The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-23
BY DON WARFEL

BY DON WARFEL
Playing like bunch of school boys
ON corner lot, Gilbert's Quakers
threw away both games of the double
header at Exhibition park Sunday
afternoon, seven errors. five of them
in one inning. giving Essick's men the
first one. to 4, and five of the same
kind Of boots in the second game cost
ing the Quakers that contest. to g.
AS is customary for the bashful
Ouakers, they can get out there on
the lot for five or six days Of every
week, and play baseball like team
of champions, but as soon as a grand
stand fills the home gang puts up such
miserable exhibition of baseball that
the bugs swear never to attend an
other game.
Whole Crew Blows Up.
In one inning of each game the
entire crew blew up and allowed five
runs. In the first game it was mostly
Donica's erratic work that gave the
Black Sox their lead. The new Quak.
er baseman was performing for the
first time before a large crowd and
his performance put him In bad light
With the bigger part Of the local fan
colony.
It was only the crowd that watches
the week day games that could realize
that Donica was not playing the game
as well as he could and the fans can
not be blamed for yelling 1--WE want
Kelly"
Donica has made four errors since
he has been with the local club, and
three of these were made in the fifth
inning of Sundays first game and re-
suited in five. runs for Grand Rapids.
The other error, made in Saturdays
game resulted in one run being scored
Knocks for GyaIi.
Frank Gygli. first baseman for the
Ouakers, was also knocked hard by
the fans. but some of Gygii's knocks
were undeserved. Out of twenty-four
chances, Gygli mussed two, and neith-
er of these resulted in a run. He
missed two bad throws, one in the first
and one in the second, but no discredit
can come from either of these, as it
would have been impossible to stop
both the ball and the runner at the
same time.
Gyglis hitting consisted of on triple
in eight times, up that one hit tied
the game for the Quakers in the
second game and gave them chance.
which was not accepted, to win the
game.
To Rapp, Jantzen and Evers goes
the credit for losing the second
game. Cy Young started to pitch for
the Quakers. and allowed one hit, when
he was jerked by Manager Gilbert with
one down in the first, and four runs
across Young was a little wild in the
first round, but with the fielding that
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the pitchers, it is we'll that he consent
ed to Start at all.
All Right for Four.
. In the first game, both teams played
air-tight ball for four rounds. and the
fans had set themselves for a pair of
real ball games. But the fifth inning
however. proved the undoing of their
hopes. Ellington started the inning
with double to deep center, and after
that. wobbles, boots. and just plain
errors came in rapid succession and
when the smoke cleared, the Quakers
had made five errors, and Grand |
Rapids had made five runs on two
hits
The boys tried hard to come back |
with the stick and earned four runs
in the last three but it was too late, |
for the game was thrown far, far away
in the awful fifth.
In the second, the boys didn't wait |
five innings to throw the game in the
ash heap. They started right out in |
the very first, and after one man was
down. one hit, a double, two passes, |
and four bad errors gave the Black |
Sox five runs, enough to win. In this
contest. Rapp gets credit for two
Grand Rapids runs, Evers for one, and
Heinie Jahtzen for two more.
After the first inning in the second |
game, the boys settled down behind |,
Bob Couchman and played ball. regu-
lar baseball for seven innings and
managed to take on the heavy end of
the score but prosperity could not |
last. and Heinie JantZen. who was put |
on second when Evers was hit and |
forced out of the game. managed to |
muss up pretty throw from the field, |
and two more were given to Grand |
Rapids. and they won the second |
game.
30 Slear. made few poor decis-
ions in both games, but he can in no
way be blamed for the Quaker defeat.
The games were lost through listless.
cratic playing on the part of about |
four players, as shown by the fact that
only two runs were earned by Grand
Rapids in each game.
Grand Rapids closes here Mondays
afternoon. and its a cinch that the
Quakers can win, if they will, and |
they surely ought to try.
WATCH FOR THE BIG RED BALL
ON THE CORNER