Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-08
ERRORS Of ANSONS
GIVE Dummies GAME
surTLE APPEARS IN LAST PER-
FoRMANcE AND is BEATEN
sTo o.
POOREST GAME PLAYED
LOCALLY THIS SEASON
An.ons Play Poor in Field and Are
Helpless At sat-WiId, Heavss BY
Ensman and euttIe's Overthrow
Open Way For Rvns-Homs Team
Has But One Opportunity to Count.

In liStlesS and poorly played game
! the Ansons dropped the opening en-
gagement of the first home series with
| the Cedar Rapids Bunnies, by a score
of to 0, Monday afternoon. The
home team failed to show class in any
department and was taken to an in
glorious beating by the poorest looking
visited this city this spring.
! Buttle gave a good imitation Of a
| wild man but otherwise his perform
ance was not deserving Of particular
! mention. He was not alone respon-
! sible for the downfall of the Ansons.
| however, as his mates on the inheld
were guilty of breaks which were ex-
| ceptionally costly. He contributed one
of the errors himself, which proved as
expensive as any in the lot. To top
off their weak performance, the home
gang WIS helpless. at bat. Five
"dinky" and well distributed blows
were all they could register against
| the Muscatine discard Ulch.
On the other hand Cedar Rapids
presented an unbalanced team, with
d
batters distributed thru the list. On
the bases the Bunnies were as help
less as children and their efforts to
steal were generally ludicrous.
! Ruttle'e Last Performance.
1t was the last performance for Mr..
Buttle on the home pasture. Following
his defeat he was dropped from the
list by Manager Richards. Buttle has
some deceiving curve balls, but lacks
control. If a team manager had the
time to give the lad, and could carry
more players than the rules of the
Central Association permit, 1t is likely
that the southpaw might become
valuable hurler.
Altho he passed two men in the first
inning Monday Butte was not in Sc
rious trouble until the fourth. Reck-
less base running. and force hits dis
posed Of base runners after the Bum
MES had been presented with OPEN
ings.
In the fourth Danny Harrell singled
to start the proceedings. Collins
dropped bunt to the left of the plate
and Butte, Engman and Hammer
schmidt went after the ball. After
quarrelling over its possession, Buttle
emerged victorious from the pile just
in fine to make IN effort to catch
Collins at first. He threw to the
bleachers, In his haste, and Collins
went to second and HarreN to third. A
sacrifice fly by Hickey scored Harrell
and a similar blow by McEvoy scored
Collins.
Ensman Opens Way Twice.
Wild pegs by Engman put runners
on the bases in the next two innings.
In the fifth the third sacker made an
overthrow Of F1etcher's grounder and
the Dummies shortstop was pushed
around the circuit on hits by Hamil-
ton and Ulch.
Engman repeated his bad heaving in
the next frame. giving Hickey life
with toss into the bleachers. A sac
rifice by McEvoy sent Hickey to sec
ond and he scored on Ludwig's single.
In the eighth Hickey drew a pass
and advanced on McEvoys sacrifice
and Ludwig's out at first Fletcher
grounded to Lindberg, but 'Lindy'
gummed the play momentarily. and
then went after Fletcher rather than
Hickey, who was headed for the plate.
While the infielders were rushing
Fletcher up and down the base line
between first and second Hickey tall
lied.
Ansons Have One Chance.
1t was not until the last inning that
the Ansons really had chance to put
run over. Up to that time they were
almost helpless, having seen second
base but twice. In the ninth, with one
gone, Lindberg singled and F!etcher's
error put Martini on first. In the
pinch Ryan famed and Richards
rolled weak grounder to Hamilton for