The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-13
?. to l Victory Settles 1915
Championship Of s. A. L..
When Lucky Breaks Favor
Winning Team.
Hawekotte Surprises Follow
ers by Holding Contenders
to Two Hits in Best Game
of His Career.
8. A. L. STANDING.
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Hail tho conquerors.
The Vigrans are the champions Of
the s. A L., and they deserve all the
glory coming to them.
They demonstrated Saturday at Ath-
letic park that they were the best team
In the league by defeating Natco 2 to 1
In q game that was strenuously con.
tested from start to finish.
In justice to Natco it must be said
that the Vigran boys got the best of
all the breaks Of the game and had
conditions been reversed the score
would have been turned around.
There was over thousand people
on the grounds when Umpire Peck
called the game and they were armed
with every conceivable kind of noise
making apparatus.
where and was the busiest man on the
grounds all day. He kept his men
moving but there appeared to be list.
lessness about them that the best ef
forts Of the hustling manager could
not shake off.
When some OF the vigrans were
questioned as to what they thought
their chances OF winning were they
said the team that got the breaks was
the team that would win, I'D that is
Just what happened.
There Is not question but that the
winners did get the best of everything
so far as luck goes but 1t must be ad-
mitted by the most drastic critic that
they played an article of ball that was
class.
Russell Hawekotte surprised the
fans by his condition and pitched the
best game Of his career, holding Natco
down to two hits, and both of these
were feeble attempts.
Wallace was in good shape also, but
he was wild at times and it happened
that these occurrences came at critical
periods.
From the press box It looked as
though Umpire Peck gave Wallace a
shade the worst Of the decisions on
balls and strikes and the pitcher, was
justified in making the objections that
he did
Here Is the game in detail:
While the crowd was cheering as
the teams took the field Logan went
to bat for Natco and was an easy out.
Hawekottee to Stevenson. Hass fol-
lowed with a grounder to Williams
and was thrown out at first. Things
the Vigrans, for Hawekottee passed
Wallace and Holmes. Sullivan had
a passed ball, and Wallace went to
third. There were two out and Cray
craft was up. but the best he could
do was to send high fly to Sittloh,
and that ended the scrimmage.
When Kelly started of for the vi
grams there was SO much noise from
NJ onV,1d
self think. Toad got a base on
balls. Schattel stretched an attempt
ed sacrifice into a hit and on the
wild throw of Wallace Kelly went
to third. Haas let one get by and
both runners advanced a notch. Sui
livan got a hit and Kelly scored,
Schattell being held on third. Wal
lace frightened up and struck out Min
her and Sittloh.
Mayer got base on balls as
starter for the second, but was dou-
hled up when Neihbur hit to Have
kottee. who threw to Kelly, who heav-
ed to Stephenson, completing the dou-
bic play. Aubin got a base on balls.
Kuhlenbeck struck out.
Reddinghaus led off at the end of
the second and sent an easy fly to
Wallace. Stephenson came up and
flied to Aubin. Hawekottee struck
out.
Logan led off in the third and hit
to Kelly, who threw him out at first
Haas came next with an easy grounder
to Stephenson. who put him out, I'M
assisted. Wallace went out on a diff
ficult play. stephenson to Hawekotte.
Kelly led off for the Vigrans in the
last of the third and made safety
Ans1 l,,A
was put out by Niebuhr. who handled
Haas throw like a veteran. Schattel
hit to Mayer. who let the ball get
away and the runner was safe. Mayer
made his second error on Williams
hit and there were two on. Haas had
a passed ball and both men advanced.
Great things were expected of Sulli-
van at this stage, but the best he
could do was to raise high fly that
Haas gobbled up.
Through clever work on the part of
Haas, Schattel was caught off second
and the inning was over.
At the beginning Of the fourth,
Holmes was the first batter and struck
out Craycraft followed and also
famed at three good ones. Meyer to
Stephenson and was out at first
MINER was the first batter for the
Vigrans at the end of the fourth. and
got base on balls. Sittloh sacri.
feed to Mayer and was thrown out
at first, advancing Minner to second.
At this stage is looked as though Wal
lace was losing control, and he APP
peared to have difficulty in get
ting the ball over the plate. Red
dinghaus hinged to Holmes and was
thrown out at first. Minner going to
third on the play. Stevenson hit to
Mayer, who threw to Holmes, but
Holmes dropped the ball and the run
ner was safe. MINER scoring. Ste
kenson attempted to steal, but was