The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-05-23
COST
HAMMOND
A VICTORY


Sundays game. which wound up by
the score of 10 to 2 in favor OF
South Chicago, it seems as though
the Hammond X. of C.'s must get
all the bad baseball out of their
systems early in the season
1t is we'll remembered by follow
ers of the Hammond team that the
local club suffered a similar defeat
at the start of last season. but I'M
mediately thereafter they came back
to life and played bang-up ball
throughout the remainder of the
league schedule.
without taking any credit away
from South Chicago 1t can be truth
fully stated that the Hammond
club did more to defeat themselves
than the one sided score would in
dictate. All that Hammond did in
the field was to make seven big juicy
errors to say. nothing of lot OF
dumb baseball that was thrown in
for good measure, so as to be sure
and make 1t an all around rotten
day.
Even Larry Hilbrich. who is US
ually pretty reliable. was consider
ably off color as was demonstrated
in the very first inning when Pete
Ireland. the first man up for South
Chicago. socked a home run on the
first ball pitched. This blow seem
ed to kind a take the heart out of
the Hammond gang right off the
reel and they never did fully re-
cover after Richards long wallop
to left. Bender. the next batter,
nearly tore one of Chambers legs
off with a wicked liner down the
third base line. - 1Iilbrich settled
down a bit after this second hit and
struck out c. Sebehar. while Bender
stole second and continued to third
on Harle's bad peg c. Sebehar
scored South Chicago's second run
while his brother, E. Sebehar was
being thrown out. catcher to first
South Chicago scored again In the
second. but this time without the aid
of hit. Hilbrich hit the first man
up and passed the next one. but he
would have pulled out of this hole
only for a. bad play. He struck out
the third man to face him and made
the next batter lift an easy fly to
Flynn. but Eddie hesitated about
getting the ball away and when he
did finally throw 1t, he pegged wide
and the man going to third romp-
ed in with ease.
Hammond scored one in the third
after they filed the bases with two
out. Murphy, who was on first.
took a long lead off the bag and
drew a throw from the catcher. In
the run down. Hilbrich scored when
the first sacker threw wild to the
plate, but O'Rourke, who was on
second, kept on coming after round
ing third and was an easy out. as
the catcher recovered the ball in
plenty of time to nail him going
back to third base.
South Chicago added two more in
their half of the third on a single.
followed by a triple and an infeld
out. Hammond scored their second
and final run in the fifth after one
down. O'Rourke struck out, but the
catcher let the third strike break
through him and when he recovered
the ball, he pegged it far out into
right field letting O'Rourke around
to third. Danny Boyle hit a hot one
to the second baseman who made
a nice throw to the plate, but
O'Rourke slid away from the cat
cher for Hammond's last run of the
game
Three more runs came in for
South Chicago in the sixth on
single. couple of errors by O'Rourke
and Harle, q base on balls and an
other home run by our friend, Pete
IRELAND
Dalton assumed the mound in the
seventh and South Chicago scored
another run on a two base wild
heave by Chandler. followed with
single by E. Scholar The next
three men were easy. South Chi
Cages last run was thrown in for
good measure in the eighth Dalton
passed Wilson with one out and he
scored all the way from first when
Chandler pegged Richards bunt a
mile past Murphy. Bender. next UP
singled clearly to center, but Sug
Handy cut down IRELAND at the
plate with a perfect peg.
The box score.
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