Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-19
HALvE HoNoRs In pousLl
HEADER At CEDAR RAPIDS
WEDNESDAY.
VISITORS ARE SHUT OUT
IN THE OPENING GAME
sIattery Knocked Out Of Box, and
Manager Lynch Essays to Pitch
Rabbits Win, 10 to DIN Second An
sons Use Three Pitchers. sIattery
Winning Game, 9 to 5.
pecial to rimes.Republican


Ceoar Rapids. Aug. 19.-In pair Of
baseball games replete with nearly ev-
cry conceivable play Of the national
pastime, the Bunnies won and lost
against the ,Marshalltown Ansons. The
score of the first game was 10 to 0,
and so completely was Slattery routed
at the start Of this that Manager
Lynch assumed the mound duties for
the last two and a fraction innings.
In the second the Ansons grabbed an
early lead from the sore arm delivery
Of Joe Berger, and they were never
headed.
Among the features Of the games.
usual and unusual, were enumerated a
copious supply Of singles. several
doubles. single and home run, as
hitting spectacles,, all kinds of put-outs
from a technical out where a base
runner was hit by his own batted ball,
thru the list Of inf1eld flies with the
bases loaded, Of double plays and cir
Gus catches and bad errors; several
single stolen bases, and one double,
and one triple steal, the last named
being the first Of it's kind to be un-
corked in the Central association this
season.
Hits Were Missing.
The Bunnies. altho hitting the ball
with great frequency and abandon.
were unable to connect at critical
stages Of either game, but this was
particularly true of the last. In the
final encounter the locals had an even
dozen men on the baselines. the twelve
being distributed thru four innings. in
which the final out came with the
bases loaded, and in which safe hits
would have been disastrous for the
f1fty-fifty hopes of the visitors.
This same inability was shown by
the Ansons, who had ten men expire
on the bags in the first game, and six
in the second. They had pair of men
on in four Of their sixteen innings and
they were unable to come thru with
the needed hits.
Three times in the first game the
Dummies suffered the third out to come
with two men on bases and anxiously
awaiting their delivery from the paths
that be.
Locals Start Early.
The locals took an early start and
virtually stitched the first game in a
holeless sack in the first inning. This
start came after Mellinger had sent
the visitors back to the bench hitless
for their portion Of the opening stanza.
After the first two men had been re-
tired the locals started effective club
swinging tactics and Wise. Herbert.
Mari, Hoffman. and Mellinger all
singled in quick succession aild Tome.
drew pass, these tactics sending
three tallies across before Busch kind
" closed the flood gates with a strike
out
In the fourth an error. a single. = hit
batsman and a sacrifice fly sent one
more run over after which another
brief respite was awarded the Arson
helders while the Rabbits hurried thru
scoreless fifth.
Lynch to the Rescue.
With one on bases and one out in
the sixth Collins opened fire on Stat
terry with machine gun and 1t Waa
only short time until Manager Lynch
appeared in rescue role. Collins
singled and Wise slid his ribs in front
Of one Of Slattery's benders. Herbert
SlHSleu, ScOTlu6 SoiAiAiS eAAu IsSAi'
and Mari came thru with double that
sent Wise and Herbert across and get
ting caught at third trying to stretch
1t into three bases. Lynch entered at
this juncture and was combed for one
hit before Hoffman lifted high fly
to Durham for the third out. This
ended the scoring for the locals.
Attic they got half dozen hits the
visitors never really threatened. and
laid back on their oars to a.certain ex-
tent, waiting for their second shot at
the Rabbits. They were completely at
the mercy Of Mellinger, and seemed
not to have forgotten a certain twenty
three innings Of misery to which the
southpaw treated them on the occasion
Of their last visit to Cedar Rapids. The
score: