The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-25
Manager Zimmerman Warming Up
to His JOb-Hmmphries Chosen
for Pitcher and Gives Visitors a
Taste of Fast Work.

Coming from behind and overcom
ing Scout lead of four runs marked
up in the first frame, the fast going
Highlanders made it two in a row
from the crew of Mullaney, in yester.
day afternoons classic.
Manager Bill Zimmerman after
watching his pitchers warm up. chose
"Old Master" HUMPHREYS for hill
duty. and right nobly did Bert per.
form after the first frame. 1t looked
dubious in the opening stanza when
the Scouts fell on the old boys offer.
ings for mixture of four hits, a sac
rifice fly and an infield out for four
counters. Opposed to HUMPHREYS for
portion of the game was a young
gentleman by the name of Simmons
representing the Mullaney gang.
Young Mr.. Simmons got by in pretty
good shape for the first inning. retir-
ing the locals in order. In the second
stanza, Bert stopped the Scouts in
one, two, three order, and then the
fireworks began. With one down the
Highlanders proceeded to ice away
another perfectly nice ball game. fall
ing on the delivery of the above
mentioned Mr.. Simmons for six heal
thy wallops. amongst which was one
of the three ply variety by Lou Groh.
for count OF five tallies, and still
there was one out. Mullaney waved
Mr.. Simmons in to the dig out" and
sent in Paul Schreiber who checked
the rally. Reed was the first hitter
to face Paul and with Groh on third
the squeeze was attempted and Reed
failed to deliver and Groh was run
down between third and home.
The Scouts opened up with d ven
geance. Bowden. first man to face
the "Old Master" doubled to center
field and took third when Cashion
failed to tag up on the play for Burke
at first. Cozington scored Bowden
with a sacrifice fly to Norton. Don
nelly singled to left field Niehaus
singled through the box scoring
Burke. Doyle tripled to center scor-
ing Donnelly and Niehaus. The old
master frightened up and made Quinn
hit to KowalsN who caught Doyle at
the plate. O'Day ended the inning by
grounding out to Groh at third. This
proved to be all the scores registered
by the crew of Mullaney, HUMPHREYS
settling down and pitching air tight
ball for the balance of the way The
Scouts threatened in the sixth when
with one down Niehaus tripled to CEN
ter. Doyles best effort was a fly to
Groh and Quinn flew out to Norton on
the right field foul line. A nice catch
In the eighth tn eScouts. started a raj
ly which was ruthlessly nipped in the
bud by one Mr.. Gladu, classiest out
fielder in the league. Donnelly op-
ehed the inning with a long fly to
Bill Zimmerman. Niehaus registered
his third hit of the afternoon through
short Doyle hit to center between
Gladu and Norton and close in.
Frenchie, racing at full speed took it
off the top of his shoes with his
gloved hand and turned in the pref
tiest piece of fielding seen here this
season. Quinn singled to right field
and Frenchie again took charge of the
ball game. O'Day landed one one of
Bert's for what had hit written all
over it. Gladu, however, had differ
ent ideas about the matter, and after
hard run took it in territory just in
rear of Reed in short left center In
the ninth the Scouts were retired in
order and old man Bert had another
win to his credit.
The locals demonstrated the fact
that they can come from behind and