The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-05-11

Besides being ladies' day at the park
Wednesday afternoon ID was also
Lanks' day. Bats cracked merrily.
but the noise was not music to, the
ears of the fans, for the Lancaster
men pounded out a to victory.
II is hard matter for an opposing
team TO gather five hits Off Goulait in
nine innings when he is In form but
Goulait was not in form yesterday,
far from It, The Lanks touched him
for five bingles during the first two
and a small part of the third rounds
of play. and scored three runs. A
home run capped the climax and en-
abled Manager Lewis to arrive at the
decision that Goulait was not the
twirler TO down the Lanks. He was
called benchward and Senen was sent
to the mound to try his hand at doe
toring the hitting fever, from which
the Lanks were suffering "s
An pitchers looked alike to RiehTs
men and one might add, to Riehl him,
self. He Of the circular abdominI
periphery and the grand piano legs,
slugged with might and main at one
of the balls Semen served him in the
fifth frame, connected and drove the
sphere over the left garden wall for
one of the longest hits ever negotiated
on the local grounds. Left Fielder
Colligan, who followed the ball to the
fence, states that il cleared tie en-
closure with ten feet to spare.
OF the eleven safe bingles the Lanks
collected. only five of them were sin
ges Two home runs were In the
l.t 1
was the fashion, yesterday
The Diggers took some long chances
on the sacks and some Of them ap-
peared to the fans to be foolhardy
attempts but perhaps the long lead OF
the Lanks prompted such tactics
Manager Riehl's choice for the day
was Southpaw Theisen and he had the
Diggers feeding from his NIT most OF
1.-THE time. only twice was he in trou-
BILE and in both of these instances he
was the cause. Two Diggers reached
first after being hit by pitched ball
In the sixth and a wobble by the
| twirler In the seventh started another
| Digger on a homeward journey. 9th
| erwise, his team might have admin
| Iistered the whitewash brush.
| The Lanks did not tarry long Ia
starting the scoring machine to man
ufacturing runs. In the second round
Franken drew a walk. h. Cain came t.
the bat and solved one OF Goulaitl
| twisters for three sacks scoring
| Franken. Currans lifted a long sac
rifice fly to Meehan. allowing Cain To
count. This was the extent of the
scoring IN this inning. Two singles
were punched 10 the outfeld by Geib
and Theisen, but both men died on
the pillows.
II. Cain dropped the ball over the
| right field fence for an uninterrupt-
ed tour of the bases in the next frame.
Epler went TO the first sack after
Seneff had handed him four wide
ones In the nth. Ayette sacrificed
him to second and Riehl helped him
home with his home run which Is
| described above. Two more counts
added 10 the Lanks score.
Currans started the eighth with a
terrific smash TO left. which landed
him at the third station, Geib fol-
lowed with double. giving Currans
ample time to score the last Lank
Irun.
The Digger counts were helped
lalong by Pitcher Theisen. He hi
Smith aud Linderbeck I'm the sixth
lwith two down. Weller doubled tc
left field and the men on the sacks
ltrotted home. Theisen mussed up
Ibounder from Colligan's bat permit
ting him to reach first. He took sec
ond when Lallier grounded and count
ed when Smith singled TO left. M
noteworthy events occurred In th'
ninth, and the game went to th'
IIanlxa Gporps