The mirror., 1920-09-09

portside deliverer and all the while he
was either mesmerizing, hypnotizing tan
talizing and battling the local batsman
with his slants and slow balls to such a
degree, that they had very discouraging
poor luck whenever they did threaten to
break into batting rally. He moved
down twelve batsman at the plate and al
lowed eight scattered hits.
Santo, who opened up the game for the
locals on, the mound, did exceptionally
good work for the first three innings.
With the support he had behind him he
was able to hold the visitors scoreless until
the opening of the fourth stanza. With
the opening of this frame the visitors
launched such terrific bombardment that
kept the locals chasing to all corners of the
lot in retriving the little pill. When the
final out was made the visitors had ac-
cumulated three singles, one double and
homer that netted them four big, juicy
runs, that put the game on ice for them.
Not being contented with their demon
stration of the "willow" in the fourth
frame, they come right back in the fifth
chapter and gathered three more counters
off of two singles, two errors and the aid
of the Umps. This was as far as Santo
pitched and during his period in the box
he had struck out two men, issued three
wild pitches and allowed eight safe hits.
Bjerk, who is new recruit in the locals
lineup, was called upon to show his wares
as pitcher. He only pitched one inning.
During that period one score was made
off his deliveries while at the same time
he allowed no hits and no errors were made
by his team mates. This counter was
made when he issued pass on balls and
was advanced to second on a felder's
choice play, that resulted in miscue,
and stolen base to third. From there the
runner scored on a sacrifice fly to center.
VOL did the mound work for the locals
in the last three frames of the game.
Judging from the work he did it is safe to
say that the game would have had diff
ferent ending if he had been put in the box
earlier in the game. During the three
innings he worked only nine men faced
him at bat. While at the same time he
only struck out one man and allowed two
safe hits.
The locals first counters was hung up in
the last half of the fourth frame. Then
on two Dagger, an inield grounder
that was beat out for a safe hit a sacri-
flee fly to center and a wild throw, two
scores were made. In the last of the
seventh chapter, one more count was made
off a single and a double. This ended
the locals scoring, although they passed
up possible chance of one counter in the
last half of the eighth on account of poor
judgment in base running. Another pos
sible chance of the locals scoring was
nipped in its bud in the last half of the
second frame when the runner was called
out at second by the Umps for the first
out. This was a bad decision for the
locals, although it was given with the
utmost sincerity. Still another bad de-
cision was given against the locals in the
first half of the fifth inning when Dona-
hue was called safe at the plate. He was
obliged to hit the dirt and in doing so he
slid so far to the inside of the plate that
he was unable to reach it at all. The
Umpire called him safe so he got up and
walked over to his bench and never did
touch the plate.
A number of sensational catches added
to the enjoyment of the fans. Loh's one
handed spear of an exceptionally hot
grounder that was accomplished with his
hare hand was eSDecial1v nOticeah