The mirror., 1920-08-19

gave his decision as he saw it and it
would be breach of the rules to retract
it on some one else's authority.
The game developed right off the jump
in pitchers battle. Santo the locals
twirler, had shade the best of the en-
counter in the early chapters of the game.
But on account of the numerous errors his
teammates made, it seemed to cause him
to weaken and lose his grip on the game.
He has a good pitching record for the
game and its loss to him was due to the
inability of the locals to hit when hits
meant scores. He struck out ten men,
passed two on balls, hit one batsman and
allowed only three hits.
Rose, who worked upon the mound for
the visitors, pitched stellar ball. He was
little wild at times and passed four
MEN on balls. But when we are told by
their manager that this was the first game
he has pitched this year, then we are
obliged to acknowledge the fact that he
did remarkably well. He allowed only
four scattered hits and struck out fifteen
men.
In the opening chapter after the locals
had handed the visitors a goose egg, they
came right back with two counters. Bona
got on when Hoppe failed to handle his
grounder. Eros swung viciously at three
crooked balls and reached first when Lond-
green failed to hold the third one. ON
went out on fly to w. johnson. Hick
picked out three good ones and made as
many swings but he got safely on when
Londgreen again droped the third one and
when he threw the ball to first he made
a wild throw allowing Bona and Eros to
score. Bud and Burn struck out, retiring
the side with two unearned runs to the
locals credit.
Nothing more developed in the line of
runs until the opening of the fifth stanza.
Hoppe led off in this frame by drawing
a pass on Balls. Crabtree was hit with
pitched ball. Rose hit one out into the
left garden for double, scoring Hoppe
and Crabtree. T. johnson dumped one
in front of the plate and Santo in his
haste made wild throw to first allowing
Rose to score. Ross was called out by
Umps for interfering with fielder. Lond-
green went out on fly to, Eros and Klue
went out on fly to Bona, retiring the
side. The visitors had overcome two
run lead in this frame and still had one
to the good when the locals came to bat.
With the locals wrecking crew on deck
they had every confidence of winning back
what they had lost. But as things turned
out only three men faced their opponents
pitcher. Bona and Eros went out by the
strikeout route and ON was thrown out,
T. johnson to Klue.
The opening of the sixth frame saw the
visitors increase their lead one more point.
Lanford led of with safe hit when he
beat out an infeld grounder for safe
hit. He was advanced one station on
w. Johnson's out and advanced another
peg when the players were arguing over
the putout. Crabtree swung at three wide
ones but Burn dropped the third one and
when he threw wild to first Lanford
scored. Crabtree was passed on balls and
Rose hit into double play. Crabtree
was thrown out Eros to Lob and Rose was
retired, Lob to Hick. In the last half of
this frame the locals tried hard to even
up the score but they fell one marker
short of their goal. Hick led off with a
hit to center for one station and while
Bud was striking out, he stole second base
and went to third on wild pitch. Burn
drew pass on balls. Hick scored on
Loh's sacrifice and Burn moved up to
third on the same. 1t was up to Iverson
to make hit and tie the score but in
stead he went out by the strikeout route.
The visitors drew a blank in the