The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-16
Hancock Twirls Shut Out
Ball in Final Game
MOCK FOUND At RIGHT Time
6outhpaw Fails to Puzzle
Swatters
"Red" Farrell Keeps Up His Great
Hitting -willoughby Drives I'm Both
of the Digger Runs--Rain Stops
Game.

Disgers took a tighter grip on sec-
ond place, made IL three out of
four on the present series, and did
some pretty hitting in the four and
one hal finnings of baseball at the
yard saturday afternoon. With the
locals in the lead and Hancock go
ing good, the rain man stepped In.
made play impossible and for the
required thirty minutes the down
pour continued.
That rain may have helped n lot or
II may not. At least everything
was in favor of the Diggers. Han
Geek was In there breezing them
over in clever style and in the few
times where Lanks had chance
he showed that he was master OF
the situation. IL was not Hancock's
turn to work. He had travelled most
of the route Friday but Lewis
relied on the youngsters effective
ness against the Lanks at critical
times yesterday, to give him plenty of
courage today.
on the other hand, Mock was
no more an enigma than he has been
on most of the occasions he has
faced the Diggers this year. A hab-
II OF hitting when hits were needed
developed early and in the second
inning the contest was sewed up.
Lanks throughout the fray looked a
lot less like Champs than they did
on their first day here. There was
a noticeable lack of pepper and
confidence and most everyone took
occasion to roast Bob Hart on every
occasion. The habit grew on them
until they wolfed at times when
they made themselves ludicrous.
Harts umpiring I'm the present SER
les has been of the best and IL Lam
caster is not satisfied with him, one
can not but wonder what they will say
when they strike that near-umps
Handiboe.
In the second, Diggers got the
scoring machine out and II worked
without any slips. With Williams
out, Staley poled TO left for the base
and Farrell followed suit. driving
clean one that travelled so fast Staley
was held at second. Johnstone forced
Farrell at second and Staley went To
third. Johnstone followed IL with a
theft of second and Jay Willoughby
reaching out for q wide one sent II
on a line to right, scoring Staley and
tombstone.
In the fourth the Diggers might
have had another run had Dick Staley
kept going on instead of looking for
the pill. with one down Staley was
hit and sent on a journey when
Farrell laced n clean one to right.
Carter let the bounder go through his
hands and the eror let Farrell ad-
vance to second. Staley In the mean
time put on new speed and fastened
home. but a relay from Carter to
Heller to Williams caught the slim
Digger at the plate.
Lanks were dangerous in the third
when Bob Williams led off with
doubel to right. Mock lifted to
+ Schrall and Brown was passed. Rey-
nolds sacrificed the pair around and
II was up to Heller to deliver blow
that would tie the count, but Han
cock frightened and Freddie's best
was n roller to Staley. With one
down in the fifth. Wolfe erred and
gave Brown base. Johnstone
made great running catch of Rey-
: nold's foul and Brown made second
on theout. With Brown ready to
score, Hancock was better than Hell
Ter for the second time and the
heavy one famed.
Diggers were just entering upon
their portion of the fifht, Willough-
by having singled, when the rain
came down too hard and Hart called
the play.