The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-17
MINORITY WINS
\ HOT BALL GAME
House Democrats Easily De-
feat Republicans.
OHIO WELL REPRESENTED
Losing Team Made Up Largely Of
Buckeye Timber--Nick Longworth
Proves Bitter Disappointment to
Friends = Players Hold Errors
Down to Minimum by Diplomatic.
ally sidestepp.ng Hard Chances.
Cannon Barred as Umpire.

Down to Minimum by Diplomatic-
ally sidestepp.ng Hard Chances.
Cannon Barred as Umpire.
Washington, July 17.--With Uncle
Joe Cannon looking on and poyerless
to call the minority to order or bring
In a special rule shutting OF base
hits, the Democrats of the house Of
representatives walloped all sorts of
tarim schedules out of the Republi.
cans at American League park. and
won the most famous congressional
baseball game on record by the thrill
ing score of 20 to 49, The minority
wanted to make II 16 to |. but the
Republicans defeated the proposition
once again.
The Democratic victory--the first
Of the extra sesslon--was followed
by cloudburst. The deluge did not
descend until the seven-inning battle
had ended with the stout members
all putting and groggy from running
bases and chasing balls and The lean
members prone on the grass from
exhausted energy. The crowd which
witnessed the game was equally
weary - from laughter. President
Taft did not attend-he was at
Chevy Chase with Vice President
Sherman, playing golf.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
OF Ohio, signed at tremendous outlay,
II was said by the Republican man
ager, failed to live up to his advance
notices. He presented natty APP
pearance in golf trousers, brown
stockings and negligee shirt, but he
"caseyed" out twice with two men on
bases, got a base on balls once and
then, In the last half of the seventh,
showed flash OF rare speed when
he beat out a tiny little infeld hit.
The Official score looked too much
like house tariff bill coming out Of
the senate committee on finance to
be printed in full. The Republicans
stuck to their original lineup through.
out the game, but the Democrats
wore themselves out making 10 runs
in the second, and after that substi-
tutes were called upon with ever-in-
creasing frequency, and the batting
order was shifted every inning. The
nearest the newspaper scorers-old
hands at the business come to
the base hits and errors was to give
the Democrats 23 of the former (no
jest intended) and five of the latter.
The Republicans are credited with
20 safe hits and nine errors. The
real reason there were not more err
rors was because the players side
stepped the hard ones and couldn't
reach the long ones.
The problem of securing a satisfac-
tory umpire was one which gave the
players world Of worry. The Dem
ocrats declared that II Speaker Can.
non handled the indicator they hadn't
chance on earth. The gordian knot
was cut when the Rev. Father James
Reynolds Of Red Bank. N. j., was Sc
lected.
The score by innings:
Republicans ....2 2 oil 10 1 2-16 20 8
Democrats -. 2 10 200 8 7-26 2s 6
The lineup:
Democrats = Oldfield (Ark), c.;
Webb IN. CO, p.; Hughes IN. J.)
1b.; Kinkead On. J), 2b. and c.; Gar
rett (Tenn). RI; McDermott Qll0,
II. and CT; Robinson (Ark.) RI;
o'Connell (Mass.) IS. and 3b ; Dan
Driscoll IN. W, So. and 3b.; Hehin
(Ala), IT,; Cox (OJ. CT.
Republicans = Burke (Pa.), c.;
Gaines CIV. Val, p.; Dawton Ua),
2b.; Longworth tO) cf.; Cole (O),
RI; AIles tMass), IT,; Tener (Pa),
S.; Rowland to), 1b.; Thomas (O).
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