The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-15
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From the Diary of 81 Lence

Miss Cutey Koot can't fgger out why
they do S much scrappin' ball games.
SEE ennybuddy oughter know tibet
fly amt foul. but an insect.
It's only when y want borrow trou-
BILE tibet " kin allus find willin' lenders.
One Percy Smith. aided and abette1
by eight lusty ball swatters of the
Crown Point team. applied the white
wash brush to the Hammond team yes
terday afternoon. to the complete sat
isfaction of some five hundred fans
from the county seat
And il was no Tom Sawyer job of
embarrassing that George Keisers
crew did either. Percy Smith. proving
to be artist in the welding of the
calsomne, and listen, never until the
sixth inning was one of the White Hose
allowed a peek at first base. True az
ter that. the foxy county seat pitcher
allowed his thre corners TO be filled. but
just to show his admirers what he
could do in the way of presenting goose
eggs in a perfectly gentlemanly man
ner he sent each player that had a
covetous eye on that dear home plate.
to seat beside his other team mates
who had gone that way before. But It
was some ball game. believe nun
true" and nine ball players from the
big Hammond town, left the diamond
with the crowds assurance that the
local team did not have such ''muchly
much" on them when it came to bail
playing. The only trouble in the
settling of the score, was that the
crown Point players were there with
III III
DRY connection was the one thing need
ed to make marks that stood for more
than nothing on the score board, while
the Hammond crew. due to the peevish-
ness and stinginess of one Percy
Smith got their little auotments OF hits
so scattered out in the last three
innings that they wouldn't have recog-
nized each other had they happened to
meet in a catcher's glove. Then bush
league peg by Captain Fowler OF the
Hammond team had something to do
with the locals making one twice and
the wildness of one pitcher Lugan who
gave unconditional passes to the first
two men it's clutch on the 1000 mark
in the Northern Indiana League per
eentage column. The game by innings
was follows:
Hammond at bat first. ImmerickS
fans. Sullivan out on pop up, Mol out
on drive to Kuschnicke.
In Crown Points first stanza-
Pitcher Lugin aeroplaned eight high
ones which gave Gratwich- and Enright
berths on first and second respectively
Kneedler was slammed in his perfectly
good anatomy by wild heave from
Lugin and the triple walk took place
Elder sacrifices scoring Gratwich
Henning whiffs and B. Gratwich Is out
on fly to Schmidt.
End ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS out to
Kneedler Hudson same route and
Rofde hits nothing but Crown Point
atmoshere.
Crown Point 2nd-walter out tc
Lugin. Kuscnnick to Fowler and Smith
to Rhode.
Hammond 3rd-Schmidt out to Smith
who handled a sizzler from the former.
bat in \. L. style. Vonish to Walter OF
n long sky pilot drive which the Crown
Point player spiked with one hand max
ing one grand stand catch and the sen
sational play Of the game. Lugan goe
out TO Kuschnfck on another prett,
swat which was prettily handled.
Crown Point 3rd-Gratwick out oil
foul to Fowler. Enright walks
Kneedler fans and .Enright is caugh
stealing second and sentenced the limit
Hammond 4th-Immeriks and SuIli
van can't solve Smiths delivery an,
Mol flies out to Waiter
Crown Point 4th-Eder makes a tw
base hit assisted in the operation by al
error by Sullivan Hennings walks
Gratwick out on infield hit. Waite
hits to Rhode and Fowler in an at
tempt to make a double play throw