The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-23
HIT THEIR WAY
TO FIRST PLACE
Diggers Again Down the
Near Champs.
FINAL COUNT IS 5 TO 3
Notable Fielding and Hit
ting in Game.
Ayette. Colligap, Epler and Others do
Stunts of Note--Baxter Pitches
sbutout Ban But Error Paves Way
for Scorcs--Rcilly and Breen Hit
BAH Hard.
(By. S. H.. Godden.)

D of Ludwig's offerings. coming from
the rear and taking the contest neat
ly, five to three. There were mom-
ents of grief in the early innings.
, especially the third but the things that
came later were so well timed that
> early sorrows and MORNINGS were for
gotten.
The sob stuff all came off i'm the
Portsmouth third when the visiting
athletes, proud possessors of first
place for the most of the journey thus
far. broke through and made three
Weller's error with a double play
In sight was responsible for the scor-
ing or Portsmouth would have been
mighty docile all through the encoun-
ter
Billy Baxter occupied the Digger
mound and pitched his usual tantaliz-
ing game. Given good support Bax-
ter never allows the enemy to do
much more than to get one occasional
ly. With nerve galore and a variety
Of stuff that puzzles. he trots along
through the encounter with the other
fellows working their heads off and
wondering why they cannot do things
at the right time.
on the other eminence was Bill
Ludwig, of moist BALI fame. Dig
gers took pleasantly to his offerings
and even with a two run lead to
work on Bill could not keep back the
Digger attack. They hit them on the
wet side and they raped them on
the dry spots and many were distance
| clouts, In fact because they were
distance blows the game belongs to
| Marion.
| There were enough glory stunts
pulled off yesterday to hast during a
series and local pastimers were the
ones who were doing it. Little Ayette
| went back and got three flies, two Of
| which seemed surely tagged for safe
| ties and a third was a foul that no
| one expected him to get near Coli-
| gan also did shoe-string grab on
| Calllis' long clout to right field along
| the line. But the play of them all
| and one friends was a real game win
| ner-was Epler's great shot from left
to the plate, catching the speedy Breen
when he tried to count on Conwells
| safe poke in the seventh. No play
could have been more nicely staged
and Reilly, on the receiving end, did
his part neatly.
first, Diggers cut through the some
what less confident Portsmouth de-
fense i'm the second. After Honus
Hummel died on a roller to Lud-
wig, Johnstone drew one of the two
passes that Ludwig issued in the
matinee In a hit and run play
Johnstone went to third when Wei
ler cleverly hit through to right. Wei
I.,. tnIa
the bases Baxters long fly TO
O'Day made scoring for Johnstone
easy and the others moved up notch
Conwell cut it short by tossing out
Collgan.
JOY in getting one run was quick
ly removed by those callers who push
ed three over in the third, aided by
Digger wobbling. With Ludwig out
Breen slapped a fast one close to
third but Weller could not recover 1t
in time to get the Shoemaker. Then
Conwell hit a hopper to Weller. A
Zip to second and relay to first would |
have retired the side runess but Wei |
Ter let the easy bounce get away and |
both were safe O'Day waited and |
his walk populated all the corners
Scudders Texas Lacquer, just out of
Meehan's reach, went for a double |
when the center fielder let 1t get by |
him and Breen and Conwel register |
ed, Fast backing up by Colligan held |
O'Day on third. Wcinberg's lofter to |
Meehan i'm deep middle let O'Day |
get home with the third one. Reck |
heimer gently tapped to Baxter when |
it appeared that all the damage nee
essary had been done.
Gus Epler's bolt to right field for
two sacks in the local third caused
fans to renew their hopes, for il was
apparent that Dggers were not to be |
easily subdued. Meehan's sacrifice
put Epler on third and ,Reilly's sharp
roller to Scudder gave Epler plenty |
Of chance to score. At this point the |
Portsmouth style of play was some
what unusual and caused not little
comment. With lead of two runs
in the third inning and Digger on
third the infeld played back. With
the infeld playing in 1t is doubtful
If Marion would have scored
The tying run came in the loca
sixth WHICH was ushered in with
Reillys two base smack to right
Weinberg then graciOusly let one slip
through his fingers ana Reilly scor-
ed. Childs gave John quite pan
ming for not hurrying more after the
pill.
Dlggers went into the lead in the
seventh with an earned counter Ay
ette beat out an nfeld hit and Ban
ter lifted to HOrnung, Colligan sho,
a hard drive over the sack at third
for two bases and Ayette came all
of the way in. Guarding against a
ninth inning rally, for which Ports
mouth has become famous in the past
few weeks, Diggers earned an
)ther in the eighth when Reilly open
ed with a triple 10 right, the bal
taking bad bound past Calls Wein
berg then let another slip through his
nitts and Reilly scored. After Hum
mel and Johnstone had been disposed
)f Weller added another double Ia,
right center but was not advanced.
Breens double, Conwell's Sssingle|
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