The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-02
LIMA CAPTURES
THE LAST GAME
Kaler Puzzle to Digger
Hitters.
LEWIS IS BATTED HARD
Hits and Errors Let Lima
Make Four.
But Two Safcties Secured by Marion
Club In Saturday Contest-Both of
Those Come After seventh Inning
The Story.
(By John X. Marl,hau.)

(By John X. Marl,ham.)
Lima, o., Aug. 2-(Spocial) Not
since the memorable fifteen inning
struggle at Lancaster on the opening
day of the season has "Grum" Kali
or pitched such an article of base
ball as he twirled against the Mar
ion Diggers at San Felice Park yester-
day afternoon when he shut the hard
hitting visitors out without a run and
allowed but two hits during the nine
inning struggle.
The big boy demonstrated that he
is already ripe for faster company
when for seven innings he kept the
Diggers hitless breezing such hard
hittcrs as Big Chief Williams and
causing reliable battcrs like Farrell
and Kolfe to go out on easy flies or
grounders that We're not difficult for
the faster outer gardeners of the To-
Gals to get their hands on.
During these seven innings but two
men reached first base, Staley getting
there by being struck by the ball in
the second inning and Wolfe was pre-
scnted with "A walk In the seventh,
In the eighth after one man had been
retired and Johnstone had two strikes
on him the Marion catcher doubled To
middle. Willoughby, the next man
up was walked. and this Is the only
time during the whole game that Kali
or was i'm danger of being scored
upon. The possibilities of a run, how
ever. did not affect him in the least
and he proceeded to stick to his
pitching, causing Lewis aud BchrinE-
er ton y out to Reilly. In the final
inning Reilly, batting for Shields,
drew a base. He was the first man
up and many twirlers would have
gone ballooning. had they permitted
anything of this kind. Not so with
"Crum." He famed Wolfe and all
but had the Indian struck out when
Williams hit to center The hit look
ed good for two bases but Foutz made
a spectacular stop of It and kept up
his good work with Staley the next
man pu, drove out an apparently safe
one to the territory between Reilly
and Foutz. The latter ran almost
into left field and got the ball, maxi
ing one of the prettiest catches ever
witnessed on the local lot Farrell
then flew to Fink and the game was
over
During the entire nine innings but
thirty-three men faved the local twir-
Ter. His performance in holding them
hitless for seven innings is all the
more remarkable in view of the fact
that the Marion aggregation is one
of the heaviest hitting teams in the
league, having them all beaten when
II comes to clouting the horsehide,
with the possible exception OF Lam
caster Big Chief williams has been
leading the Ohio State sluggers good
part of the time and "Red" Farrell
Is now in the lead Shields Is the
only weak hitter in the entire team
and kaler's performance will go
down in the annals of Ohio state
baseball history as one of the really
remarkable games of the season.
Manager Lewis. he of no-hit fame.
essayed TO twir against the locals.
He proved easy from The first, al
though usually Lewis is ono Of the
most reliable of Ohio State league
twirlers.
In the first inning Fohl and Reil-
ly each got clean hits, their bingles
only indicating what was In store for
the pitcher-managcr. In all but the
second inning one or more hits were
registered off OF Lewis and when the
total number of bingles had been
counted up at the conclusion of the
game II was found that total Of
eleven nice juicy hits had been pluck
ed. As a general thing the Cigar
makers arc not long on hits. winning
most of their games by clever base
running after getting on the bag in
various and sundry ways. Their bat
tins eyes were with them yesterday.
though. and Manager Lewis was the
ono to suffer while the Cigarmakcrs
boosted their averages Captain
Fohl, himself. set an example for his
men, getting three hits and two bases
on balls on five appearances at tho
plate. Fink and Reilly proved his
most apt pupils, each having two bin
giles 10 their credit.
After feeling out Lewis In the OPEN
ing frame. the locals started to go
after runs In the third. Kaler led
on and he drove high one TO Far
rell Ordinary II would have gone
Tor hit, but Crum had forgotten
who was playing in the middle gar
den and the red headed Digger pull
ed II down Fink then drove a hot
one 20 short field, The ball took a
lucky bound Just before II got To
Wolfe and the Marion short stop was
unable to get his hansd on the pellet.
In time to catch Fink at first, al
though the decision was close one
Tor Handiboe. He got a nice lead off
OF first and attempted to go TO sec
ond but Johnstone pegged to Wolfe
who tagged the runner Fohl then
got walk and this proved Lewis un-
doing for Reilly followed with triple
to ieft. Sykes popped to Behringer.
In the next three innings the locals
got three hits OFF OF Lewis, slam
ming one out each time. During this
time he paNp fINn hacns N IA 49,. L.. :.