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Show I BEES WALLOP THE ANGELS 7 TO 5 iN OPENING GAME OF 1918 SEASON LOS ANGELES, April 2. Salt Lake I : 7; Los Angeles, 5. Winning opening-I day games has become a Bee pe. ial ! It makes no difference whether said j beginning of a season occurs en thei home or visiting lot; and the part ih.it ' i made the biggest hit with the little handful of us fanatics from Salt Lake was that the Inaucural victory of 1118 was garnered from the crooked arm j slants of our old side kick. Paul Pit-1 1 tery. who once won an opening day game for us in 1916, if memory serve5 ( us correctly. Not until Karl Crandall and Proxy Lane kissed and made up this after-noon after-noon did Salt Lake's chances look any too good, especially not with the crafty . little Fittery opposed, but when tho old ball game cot under tho way the boys from Utah began to stand out like the best ball club. Lefty Levcrenz, even though he scared us almost out of our wits on one or two occasions, was all there and a yard wide when it came to the final test. Then also. fans, shake hands with yourself that we have Karl CnlH- dall back on the difficult corner, for this boy, who caused Bill Lane so much worry, surely did play the bag in grand style and his timely clicking of the baseball went a lone way toward putting the first game on our side of the ledger. Bill Orr Is another Salt Lake alh-leto alh-leto who did himself proud. As a mat-ter mat-ter of fact, the bottom of the batting order, including Lefty himself, de genres most of the credit for the swat-ring swat-ring which tucked away this game. The weather was not of the kind of which Los Angeles people boast, but B the sun did take an occasional peep. Perhaps the somewhat cloudy skies were responsible Jor tho rather stingy opening day crowd, but the attendance was not what had bon expected; in fact, it was just about such a crowd as Salt Lake would term a fair Saturday Satur-day attendance. The usual opening day ceremonies preceded the game The mayor threw the first ball. etc. Te the strains of patriotic music a larce American flag was hol.sted to a flasrpele while the fans cheered. The Bees wanned up first and mad" a natty appearance in their unies of blue and white, with an American llag worked into the shirt front. The boys from Salt Lake looked just as natty when they took their first turn at the plate. Happy Jack Farmer Farm-er laifl the third ball pitched over Sam Crawford's head for a double, the only i extra base hit of the game. Sigiin sacrificed and Fittery mussed up the I play in his efforts to catch the Bee I rieht cardener at third, So the lattrr scored with the first run. Chappelio grounded out while Sigiin went to' second. A screaming single over set ond from Buddy Ryan's bat sent Sig-lin Sig-lin over. Fittery found himself In the hole on Sheely and did not have ih. nerve to lay it in there for him, so that Earl drew the first pass of the season Billy Orr cracked a boiutlful single against Crawford's shins, but Ryan tried to stretch matters and was. nabbed at the plate. Karl Crandall , fanned. The third saw the Bees tearinc Into Fittery without a bit of mercy fori their former teammate, and Paul also showed signs of beginning to crack under the strain Chappelle led off, with a walk and took second when Boles dropped Ryan's third strike and was forced to make the play at the bag for Buddy. Sheely walked a second sec-ond time Orr Hied out to left, but Crandall soaked one on the pick for a clean single Into Left center, sending in Chappelle. Konnlck'H pass filled the bases and then Lofty came throucrh With the blow which practically put him on Easy street. A pretty blngle between Crawford and Schick regis tered Sheely nnd Crandall. Screeching singles by Orr and rrnn dnll chased Fittery at the start of the fifth frame. Younc Pertica. a