The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-08-15
KNIGHTS D0WN
F DU n I AIMS IN
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Eleven Run Rally In First
+ Frame lCiinches
Victory
FINAL SCORE OF
CONTEST 13 TO 8
Pythians Are Checked After
The Damage Is
Done
(y6 Fred Hayes)

Mt. Vernon has three organized
baseball clubs: The Mt. Vernon team.
the Knights of Pythias and the Foun-
tain club.
Previous to Saturday none of these
city representatives of the diamond
had compared their skill with the 9th.
er. In fact it would be impossible
for the Mt. Vernon club to try con-
clusiOns with the Mt. Vernon Pyth.
ians, unless some members would
pull a DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, as
something like five players pastime
with both outfits.
There was nothing left to do then,
If the home fans were to see two 10.
cal contingents tangle, but pit nine
bearing either the name of the Mt.
Vernon team or that of the X. of P.
clan against the forces of the FOun-
tain club.
And this came to past. Saturday
at Athletic park the knights opposed
the Fountains. When the curtain fell
on the afternoons doings, the lodge
men were on the heavy end of 13 to
9 verdict. But, had not the Timon
dodgers broke loose like California
quake in the very first round and
scored enough markers to win two or
dinary ball games, different story
might have been written.
Fountains Might Play Football
If the ball diamond could have been
replaced by gridiron, the shoe might
have been on the other hoof, or in 9TH
er words, the results of the skirmish
might have been reversed. The Foun-
tains had an epidemic of high school
football captains on the field.
| Brownie Corcoran and Cookies Gun.
ningham, former Mt. Vernon high
school grid leaders, and Hank Dancey,
captain-elect of the 1922 eleven, were
all enrolled in the ranks of the Foun-
tain crew.
But If the Fountains had elected to
play football instead of baseball, the
knights would not have been wholly
unprepared,. for numbered among their
football baseballers were Hec Jones,
star of high school days, and Dixie
Porter, another former captain of
orange and black gridders.
Pound Ball Hard In First
Dancey, who hurled the high school
nine to victory on numerous occasions
this spring, ascended the hill for the
Fountain team at the start of the con-
test. But his efforts to render the slug
ging knights innocuous were in vain.
The Pythians staged protracted
socking orgy in the last half of the
first chapter that staked them to a
lead that never would have been
touched had every knight struck-out
over the remaining innings. In all,
fourteen clubbers, garbed in uniforms
stamped with the X. of. P. insignia,
trundled their favorite cudgel to the
plate in the first frame. and eleven of
their number made the rounds.
Playing the game out looked like
mere formality for some time after
the first inning, for up until the fourth,
the Fountains registered only one hit
and no runs off the X. of P. mounds
man, Davy Jones. But in the fourth
they broke through and combined four
hits with an error an dscored three
runs. They had another big inning
in the sixth, counting in with four
tallies, and the eighth saw them cut
down the lodge teams lead still more
by adding two more counters. That
was all for them.
Relief Pitcher Proves Puzzle
The knights stickwork after the
stormy first was not of the kind that
would warrant their pictures being
placed in the baseball album of hit,
ters. h.a d, bosfoa
At the beginning OF the second ses.
sion, Dancey departed from the rub.
ber and swapped positions with Davis.
the Fountains n'sifrstbaseman. Dancey's
successor proved regular enigma for
the knights, allowing them only two
safeties and two runs over the rest.
of the route. Errors figured in aid.
ing the lodgemen tho both of these
runs.
Porter was the batting duke for the
Knights of Pythias with three 100 per
cent wallops. For, the Fountains, Dav.
is lead the attack with three raps, fol-
lowed by B0die and Cunninghm with
two apiece. !
Long hits were few. The biggest
part of the safe knocks were Texas !