The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-13
TIMELY HITTING
SAVES THE DAY
Wolfe, 0'Day and Tate Drive
In Runs.
GAME SEEMS LOST
Costly Errors Give Lanks
Safe Lead.
0'Day Clears Bases with Double r
Wolfe's Hit Wins J. Craig In Great
Form A Weird One.

| Pulllng game out OF lhe nre
that even the most ardent rooters
had thought hopelessly lost the
Diggers swatteu the oSering OF
Smoke" .Justus at critical times
and did not let up until Frank
Wolfe scored Anderson with his
single in the eighth, deciding the
Ilgame and incidentally making 1t
two out OF three with the Lanks.
starting under the most favorable
auspices the Dlggers blanked the
| Ianks in the first frame and then
made one themselves. That looked
| pretty good for a starter but there
were several severe iolts to be
handed the fans in the next. A
| series OF errors Of commission and
commission by Anderson. together
with some sharp hitting allowed the
Ianks four runs. With Justus
pitching it looked as though Ian
caster had the deciding game al
ready slowed away in George Fox's
| grip But such was not to be for
| series of the hardest kind of smash
es gave the DlPlgers four runs In
their half and one run lead.
Then the Lanks tied up and II re-
mained that way until Frank Wolfe
broke down the barriers.
on the whole the contest was q
weird one. The early innings were
marked by terrific slugging. Clouts
came at the right time for both
sides Wilmot was working for the
Diggers. In the second the callers
took a liking 10 his Offering and
they kept it up in the third until
after three hits had been made
O'Day derricked Wilmot and sent in
Craig. The auburn haired lad al
lowed the visitors hut one hit In
that frame while he retired the side
but there were two Lanks on when
he went in and the one safety was
enough to tie up the score. After
that the Tanks made but two hits
one clean one and the other an
fnfeld blow that was n pure gift
of Umpire Handiboe II was some
game that Craig pitched and the
way the big fellow was going he
could have stopped the Tanks for
twice the usual number of innings.
The Digeers early developed n
habit Of swatting Smoke Tustus that
cunning thrower who has won
many n close one for the Tanks
Vet after the early inning the
Diggers could not do much with
Jnstus although there were several
opportunities 10 score.
O'Dav switched around the hat
iirlZ order. sending IaRue IN first
and hattir'r third himself Crockett
was dropped 10 the seventh position.
10 could not have been better Tho
manager was the right man In the
wight place on two different occasions.
and he scored one run himself and
f''''i W lbNI IlOTt.
H.nRue walked as an opener.
Wolfe laid down perfect sacrifice
and I.aRue, who was hiking for
second as the ban was dumped
made dash for third reaching the
sack after a great slide. II was this
base running stunt that made II
possible for LaRue to count on
O'Day's long sacrifice fly to Elch-
berger Tate followed with double
TO right and Ketter walked but
Wilson was put down from Brown
10 Gowdy.
That second inning was hard
one 20 swallow and the I.anks
were in their glory. Gowdy was
passed by Wilmot and when Rey-
nolds laid down bunt Anderson
made a bum heave to first, allowing
Gowdy to take third and REYNOLDS
second. Piper lifted one to Wolfe
and Smoke Justus slashed one
through the infield 10 Tate. scoring
Gowdy and Reynolds. though Tate's
throw was in Anderson's hands in
time TO catch Reynolds. Justus
went TO second when Brown sing
led and scored on Eichberger's in
Held hit. Humphreys was out from
Wolfe to Crockett and when Carter
llfted an easy, fly II looked as though
the inning was over. Anderson.
however went down toward third
base after the ball and dropped II.
allowing Eichberger to score and
Carter to perch on first. o'Day re-
tired the side when he grabbed
Iallier's grounder. The Tanks should
have had Just one run instead OF
four.
BY way of revenge and retribu-