The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-09-13
SHUT THEM OUT
Crystal Falls BaIlPlayers I'd
Speedy For The Ontonos-
an Boys.


The Crystal Falls base hall pIay4
downed the Ontonagon aggreRatl
~ players gathered from ali over q
copper country towns, in a game
sunday that any team might not !
ashamed 10 lose IL was he best "a q
put up this year by the local play y
and the boys claim that the team -
they had opposing them at Ontonagnn
was the stiffest that they have met
this year, not excluding the 500 team.
The Ontonagon team had met with
such disasterous defeat rhen the boys
came down here that they decided
to turn the tables on the Falls players
and, 10 that end. secured McCrickett.
the phenomenal twirler from Dollar
Bay and Mndder the catcher of the
Calumets. McLuaglin, one of the best
fclders and the heaviest hitter in the
copper country was secrued in addi-
tion and several players were picked up
about the town that We're stronger
than those who were in the game in
the Falls
With this aggregation the fellows
+ from the Diamond Match bailiwick
felt assured Of success ami the citizens
were willing 10 stake anything, even
to their chances for getting the Mich.
igan stamp mill, that the green OF
Ontonagon would triumph over the
white If Crystal Falls But the men
from the phoenix town had faild to
credit their opponents Of the lilly hue
with the strength that was in them for
while the Ontonagon aggregation play
an exceptionally fine game the boys
from here played better especially
with the stick.
McCrickett pitched fine ball But
five safe hits were made off mis- pitch
ing He is fine man 10 play a
gainst as he plays ball All Of the time
and spends no time chewing the rag.
Mudder caught faultless game and
the other Ontonagon PLAYERS played al
commensurate game, but four errors
being charged up against them.
The Crystal Falls players are
charged with two errors and one of
them resulted in getting a man out.
Semacheck. with odds against him
because OF sore hand and sub
sequent clip on the shins. went in an II
pitched faultless game. He has nine
strikeouts to his credit while Onto
nagon only picked two scattering hits
off his berry bnsh Of shoots and
changes Oaks caught him in
good style and with little more|
coaching to extract from him. his
tendancy to play fancy ball, he will
be very valuable man. He threw
well to second although he had little
chance 70 show of his work in uhis
line as but two men got as far as
second, both of them forced The
work Of the out field was the feature
of the game. Every ball that went up
was grappled by either Doran Scott or
OuBtTh. lHtN ulhut SOine Hur ny
catches The infeld was not called
upon for as much work az is usually
the case but what they got they hand !
led in good style,
The game stood without tally
on either side until the fourth inning
when the Falls boys got in one that
was earned. Then the score stood / to
0 until the seventh inning when, on an
error Of the first baseman and a
couple of hits, two runs were brought
in. The last run was earned in tne
ninth.
The umpiring of Herman Buenger
was good and acceptable TO all There
was some kicking by one Of the
Ontonagons on decision on first base
play but all concerned admitted
that Mr.. Buenger was right after
wards. The score stood Crystal Falls
4 Ontonagon o.