The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-08
(By S. II. Golden. }

Returning from that long trip and
arriving at the patch after having
hardly had time to change togs, Dig
gers found the Newark pepper boys,
with O'Day in the pilot house q nigh
ty tough proposition and 1t was only
after one of the fiercest battles fought
here for many day that Diggers
were able to take the first one. Newark
with Merz on the firing line easily
took the second.
There was lot of good and bad
baseball i'm the matinee. Trying times
| for the big crowd were many and
Diggers were not playing up to their
standard afield. Hits as a rule failed
to come at the right time and IL wau
a peck of good fortune that let Ma
rion overhaul Newark and win the
first one. Along with that good for
tune the work of Baxter as relief man,
| stands out in the fore. Bax took
Hughes place when the game seemed
| lost and twirled "a magnificent game
the remainder of the way, Newarks
lone run during his time. was the
result of loose Digger fielding
The First Game.
| In the curtain raiser it was Long
Bob Hughes against Red HiXon,
that hitting pitcher who bats In the
cleanup position when i'm the Molder
lineup. Hughes was somewhat wild
and ineffective. Moulders early de-
veloped habit Of grouping their hits
along with his passes which seemed
to spell defeat for the Digger cause.
on the other hand Hixon got away
good and frightened nicely when tight
ness was necessary.
| With one down in the first Move
walked to third when Kendall punch
ed to right for a sack. Hixon hit to
left and Move registered At this
point Hughes frightened and famed
two hostiles, O'Day, former Digger
and Lobert. former Lank.
With one to the merry Newark
again started something in the Sec
ond with one down. Lemon squeezed
a single to left and stole second
and went to third while Ayette was
tossing cut Bobby Anderson, another
old friend, appearing in the role of
an enemy. Nally smashed a clean on,
to center, scoring Lemon. Moves roll
er to Hummel was good for force
of Nallv.
Baxter as Relief Man.
Hughes got awav bad in the thirt
| when Kendall hit to right ana HiXOI
Followed with sacrifice. O'Da,
walked which was too much for Lewis
and Baxter, who won from Chill
cothe yesterday. was unblanketed ant
sent In TO stop the slaughter, which
left handed batters We're staging OF
our southpaw. BaXter's first NOV,
was balk which robber O'Day of
stolen base. The Digger steadied i'm
mediately and Lobert and Brow
were easy. 1t was "a pretty piece o
work this pulling out of tight place
Ayette opened the local first with
high fly between O'Day and HiXor
Here an Alphonse and CASTOR stun
was staged and Avette got lif'
Epler sacrificed but neither Meeha
nor Reilly cound connect safely.
In the third with one down Ayett
/ lsingled ind was forced by Epler. I'll
2 latter went to third on Meehan's poli
= to right and Meehan dashed for secon
$ on the play at third. 1t looked {
IS though the speed boy was easily sal
: but, Umpire Kramer declared hi
out Meenan was benched for h
: strenuous manner of obiecting. Gol
latte, taking his place. On this decislC
an excellent Digger chance was los
Marion Comes From Behind.
1t was in the sixth that Diggers,
couraged by Baxter's perfect hur
ing. managed to break through Il
Newark defense and by countil
three times took the lead. Epl
walked and Goulait sacrificed but W
safe when O'Day dropped Hixor
toss. Reilly hit to Move forcing Go
lait while Epler scampered to thir
With Reilly running Hummel,
through, scoring Epler and sendil
Reilly to third. Hummel made seco
on the plav and Reilly went over I
rubber when Bill Johnstone, did !
part cleverly with the squeeze sigr
no In fact Bill over did his part for
bunt was a perfect one and he cas-
beat 1t out. Hummel advanced
third and scored when Colligan fore
tombstone at second, the Newark
field plaving back in hopes Of bel
able to execute n double play.
Newark Ties the Score.
Those three looked like the b
game but there was disastro
frame vet to come. In the eighth &c
lait muffed Moves easily lofter to CO
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