The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-21
LEESBURG GAVE THE
LOCALS LICKING
Took the Game from the Wildcats
Saturday Afternoon By
Score of Five to Two

The Lake county lads broke then
losing streak to Ocala when they
trimmed the local Wildcats to the
tune of ) to on the Ocala diamond
Saturday afternoon. In spite of a
large number of feature catches the
game was a slow and pepless one.
Brown did the tossing for Ocala and
it was largely his pitching that made
the game such a slow one for he was
very deliberate in his actions and his
offerings were so slow that the Lees
burg batters could hardly drive them
out of the infeld Ocala specialized
in errors and the "costivity" of some
of tilam resulted in the loss of the
game. C"Costivity" is Laurie's own
wo1 d.-Editor) Stewart pitched for
the visitors and did a good job of it.
Ocela was eating out of his hand dur
ing most of the game. Only one time
lid thew succeed in getting two hits
n an inning off his delivery. Both
pitchers allowed seven hits but Stew
art cnlv walked one man while Brown
gave four free passes.
Leesburg plaved errorless ball but
the Wildcats missed four expensive
ones and the ones that they missed
Locked Ike such easy ones. Harold
Smith played a good game in center
for Ocala He handled four chances
perfectly and one of them was of the
hard to get variety. Bracken made a
stor on third that would have baffed
quite few third sackers. Taylor end
ed the ambition of Stewart when he
robbed him of hit in the fifth and
| Harry Wood caught q line drive off
| his shoestrings when Archie Porter
had ta@"ad it for center field Porte4
robbed Wood Of double in the seventh
inning when he caught the ball almost
off the fence. Stewart made a pretty
catch of Smiths line drive in the
ninth end threw to Brooks for a dou-
BILE Joe Brooks played a jam-up
game on first for the visitors, handling
no less than sixteen chances without
miscue. and getting one hit out Of
three trials.
Leesburg won the game in the third
inning when they found Brown for
three hits and the fielders for an error
or 50 and put four runs across the
plate. West led off and fouled out to
Overstreet. Porter singled. Gillespi
singled to left and Porter reached
third when Bracken dropped the
Stewart singled, scoring Porter and
Gillespi. Medlin bunted down the
| first base line and was safe when
Brown tried to touch him and missed
instead of throwing to the bag, and
Stewart went to third on the play.
Buckles walked, filling the bases.
Brooks hit a long fly to left field
which Rymer dropped allowing Stew
art and Medline to score. Buckles
thought he could get across too but
was thrown out at the plate.
| III the seventh Ocdld got HeE IirSt
run. Leon walked. Brown hit to
second forcing Leon. Rymer singled
sending Brown to second. Wood got
robbed of a hit in left by Porter
Smith singled and scored Brown Har-
ris retired the side when he went out
short to first.
In the eighth Ocala added her
second run. Overstreet went out
pitcher to first. Taylor walked. Brack-
eE doubled to right center and Taylor
scored from first. Leon hit to pitch.
er who ran Bracken down between
second and third making an unassist,
ed out. Brown hit to Brooks and
went out on Joe's unassisted. In the
nineth Leesburg made her fifth run
West fouled out to third. Porter
singled to center. Gillespi walked