The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-02
One Bad Inuing and the
Game was Gone.
O'DAY ON The MOUND
Tigers Failed to Make Any =
thing off of Him.
In the Ninth, Marion was In Fine
Shape to Win but the Curtain
was Runs Down Too Soon.
(BY r.. V. sAwHILL.)

point dn yesterdays game came sud
denly. Jimmy Lucas who started the
game with clean record of five
victories and no defeats for his
years work 50 far, had been going
along at a great rate until in the
fifth something slipped and before
he could get things working nicely
again four runs had crossed the
pan and there was only one out
Manager O'Day then assumed the
unrelished duty of finishing a game
that appeared TO be hopelessly lost
and although little wild he escap-
ed fairly we'll.
Both teams played great ball dur
ing the first four innings and as
both of the pitchers were twirlng
in great shape it looked to be q
toss up as 70 who would finish In
the lead when the curtain fell. How
ever when Lucas went to pieces In
the fifth, the Tigers secured what
appeared to be such an overwhelm-
lingy cafe lead that interest in the
contest Jagged until Marion started
a little batting rally in the ninth
that put the local fans on Uneasy
Street.
1t looked as II Marion had given
up all hops and was going to make
@ joke out OF the contest when
Manager O'Day ascended the mound
and changed his line up but the
little pun failed to matarlalze.
Mansfield however could have run
up few more tallies. IL they had
thought that dt was necessary while
the rally OF the Diggers in the last
frame was a more flash in the pan.
Buoholz had the game safely in
hand at all times. lie was in good
form and up until the ninth inning
the league leaders could not touch
his delivery. In the first eight in
nlngs they had only secured to-
tai OF four htts and one earned run.
He had excellent control his only
pass coming eaTly in the game. Ex-
cepting in those innings when Mar
ION scored only two men reached
third and in both instances there
were two down and the next batter
was not equal TO the emergency. He
pitched the kind OF ball that would
win nlme out OF ten games and tie
up the tenth.
Jimmy Lucas was unhittable un-
I'll the fourth when two safeties
sent one Tiger across the plat.
but ne blew up in the fifth. II he
had kept up his good work the two
teams might not have finished the
game In time TO permit the double
header on today. Manager O'Day who
took up the job whre James lef
on pitched fair game while he
worked. He was wild at first but tha
Tigers couldn't get hits off of his
delivery although they didn't trv
very hard as they had the game
safely sewed up.
None of the lnlelders shone in
any particularly strong degree and
the fielding h9nors belorls TO our
AtithdR sbh'hdy anu sDIAlhlls utS
had ten chances between them ana
with the exception OF Spratt's muf
OF an easy lily ball they performed
in nice style. The majority Of their
chances were hard ones.
The ascension of ODay to the
mound necsssltated a big change In
the visitors line up. Lucas, who
had taken his place at second be-
ing retlr>d in favor OF Wilson, Ket-
ter going TO right field and Windy
Lotshaw breaking into the game at
first Wilson had two chances that
he took nicely while IOtshaw
smothered everything that came his
way during his occupancy OF the
first base position.
Marion broke the icc in the fourth.
Wolfe igot the first hit of the game
an infield tap to short and moved
to third when Mathay allowed Tates
single TO 20 through him. Tate
going to second. Breymaler threw
to Flood TO catch Wolfe OF OF the
sack and Tim rElayed the ball TO
Kettler to catch Tate. Jimmy allow
ed the ball to go through him
and Wolfe scored Tate was run
down between third and home on an
attempted squeeze play. In Mans
nsid's half, AIathay reached first on
a hit TO O'Day that the manager
knocked down but fumbled. lie
went to second on am infeld out
and scored on Kettlers single. IN
In the ftfth Spratt dropped Wilson's
ivy and the letter. stole second and
scored on a single TO center by
Lucas. Mansfield started their bat
ting fest In their half. Singles by