The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-09
D|GGERS ANNEX
A DOUBLE HEADER
Seneff Comes to the Rescue
in First Game.
M'sAll IS HIT HARD
Goulait's Work a Feature
Of the Second.
He Allows the Lanks But Five Hits
and Strikes out Eight In Seven In
nings-striker's Hitting Is Feature
OF the First Gamc--Goulait and Ep-
Ter Hit Home Runs.

Digger pennant winning chances
went up a few notches yesterday. A
double header was captured from tn,
banks-the first by a score of 4 to 3
ana the second by score of to 0
For a time the Lanks were allow.
ed to entertain a beautiful vision ol
victory in the form of six health,
bingles and three runs but Manager
Lewis put an end to This sort of en-.
Joyment when he sent Alva Seneff tc
the mound in the second inning to re.
lieve Chief Mccall. who was in the
midst of much trouble about that
time. Seneff applied the brakes and
proved made-to-order ~rescuer. His
advent was analogous to cease scor.
ing from the Lank point of view.
strikers Performance.
Changing pitchers didn't affect one
player in the Lank bunch. His name
Is Striker and he plays the middle
garden. His name might have been
Swatter yesterday and the fans might
have believed it. Out of five oppor-
tunlties at the bat he landed hve
singles He proved to the fans that he
was dispenser of speed too. Three
of the hits were to the inheld and he
beat the bail TO first. lflF.
There was another peculiar feat
ure OF the struggle, Eleven of the
fifteen Lancaster hits went for
naught. Only four hits were made
use of in the run getting, others
didn't arrive at the right time to be
t1rned into runs.
THE chief Went on the rocks in the
first ronnd Striker poled his first
single and Conley sacrificed him to sec
pnd. Epler's home run over the right
field fence gave the Lanks their first
<two counts Rudolph's triple was
wasted. In the Digger's half Lal-
liers single, an. error by McElvey
and a singlei by Mccall scored the
first batter before the side was re-
tired.
Seneif to the Rescue.
McKelvey opened the second with
a double and scored when Thelson
silA5led. Striker gathe led his Sec
ond hit and Lewis thought 1t time to
hoist MCCALL Seneff was sent In and
scoring by the Ianks stopped.
The Diggers went through ,he Sec
ond and the third innings without
runs but pounded man across the
pan In the fourth. After Seneff had
lifted a fly to Epler. Weller singled.
Hurnmel sent him to third by singing
down the first base line. Smith hit
a long fly to Striker and Weller count
ed.
Colllgan paved the way Tor the run,
which tied the score with a single In
the fourth. Conley's wild throw to
first on grounder which Laller beat
out sent Colligan to third. Linderbecx
poked a single to right and, Colligan
came home.
Geib offered his kind assistance In
the making of the run which won the
game in the seventh round. He hit
to center field for his second safety
and went to third when Geib allowed
one of Theison's fast ones to escape
and roll to the grand stand. The
squeeze play was then worked to the
advantage of the Diggers. Lalller sac
riiced. bunt to the pitcher. Thie-
son didn't risk a throw TO the plate
to catch Colligan, but preferred to re-
tire Lallier at first and the game went
to the Diggers. Score.