The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-18
LOSE AND WIN
IN DOUBLE BILL
Lewis Goes All the Way for
Diggers,
IS NIT HARD IN FIRST
HARD IN FIRST
Second Finds Him Tight at
Right Time.
Chase Gets Away Unharned In First
Game Lloyd With Better Asort-
ment Fails TO Win His Came
Schrall's Throw Feature.

Joe Lewis Travelled the whole. jour
ney in the Digger power house yes
terday afternoon at the yard in the
two encounters with Newark and af-
ter receiving more or less of a trounc-
ing in the first he returned with a
victory in the second, shutting out
his opponents.
In the two games the peculiari-
ties and uncertainties of base ball
stood out pre-cminently. In the first
Lewis suffered much because o! a
wobble or two, his own faulty work,
in places and the habit of the Orphans
which developed eariy--of grouping
their hits and mixing them nicely
with the mistakes of the Dggers.
On the other hand in the second game
things broke more for the locals. Lew
is in the first had everything but
Molders hit freely. In the second
game he really used less and visitors
did not hit when safeties meant dam
age to the Marion cause
X.
Chase may have whole lot in his
storage house but he did not use IL
and threw nothing but straight ones
all the way through Lloyd on the
other hand used lot more and pit
ched better ball than did Chase yet
Lloyd lost his game. Baseball dope
is peculiar. isn't It?
FIRST GAME
Marion made a bid for the first
bame in the second inniny when Stale
after letting one fast one breeze by
slapped the next one to right center
for two sacks. Farrell sacrificed and
Schrall looked to for long lift to
send in the slim lad but he fouled to
Birch. Johnstone laced liner dir
ectly into McClintock's hands.
Newark really won the game in tho
fourth when Tom Birch opened the
festivities with a single past Will
oughby. Chase attempted to sacrifice
Lewis fielded fast, heaved to Wolfe
ahead of Birch Wolfe dropped the
ball with a double play in sight and
both runners were safe To make
matters worse Lewis hit Hoffman,
Milling tho pillows. snyder helped
the local cause a little by tanning.
Then came lhe disastrous attempt
to block the squeeze play. With the
signal given Birch started in quickly
and Lewis seeing the play threw back
OF McClintock, preventing the batter
from tapping the ball Johnstone how
ever was unable to get the heaye and
II went to the stands. The catcher
was none too fast in fielding it ana
Chase and Hoffman followed Birch
Oyer the rubber, McOlbntock then
went out Wolfe to staley on his hop
per Abbott renewed the attack nv
putting baser into left middle and
following II with theft of second.
Fisher walked and Abbott scored on
johns double TO left while Fisher
went to third, Johnstone took Ander
sons foul pop.
Those four were rather mountain
GUS but the fans were hopeful thai
the Digger attack would be strong
enough to overcome the handicap re-
membering the uphill battle fought
so recently with the Lanks.
Seemingly the chance was at hand
In the last half of the frame. With
one down Lewis singled and Hoffman /
made PRETTY play on Behringer's
drive toward right that looked COOL !
tor hit. Lewis went to second on
the out. Wolfe singled to middle bur
Lewis was held at third. Wolfe pill
Tered second and the bricks were full |
when Williams walked. Staley fail |
ed to deliver tnd Birch book his
foul fly.
Not until the seventh did the Dig
ger scoring machine get into action !
and then lone counter was made
with two down Lewis singled TO mid
die and scored on Behringer's mighty
double between Anderson and Abbott. |
Molders made ninth innings fin
ish for the Diggers an imposslbility |
when their portion of the frame role
around. With one down Birch got a !
baser in middle and Chase was ribbed
oy Lewis. passed ball let both
advance Hoffman's safety scored
Birch and sent Chase to third. Hoft-
man closed up the gap with a theft
and Snyder walked. Then the squeeze
was tried and II worked beautifully, |
MtcYntock bunting 20 lewis and
Chase scoring. While Lewis heaved
to Staley, Hoffman sneal1ed in before |
the ball was returned to tue plate |
Johnstone and Hoffman collided and