The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-25
AT HOME AND
EASILY TOOK GAME
Medicine Hat Bunch Brought
A Sample of It's Noted
Weather With Them.
POLAR BEAR CHAMPIONS.
YINGLING WAS IN THE BOX FOR
THE LOCALS AND PITCHED A
SPLENDID GAME-WEAvER WAS
THE STAR.
(By Tort.)
Medicine Hat 5; Richmond a..

Hearing that the Medicine Hat ball
team was billed for Richmond Tuesday
some mint julip zephyrs from that
frost bitten Canadian burg, where the
storm king loafs when not on duty and
the mercury freezes. arrived in town
at the same time the ball team did.
The frost-tinged atmosphere made the
visitors feel like they were again in
that leaf old Medicine Hat-and is it
any wonder they took our sun-cured
pets ; to 4?
Medicine Hat team are the champs OF
the Polar Bear league and they have
some ball team, reinforced by a few OF
the urpIus citizens of Cincinnati,
which has a population of 100000 when
the minor league seasons are on and n
population of 100000 when the minor
leagues close business for the winter.
Mr.. Yingling, the crack Dayton
southpaw, who has been purchased by
the Detroit Americans, was on the fir
ing line for the locals and he pitched
an excellent game, letting the Icebergs
down with five hits and breezing V
of them. Hollis, another southpaw,
worked for the visitors and he was
touched up for eight hits, but was ef-
~fective in pinches. Ownie Bush, the
crack little shortstop, was really re-
sponsible for our defeat.
In the sixth, with the score 3 to 2 in
favor of the Icebergs, Yingling booted
a chance allowing Lefty Geyer, the
Grand Rapids outfielder, a life. Val
doise then poled a hot one at Bush.
c4- ~,, L;- Hod he
fielded the ball the side would have
been retired without a run as the next
two up were easy outs. AS it was,
Medicine Hat with two down uncorked
a nice hit, off Zurlag's bat, and both
base runners counted, making the score
5 to 2.
Hits by Weaver and Parker in the To-
| cal sixth and an error by Bateman Off
Fishers bat brought IN two runs for
the locals. making the score D to a..
Hollis frightened after this inning and
allowed only two scattered hits the re-
mainder of the game.
Made Brilliant Start.
The Quakers, at the kickoff, started
brilliantly. With two down Stokes
Weaver, who hit like a pile driver and
fielded spectacularly throughout the
game. singled. Parker then came TO
bat and fell on the first pitched ball for
three bases. Weaver counting. Burns
breezed. The visitors in their half of
the first made a gallant bid for a score
but B. Lally, whose umpiring was fan
tastic and wierd. could not see it.
Through the charity of Yingling, Bate
man. who used to play here with Billy
Earle along about the civil war period.
and valdoise got on the bags. Bateman
slid for third and Meredith, who work
ed for Jessup, got him a mile off that
bag, but Lally called him safe. This
should have been the third out. Bate
man and Valdoise then started a double
steal. While Bush was trying to run
down Valdoise between first and Sec
ond, Bateman started for home. He
crossed the plate and was enroute to
the bench when Meredith got a hold Of
the ball. Meredith then, as a matter
of habit, tagged Bateman. To the as
constituent of everyone Lally called
him out. Cap. Benny of the visitors,
assisted by a select chorus of his hired
men, howled like a dyspeptic sea lion,
but all to no avail.
In the second, a hit by Johnson. Fish
er's sacrifice and Yingling's single,
counted for a run. The one sensation
al feature of the game was a catch
made by Weaver in the ninth. Benny
poled a high one into deep center. after
Lally had robbed him of a base hit in
to right which made the chaff fly on
the foul line and which Lally called d
foul ball. Weaver started to run with
his back to the populace. After near
ly losing himself in the alfalfa Stokes
jumped high and speared the ball.