The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-07
STANDARD OIL
WINS PENNANT
Flay OFF in Tie IN Commercial League
Results in is to IA Victory over
lrwin.Phlliips
Team.
THRILLS ARE NUMEROUS
One Triple Play Pulled Off by Oil and
Gasoline Men Was Feature Of
Fast Playing by
Teams.
THRILLS ARE NUMEROUS

STANDARD Ill company Won uiS
championship In che commercial in
door baseball league last night. de-
feating Irwin-Phillips company by
the close score OF Is to IA. The game
was perhaps not the best played in
the league this year from the stand
point of fielding, but for thrills AND
spectacular plays II would be hard
to find its equal The crowd or
spectators that filled the gymnasium
balcony and crowded out on the floor
was under high nervous tension
throughout the contest. The players
also seemed to be somewhat under
the spell OF nervous excitement, be-
cause many costly errors were made
Irwin Phillips took the lead IN the
first inning, and in the first three
innings secured twelve runs to their
opponents eight Klann was very
generous in walking three out of the
first four Up. Co. players that faced
him, which gave them their early
lead. However, Standard Oil had
their big inning in the fourth, when
they got five runs, while the gar
ment makers were held to one. which
reversed the advantage, giving the
Standard Oil team the lead, which
they were able to maintain through
out the game.
Each team added one more tally
in the fifth. and in the sixth Stand
ard Oil was retired without much
difficulty without a score, but 1t
looked for a time like Irwin-Phillips
would be able to get several. Harris,
the first hitter for LIPS, got two
base hit and McCaffrey a single
Devero followed with an awful smash
that everybody thought must be good
enough to score two men, at least
However, the ball got tangled up
with Klann's middle, End, as hot as
it was, he managed to hold it and
caught Mccartney off first and Har-
ris off third for triple play. This
| play left Irwin-Phillips with only one
! chance to win. Standard Oil sue
ceeded in getting two in their last
turn at bat Wfckland scored Klann
by getting three-base hit, and stole
home while the ball was being re-
turned to the pitcher.
1t looked like Klann would fail in
the last inning, but he managed to
pull himself out Of tight hole. He
walked Metzinger and McQuoid, and
King got on through an error. This
gave the LIPS three men on and no
body down. Klann kept his head,
however, and struck out the next
two batters, Harris and McCaffrey.
Devero followed with a single, scor-
ing one man. and Metzinger, with a
chance to win the game or at least
tie the score, struck out
The lucky breaks seemed to favor
the Standard Oil team throughout
the game Several times they were
able to pull out Of tight places, but
never gave up. Deyero, catching for
Irwin-Phillips, got several foul tips
on the ends Of his fingers, and as
result a number Of third strikes got
away from him McQuoid pitched
good, steady ball for Irwin-P Phillips,
and If he had gotten all the strike
outs he was entitled to a different
score might have resulted However,
the Standard Oil players were able
to hit the ball pretty freely at times,
and when hits counted
The box score Of the game fol-