The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-12
Marion Errors and Other
Plays Cause Bad Defeat
zMIcH IN GREAT FORM
TwirIer Holds Champs Hit
lees Until the Seventh.
Scratch Mcclure Goes Good Against
Old Teammstes- Errors by Wat.
kins, Wolfe and Johnstone Fatal

Yesterdays matinee was somewhat
OF disappointment after the thriller
OF the day before but II was one OF
those games that one must sometimes
expect when Lancaster is playing
Marion. Time and again the Dig
gers should have taken games from
the Lanks but almost as many times
the Lanks won not so much because
they were 80 good as because the
Diggers were so punk.
Yes. gentle reader punk is pret-
ty good name for It VIXEN It comes
10 sizing up the Digger play yester-
day. Starting in the first inning
and continuing until the close Marion
played far from fair article OF
baseball Aud IL was the more dis
couraging because Lefty Zmlch was In
there pitching great ball. The big
southpaw was travelling along in
great style not q semblace of a safe
one being made off him for six long
innings. But despite that fact, 4
pass to Reynolds. Humphreys sacrl-
flee and Watkins mum of an easy lift
by Moeler that would have retired
the side after Gowdy famed. let Ian
caster score one in the first.
The Dlggers tied in their half
With O'Day and Wolfe put away
Farrell laced to the right field fence.
Carter was under the ball but step
ped into n hole up against the fence
and the ball rolled to the ground,
Farrell reaching second. Indian Will
liams was there In the emergency,
driving n beautiful single to deep
right. scoring Farrell Williams
made second on the play to get Far
rell and Dick Staley followed with
a single to left but Williams was
held at third. It was case of hit
ting the ball too hard for Moeller
got the ball quickly and made a
beautiful throw home which would
have caught Williams had he not
held third Johnstone could not fol-
low up the advantage gained and his
grounder to Humphreys forced Stall
ey A punch or two here would
have made the game safe but it was
not TO he.
Scratch Mcclure was working his
first game against his old teammates,
with whom he should be today by
everything that Is right But Lancas-
ter wanted him and the directors OF
the league awarded Mcclure TO them
on the flimsiest claim that ever Sc
cured a player.
The Diggers had another chance to
40 something in the second when
Watkins was a target for Mcclure.
Willoughby came up but instead OF
sacrificing he tried TO hit 1t out
Peculiar thing that. With Willough-
by hitting about once in ten or
twelve times up it seems like 1t
would have been good baseball for
him 10 have sacrificed. But even at
that a hit and run might have avail.
ed something had Willoughby hit the
ball on the ground hut II was not
even q hit and run. When Willough-
by smashed at the ball Watkins was
standing flat-footed near first. The
result OF the attempt was that Will
loughby went out on q fiy 10 Gowdy.
Zmich forced Willoughby, u Day
walked and Wolfe forced O'Day.
Another big Digger chance came
in the third. Farrell singled as n
starter and Williams sacrificed.
Staley was there with the safe hit
but again II was smash too fast
to left and Moeiler got the pill in
time TO hold the speedy Farrell at
third Perhaps some one would
think that was not hard luck once
II was bad enough but twice made 1t
far worse. Then Johnstone, with
hit needed. again hit to Humphreys.
The latter threw to Gowdy and
Gowdy's throw home nipped Farrell
who tried to come in on the play.
About the only other Digger ef.
fort OF note was the clom that Zmich
gave the leather with two down in
the ninth, the ball sailing far over
the right wall.
But the story OF the Lanks Is real
ly longer In the telling The seventh
did not look bad at the outset as
Moeller was an easy out, but Lallier
hit to Wolfe and the latter's error
gave the Lank life He stole sec
ond and scored on Corbin's double