The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-12
NINTH INNING RALLY
DULLS EAGLE TAL0NS,
GIVES FARMLAND WIN


Staging a rally in the ninth inning /
that netted them three runs after the .
Eagles had copied a two-run lead IN
the inning previous, the Farmland
baseball team again trampled the fast 4
slipping Eagles Sunday afternoon at
Exhibition park by the score Of to 8. !
The game was delayed for an hour
due to a wet diamonds, but after the
start. fans witnessed one of the best, !
if not the best. played and one of the
most hotly contested games of the
season.
So holly contested was the game !
that all the fans remained in their
seats until the final out was made.
Bill Hartman, local lad, did the
hurting for the Farmland aggregation
and hurled very noteworthy game
of ball Hubby, the regular hurler,
failed to put in his appearance and
Hartman was called upon to do the
mound duty.
Both teams kept plugging along I'M
til the fourth frame before a runner
crossed the plate. Hartman issued
five hits during these innings but
only two were punched. Hawekotte
was working good, allowing no hits
until the fourth when the visitors
punched two hits for one run, and re-
peated in the sixth frame. Another
tally was added to the Farmland total
in the seventh. Giving them a three
run lead.
Threaten in Seventh.
The Eagles came back in the sew
enth and threatened to score enough
tallies to sew up the game but Hart
man frightened up and some good sup
port by his teammates cut them down
with only one tally.
The Eagles should have scored earl
Ter in the game had they taken advan-
tage of several misplays by the Farm
land fielders. Hammers and McCabe
both seemed to have an off day allow
ing several drives to go safely that
they should have taken in nicely, and
turned into outs.
Both teams we're handicapped by
the heavy diamond which made field
ing extremely difficult at times, es-
pecially around the keystone sack,
where the field was a sea of mud. The
bad condition of the diamond did not
stop the pulling of several sensational
plays by both teams.
A fast double play in the fourth
frame checked a threatening rally.
With Byrkett on first and Long Oh
second, Knight cracked one into left
field that looked good for a safe hit,
but McCabe after hard run captured
the ball and caught Byrkett off second
on a close play. Minner robbed Kess-
Ter of a possible triple in the fifth
when he took in his long fly to right
center over his shoulder for the final
out
Rally Looks Good
The Eagles went to bat in their
turn in the eighth inning and staged
a rally off Hartman that looked good
for a winner Hartman had been
touched rather hard the inning previ-
Gus and the onslaught was continued
in the next frame. In this stanza the
Eagles punched seven hits off Hart
man for four runs and the stands went
wild for 1t looked almost certain vic
tory for the locals.
The fatal inning proved to be the
ninth and last frame in which the Wis
itors copied the game on some hard
and timely hitting an an error by
Reddinghaus. Hammers, first up,
singled over second and Hartman. az
ter fouling five pitched balls with the
count three and two on him singled
to right Hammers going to third
Coates flied out 90 left for the first
out, but Kessler scored him with a
long fly to center. Jennings singled
to right, Hartman going to third and
scored when Reddinghaus let Have
kotte's throw get through him, Jen
nings going to second. Clark scored
him with the winning run by cracking
a single to left
The Eagles made brave effort to
win the game in the last half of the
ninth and probably would have but for
some poor base running by H. Logan,
who led off with a single. Redding-
haus was safe on Hammers error.
Logan and Reddinghaus attempted a
double steal and Logan had third stol-
en- but over-slid the base and after a
heated argument was called out Here
Hartman applied the brakes and after
issuing an intentional pass to Byrkett
ended the game by tanning Long and
knight for the final outs with the tie
ing run on third
Next Sunday the Eagles will battle
the Dayton Deleos at Exhibition park
The score:
Farmland