The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-28
GOOD BASEBALL
PLAYED IN week
Four Clubs Furnish Classy
Sport.
MARION CLUB GOES THE BEST
Diggers won Five, Lost Two
and Tied One.
Farrell Leads League Hittcrs-- -seve-
raj Stars Leave for Faster Com
pany--The Outlook for Next Sea.
son ana the Averages.

The seventeenth week of the Ohio
state league season was without
doubt one of the most eventful thus
far in that Il witnessed the downfall
of the Lancaster club, champions of
1908 and runners-up for the greater
part of the present chase. The with
drawal of Lancaster necessitated the
dropping of the Newark team which
had been under league control since
| Newar kfans Withdrew their support
But even with these conditions pre-
vailing the strength of the league and
the men In control is evident.
The Ohio State league will finish
the season and though but four clubs
are left the class of baseball being
played Is fully up to the standard OF
| the earlier season when the interest
i'm the race was greater around the
| circuit. Today there remains little
TO be decided. Portsmouth has but
| n scant chance of overhauling Mans
| field. Tigers have but little hopes OF
downing the Diggers and the latter's
| prospects of beating out Lima are full
| ly as forlorn. But lack of chances
TO better positions is not affecting the
/
| ance at the game.
Next year there will be something
better record. With the four live
Ohio State league cities as a basis to
work upon there will be n league
formed of six or eight cities that will
be better than the Ohio State league
has ever been. There will be n read
| justment of the salary limit, n lower
| Nyt nj 40
place where 1t will be possible for ev-
cry club to get along well financially
and conditions in general will be bet
ter with baseball fully as good and
| of far more interest Weather con-
ditions are to be blamed for the fail
ure at Lancaster as much as anything
else. The same conditions have been
| experienced all around the circuit.
On big days in the schedule the
weather either made play impossible
or else threatened n down pour and
kept the attendance down to n frac
| ton of what IL should have been.
| Thousands of dollars have been lost
| by the Marion club In this manner
and other clubs have been as heavy
sufferers Newark failed because of
the high salary list, the Newark club
the amount paid players. Marion and
Lima were about on n parity. Ian
caster was the cheapest club in the
league and Mansfield next. When
| the league took over the Newark club
1t was found that the man who was
drawing the smallest salary paid by
| the Molder arrangement was draw
ing more than five players on the
| 4 Itth ottn ms ans "a mi mi
Is IL any wonder that Newark failed
to make both ends meet?
In the past week the Diggers have
! played a great game, walloping Lima
handly. But Portsmouth proved a
stumbling block, O'Day having put
the Shoemakers into faster pace.
which should continue until the end.
The manager is working with young
players and preparing for next year.
| Much of the Digger team of today
claimed by fans up this way TO b"
the best club in tho league. was
built by O'Day from practically
nothing, only two players remaining
from last years club. Eyes of all
are now on next season and young
sters OF promise will probably be Civ
en- trials in many of the closing
games.
Red Farrell still tops the league
hitters with an average of .321. VIII
liams, his team mate. has made more
hits than any other player and
leads I'm home runs with @. Sykes, of
Lima, has made ten triples. more
than any other player. A. Reilly
graduated from the Ohio State league
to the American afer having is
III. In
bases. making so in 100 games. Fink,
of Lima, has crossed the rubber S2
times and with Reilly gone leads I'm
stolen bases with 81. Reilly made
63 runs. These two diminutive play
ers have had no peers In the league
as rungetters and baserunners. The
best performer of the week was
Staley, the Digger first sacker, who
all but reached the 400 mark.
Among the pitchers Red Nelson
appears at the top. Nelson leaves
the league after having lost but one
game in ten and that game the first
one he pitched. Kahler too made O
great record and these two with Pen
nybaker pitched Lima into lead so
commanding that the absence OF Lee
Fohl need cause no alarm. With the
others gone Pennybaker is again the
leader with Parson and Schanze tied
| for second honors.
THE BATTING AVERAGES.
@. A. X. ii. Ave
Brown. Lima :. 1 o .667
Farrell, Mar 1O8 $50 81 1872 1921
Heller, Lane. -. 16 5s 10 IL .3lO
Tuttle, Ports. >. 4 10 1907
Hickey. Ports .. 10 l 300
StaIey, Mar ..1f6 42e So i2f .29o
Williams, Mar .1I6 43O 81 f28 .2S3
Kahler, Lima :. 81 80 26 .2s2
M0gan, Mar. 49,. 3 .2s5
Sykes, Lima ...1i6 Ala 55 116 $50
McC'Pstr, Ports, S5 324 4S 30 .277
Lloyd, Mans. :. AZ 112 81 .276
A natIIv linn 1OQ 4O3 G3 l09 ,270