Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-16
,nec;al 70 Times-Republican.

Waterloo, May l6. - Phil Slattery
tw!rled superb game for Marshall
town against Waterloo yesterday and
twould have won his game without the
assistance of the nine hobbies made
hy the Shamrocks. Not until he had
a commanding lead did he let down
and give the Shamrocks a chance -
register. Two clean hits and a scratch
was all Waterloo could get off his
delivery until the seventh inning. at
which time Marshalltown was leading
by a score of to 0. Marshalltcwn,
on the other hand. had been hitting
Davis when hits meant runs. which,
together with mess of errors, had
put the game on ice for MarshaHtown.
The final count was II to >.
Marshalltown jumped into the lead
in the opening frame, putting a runner
across on Murphys walk. sacrifice
10y Eunick. and an error by Brannigan.
Two more were added in the next in
ming on singles by Prough and Ryan
and errors by Donahue and Sheldon
Proush opened with a safety, but was
forced at second by Blank. Ryan sim
gled to center. sending Blank to third.
/ Two errors followed and both runners
counted. In the fourth inning Prough
/ doubled and scored when Brannigan
I threw wild to first in an effort to re-
! tire Blank The big inning came in
| the sixth when four visitors counted
! before a halt was called.
Get Scores in Bunehes.
! Prough walked and went to second
/ on wild pitch Blank singled to CEN
ter. and Ryan singled to right. The
, latter's safe blow counted Prough
! SIattery struck out Murphy hit to
| the pitcher and Blank was thrown out
at the plate. Eunick hit high fly to
! Hill. but the latter dropped il and let
! Ryan score. LeBeau walked. Durham
| then hit to Brannigan. who made an
other wild heave and two more run
ners counted. With one man down In
the eighth, Murphy singled and Eunick
i doubled. LeBeau then hit a long fly
TO Flaherty. Murphy scoring after the
catch. Flaherty threw home in an ef-
! fort to head off Murphy. and while
several local players were arguing
with the umpire about whether Muir
ply was safe or out. Eunick pulled of
a clever play by stealing home. Dur
ham hit long drive to left field fence,
Hill picking 1t off the boards for the
third out. Lee counted the final run in
the ninth when he hit to- center and
/ went ali the way TO third when Ncase.
let the ball get by him. Prough
! walked and Blank whitfield. Ryan then
hit to Donahue, Lee scoring.
SIattery in Fine Form.
Slattery refused to give the locals
a chance TO score until the seventh
! when. with two down, Finnegan
scratched a hit to Ryan. Bescher then
singled 10 right. the ball getting by
Durham and Finnegan counting. Stat
terry then frightened up and struck out
Davis. In the eighth he gave Donahue
a walk and Flaherty singled to left
scoring Donahue OF the seven hits
made off Slattery. three were
scratches. Braunigan was the first
Shamrock TO break thru his delivery
by getting a clean hit to left in the
fourth inning. He got no farther than
third, however, as Slattery forced the
! others to take the count on infeld
raps.
The grounds were IN miserable
shape for playing. and most Of the
errors were due to this fact. The
weather was also the coolest It has
! Desn mere since the season started
and only a few fans turned out tc
see the game.
Fans "Rider Umpire Asher.
/ But for a poor decision by Umpire
Asher in the sixth inning Marshall
town might have counted several more
runs. He called LeBeau out at thire
when the play wasn't even close. This
retired the side and robbed LeBear
and Durham Of a stolen base each
Both runners had a flying start ane
LeBeau easily beat the throw. bu
after an instant's hesitation Asher as.
tonished the crowd by calling him ont
Asher had been having all kinds o.
trouble during the afternoon and thu
fans rode him numerically when h.
ordered Brennan to the bench for pro
testing against a decision at the hom
plate. F7aherty had been hit by
pitched ball, but Asher refused to lie
him go to first. Brennan proteste.
and was ordered to the bench. tn
score: ~ H.' -.
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