The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-02

Rain, hail and wind and lots Of
each, cut into a pretty bit of Digger
work at the yard yesterday and
though the contest was brought to
close In the fifth and Marionites had
counted five times while the Digger.
defense was not penetrated even
once. 1Fi+
The contest was notable In that Il
witnessed the initial appearance of
Joe Lewis on the local hill this sea-
son. Fanbugs were anxious to see
Lewis work and 1t may be said with
out hesitation that the leader has
all of his old time craftness and
ability. Lewis rounds to as rule
rather late in the spring. This year
he Is evidently ahead of schedule for
he had and used everything yester-
day but itowas only when the callers
the Toledo CoClts-got dangerously
near Tho scoring station that the
manager extended himself.
There were other CHEEKY things
for the fans to partake of. In left
Held was Redin. the Cleveland boy
who secured his release from Du-
luth 'to' come! to Marion and in the
middle garden was Bugs" Snyder
who comes TO Marion from the Vir-
ginia league. AS told before his ar
rival he Is of the Nick Carter type
and those who know Nick need be
fold nothing more Snyder looks and
acts like Carter except that he is
not an umpire batter or a rowdy and
consequently of infinitely more value
to the club. He travels to first like
a speed merchant for sure, bats at
the other side of the plate and COW
ers a lot of ground afield. Redlin.
too. showed up well and If the work
of these two continues they are GER
tain of regular berths. Lewis Sc
lected Boughter for right field.
Bill Armour put one across on
Marion when he arranged this game
He. promised to send the Toledo Colts
with Hancock up but only small
portion Of the Colts arrived and
Hancock was not with them. But
II was no mean aggregation that
came Lamline the visiting pitcher,
Is nothing less than clever. He had
good curves, control and a lot of
speed. The fact that Diggers bump
ed him hard In the first four in
nings Is very gratifying and fulfills |
suc DItulttlon tIldl llt DdttiuB
Will soon be nicely trimmed.
Toledo WAS minus catcher and
Urban Boil, Of the Diggers was used. |
Boil could not solve his managers
delivery but, his throwing was good. |
After Snyder, who led off for the |
locals. was out in the first. Willough- |
by cracked one to the fence In right |
center for two bases. The captain |
followed It up with theft of third |
and completed the journey when |
Hummel lifted a long fly to middle. !
Lewis and Wiloughby figured in
the making of the second run in the |
third inning. With one down the |
maoager hit to left and fjourneyed
to third on a passed ball Willough-
by.E whose batting has been a fea-
ture of late, nailed another one
against the right field fence, scoring |
Lewis. Jay went passed second and
was Tipped on Downing's throw to
Lovett
The fourth was notable for the
Digger hitting bee that 1t brought
about, Hummel hit through the box
and Lamline Knocked down the drive
with his bare hand but could not re-
cover the ball Reilly crossed them
up when he hit to left after Hum
mel had pilfered. A passed ball Jet
the catcher go to second. Redlin
then put Texas Lacquer to left.
scoring Hummel, but Reilly dared
not move from second base because
IL looked as though the ball might
be fielded A passed ball advanced
both Reilly and Redlin and both
counted on Ayette's timely poke to
right for a. base Lamline's flip to
Moore picked Ayette off, "a few
inches from the sack. Boughter and
VAN Uufn were easy.
For the visitors Moore made the
first safety, a triple over kedlin's |
head I'm sthe second, The Toledoan |
tried to pilfer Home with Boil up |
but, Lewis threw to Reilly and the |
attemp, ended In failure.
Ayetts's .,wohble on Bolls roller |
might have caused trouble In the |
third After zimmerman famed |
Lamline hit safely sending Boil to
second. The big catcher stole third.
With things looking dangerous Lewis
took brace, famed Miller and |
snyder gathered In Donovan's fly, |