The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-03

Before a handful of shivering vet
loyal fans. the Champs from the
southern part of the state nosed the
Diggers out Of first place by coping
the first game Of the first series play.
ed in Marion. Six 10 four was the
score WHOM the ninth round was over
Manager Joe Lewis, fearing that
)ne Of his other pitchers might com
plain of sustaining a sore arm by
working on cold day. ordered him
self to the mound and without a
loubt would have won his game had
ao been given the proper kind of
tupport. Some solid ivory base run
llng on the part Of the Diggers play
ed a great part I'm the Portsmouth
victory. Opportunity. carrying at least
hree runs in a bundle knocked at
he Diggers' door "a number of times
but was refused admlttance Plenty
IF Diggers reached the first sack but
had great trouble insremaining long
enough on the bricks to register runs.
Joe pitched an. article of ball. which
vas helped ont by some fair slugging
by the Marionites. that should have
scored him victory, but fortune re-
used TO even grin. Aside from the
poor work on the sacks, the Diggers
played excellent ball.
Hartcr ON the Mound
Manager Childs warmed up Cook
md Harter and after taking a squint
1t the benders of each, decided that
he latter was the man 10 place his
ounch of bah tossers and sluggers at
he top Of The standing column. Childs
was right. although Harter was help.
d out Of deep water n number Of
lines by careless work on the part of
he Diggers Lewis went Harter one
setter in the number Of men given
,omplmentaries to the first sack, in
1itting batters and I'm allowing safe
blngles.
Safe Hits Not Forthcoming.
The Diggcrs punched hits I'm tn"
second but there was nothing doing
n the scoring department. At numer-
1us times, If a ny. liner or n speedy
yrounder had deviated from its path.
say a single foot the game would
nave been chalked mp as a Digger
vim When the Diggers were holding
lown the sacks the ball sailed directly
into n pair Of waiting hands without
my extra steps by the Champ players.
This occurred when two men were
IN the bags in the first round and
rolllgan lifted n long fly TO Calls. Il
happened again in the fourth, when
Weller cracked burning liner 10
5hortstop Hornung's hands and again
n the ninth. Smith duplicated We'll
'er's performance by landing on one
If Harters fast ones, sending Il with
terrific force directly into the waiting
glove Of the shortstop, and retired
he side for the last time.
Two TO One In the First.
The first round was productive Of
TWO counts for the Champs Black,
eft but he had never seen Catcher
smith i'm action. lie did not know
the whip this Digger ownes and was
raught off first base when Smith peg
sed to Kelley. Lewis walked the next
two batters After Weinberg had
died out, Edwards singled, scoring
Connell followed with a
safe bingle, scoring Jones. but he
was put away. when he strayed too
far from first, by Linderbeck's throw
from right
The Dlggers. I'm their half of the
irst, managed TO squeeze in one run
although more should have followed.
The first three men up landed safely
m the sacks. Meehan was hit, Lal-
lier walked and Smith singled. Meo-
han was forced out at the plate when
Ginderbeck grounded to the pitcher.
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Geld and 1.allicr trotted home. Some
poor baseball was displayed here by
the base runners. Smith, ON reach
ing third, ran short distance to-
ward home IAnderbeck raced 10 see
ond and either not hearing or not
needing the coacher. started toward
third smith, seeing that he was
forced endeavored TO reach the pan
in safety but was touched out by Con-
nell Colligan sent up n fly which
Calls speared
Champs Ada Two Runs.
Although in danger a number or
times things went well with Lewis
until the seventh. Weinberg singled
to center and was helped home by
Edwards double and an error by
RUNNER III ltlaNthb 'i'' p"N " tli'
catcher. Weller allowed Connelfs
grounder to get away from him and
Edwards scored, the last of the four
gathered by the Champs.
The few fans were thrilled bit by
a ninth inning rally but only to the
extent of one count Colligan singled
took second, when Mullen, who took
Lewis turn at the bat. was walked,
and third, when Meehan was hit by
the pitcher I'm the meantime Kelley
sent up fly to Hammond and SeneS
who batted for Weller, had struck out.
Lallier singled scoring Colllgan. Smith