The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-05-31
HAMMOND
WINS FROM
WHITING
BY RABID BUG

After the miserable showing they
made against south Chicago a week
age tho Hammond X. OF C.'s came
back strong In their game against
whiting. Ia which they finished on the
long end Of a TO score. The game
was played Sunday afternoon Al Whit
ing's new athletic field at 12lst and
schraEe avenue and good crowd was
IN attendance 10 witness Writings de
feat In their FIRST home game Of the
season. incidentally this was Whit
inE's defeat ia their first home game
o. the seaaon, incidentally this was
Writings first game On their new dta-
mond and this Is what made the pin
all the most hard FOR them to swallow
For weeks whiting has been Boosting
about what they would do 10 Ham
naond IN their opening tilt and never
for a minute aid they think the tables
would be reversed. That was especial
~ true after Hammonds rank exhihi-
ton against South Chicago which was
witnessed by several OF Writings fans
and players Who figured that Ham
mond would not have a ghost Of
chance against their club. The Ham
mond team however redeemed them
selves In nice fashion and handed the
OIL city aggreg cation a much unexpeet-
ed trimming.
Jim Dalton was the main part OF
the show for Hammond. letting Whit
Ing down with widely scattered hits
and striking out Is men, At times
jim was inclined TO ne cit wild as he
passed men. but in the pinches he
pitched beautiful ball, ChRndler. " ho
played A whale Of q game on th,rd.
helped out with several difficult stops
aud throws Of a lot OF hard chances at
different critical periods Of the game.
Incidentally il was Chambers two
base wallops that put the game on ice
In Hammond half of the sixth In
the eighth inning he drove out another
single. which helped TO put over Ham
nonds final run The only other
player on either side 70 get more than
one hit was Danny Boyle who raped
cut two clean singles In his first two
times at bat.
As usual Hammond started right out
"a make runs in the arst inning.
o'Rourka leading off with his regular
base on balls went to second on the
fourth ball which was a wild pitch
When the catcher threw into center
acid O'Rourke kept on going TO third
and scored on another wild heave by
the center nelder. Boyle next up
dropped a single in left just out OF
everybodys reach With Murphy al
Pat Boyle went all the way from first
10 third on a passed hall and then
scored moment later on another wild
pitch. It looked like fl was going TO |
be runaway for Hammond but after
Whiting got all these miscues out Of
their system they settled down and
played real baseball. Hammond was
rot allowed TO score again until the
sixth when Murphy led off with a base
on balls and then stole second after
Prendergast struck cut. With the
winning run perehed on second base
Chandler came through with a healthy
two Dagger over third base putting
Hammond one run in the lead Only
the toughest kind Of luck kept Ham
nond from scoring more runs in this
inning as Moore. Writings shortstop
robbed Harle Of sure hit on a ground
ball to left and trapped Chandler be
tween the bases. There was no
chance to get Harls at first on the
play but Chandler who had started off
Of second win the crack OF the but
was caught between the bases after
Moore had made a seemingly impossi-
BE stop Of the bali out in short left
field.
Hammond put over their fourth and
Hnal run in the eighth, Prendergast
lead off by getting hit with the ball
and Chandler advanced him 10 second
with single. Both runners moved
Up on Harle's out at first and then
Erv Miller batting for Dillon drove one
down a. Johnson on second base and
before he could get the ball home
Prendergast had crossed the plate.
Whiting scored both their runs in
the first inning when they might
have heen retired without a run only
for a peculiar play that the umpire
was not in position TO see. Dineen.
the Arst man Up hit high foul to left
field which Danny Boyle caught back
Of the crowd but as the jumps did not
ace the play he could not call the bat
ter out and when he stepped back up
70 the plate he singled. The next man
laid down A hunt to Chandler who
threw 70 first base but nobody was
covering the bag and the ball rolled
into the crowd allowing Dineen TO-