South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-08
RAIN PREVENTS
HOLSTERS FROM
STAGING CAME
Loaf Around Hotel at Kalama-
zoo, But Will Get Plenty of
Exercise in Double Header
This Afternoon.

With Kalamazoo treated 70 a nice
soaking downpOur there will be no
box score for this morning. The HoOs-
iers sat around the hotel lobby and
discussed baseball but that was as far
as they got.
Still 10 make up for the loss OF to-
days box score there are going TO be
two tomorrow The locals and :he
Kalamazoo squad tackle each other
twice in the same afternoon, this p. m
or course both teams are expecting TO
take both games, but as that will be
impossible there will have 10 be some
one bunch disappointed.
South Bend should take at least one
game There Is no reason to believe
that KazOo has hOOdOO over the To-
Gals and Judging from the exhibitions
the two teams staged here on opening
day and the following afternoon, Kali
amazoO has no edge over the locals.
In fact despite the two defeats hand
ed the uoOsiers IL looked the other
way.
HOosiers Are Hitting.
The couple OF games staged since
the team left home show that Smiths
bunch has become possessed OF bat
ting eyes, lansing pitchers may be
bad. but there is bound 10 be one good
one among the bunch and when a
team treats all pitchers alike it's a
sure sign that they are hitting the
ball and are not merely lucky.
In the two games there they col
lected a total OF 29 hits which with
extra base knocks were good for over
40 sacks. This is real hitting and il is
the more pleasing TO the fans since all
OF IL was done on the road. The pen
nant IN any league is never won at
home. The team that takes the rag
has to keep up the pace on the road
II II keeps up its average.
The local pilot seems to have Sc
cured a bunch Of fighters and should
make his men give a good account of
themselves. lie and Asher seem to
be working good and both are expect
ed TO get into the game this afternoon.
Johnny Jones is not quite ripe but is
expected TO round into form within
the next few days. He has been used
by Smith on two occasions as a relief
hurler and on both occasions delivered
the goods
Duffy Has Bad Luck.
Moore and Duffy have been given
chances and while Duffy has been
scored on, IL has not been due TO his
poor pitching. His boots and those
OF the men behind him have been re-
spOnSible for most of the runs. Duffy
il pitching all the time when in that
box and when ne breaks into the win
column he is going to keep the op-
pOnents hustling % beat him.
South Bend SO far has taken part
in eight games. They won four. lost
three and the other was a tie contest
that should have been one won for the
locals. In the three games they lost,
they were not Outplayed and looked
good i'm defeat. Smiths bunch was new
10 itself at that time and is putting up
a better brand of ball now than ever.
Speaking OF baseball games, there
are few things that can he listed. a :
impossible ones. Not 10 mention any
names we might recall that PROPOSE
ton OF a man scoring from third on
hit and run, printed in a local paper
= few days ago. In all games the
writer ever saw, the hit and run was
played with a man on the bag further
away from home than third. He starts
his steal and the batter drives through
the hole made vacant by the infield-
er's leave OF absence to cover the bag.
Then too, there IS that proposition
OF shortstop grabbing a sacrifice hit
that sends man from second to third
That might have been pulled in the
bushes, but If Ed Smith ever saw "A
shortstop Of his do the trick. Ed would
say something. on "A play OF this
sort the shortstOp covers third, second
second and first stays at first leaving
the pitcher and the third baseman to
field the hunt If the bunt is laid
down towards first. second covers first
short second and third hangs around
at third. letting the pitcher and the
first baseman give chase TO the bunt
So figuring it all out we can't see
how Alphonse ever decided that short
stop got an assist on a sacrifice hit. 1t
can't be did IN our way of figuring
COLLEGE, GAMES.
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