local husher win pitched an excellent article ar-ticle of ball from there on In. succeeded suc-ceeded him. The kid walked Konnick and Levcrenz fanned. Farmer's sacrifice sac-rifice fly accounted for Orr. Pertica wavered in the sixth and the Bees chucked over their final run Singles Sin-gles by Ryan and Orr paved the way. and another clout from the bat of i rand. ill sent him o i r. The big scare came in the sixth and it looked bad for a time. Zeb Terry started matters by bustlne one through the box for a base. Levcrenz lost his bearings and walked Schick. The Angel rooters howled like mad when the famous "Wahoo" Sam Crawford Craw-ford came to the bat. The old-timer delivered with a blow to right that scored Terry. Schick went to third and Crawford to second on the throw. Fournier popped a ! over second with the Infield in. bringing In Schick. Ellis cracked a safe one Into left and Crawford came over. A similar blow-by blow-by Boles brought in Fournier and still there wns nobody out. Lefty seemed to pull hlmsell together, however, and he forced Wilson tc bunt Into a double play. Pertica whiffed and ended the agony. KlUlfer led off with a single In tho next frame and things began to darken dark-en again until Larry Chappelle picked Crawford's drive riff the fence. Salt Lakewas able to do nothing with the Ant;e heavlnc alter tiiat. but the home crew garnered another in the eighth before Lefty could aeain npply the brakes. With one down Ellis singled. Boles drove a hard one at Levcrenz which the latter ticked and deflected toward Crandall. Karl made a bad i to Shroly and Ellis took third. Pepe, former Bee, hatted for Wilson and Ellis El-lis scored on his out at first. An instant in-stant later Karl redeemed himself by robbing Terry of a sure hit and Bhee l saved the day by digging Crandall's bad (hrow out of (be dirt. President I-ane today came to terms with Candall and Rube Evans. Both boys played the holdout string as far as possible, but when they weund that the Bee proxy would not weaken, they v. i re tickled to get back into the fold. Salt Lake. ABRHPO AE Farmer cf .... 5 1 2 1 0 0 Sigiin 2b 5 1 1 2 2 L Chappelle rf 3 1 0 2 0 0, Ryan If 5 1 2 2 0 0; Sheely lb 3 1 0 6 1 0 Orr ss 5 1 4 4 4 0 K. Crandall 3b 5 1 3 2 1 n Konnick c 2 0 0 6 0 0 Levcrenz p 5 0 1 2 2 0 To'als 38 7 13 27 10 1 Los Angeles. AB R H TO A B Klllifer 2b 4 0 1 2 0 0 Ten s ss 5 1 2 1 3 0 Schick cf 4 1 1 1 0 0 Crawford rf 4 1 2 1 2 0 Fournier lb 4 1 1 6 0 0 Ellis If 4 1 2 3 0 0 Boles c 3 0 2 8 0 Wilson 3b 3 0 0 3 0 0 Fittery p 1 0 0 0 1 1 Pertica p 2 0 0 1 0 1 I', pe 3b 1 0 0 1 1 0 O. Crandall 1 0 0 0 0 0 Valencia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 5 11 27 7 2 Score by innings Salt Lake 22 Oil ftOO 7 Los Angeles 000 004 0105 Pepe batted for Wilson In eighth. O. Crandall batted for Pertica in eighth. Summary: Two -base hit Farmer. Sacrifice hits Sigiin. Farmer. Struck out By Fittery 2. by Levcrenz 4. by Pertica 2. Base on balls Off Fittery 4. off Leverinz 4, off Pertica 2. Runs responsible re-sponsible for Fittery 5. Pertica 1, Leverenz 5. Charge defeat to Fittery. Double pi i s Sigiin to Orr to Sheely, Leverens to Orr. stolen base Chap-elle. Chap-elle. COLORADO TO HAVE BASEBALL LEAGUE DENVER, April 2. Plans for a state baseball league will be formulated formu-lated at a meeting in Denver this week. The league will be composed of six clubs, two from Denver and one each from Colorado Springs, Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Puoblo and Greeley. The men back of tho new circuit hope to start the season .May 1 and continue every Saturday and Sunday until September Septem-ber 1, Harry Fancher, formerly of the Gates Half Soles, and Steve Matticka, ex -minor lea true manager, will handle the local ciubs. They will play every Saturday und Sunday at Broadway park The league will comprise minor league players. |
