The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-05
MINNER STARS
IN OPENERS OF
SATURDAY LOOP
Enthusiastic Crowd Sees First
Games of Season In Local
League.
LEAGUE STANDING

The Saturday Afternoon League op-
ened Its season Saturday afternoon at
the Exhibition park and play ground
diamonds, getting away in fine shape
before an enthusiastic crowd of base
ball fans. Pete Minner, hurting for
the Swayne-Robinson nine, did not
give his team much chance OF what
1t could do. but pitched himself into a
shut-out victory over the Wawne
Workers. to 0. Rus Hawekotte and
Wib Sturm hurled pitchers duel in
the second of the double-header at
the Exhibition park, Russ Seeders
coming out OF the fray on top with a
4 to score. On the play grounds, the
johnson Frye l. G. C. pulled a slug
fest on the Jenkins-Vulcans, taking in
the big end Of a 10 to 8 score.
Strikes Out II Men.
Peter Minner struck out seventeen
men in the Wayne Works
fiasco. Although the Wayne Workers
could not get the slab to working,
they played good bail and made up
for it in the field. Ivan Toney, the
Worker Southpaw, started the hurting.
but was unable to shape ball that
the Swayne-Robinson crew could not
hit. Bulldog" Runnels relieved To.
ney and although he pitched better
ball, was wild at times, hitting four
men. Most of the runs were piled
up against Toney. The Threshers
scored two in the first. one in the
third and counted in the third and
fourth frames. The Wayne Workers
! worked hard to put across one run
and succeeded in planting three hits
against Pete, while the other nine
gained four against the two pitchers
but were unable to get the verdict
Several times the Workers would gel
two men on bases. but Minner would
pitch himself out of the nole.
Second Is Best Game.
The second game of the double
header at the Exhibition park was the
best of the two. 1t was duel between
Wib Sturm, pitching for the STAIRS
and Rus Hawekotte Tor the American
Seeders. The Starr slabmen started
the first round of well connected with
the pill and getting safe on errors OF
the Seeders. The STAIRS registered
three runs the first inning For three
innings Wib Sturm held the Seeders
scoreless, despite all their rooters
could do to blow him up. But in the
fourth inning the break came
With Ernie Bosworth coaxing his
men to steal bases, and the A. S. NJ
rooters working on Sturm, he allowed
the Seeders to take two runs across
the pan and two more in the sixth
One of the latter. however. was due
to White, the Starr catcher AS
Sturm's hurting got weaker. Rus
Hawekotte hurled better ball and by
the last inning was pitching in good
form.
Both pitchers whitfield eight men
Sturm, despite his one bad inning, had
a little the better end of the game
Four hits were made of if him while
six were connected on Hawekotte's
Twirling.
With the Johnson-Fry, /. G. C. bal
club staging shut-out on the Jenkins
Vulcans, the Jay Wees staged a rally
when hit, though short, netted three
runs in the last inning of the game
The game was one-sided from start to
finish. except for the final squirt oil
the Jay Wees.
o. E. Dickinson has offered gold
watch to the man who is considered
the most valuable to his team by the
close of the season. The player is to
be picked by the reporters from the
two local papers. He must have
played in at least two-thirds of the
games.