The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-02
GAME STOLEN
BY THE BABES
Dewitt Scores Illegally
From Second.
GOES ACROSS The DIAMOND
Umpire Fails to Observe
the Play.
Chillicothe Thus Secures Winning run
I'm Tenth---Lcwis Hurls Great Game
and Puts Babes Down In Second
Game 1 10 O---Weller's Hit Wins it.

stolen from the local team by a play
as unsportsmanlike as anything that
may occur on the baseball field. IL
was In the tenth inning of the first
game yesterday at the patch that Ben
Davis, who has been playing under
the name of Dewitt in the league, cut
across the diamond from second base
to the plate while Rice was fielding or
rather trying to field a bunt by Potts.
| The visitor got across the plate be-
fore Umpire Raphun looked around
and as there were but two down and
Potts was safe at first the umpire al
lowed the run to count. 1t gave the
game to Chillicothe 8 to 2. Marion
took the second.
| IL almost melted the crowd to riot.
Yet Raphun was at fault and he ad-
mtted his mistake afterwards. No
human being could have made the
| Journey from second base to the plate
If he touched third and get there as
quickly as Dewitt did. Raphun, even
though he did not see the play should
have exercised his judgment and call
cd the runner out when the ball was
put on third base.
| II is often that players cut base
land get away with II. But the writer
| Is confident that never before in the
| Ohio state league has II runner pass
ed within ten feet Of the pitchers
box In the journey rom second base
to home, and gotten away with II.
| Weller, Lewis and several others
saw Dewitt start and they yelled to
Raphun pointing out Dewitt. Rap
hun, however, was blind to everything
except the play in front of him and
when he looked up Dewitt was across
the plate.
| Dewitt is collegian. They say
that baseball Is getting cleaner and
better because of the college men who
are playing IL. Kibler is also col
lege man and athletic director at Ohio
| State university. Yet Dewitt with a
tail-end club. that Marion has favor
ed In many ways, dishonesty and In
a dishonorable way stole ball game
from team that is up there fighting
with might and main for the top in
one of the greatest races of the year In
any league.
Kibler, his manager was willing to
take a ball game-an exhibition of
the national pastime supposed to be
such n trick, so glaring a theft that
If the game is allowed to stand base
ball here viii receive a Jolt from which
IL may never recover. II that Is the
kind of honor college men are bring
ing to professional baseball then the
quicker the ban is put on them the
better. Not Dewitt, not Kibler, not
any one of the Chillicothe players, ali
| ali ho1
enough in them to tell the umpire
that Dewitt had Illegally scored. Tha,
fans did not go onto the field after
either the player or the umpire Is
nothing short of remarkable and cer-
tainly speaks well for the gentleman
: liness of a Marion audience.
President Wollenweber and Man
ager Lewis Immediately protested the
game and there Is chance that Pres
ident Read may order II replayed. The
Chillicothe players, admitted that De-
witt made the play as given above
they justified 1t on the ground that Il
Is good baseball when one gets away
with It,
This Is the club that Marion wal
walloping on the last day in Ros
county. Kibler and club officials came
to Lewis and begged him to let then
make few runs or their Sunda,
crowd would not amount TO a hand
ful. Although Marion would not prof
by the crowd, large or small, on tina
Sunday, Diggers gave Chillicothe fou
, runs to make IL look good to the fan
4 there.
In the first game II was Rice agains
Hiram Grandel, the Leesburg litcrar
light. The Rube was all to the merr
In the early part, but his passes an,
his two errors figured prominently II
} the Chlllicothe scoring. Grandel wa
raped hard early I'm the fray but h
y later frightened and held the local
scoreless after the second inning whel
\ errors gave them two runs.
Purtell's low throw to Wolfe pu
/ Johnstone on the bricks in the sec
ond. Hummel sacrificed, GTande
| tossed out Weller, and Fishel lifted 1
Potts who dropped the ball, John
stone scoring, Rice surprised every
one, including himself, when he pole
q beauty double to right, scoring Fish
81. Meehan's single sent Rice
third and the bases were full whe
\ Epler drew "A ticket Red Whale
tossed out Schreck In the tight place
The first Chillicothe run arrived |
the fourth when, with two down, Ric
walked Whalen and Brown, and LAX
doubled to right, Whalen SCORING
Linderbeck's great throw home turn
! ed back Brown. Hummel iiipped oil
4 Grandel.
\ In the sixth the Infants tied til
score, Whalen walked with one dow
and Rice fumbled Browns swingln
hunt long enough to let both runnei
reach safety Lake raped clean
10 right but Linderbeck with greI
throw to Johnstone beat him to frs
Whalen and Brown advanced on II
u out. Grandel then batted In the t.
J ing run with a Texas Lacquer to Gel
u ter, Meehan throwing out Brown
\ the plate after Whalen had crosse
Things went along nicely until Il
x tenth With two down Dewitt si
gled and stole second. Potts swui
u hard and hit little one along Il
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