The mirror., 1921-07-28


tiers in the opening of the second stanza.
These came by the way of pass on balls,
two singles, a double, triple and two
costly errors which netted the visitors six
runs. When the locals came to bat they
tied up the score, but it was not accom-
plished by hard hitting. The first four
batters up were given passes, forcing in
one run. Then on single, two more
runs counted. The next batter was passed
and one more score was counted ON a
sacrifice. With a two-bagger to right two
more scores crossed the plate, putting the
game once more on fifty-fifty basis. The
locals were the first to break this dead
lock but it did not come about until the
last half of the fifth frame. Then on
triple and single, the locals forged ahead
one point. With the opening of the sixth
round the locals defense was completely
demoralized. On couple of passes and
three-bagger, which were aided along by
four costly errors, the visitors were al
lowed to get four counters, giving them
lead of three counts. When the locals
came to bat it looked as though the game
was hopelessly lost but they seemed to be
filled with their old time vigor that has
pulled many games from the fire, for they
promptly smashed out home run, two
singles and two doubles, giving them four
well earned runs and for the second time,
forging one point ahead of their op-
ponents. In the last round the visitors
tied up the score on pass by balls and
a couple of singles. And when the locals
came to bat they could not bring in their
prospective winning score from third base.
The locals used all their pitching talent
available in trying to break up the
monotony, with poor success. After all
known resources had been exhausted, ON
was selected to do the mound work. This
caused a general change of the players
positions, as the box score indicates. ON
is no pitcher and does not claim to be one,
nevertheless he got by pretty well for the
remaining one and two-thirds innings.
The game opened up with San on the
mound, and on account of him being hit
quite freely and showing signs of weak
ness he was relieved by Thorn in the
second frame after one man was gone.
Thorn pitched four full innings and in
three of them he held the visitors score
less But in the fourth one after he had
shown decided amount of wildness, that
seemed to be contributing to his team
mates errors that was being repeatedly
made behind him, he was taken out and
ON finished the game.
Ferguson started to do the twirling for
the visitors but after he had passed one
on balls and hit two others in succession,
in the last half of the second frame, he
was relieved by Bleier. Bleier stepped in
to hard proposition with the bases full
and only one man out. However, he
faced the grim ordeal with smile on his
face, but this alone did not pull him safe
ly through that awful spasm of the second.
After that with the support he had behind
him, he got along nicely until the locals
in the sixth round began to land on his
deliveries that kept the outer gardeners
real busy retrieving the ball.
The game was featured by three fast
double plays. The visitors pulled off one
in the third, while the locals did the same
trick in the sixth and again in the seventh.
The one in the sixth was sort of freak,
in way, but nevertheless such things
occur in baseball. One runner was on
third base; ON struck out the batter but
Lob dropped the ball. When he threw
the ball to first to put out the batter, the
man on third started home. Hic got the
ball right back to the plate in time to put
out the runner. If Lob had held the third
strike then there would have been no
chance for this play. The other double
was perfect play that chopped off run