Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-01
WATKINS BLANKS LOCALS.
Indian Southpaw Has Arsons at Mercy
in Second Game.

Indian Southpaw Has Arsons at Mercy
in Second Game.
! AT the request of Judge B. Z. cum
mings the account of the second Salht
/ OF baseball played in this city Monda!
/ afternoon will be described in Enghsh
| The sports writer, having no desire tC
/ disrespect the order of the dlslrlc'
| court. and being DESTROYS of winning
/ one first class cigar offered oS the
! court for an account of the game Wfilch
! will be Ineligible to those not Verseo
! in the slang of the diamond, would ash
! the fanatics ii. e., the baseball insane
! to pass down TO the appended poA
score where they will find the only de-
| scription of the game which Will be OF
| interest to them.
The game was one of little hitting
the two pitchers engaged gong ABOUT
their work in a determined manner
and frequently retiring the batsmen on
strikes In fact. each pitcher struck
Out nine men during the progress OF
the game For seven innings there
ara. nine innings in the regulation
camel neither side succeeded IN scof-
ing 50 effective were the pitchers and
so clever the fielding.
Keep Hits Well Scattered.
slattery. for Marshalltown, and Wat
llins. for keokuk, were the opposing
pitchers. Both are lett handed
c.so,1thpaws" in the vernacular of the
baseball field, and their delivery Is es-
Declally effective against left hand
batsmen. of which there are several on
each team Hits We're kept Well scat
tered. that is. few came in any one m
ming. and with the fielders playing a
clever game there We're few opportuhi-
ties for scoring. The errors OF the Wis
itors were costly. and but twice dld
the Ansons (the home club appear
dangerous. once in the third inning ana
again in the fifth.
In the third. after two men had oeen
retired g. g. put outr, Linz hers maze
a long hit to right field. which per-
mitted him to go to third base. me
right fielder of the visiting club, Mt
Mccullough. threw wildly To third ana
Lindberg attempted to score Inlrd
Baseman Harvey made quick recoN-
cry of the ball and threw to the plate,
Iindherg being called out by Umpire
Seaman in a close decision. In the
fifth inning Brock reached first base
on an infield nit. and went TO second
base when the visiting short-stop
threw wildly TO first. He attempted TO
score when Slattery hit safely. but he
also was called out at home plate
Pretty Fielding by Ansons.
Two brilliant catches in the sixth
inning probably saved the home CLUB
from a dangerous situation. Baum hit
a vicious line drive q. e. bah hit
with great force on a straight line)
over Lindberg's head, but that player.
by remarkable jump and one-hand-
ed catch. retired the batter. In the
Same inning LeBeau hit TO center field
and Harris made a spectacular catch
after long run.
I.eReau. of the visiting team, also
made A. brilliant running catch of a
hall hit to center field by Dietrich
which was expected by the spectators
to fall safely
Bases on Balls Costly.
Bases on balls proved the undoing OF
slatterv in the eighth inning. Two
hits and a passed ball also figured in
the events of that inning, and the Wis
itors scored two runs. Mccullough, the
first batter in that inning, was walked
TO ne explicit. VIC piIN4A~A S'-' S'' 49,
halls 70 the batter, which. permitted
him to take first base, according to the
rules Watkins then struck out. Baum
followed with safe hit. which permit
ted Mccullough to go to second base.
A pitched ball then eluded the nome
catcher and he could not recover the
ball in time to prevent McCulloush
from going to third base. Comstock
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that inning. LeReau was walked. as
a result of which all the bases We're
occupied by the visiting batsmen.
Swick then hit the ball to safe terri
tory. lust out of reach Of the home
FEEDERS, and Mccullough and Baum
scored Such performance can
scarcely be described in English. There
is but one language equal to the task,
but as hereinafter set forth the dialect
of the baseball diamond is stricken,
eliminated, debarred. and banished
from this account. To the fan" who
reads this story much must be left to
the imagination.
Tommy" Ryan made an effort to
give the Ansons a score in the last half
of the ninth inning, when he hit safely,
after two batters had been retired.
Manager Richards was then walked
and the spectators became very much
entiiuseii and chccrcd Justify. Richard
son, the pitcher. who ordinarily is a
very good batter. was substituted to
try and hit the ball for Dietrich, but he
struck out. CFan translation, beat the
ozone.") The tabulated score follows:
KEOKUK.
ABB Ri Pc. A. E.