Show THE CONTEST bot very exciting another dame probable what had been expected would be the most interesting and exciting game of baab ball this season took at salt lake city on washington square saturday august 29 there was an unusually large attendance of spectators who anxiously awaited the beginning of the game at time was called and the salt lake team went to the bat and were whitewashed the first innings for the athletics resulted ini parsons getting one run which was made amid great applause in the second innings the salt lakers scored four runs all due to the bad pitching of alien allowing to take bases on called balls one run waa made by 0 wells in the athletic second innings which made the score stand 4 to 2 in favor of salt lake the salt lake boys in their third innings scored four more runs the third fourth and fifth innings of the athletics were whitewasher whitewashes white washes the fourth and fifth innings of the capital team were whitewasher whitewashes white washes they scored one run in the sixth inning The Ogden team made one more run in their sixth inning which was protested against by west but the scorers allowed the run the salt lake team were successively whitewashed in the ath ath and ath innings ogden scored two more runs in the ath innings tho ath and ath being whitewasher whitewashes white washes following is the score SALT LAKE runs outs groesbeck r f 1 2 larsen 1 b 0 4 ridges c 0 4 west p 2 2 barker B s 2 3 golding c f 0 4 burt 2 b 28 3 bess bf 1 2 barlow 3 b 1 3 totals 9 27 babsy ATHLETICS runs outs browning 2 b 0 4 parley 3 b 0 5 parsons c 2 3 alien p it 1 3 dermady 1 b 1 3 0 wells s B 1 1 C wells r f 0 3 read 1 f 0 3 boyle c f 0 2 totals 6 27 innings salt lake 0 0 9 ogden 1 0 5 the game was not aa exciting as it was thought it would be aliens pitching was a very disagreeable surprise to our boys as he has gen brally been considered as good a pitcher as we have in the territory but somehow on the occasion of this contest his usual skill seemed to have aft him after the third air of Willard took the tion of pitcher and continued to the end of the game with commendable credit there was some excellent play ing on both sides some splendid fly catches were made by read boyle bess and golding not one fly was muffed during the game the general opinion of the mul who witnessed the contest was that the ogden athletics would have been victorious if wells had pitched for the whole game at no distant date very likely another game will be played by the same teams which will be looked forward to considerable interest by the citizens of and salt lake city |