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Show PORTLAND BEAVERS SHUT OUT BY . ! SALT LAIE IN OPENING GAME h !: Beavers Threaten Several Times in Third and l Fourth But Are Downed by Saints 750 J , Baseball Fans Turn Out. ( HERE'S HOW IT HAPPENED: j '' SALT LAKE. PORTLAND. j r AB R H PO A E ABRHPOAE ', Tobin, cf 4 1 1 5 0 0 Wilie, If 5 0 0 3 0 0 i ! Rath, 3b 3 0 3 0 0 0 Siglin, 3b 3 0 2 1 1 0 L Gislason, 2b 2 1114 0 Rodgers, 2b 3 0 0 2 3 1 i Ryan, If 3 1 0 1 0 0 Farmer, If 4 0 1 2 0 0 i I' Shinn, rf 4 0 2 2 0 0 Williams, cf 4 0 12 0 0) Orr, ss 4 1 1 2 1 1 Borton, 1b 4 0 0 9 0 0 S '. Shecly, 1b 4 0 2 8 2 0 Hollocher, ss 4 0 0 2 2 0 I ' Hannah, c 3 0 0 7 0 0 Fisher, c. 4 0 1 5 4 0 ; Kirmayer, p 4 11110 Penner, p .. 3 0 0 0 5 0? Stumpf V. 1 0 0 0 0 0 ( Totals 31 5 1127 8 3 Totals 35 0 5 24 16 1 ;j Stumpf batted for Pcner In ninth. ,5 Score by Innings !; ', PORTLAND !; Runs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 !, Hits . 0 110 10 11 05 I SALT LAKE S Runs 4 001 0000 5 S Hits 5 112 110 0 11 SUMMARY: Two-base hits Fisher, Williams, Tobin, Gislason, J I Orr. Sacrifice hit Rath. Sacrifice fly Gislason. Struck out By Pen- j! s ner 3, by Kirmayer 7. Bases on balls Off Penner 3, off Kirmayer 2. j! j Runs responsible for Penner 4. First base on errors Portland 3, Salt !; ? i I Lake 1. Left on bases Portland 10, Salt Lake 7. Umpires Guthrie !; i and Casey. Time 1:57. 1 Salt Lake City's baseball fans are " I "gamesters," beyond a. doubt. I Seventy-five hundred of them shiv- f ' l cred, stamped and yelled yesterday afternoon through an openinp-day '" game which was well worth while. It was a cold and windy afternoon, but the class of the first game of the season wont a long way to smooth over the discomforts of the weather. Then, also, the initial game went to the Bees' credit, 5 to 0, which helped considerable. I With a band playing the national an-i an-i them and the splendid crowd standing I with bowed heads, Gov. Simon Bam-I Bam-I berger took his position on the pitcher's pitch-er's mound and "warmed up" to prop-1 prop-1 I erly send the local end of the season j on its way. Unlike the players of the I two clubs, Governor Bamberger had i not had the advantage of a pre-sea-i ! son's training In a warm climate, so it took considerable warming up be-i be-i fore he was able to get one near the , plate. He finally managed to get the f fifth ball almost over, only to have r Chief Parley White souse it for an j ' honest-to-goodness single. Mayor W. Mont Ferry was unable to attend o"the receiving end of the ceremony so Harry Hannah volunteered. Jus-c Jus-c tice J. E. Frick was there to do the umpiring if the necessity of such a r iJcisuu iiciu ueeii uuixuiuuuu. H. K. Downing performed the Intro- I . ductory ceremonies, as Hardy can. Tp The game Itself was a bear, espec- I" ially when ground and weather con- r ditlons are taken into cqnsideration. I The field was just a trifle slow owing "Vo the fact that Groundkeeper Bob Xennant was forced to strew several I i wagonloads of sand over the mud in the base line. Tennant and his assist- j ants had done their work thoroughly, J however, and every one who saw the result of It expressed surprise at its condition. A bright sun saved the day as it went a long way to take the sting out of the extreme cold wind which blew from the north. Kirmayer In Form. Ollie Kirmayer, one of the classy righthanders whom Bill Bernhard has dug up for hlB 1917 Bees and the young man whom wo predicted some . weeks ago would fill Bill Piercey'B shoes (and then some), can lay claim to a good share of tho credit which wont to Salt Lalce for Its opening day victory. Kirmayer shot them over until at times they looked like peas and occasionally he sandwiched In a slow ball that seemed to have every- thing on it Ho was in the hole but twice, but each time ha pulled himself together and extricated himself via the strikeout route. Opposed to the Bees was a young righthander from tho McCredlo stable named Penner. Penner got away badly bad-ly when the four lefthanders at tho top of the Salt Lake batting order started to do things to him. A few of the righthanders also took a hand and, In a jiffy, Portland was four rounds to the bad. He tigthened up after that and gave us every reason to believe that McCredlo has picked up a promising heaver. Like Kirmayer, Kir-mayer, ho has an effective hook on his fast one and also a good slow ball to go with it. ' Tobin Starts It. Jack Tobin made his Salt Lake debut by answering a rousing cheer with a stinging dodblo down the third base line. Morris Rath neatly sacrificed sacri-ficed him along a base. With "Williams playing in close for a lofthanded hitter. hit-ter. Gard Gislason crossed the Beaver outfield by combing one over tho left fielder's head for two bags, to score Tobin. Penner became unsteady and Buddy Ryan immediately worked him for a walk. Jimmy Shinn got on with a single to right and then Bill Orr slammed one to left center for another two-ply affair to send in Gislason and Ryan. Earl Sheeley's single through short sent Orr over with the fourth run. Salt Lake threatened again in the second and third and just barely In the third Kirmayer almost tore SIglin's leg off with a single and Rodger's boot of Tobin's hard chance sent him to the third cushion. Rath advanced Kirmayer with a single and Gialason did the rest with a long sacrifice sac-rifice fly to right. Portland threatened several times. In the third and fourth, partly excusable ex-cusable errors by Gislason, put men on third. The third, in fact, saw the bases loaded after the side should have been retired. Kirmayer. gave the fans something to enthuse over, however, how-ever, by striking out the mighty Farm-er. Farm-er. Gus Fisher camo near stewing up the beans in the seventh when he opened with a double to the right field fence. He got aB far as third with one down, only to have Kirmayer again pull himself together and strike out Denny Wilie for tho third time of the afternoon. Today's game again starts at 2:30 o'clock. Lynn Brenton for Portland, and Hoff, Hughes or Dubuc for Salt Lake, are the pitchers. nn |