The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-05-16

WINS FAST
BALL GAME

Another one of those fast semi-pro
aggregations from Chicago went down
to defeat yesterday before the Ham
mond Athletic association nine, the
most scientific and headiest bunch of
ball players Hammond has ever known
after ten innings of hard fighting at
the local ball park yesterday after
noon by a count OF 1 to o.
crowd of nearly. five hundred local
fans gathered at the park yesterday
afternoon and watched and waited for
ten innings. which seemed as long as
that many weeks, for a tally to be
marked on the scoreboard, and were
thoroughly satisfied when Fuehrmey-
er crossed the rubber in the tenth
stanza with the only run of the game,
which meant victory for the home team.
1t looked as IL the teams would keep
on battling until 1t was too dark to
play any longer until Chicago's clever
little catcher threw the game away In
an enort to get Fuehrmeyer who was
leading long distance of from third
sack. But his whip was wild ana in
spite Of the grand effort Sternheim
made to grab the wild throw. 1t was
too low and, bounding of his foot. the
pill rolled into left garden, giving
F'uehrmeyer all the time In the world
to cross the plate.
Pollard, the newsdealer. pitched an
excellent game and padded his sub
scription list by selling seven yearly
subscriptions to the Chicago PLAYERS.
He was in but one bad hole during the
| ten innings and that happened In the
third when 1t looked as If the Chicago
team would push a man across the
plate. With a man on second Murphy
singled to left too low for the fielder
TO catch. Nelson had rounded third
| by the time Buhring recovered the ball
| put by good peg the star left fielder
| cut the runner off at the plate with
the sctre that would have meant de-
feat for the locals
hammond should have scored in the
first inning. McCay was perched on
second with two out when Fowler rip
ped off double, an every-Sunday oc-
currence for the right fielder and Nc
Cay tried to come all the way home on
the drive, but some good fielding on
the part of Sternheim in center. who
threw to second, the latter relayfng
the ball home. getting McCay on an
easy put out. kept the locals from
scoring.
| The locals swatted the pill hard and
/
number of times during the game. but
he managed to pull out with the ex-
cellent support behind him.
The Chicago team was forced to use
| two pitchers in the game, but It was
not due to the fact that the locals hit
the pill so hard that the hurler was
sent to the bench. Stednan, the Wis
iting slabman. retired in favor of his
| brother in the fifth inning. he havtn q
been attacked by a dizzy headache.
| probably due to overwork Part of
| the blame may be credited to Pierson
for the sickness brought upon the Wis
| itors pitcher. In the same fifth in
/ ming Pierson built race track around
second base and kept his man Sted-
man running back and forth to keen
from getting caught The two broth
ers looked something alike and their
pitching kept the locals guessing dur
| Ing the entire contest
| In that fatal tenth inning the visit
ors appeared to be a bit nervous and
| when Fuehrmeyer took first while the
visitors pitcher was doing a juggling
| stunt with the horsehide and finally
succeeded in kicking 1t outside of the
third base line, 1t was apparent that
| something would happen. Pollard
| then came to the plate and after put
| ting nearly all the balls the local man
| ager had over the back fence, poked
an awful drive on a line to center.
| who gracefully muffed and Fuehrmeyer
| perched on second Rohde then laid
down the only sacrifice hit in the
game along the first base line and
1t was an excellent play, the runners
advancing a base. Pierson. the next
man UP, was looked upon to win the
with a single he M
the first time this season. It looked
as If the game would have to go an
| other inning, but before McCay was
| given a chance to walk to the plate
for his turn at bat Fuehrmeyer tempted
| the catcher to throw the ball to third
by taking a big lead off the sack. The
catcher took the bait in his mouth and
pegged to third, but his throw was
low and Fuehrmeyer crossed the pan
| with the winning run.
Kalup White Hamrnond's trusty
Jump" gave decisions that would make
Billy Evans take notice. No fault
could be found with his decisions and
no one could have acted the part as
Jump" better than did White. He has
an eagle eye and his beautiful voice
can he heard at any part of the field
White has been secured. to umpire the
entire season. The score:
All Chgo. ABB n P A E
Hanson, IF. ........-.4 0
Nelson, IS. .........-.3
c. Murphy, c.-...-....4
F. Stedman, sb. o.
Dautell, 1b. 0 IL
T. Murphy, 3b. ....-...4 o
Prendergast. f.-.-.--.4 0 {
Sternheim, CT. 3b. --..-4 0
j. Stedman, p--..-2