The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-28
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Lima Pitching Twice Downs
the Diggers
LUCK GIVES FIRST VICTORY
Behringer Falls with Third
Out in Sight.
Lewis Found for Two Runs In Eighth
Round of Second Game Two Great
Pitching Battles with Diggers
scoreless During the Whole Day.

II was nothing less than n surprise
party that Lima perpetrated on Dig
gers and Booster day fans at the yard
yesterday when the leaders suddenly
stopped the local climbing and ad-
ministered a brace of to de-
feats. An unfortunate fall by Beh
ringer after he had flelded n hopper
in the eighth inning let Lima score
twice and win when the side should
have been retired. In the second
Lima hits were punched with n pass
between and netted two runs. This
also happened in the eighth inning
of what was to have been seven in
ming game.
FIRST GAME.
Elmer Brown, who used to be n
Digger and such a mighty popular
one, returned yesterday to put it on
his old teamates. And he did
mighty good job of it. Brown pitched
a magnificent game, yet there were
times when the Diggers might have
made the contest look pretty safe
could they have garnered n lonely
single. Brown, at those times. how
ever, was making the Diggers feed
out of his hands and they submit
ted.
Roy Hancock. who is fast develop
ing into a champion hard luck pitch
er, was Browns opponent and he
pitched fully as cleverly as did the
ex-Digger. For seven innings Lima
could do but little with him. Five
hits were made by the Cigarmakers
in that time but four were inheld
scratches and none put the Diggers in
great danger, although all four
reached second base. The eighth was
the heart breaker and really turned
the tide in Lima's favor for the whole
day. With one out Fink singled and
stole second. Bierhalter's decision
caused some protest as It looked as
though Fink was out. Corbin's out
sent Fink to third. With two out
Snyder rolled to Behrlnger n short
distance from first and looked an
easy out, but Behringer's knee gave
AWAY and before he recovered him
self to throw after he had caught
the ball, Snyder was safely over first
and Fink had crossed the ruber with
the only run of the game so far.
Snyder followed by stealing second
and Sykes clouted to middle for
base. scoring Snyder That was suf-
But II must have been hard mo-
ment for Hancock in there twlrling
magnificent ball. to have an infield-
er fall with the third out apparent
ly so easy TO make that everyone
considered Lima retired in the in
ming.
Apparently the game was the Dig
gers the way things looked in the !
L.. D.l.. d.
niger Wolf then failed to sacri--
flee but Williams came to the front
with a single. sending Behringer to
second. Behringer and Williams
then pulled off a double steal, catch
ing Piper asleep and Piper did not
even try to make the throw. Dick
Staley then famed out while Red
Farrell hit short pop to Newnham.
The seventh might have been a game
breaker. With one down, Staley
walked and Farrell who hit to LaRue,
another ex-Digger who returned TO
help crush his former teammates,
and forced Staley at second. Reilly
slapped to center for a base in a hit
and run play sending Farrell to
third, Reilly advancing to second on
the throw to get the red top at third.
Then Wilioughby started one through
the opening between Newnham and
LaRue, but the short stop got the
ball and heaved IL to Sykes just
ahead of the runner when the slight
nst delay would have given Marion
n run.
The NEWMAN play on Willoughby
was the brightest feature OF the game
aside from the work of Brown and
Hancock.
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