The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-26
BASEBALL
Game Sunday Was The Best
Of The Season
Mt. Vernon And Marion In A
Great Battle

| the pest ana most interesting bdtl
game Of the season Sunday afternoon.
The fast Forest Lawn team of Marion,
Ohio, we're the victims. The score was
4 to 2. A rally in the ninth fell short
for the visitors, only one run being
pushed over.
Errors figured largely in nearly all
of the runs Mt Vernon scored only
one earned run, the first one. Marion
should have been blanked, both Of
their tallies being the direct result OF
bad bits of base ball.
The Marion players showed the spir-
it that Is desired in visiting teams. Al
though beaten, they pegged along,
working hard all of the time. A great
| effort was made in the ninth to tie up
the count, and, with the aid Of Thomp-
son and Householder, they did man
age to register one The Forest Lawns
! looked classy in preliminary practice.
| They handled the ball with accuracy
and great speed. The team was well
front against the locals. When they
came right down to the grind, howev-
er, they had nothing on us even
though the game was corker in spite
of the four errors marked against each
team. Those errors only served to add
spice to the game. The two teams are
so nearly equal in strength, apparent,
ly, that to endeavor to speculate upon
the result of another game between
them would be folly. They are re-
booked for next Sunday afternoon and
will play at the local park on that date.
Porter played fine defensive game
at second base and appeared to be in
the best form shown by him for long
time. Schwitzer played at short stop
during the afternoon. He accepted six
out of eight chances and hit loug
double that would have been good for
a triple had he tried to make it The
old st. Louis player looked good in the
lineup and handled himself we'll His
two errors were made on ground balls
in the fifth inuing.
The real sensation Of the afternoon
came at the very close of the game.
It was Ilger's catch of Clapsaddle's hit
to right. The ball came down about
forty feet back of the second base line
Tiger, playing rather deep came in for
it at top speed Unable to reach it in
an upright position, he lunged forward
and nabbed the ball. After rolling ov.
er, he came up with the ball in his
hand. 1t was a great catch.
Maxwell led off with a single n>the
first inning and Tiger put him down
Popejoy got hit and Maxwell came
across with the first one.
Schwitzer walked after one was
down in the fourth. Thompson singled
sending him to third. Sullivan doubled
sending Schwitzer and Thompson ov
err Fast fielding and accurate throw.
ing was all that saved Marion from be
ing scored upon heavily in this inning
The two runs were all, however
The fourth run came in the seventh
Householder was safe when Mapes
dropped the throw. He went to second
when Maxwell hit to the infeld and to
third on Ilger's out, Jackson to Mapes
Householder scored when baltimore
made low throw to first after fielding
Popejoy's grounder
Thompson LED off with a double in
the ninth but could not get past third
Schwit2er had opened the sixth with A
double but died on third
Price walked in the fifth and went
to second when Schwitzer fumbled
Jackson's grounder Mapes sacrificed
sending Price to third and Jackson to
second, Another one was hit to
Schwitzer, who in an effort to handle
the play quickly, did not get a secure
hold on the ball and Price scored, Clap
saddle reaching first. Only one run
came over, however.
The second Marion run came in the
ninth, Jackson doubled and went tc
third when Thompson made a bad re
turn to Householder, who immediate
ly contributed his part to the score by
sending in 4 wild pitch