The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-01
TIGERS COP
THIRD GAME
Wild Pitches and Passed
Balls Let Them Win.
BURK IS TRlFLE WILD
HEAVIER Fails to Receive Very
Good Support.
Diggers Have Lost Six Of the Seven
Played Oh the Road--poor Play
ing Features the Contest.
(By r. N. sawhillD }

saf''A'hfANH ahN1Neh hNlt 10
Cnly one point that Is to be re-
lgretted about yesterdays game. We
failed TO make nine runs. In the
first game Of the series we made
seven runs, in the second we ran
up a total of eight runs and so
according to the law OF sequence
we should have wound up the third
game OF the series by making nine
but we felI down and only managed
to send five men across the plate.
Still everything considered that
wasn't so bad for while we were
running up those FIVE. Marion could
only send three across. Conse
quently we took the third game of
the series from the once invincible
Diggers by the score of to 3.
What do YOU know about mat?
Three straight games from team
that has not been lower than sec
oud place all season and has been
in undisputed lead OF the race for
most of the season. Those halcyon
days foq MlTion when they invari-
ably took two and often three
lgames in a series from us are past.
II this happy time could only have
arrived a aittle sooner what a diff
ference there would be in the pres
ent stlnding Of the two clubs.
The Marion club isn't the same club
that played here earlier in the sea-
son. The present team hasn't the
pepper and ginger possessed on
their previous appearance in our
fair city. Also they lack confidence
in themselves and have -rrgotten
their former trait OF pullina games
out OF the fire by ninth inning
rallies Their pitchers are also twirl-
ing far below the form they ex-
Inhibited during the early part Of
the season. Unless Lancaster slumps
badl, or Marion braces up soon the
prospects Tor the Diggers going back
into first don't seem very bright.
But all of the glory in this series
doesn't perch on our banner because
Marion has fallen off. A great deal
OF the honors came to us on ac-
count OF the fact that we are play
ing a much improved article of
ball over anything that we have
shown so far this season. For a
club that has been holding a berth
i'm the second division all year TO
turn around in mid season, and win
seven straight games show that
there is a marked improvement in
their style OF ball. We lost the
second game OF the Portsmouth
series and then wound up by win
ming all OF the three remaining.
Coming home we took three games
in a row from Marion and consid-
ering the class of ball we are play
i.y and that being put up by
Newark three straight from the
MoIders is not out of the question
Mansfield jumped right in at the
start OF the game yesterday and as
sumed the lead and were never
headed after that. That two run
lead looked big enough to win the
game but for the sake of rubbing
il in a little harder we added three
more. As 80 finally happened these
extra runs were needed TO win the
game but Marion would never have
scored their thee runs II Mansfield
had not had a safe lead. A little
trace of that timely hitting on the
part of the locals which has been
the feature OF this series coupled
with battery errors in the first
inning were responsible for Marion
losing the game.
In an effort to take the third
game from Marion, Tim Flood sent
Doc Bailey 10 the mound again, the
dentist having worked the opening
game OF The three against Marion
and having won It. Subsequent
events proved the Floods judgment
was good as Doc showed no trace
of being overworked and pitched
the same effective ball that he did
in Wednesdays game. He allowed
six hits scattered over five innings
and had the game well in hand all
the way through. 1t showed ex,
cellent Judgment in working Bail
ey as Buoholz has been easy fol
Marion lately, the Diggers usually
developing home run hitting pro
pensities that resulted disastrousl,
for Manshelds chances Of winninf
the game while Bueholz was doinf
the twirling stunt. Bailey was
little liberal with his passes, fiyf
out of the eight visitors who reach
ed first In the first six innings get
ting there over the free transpor
| fafion route ONLY one OF his tiVl