Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-05-11
LUTHER WINS
TWO GAMES
Hamline and st. Marys Teams No
Matches for Luther, as the
Locals Won From Them,
Easily.
SORLIEN AND HOVDEN
DID LUTHER'S PITCHING
Hamline Was Easy for Luther, But
st. Mary's Put Up a Classy
Brand of Ball, And Were
Harder to Defeat.

The last weeks affair on the dia-
mond at the College have raised the
colleges average from 900 to 500,
but that is the least gratifying thing
about the games from the viewpoint
of the Luther fans, because both
games have showed a gain of about
one hundred per cent in nearly ev-
cry department of the game. The
team which won from Hamline to
on Thursday and took st. Mary's
College of Winona, Mimi, into camp
2 to on Saturday was quite diff
ferent one from the one which fell
to the Lacrosse Normal two weeks
before.
The Hamline game was an easy
win from the opening frame when
Luther picked up three counts and
added two more in the second. 1t
must be said to the credit of the
Hamline team that they frightened up
after that, but their efforts were of
no aid to them, although they did
score an earned run on a three bag
ger and a single by Kobs and Smith
in the sixth. The real feature of
the game was the poor base running
all around. Several men were caught
mapping all around. Luther had two
men caught off and Hamline three,
counting two whom Olvin Sorlien
caught stealing second. Score by
innings:
Hamline 5000 O1O0 0-1
Luther 32O0 1000 So
Batteries: Luther-A. Sorlien' and 0.
Sorlien; Hamline Kaplan and Harti
field. Umpire-O'Boy.
st. Mary's dropped her fourth
straight game of base ball to Luther
on Saturday. The game was one of
the most interesting seen on the
college diamond for a long time.
"A regular old fashioned game of
base ball' was what Professor
Tingelstad chose to call it, and he
knows. The Luther team fielded an
errorless game. Carl Anderson
speared them out in right hand side
of the lot as if he had been born
and brought up out there and sent
the ball to Pete with perfect peg
every time. Last years season was
played without single double play
and this game had two of them, and
the same men were the victims both
times. In both the second and sixth
innings Gayer got on the bag, once
ON q hit and O r.oA ON a walk In the
second he was caught out at sec
ond when Sullivan grounded to l..
Sorlien at short, and Put" sent it
to Carl who relayed it to Peterson
at first in time to get Sullivan. In
| the sixth Sullivan sent liner that
looked pretty good over TO Arne
Sorlien at third. Arne got the liner
on the fly and got it over to Pete
at first in time to get Gayer on his
lead-off. st. Marys had three errors
but only one of the score was af-
! fected by it. Luther's earned run
came in the fifth on Peterson's single
to right field and Lawston's double
to left field after Peterson had
stolen second. Hovden pitched a
fine game. In the first INNING a
walk and two hits had filled the
bases, but Ed pitched himself out,
and in the ninth things looked a
little bad with a man on second and
one on third, but Ed famed one and
the last grounded out to him.
Score by inngs:
st. Mary's 5000 0 90
! Luther 010 l 90 % 80
Batteries: Luther-Hovden and o.
Sorlien; ST. Mary's-Cashman and
Prosser. Umpire Hans Anderson.