The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-21
Lewis Praised for Fine
Work with Club.
FARRELL LEADS the Hl1TERS
Red Top Makes Gain in the
Week
Other Diggers do Some Notable
Hitting Nelson Holds Place as
Twirling Lcader--Thrce Corncred
Fight for Three Placcs--The Aver
ages.

Most noteworthy among the events
that trnnspired in the sixteenth week
of the Ohio state league season was
the reaching of second place by the
Marion Diggers after n climb of many
weeks from the cellar position. The
rise of the Lewis club has been a
steady one. The manager took the
club i'm last place during the last of
June. IT was a week or so before the
club got to going right and then the
Diggers slowly but surely overhauled
and passed all of their opponents
with the exception of Lima. Lam
caster was passed in the seventeenth
week, and 1t was the Diggers that as
sited greatly I'm pushing the former
Champs into the second division.
THREE CORNERED FIGHT.
The Mansfield club by dillgent ef-
fort succeeded in regaining n berth
in the first division and the battle is
now on between the three clubs with
three positions at stake. 1t is like
Iy that this fight win continue to the
end and perhaps the Labor Day games
will decide the right to occupy second
third and fourth places
Lima is going ahead at its same old
gait. winning regularly both at home
and on the road. Had the Diggers
started earlier in the season and
played even fair ball on the road,
Lima might be i'm danger Of n tum-
BILE form the exalted position It now
occupies but n lead Of more than
ten games is pretty safe at this stage
and Fohl is not worrying.
JOE LEWIS PRAISED.
Up this way and practically oil
around the circuit Manager Lewis Is
given a vast amount of credit for
getting the Diggers TO pun togeth-
er and to play the baseball Of which
they are capable. one position, leit
field has been weak all season Aside
from that however. there Is not
club in the league that has anything
on the locals and II the season eN-
tended a few weeks longer the Dig
gers might hope for better Things.
But Lee Fohl must be given lot
of credit for the Lima accomplish
ment this season. He has caught all
hut two games and it has been Fohi
rather than his pitchers who has been
outguessing the batters. Personal av-
erages have been put aside in favor
of concerted team play and therein
Lima success. Lima can hardly
claim the best club in the league but il
may rightfully be called the best ma
chine
with both Mansfield and Lancaster
following closely upon the heels of
the Diggers there Is certain to be a
pretty fight in the seventeenth week,
Lnnks have come to life again while
the Tigers are travelling faster than
at any time In the past two months
THE CELLAR FIGHT
Down farther on the league lad
der. Newark and Portsmouth arc
battling and O'Day Is expected tC
haul his youngsters into line and
null out of the cellar even If II Is toe
late to get much higher. Without
some of the old stars with which thu
club started the season, the Shoe
makers are far weaker but Newark
too. has lost some good ones and there
viii be good fight between theS'
two clubs before the season Is over
President quinn is authority fo
the statement that the league is II
good fnarcial condition despite th
many reverses ii has received thi
year. Around the circuit the presi
dent is given n vast amount of cred
it for fCld,ng TIE organization to
gethrr in year that might hav
seen it's downfall with any other a
the head. Bad weather has bee
one of the principal causes of finan
cial loss. on NEST of the league
big days from an attendance stand
point, urfnvcrahle weather condition
have cut in twain the box office re
ceipts or wiped them out entirely
Financial conditions are but slowl
recovering from the recent panic an
the league has felt the dearth
ready cash. But next year bette
things are hored for and in its thir
season .hc organization should B
free from financial worries.
FARRELL LEADS HI1TERS.
In the sixteenth week Farrell
again the batting leader the re
topper having advanced from .319
.325. williams. his teammate, a
though batting below the 300 mar
has made enc more hit than Farr2
and Inpre tran any other in Il
league as well as leading in exit
basn hitting. Alex Reilly has pllfer'
~ bases and Fink, another Lin