The mirror., 1920-08-12

Bona's hitting ability. Out of four trips
to bat he smashed out two home runs and
one triple. He left his foot prints on the
home rubber for three markers in the
score column.
The locals were first to ring the bell
and this occurred in the last half of the
first frame. Bona who was the first man
to bat, hit terrific blow out into right
garden for home run. The fielder who
covered that territory was unable to see
the flight of the ball so he made no effort
to recover the same. By so doing it gave
Bona ample time to complete the circuit.
Eros and ON struck out. Hick and Bud
drew passes on balls but Burn was thrown
out, Thies to Mullam, for the third out.
The second inning saw the local bats
men, Lob, liver and VOL, 60 out in rapid
succession on infeld grounders. Begin
ming with the last half of the third stanza
the locals wrecking crew headed the list.
Bona led off with triple to center and
scored on Fros' hit. ON struck out, Hick
was thrown out, Shea to Mullam, and
Bud went out on pop fly to Wightman.
The locals passed up good chance to
score in the fourth frame when Burn led
off with a three bagger to center. A
moment later when Lob was at bat, some
sort of signals must have been displayed
for hit and run play. With the delivery
of the ball Burn did his part but Lob
failed to connect with the horse hide, max
ing Burn an easy out. Such plays as
these are usually called by the spectators
"bone head plays" but never the less it is
playing base ball from the ground up.
Lob struck out and Iver was thrown out
Wagner to Mullam, retiring the side.
AT this stage of the game things began
to look very serious for the locals. They
had held their opponents scoreless the first
three innings, but by allowing single,
double and triple in the fourth, they
tied up the score. Then with the opening
of the fifth frame they continued to wallop
the ball and before the side was retired,
three counters had crossed the plate, Civ
ing them three points the best of the
game. During the locals term at bat in
the fifth, nothing developed in the line of
counters. VOL led off by striking out.
Bona got safely on the runway when Bemis
dropped his fly. Bona stole second while
Eros was striking out and ON got out on
fly to Shea.
With the opening of the sixth and last
chapter it began to look as though the
Vets were going to come back with
repeater of the fifth. Shea led of with
a double to right. Stovan struck out, but
Gloss drew pass on balls. Bemis struck
out and Zalusky forced out Bemis at
second, liver to Lob. With the locals last
chance at bat it did not look very promis-
ing for them. They needed three runs to
tie the game or four to win. Their abil-
ity to bunch hits in the previous chapters
was a poor basis to form any conclusions
that they could pound out another victory
in the last stanza. Thies, the opponents
pitcher, was going strong and he had
large margin to work upon. However,
Hick led off by getting free transporta-
ton on balls and moved around to third
on Buddles hit through short. Bud went
to second on the peg to the third corner.
Burn struck out and Lob went out on a
pop fly to Shea. liver met the ozone
square on the nose for double, scoring
Hick and Bud. With this hit and the two
runs that came in the local fans were all
on edge. San went to bat in place of
VOL. He swung at three wide ones but
Zalusky dropped the third one and Null
lam dropped the thrown ball, allowing
San to be safe. Bona came to bat next.
Two men were out, two were on the run
way and the fans were loudly clamoring
for home run. Bona after making a
half dozen fouls, finally connected for