The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-10

Lakeland fans who crowded the bal
park Thursday afternoon saw biz
league baseball. There was excitemen
enough tc last until tomorrow Thu
Highanders were in great form ant
played a steady game in the pinches
The playing was marked by YER!
heavy batting. the home team findinf
Hernandez for some long drives
There was scarcely minute through
out the entire game that the fans wer
not on tip-toe. Summarized it was
real swat fest.
THE STORY OF THE GAME
First Inning
ST Peters burg-LenOir hunted safe
10 Stewart. Matthews grounded &c
Stewart forcing Lenoir at second
Morris sent a high loul to Groh. Big
low hit a home run over right field
fence scoring Matthews ahead OF
him. Hauser flied out to Norton. .
hits, runs no errors.
Lakeland Gladu walked. Norton
singled to left field. Groh hunted in
front of plate and the pitcher threw to
first to catch him and hit him in the
back and Gladu and Norton scored
Groh taking third Swacina grounded
out third to first and Groh was
caught out at the plate Zimmerman
steals second The crowd went wild
Stewart walked. Smith came to bat.
the crowd applauding. Smith ground
ed out short to first. > hits. rush.
no errors.
Second Inning
St Petersburg trippled under
the club house Brown walked. Fletch-
er singled to left. scoring Cox,
HUMPHREYS now pitching for Lakeland.
Hernandez hunted to Humphreys and
Brown was forced out at third Lenoir
grounded to Swacina who threw
Fletcher out at second. Gibson threw
wild to HUMPHREYS and Hernandez
scored. Lenoir out stealing second
, hits. , runs. l error by Gibson.
akeland-Gilson flied out to Lee
noir in left field, HUMPHREYS singled
to left center Gladu singled to right
Norton flied out to left Groh fouls
ont TO catcher. > hits. no runs. no err
rors.
Third Inning
St. Petersburg-Ma flied out
to Zimmerman Morris singled over
ellison and threw his bat to Humph
ries Bigelow sent high fly to Stew.
art. Morris was put out stealing sec.
ond, Smith to Gibson. no runs. l hit
no errors
misunderstanding out. short to
first. Zimmerman hit safe to third.
Stewart hit to short who threw to sec
ond TO catch Zimmerman but second
baseman let the ball 90 by him, Zim-
norman going to third Stewart
stole second Smith hit to pitcher
and Zimmerman was put out, pitcher
to third Smith and Stewart worked
a double steal, scoring Stewart. Smith
is caught off second, pitcher to sec
Ond. Payne was ordered off first base
coaching line. also Manager Swacina.
l run l hit. ! error
Fourth Inning
st. PETERSBURG Hauser flied out to
Norton. Cox grounded out. HUMPHREYS
to Swacina. Brown grounds out,
Stewart to Swacina. Manager Ber-
ter is ordered off third base coach
line No hits. no runs, no errors.
Lakeland - ellison struck out
HUMPHREYS struck out. Gladu hops
one over the pitcher for one base and
steals second. Norton singled to cen
ter, scoring Gladu from second Nor
ton went to second when Brown threw
wide to first Groh hit one off Morris
nit and Norton scored. Groh then
stole second. Swacina singled to left
scoring Groh from second. thinner
man singled to center and Stewart
struck out. hits. ) runs. l error.
Fifth Inning
st. Petersburg Fletcher singled
when Swacina misjudged the hit.