Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-19
RICHMOND POST
GETS BIG REVENGE
Local Legionaires Slaughter Be.
rea ls to 0 in Ball Game
Here Wednesday
(By Edgar T. Higgins

Wy LNSdl : I1ISSlIoJ
Jesse NJ. Dykes Post of tn,
American Legion, of Richmond
on Wednesday, secured ample
revenge for the defeats upon tht
football gridiron and basketball
floor administered to her last
year by Cleveland NJ. Frost Post
of Berea. The local legionnaireS
took their brothers of the Berea
post into camp on the base bal
diamond here Wednesday after
noon by score of Is to @.
Due to the magnificent twirl-
ing of Jim Parks, who shut up his
law office in Lexington, just tc
come back and pitch for the boys
of the old home town, the visitors
were completely outclassed.
Parks had everything needed to
stop them to a walk which he did
with the utmost ease and polish.
At no time was he in trouble.
Once when a couple of men had
begun to clutter up the bases. he
put the old steam on, and it was
back to the bench for the next
three batters via the strikeout
route.
The crack twirler didn't have -
play the game all by his lonesome
though. He was given some rea'
gilt-edge support both at the ba.
and in the field. The game was
a very long one, due entirely TO
the heavy slugging of the local
batters, but the big crowd whicl
went out to see the legion boys
enjoyed it thoroughly. Visitors
from Berca were not quite 50 Ell
Unused over the fine points of the
game as demonstrated by the
athletes from the local post.
1t did seem that the game was
going 10 DC real tight one from
the way ii started off. For &c
first two or three innings, Martin
pitching for the visitors, had the
local batters guessing, But when
they did get him, they came in d
hurry and he retired from the
slab amid a volley of long hits
which would have discouraged
any less optimistic a player than
the clever young twirler from
southern Madison. After he had
deserted the mound, it was more
or less OF a slaughter. Elmer
Hayes. Berea's clever catcher
kept a lot OF pep in the game in
the early innings, but even his.
enthusiasm couldn't keep the
spirits of the vanquishcd up. 1t is
but fair to Martin to say that lie
probably would have remained on
the mound but for all injury to-
hi, throwing hand, caused in
knocking down a hot one.
There was one bad accident
during the game, when a spike
from Mainous' shoe cut long
cash in the left check of Stocker
at second, for the visitors The
cut was deep and painful, but i
Berea doctor here, gave first aid
and Strickler gamely went on
with his work in the inheld.
The visitors used three pitchers
in their efforts to stop the on
slaught of the local legion lads
but only to see the last one hit
harder than the preceding one.
The visitors gave their slabsters
good support in the field but fail
ed totally at the bat,
Jim Parks pitched his usual
fine game on the mound, letting
Berea down with three hits. and
struck out 10. Not a visitor
reached third.
The work of Combs, Eastern's
star shortstop, was of a high
class both IN the field and at the
bat. In the seventh he cut in with
a home run with two men on. 1t
was a long smash between left
and center fields.
Harold Oldham also starred
with the stick. making two dou-'
bles and being robbed of a possi-
BILE home run in the eighth. Frank
Gentry was another Church Lea
guer who leaned on 'em" with
powerful effect.
Behind the bat Arnold Hanger