The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-13
(By John II. Markham }

lflnu May l3-UpOn Winu-SWepl
Held over which the leagues second
pennant waved. Marion took a loosely
played game from the Champs by q
score of to in the opening contest
of. the season, on the local yard
Thursday afternoon.
Neither of the teams played i'm theil
true form, but there were flashes OF
ability that convinced the thousand
spectators who braved pr -umonla tC
take q peep at the athletes that the
same classy ball would be played In
the ohio State league this year as last
and that San Felice park would be
the scene of many a closely waged
battle before the close of another sea-
son.
Big Eddie Miller whose masterful
pitching had won for Lima the only
game of the Marion series was trot-
ted out by Manager Newnham for the
days tiol. When they saw the big
twrler mount the kopje, the players
on the Marion bench settled back and
prepared themselves for defeat. Man
agpr Joe Lewis began contemplating
the size of the score and was figur-
ing out In his head where the defeat
would put Marion In the pennant race.
Defeat seemed almost certain and af-
ter Lima had taken a flying start
in the opening inning, Joe was pre-
pared for the worst that could hap
pen.
The Diggers are q hard hitting
bunch and the Lima fans We're eX-
pecting them to make six or seven
hits off Mller's delivery, but they
had not counted upon their making
most of them in one inning That is
Just what happened, however and by
punching hits on the big twirler in
the third inning and with the aid OF
couple OF wobbles on the part of
ther Lima twirler's support. Marion
was able to put six runs across the
pan The half dozen, with the one
that had been slowed away in the
opening inning was sufficient to win,
although our boys made several game
tries in the latter part of the gam
In the fatal third the Diggers hit
safely five times and Boyer's drive
had n three base ticket attached to
it. But two other hits were made off
the Lima hurler. Boughter getting
single in the sixth inning and Zmith
ehlhSHliB oul HlCe uouDIe IN tne
last frame
Ayette was the first man to face
Miller and he drew walk. He stole
second and came home when Newn-
ham juggled Hummers fly, after
Willoughby and Thomas had been re-
tired on easy outs. Hummel was
caught at second by Newman and
McClintock, but Ayette had cantered
gleefully across the pan with the
first run of the game.
A narration OF the first half Of the
third inning is a painful duty, but the
story must be told. Boughter started
the festivities by hitting the first ball
thrown for q clean single to center.
He counted when Boyer smashed a
three bagger TO middle Ayette was
safe on fielder's choice, Nesser and
Texter cutting OFF Boyer at nome.
Willoughby got q life, when Nesser
1lelded a slow grounder to McClin-
took in time to catch Ayette. With
two down II looked as II the Digger
side would be retired with but Hone
run. Thomas however singled to mid
die and then stole second, Hummel
followed suit, Reilly was safe on
Newnham's wobble, Colligan got hit
and Nesser dropped McClintock's
throw TO retire Redlin. When the
Champs returned from that little voy-
age to Halley's comet, six nice large
juicy runs had been registered by the
Diggers and the visitors had batted
around Boughter ended the agony by
striking out.
After that one inning the Diggers
never looked dangerous and didn't
have a chance to score, except In the
last inning when with but one out,
Zmich doubled TO center. Miller was
steady throughout the matinee, walk
ed but two men and had seven strike-
outs to his credit He kept his head
while the .Diggers were enjoying the
swat-fest in the third. He demonstrate
ed his gameness under fire and with
tho right kind of support would have
been able to have placed the game
on the other side of the ledger.
1t looked like an easy victory for
Lima in the first inning after Doher-
ty had walked and Lloyd was safe on
fielder's choice, Big Nesser cleaned
the bases with a mighty swat to
left field and himself Tailed on
Friends clean single. Another run
came IN the second. Newman lead off
with two base hit to middle, going
10 third on Texter's sacrifice and
counting on Miller's grounder TO left.
Boyer was found for one or more
hits In every inning but the sixth and
the home team got nearly twice as
many binbles as the visitors. Things
looked mighty good in the fifth when
the Champs got three hits, but they
could only put one run across. The
dropping spirits of the local rooters