The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-19

INDIANA
LEAGUE
Standing northern Indiana League.


lndlana HarDOr ana Whiting are |
fighting hard to take second place |
away from Crown Point. East Chi |
cago still stands out pre-eminent and
Will continue to do so for several
weeks. even should luck turn against |
them, and interest is narrowing down |
for the time being to a survey of what
is being done by the teams who are
striving to wrest second place from its
present holder and to the latter itself
Both Indiana Harbor and Whiting
advanced a notch by the playing yes
terday, Indiana Harbor winning over
Hammond and Whiting taking a game
from Crown Point. East Chicago just
nosed out Gary at Whiting with a score
of 10 to in favor of the leaders, and
Gary. while cursing the luck that lost
the game by SO narrow a margin, feel
that they displayed considerable class
In coming so close to giving the AL
most Invincibles" the worst of it,
The Indiana Harbor team went to
Hammond aboard Manager Sternbergs
launch and beat Hammond, to 8. The
game was protested. but even the
Hammond fans seemed to regard the
protest as grandstan play the cause
for complaint being unworthy kick
from the captain, to say nothing of a
protest of the game as whole. The
protest was made on the umpire call
ing Staten out in what was palpabiy
a foolish attempt on the part of that
player to steal home when Kelly had
the ball Rhode. who was at bat, is
left handler and when Staten was COM
ing for home he stepped back as the
ball was thrown by Kelly giving the
catcher every opportunity to catch the
ball. which he did. and tagged his man
before Staten reached the home plate
Fowler's protest was made on the claim
that Gaarde. the Harbor catcher had
stepped in front of the plate without
giving the batsman an opportunity to
strike at it. This, however was not
the view taken of the play by the UNI
pire. nor by the audience.
Hammond scored first when Moll and
Fowler both crossed the plate in the
fourth inning, while Indiana Harbor
was compelled to wait until the eighth,
but made up the delay by scoring four
runs in that inning.
In the fourth inning after two men
were out, Mol1 struck at the ball in
effectively three times, but on the last
strike the ball got away from the
catcher and bounded toward the grand
stand MoH then stole second. Fowler
followed with a two-bagger, bringing
| tic hume Ter going TO
| third base on a wild pitch. He scored
on Stallmans error of a ball batted by
Rhode. One more run was acquired in
| the eighth inning.
In the first half of the eighth inning
| Caffery for the Harbors led off with a
clean single and stole second. O'Brien
was presented with a pass and Stall
| man sacrificed them to third and sec
ond respectively. Gaarde was given
| base on balls filing the bags. Dautell
| then placed a liner out of shortstop's
| reach, scoring Caffery and O'Brien and
| tying the count. Fellers sent a scream
er to the right field fence for a two
| Dagger. bringing in Gaarde and Dau-
| tell. That ended the scoring for the
| Harbor in this inning, but they gar
| nered one more in the ninth, making
| the final score to 3.
Kelly as usual pitched a good game.
| striking out nine men and allowing but
six hits, which he kept fairly well
scattered.
The score:
| Indiana Harbor. % 0 0 Is
| Hammond ...0 0 %
Two base hits-Hansen. Fowler, Fell
| ers. Double plays-Mool to Fowler (2):
Fellers TO StalIman to Dautell. Struck
| out-By Kelly. 0; by Desmond. A. Bases
on balls-Off Kelly. 4: off Desmond. 4.
UmpirelCiapper. Time-2:05.