0 Moorehead. If 4 1 2 3 0 0 Wessler. 2b 5 2 2 2 3 2 Melter. p 2 n 1 0 0 Woods, p. 2 1 1 0 l 0 totals 42 9 12 24 0 4 OGDEN. AB. R H PO A. E Murphy, rf 4 1 2 2 0 1 Ballinger, rf. 0. . . 1 0 0 i 0 0 Woolums, lb . ,. . . 5 1 1 10 0 0 Jones, 3b 4 2 2 2 2 0 Cobb, cf 3 2 1 2 0 I Risberg, fs 4 2 2 1 : 1 Dowling. 2b 4 1 3 1 3 0 Kills If 4 112 0 0 Seabough. c 3 11 1 7 0 0 Knight, p. 4 11 0 0 2 1 Couch, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals :. 86 10 13 87 9 4 SCORE BY INNINGS Boise . 000 303 030 9 Ogdpn . 030 040 30x 10 SUM MARY Stolpn bases Weaver. Murphy, Jones, Cobb. Ellis Sacrifice hit Dowling. Sacrifice fly Seabough Two base hits -Dowling 2, Woolums, Wessler 2, Risberg Three base hit Jones Home fun Woods. Double play Weaver and Bostick Hits Off Melter 8 in 4 innings, off Woods 5 In 4 innings, off Knight 11 In 7 2 3 innings, in-nings, off ('ouch 1 in 1 1-3 Innings. Struck out By Melter 3. by Wood 2, by Knight 6, by Couch 1 Base on balls Off Woods 3. off Knight Z, Hit by pitched ball Cobb by Woods. Passed Pas-sed ball Weaver Runs batted in By Bauer 2. Weaver. Moorehead. Wessler. Woods, Woolums, Jones, Risberg Dowling 2. Ellis. Seabough Left on bases Boise 8, Ogden 8 Time of game 2 hours 10 minutes. Umpire Um-pire Longanecker |