A Twelve-Inning Baseball Marathon

It took twelve innings for the Multnomahs to beat the Seattle Athletic Club this afternoon. A big crowd witnessed the game. The Multnomahs were first to score, but did not score until the second inning, when Ainslie made a hit, stole second and came home on a hit by Adams. Seattle scored in the sixth on Adams' two-base hit, the latter also scoring. Errors in the fourth inning of the game gave the Seattle team two more runs and evened up the score. The Multnomahs seemed about to face a bad case of rattles, but two strikes to Smith restored confidence. The crowd was wildly cheering now and, incited by horns and cowbells, the Multnomahs forced ahead five runs in the last three innings. In their half of the eighth, the Seattles began to wake up and gained two runs. A base hit by Bailey, a base on balls and a timely single by Flynn produced two more in the eighth, coming within one of a tie when Bailey came to hit in the Seattle half of the ninth. When he knocked the ball deep into a collection of bric-a-brac behind the clubhouse, whence Hodges could not extricate it in time to prevent a home run, the small crowd of Seattle rooters in the front row yelled themselves hoarse with jubilation. In the twelfth inning, the hard work told on Smith and the Multnomahs counted up nine runs. The Seattles made six runs but could not overcome the heavy advantage of their rivals, and Multnomah now carries the amateur championship of the Pacific Northwest.