South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-09
VEHICS PUT STOP
To HOLSTERS WITH
PAIR Of BEATING5
Hill Loses Hard Battle One to
None After Allowing Only
Three Hits and Whiting Ten.
Punch is Lacking.

-Four hours of pastiming Tuesday
afternoon netted the pcnnant chas-
Ing hO0siers "a brace Of defeats. Ed
die Wheeiers Autos broke the vim
ming streak by slipping the home lads
TWO doses of dlstasteful dope in re-
spectINe quantities of TO and sci
Herb Hin and I'D Duty were the VIC
TINS OF the Wheeler outfit while NV
ers and Mats performed successfully
for the visitors each allowing the
kOehleT troupe but four hits or a to-
tai OF eight for the two games
Hill should never have lost that
first encounter He held The Wheeler
ties 20 four hits, three of them
scratches the fourth a double. struck
out 10 men. and passed bat one The
Autos were practlcaHy helpless at the
hands Of the big Texan and but twice
did they get the ball out of the in
held during he nine innings. Wob-
bly, support by the HOOsicrs and their
failure TO come through with hits at
crucial moments accounts for the UNI
deserved loss Hill is credited with.
Duffy Is Liberal.
In the second game Duffy was lib
eral with hits which combined with
more loose fielding by his mates and
their inability 10 reach Mats lost the
right handler the FRAY I'm three of
the first four innings the Autos piled
up their five run lead while the Hoo
siers showed one across i'm the third.
Duffy marking on his triple and sin
gle by Broder. In the last FIVE per
iods OF the contest which lasted un-
til after six bells Duffy held the visit
ors scoreless and permitted them but
four sWats but Mats was rs good a
man rs Duffy and the count never
changed.
The Autos marked their winning
run of the first encounter in the fifth
round Mulvey. the only man passed
by Hill, was given first on four balls.
Lake tried to catch the Wheelerite
off the sack and tossed into right field.
Mulvey advancing to second He
Travelled 10 third on Wheeler's ground
ball % Koehler and sored when La
Fleur squeezed q fuke hit Between
Grodick and EdmistOn.
Hill himself did half of the Hoosier
swatting. twice giving his teammates
opportunities TO help him win the
game Lake and Beall also nOScd NY
crs out Of safeties Harry dumping
one down and beating it out in the
fourth and Beau bounding another
through second in the seventh. But
both times there were two down and
neither Lake nor Beall got 20 second
base.
The Autos went down in order in
the first inning. Myers started bad
by hitting the first two men up, Bro
der and Koehler. but by good luck
got out Of the bad pinch. Eschen
forced Koehler at second I'm trying
20 sacrifice. GrOdick popped out TO
Hoffman and Helme9 drove one with
the eaTmarks Of a fence scOrner to
right. but LaF1eur backed into the
boards and pulled 1t down.
BrOder Fails in Pinch.
II oil
a wild pitch and got TO first He was
forced at the keystone cushion when
Wells grounded TO Edmiston. Bobby
then pilfered second. advancing to
third on Mulvey's infieId out TO Koch
Ter. hut died there when Wheeler
rammed one at Ben for the third out.
kerper killed Lake by grabbing his
foul tip over the bleacher fence and
then robbed Beali of a hit by pulling
down his line drive. Edmiston drew
a pass and advanced to second when
Hill started the hitting by smashing
a single to left. Broder was up II
the pinch but failed 10 produce.
grounding 10 Nifnecker.
Hill whitfield LaFleur and Myers
and took Herman push at the box.
KOenler popped out TO Hoffman and
Dutch took Eschen's line drive to-
ward right. GrOdick closed the third
period by breezing. Pahlman got the
first hit off Hill in the fourth when
he dropped one along the third base
line. NifneCker followed by driving
a stir one az GrOdick, who made a
double by shooting 10 second and cut
ting down Pahlman. HOFFMAN
grounded out Another chance was
given the Hoosiers in this period Hell
mer was walked but Wells pegged him
stealing. Lake laid down a hunt and
heat IL out but was forced at second
By Beall who was caught attempting
to steal
PahIman Gets Double.
In the fifth the Autos scored their
lone tally as related. The HoOsIers
went down in order and Hill started
the sixth by whiting the first two
men up. Nifnecker then wiggled a
safety past the hurler and went 90
third when Lake threw poorly TO t'rst
on Hofman's attempted sacrifice.
Hoffman stole but Wells grounded out
10 Edmiston. The last half of the
sixth and the seventh were feature
less for both sides With two down
in the eighth Pahlman got the only
clean hit contributed by Hill by
smashing n double over third. Nif-
necker grounded out Hill attempted
To start some fireworks in this period
bv opening with a single 20 left. Bro
der sacrificed him neatly 10 second
hut NffneCker pulled down kochler's
lire drive and doubled Hin at the
keystone sack
Edmiston did a little second story