Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-23
FANS TEAM AVENGE
FOR FORMER DEFEAT
BY PONTIAC OUTFIT
FOUR TO THREE VICTORY OF
FEW WEEKS AGO TURNED INTO
10 TO 4 WIN WHEN OTTAWA
GETS SECOND CHANCE AT
GANG FROM REFORMATORY
CITY.

! With every man on the team pay
| ing air tight baseball and at his best,
! and only one determination in mind,
| Manager Dunn's squad OF stars yestcr-
day handed Pontiac defeat by Il score
/ Of 10 to t Pontiac was the first to
| score, when they knocked Heath for
! three hts and counted one run in the
! first inning. Then III The third inning
| they again scored run and Cloutett
! Heath for two more hits. When
| Heath retired the opposing side in the
! third inning he gathered his side
! kicks together and as result OF tnat
/ little meeting Dunns men nearly
knocked Bergman, Pontiac hurler, out
of the box.
| 1t was one of the best games OF the
season. When Pontiac started to
clout Heath the way they did in the
| first three innings it looked bad for
| Ottawa, and the fans. who numbered
! about ! 800. did not make very much
noise But the big racket started in
| the third inning for the Ottawa bunch.
| The first three men up slammed Berg.
| ham for three of the prettiest singles
OF the season. The toll OF the inning :
/ attack by the OttaWans was four
runs, thereby taking a lead of two.
! The crowd went wild Heath then
toed the pitchers box and certainly
did pitch wonderful ball.
Taking a little rest in the fourth in
ming. Dunn's men came back i'll the
fifth with four more hits and three
runs. The big drive was on and OF
tawa certainly was handing it TO the
pillow jackies' from the city of re-
form. In the seventh inning Pontiac
Tailed pair, while Ottawa put the
finishing touches to the game when
they added three more TO their total
in the last half Of the seventh, max
ing the score 10 to in their favor.
Pontiac appeared like grade
school team yesterday against Dunn ;
splendid array Of baseball artists.
They won the first game, to 3, with
Red Gunkel pitching, but Ottawa
plucked the raspberries yesterday,
and the probabilities are not a man
on the Pontiac team will eever forget
the defeat Dunns men handed them
yesterday.
Every man on the local team play
ed high grade ball and not a fan in
the city who Witnessed the game win
say anything against any one player
for his showing yesterday. Heath
played excellent ball, although he had
a little hard luck and was unable 20
get a hit, but he did score one of the
ten runs. He worked hard and WAS
determined to win the game, which
he did In the fourth inning Link
knocked liner at Heath, which was
! q hot one, and very few would have
tackled it, but Spence elommed on to
it. Again in the seventh inning Link
, knocked another to Heath. This one
was grounded and had a little smoke
on it, 1t was wide. but Heath keeled
over on his side, stuck out his big
mitt and plucked it, hurting it to fir. t
for an assist and "A putOut for kutz,
Beside his fielding he pitched "A great
game He was not working for strike
outs. but seemed to have some dope
on the ball that forced the opposing
men to hit il just where he wanted to
He got three strikeOue and walked
one man and allowed twelve hits 10
be made About half of the hits were
pretty lucky for he Pontiac men.
Bergman showed uD poorly ate"
! the battering heaNies in Ottawa's line
up got going. He only struck cut one
man. walked one and allowed tiftGen
hits to be made The sap was taken
out of him in the third inning. when
Ottawa went into the lead and knuCn-
| ed him for four pretty singles.
I Edmunds, second Daseman for tic
! Pontiac nine, led ia the hitting yes
terday. when he got four hits, one Il
triple, one a double and two singles.
shorty" Sheldon followed with three
hits and passed over home plate every
time he was on base. Wilmeroth,
Williams, OBrien and Wolfe also
planted several hits. Wilmeroth, II
yearolh star for Dunn, whaneei d
pretty triple in the fifth, allowing two
men to score ahead Of him.
Bergman and Renigale for the Pom
tiac boys also pulled a few dts Each
got triple and single.
Star playing was displayed by Shell
don at third Kutz at first, Williams a.
second, Clark at short, Each played
superb ball, and the outtielders are
not to be forgotten about heir COOL
! playing.
| me Hfst mt or the game LOT the VI
tawa bunch might be called lucky. and
the probabilities are it was. O'Brien
knocked one between second and first.
II was swift, grounder and the sec
0nd baseman was blocked in front OF
II waiting for it to hit his mitt. Just
as he was crouching down to put hi
hands on 1t the ball seemed to have
hit a little pebble or something and
bounded way over his head The
same thing happened in the tifth in
ming to the same man.
Tho score follows:
Ottawa. ABR H.pO. A. F.
Bassett, If ......... ) | | o
Clark. So ....... 2 . 2
Sheldon 2h . 4 I 3 2