Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-17
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
| Muscatine. Aug. 17.-With two ivory
hunters watching the battle and two
arbiters announcing their decisions,
! the warlike series between the Mus
| kies and the Ansons at the South End
lot opened most auspiciously for the
| home team yesterday, when Mike
Flanagan hurled the Eganites to a 5
to victory over their close rivals.
| Only a fair sized but enthusiastic au-
dience witnessed the exhibition, which
was one of the most interesting of
the season.
Despite five errors, most OF which
| figured in the un-getting on both
sides, numerous fast plays marked the
initial contest of the important series.
| The Muskies staged three double plays
! which had much to do with keeping
the visitors score down and the Boyle
men executed one of the double death
plays. Hruska, Runser. Ellison, Shell
don and Lunte starred on the defense,
the Musky shortstop in particular Civ
ing a decidedly clever exhibition.
Des Jardien Weak.
Paul ("Shorty'O Des Jardien, whose
fame as an athlete at the University
! Of Chicago is recognized here and
whose work with the Ansons has been
meritorious, showed signs of weakness
thruout the game, indicating that the
rangy finger has not yet fully recup-
Grated from a siege of tonsilitiS first
| felt several days ago. The Muskies
| banged out twelve safeties and clouted
once or oftener in every inning except
| the seventh. The two misplayS charg
| ed to the visitors produced runs and
served to offset Des JardienS work
Flanagan, after yielding two blows
in the first frame, gave brilliant eN-
hibition The visitors failed to hit in
| the second. third. fourth and fifth inn
| ings and made their only earned run
in the sixth as the result of a pair of
doubles by Murphy and Ryan. The
local moundsman struck out seven An
sons, having the better of his opponent
in this respect. Flanagan, who breezed
| three times, was the only member OF
the home crew to be retired on strikes.
Both Teams Score Early.
The rivalry between the two teams
was evidenced strongly in the first
inning when the visitors scored once
and the Muskies counted twice. Elan
asan started we'll by whiting Murphy,
first up Ryan followed with two
| base hit to right center and E,unick
also swatted safely. slamming a single
to left field Martini threw to the
plate to prevent Ryan from scoring
and Eunick started for second as the
| ball left the outfieldeTs hands.
Hrnska's peg 10 second was high ana
Ryan scored, Eunck going to third.
Both Eunick and Lunte were retired
| on the latter's grounder which fell IN
front of the plate. Hruska threw to
| Sheldon and caught Lunte and the
| first sacker made q lightning peg to
the plate, nabbing Eunick-
Three hits and an error produced
pair for the Eganites in the opening
round. After Runser had gone down
on a hard hit roller to Des Jardien,
Reinhart singled and Ellison beat out
a slow one to Lunte. The Arson short
stop, in a hurried effort to retire Eli
son, made wild heave to first and
Reinhart crossed the plate Ellison adj
vancing to second from where he
scored on Sheldon's long double to left
center. Martini and Durham shied
out.
Double Play Valuable.
But for cratic base running on the
part of Snow and Des Jardien and
fast work by the Eganites, the visi-
tors might have staged rally in the
third. Snow, first up, walked. Des
Jardien hunted to Flanagan, who
threw to Runser too late to nab Snow.
As Snow took a big lead off second
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Arson backstop sprinted toward third.
Runser then threw to Ellison and re-
tired the runner. Des Jardien tried
to reach second base on the play. but
was caught by Ellison's speedy peg to
Runser Murphy then succumbed on
strikes to end the inning.
With one down in the fourth, Eunick
walked and again the Muskies worked
a double play. Flanagan taking Lunte's
grounder and catching Eunick at sec
ond and Runser downing Lunte on a
| toss to Sheldon.
Three Singles Count.
Pinned with confidence as result
of their success in the early innings,
the Eganites punched three hits for
one run in the fourth and assembled
! two more safeties for another marker
| in the NTH. SlnSleS Dy NdTLlHl, mas
brook and Hruska brought the third
run and clout by Runser. Reinharts
sacrifice and Ellison's drive to right
| scored the fourth.
With two outs in the sixth, success
i've two baggers by Murphy and Ryan
| gave the Ansons their second and final
tally. The Muskies brought the run
getting to an end in the eighth when
Ellison singled, moved to second on
Sheldon's sacrifice and completed the
circuit when Prough, after seeing the
runner head toward the third sack,
threw over Eunick's dome. The score:
| MARSHALLTOWN.
ABB r. H. Pc. A. E.
Murphy, CT. ........ 1 1 2 o 0
Ryan. 2b. .......... 0
Eunick, 3b ..........3 0 0
Lunte. ss. .......... 80 0 1 l
LeBeau, II. ........ 1 0
| Lee, IF. .......... o 1 o 0
Prough, ID .......... 0 0 10 1
| Snow. c. .......... o 1 3 0
| Des Jardien, p...... o 0 OIL 0
Il 81 2 81 IA 2
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