The mirror., 1922-07-06

the batter was entitled to as many bases
as he could get before the ball was put
into play. There is only one man on a
team who can put blocked ball into
play and that is the pitcher. He must
momentarily hold the ball in the pitching
box, then he can make any play that offers
on base runners who may be advancing.
The visitors drew first blood in the
opening frame but it was an unearned
run. Thompson the first man up, very
promptly struck out. Nolan lined one out
to center for single but when Hin let
it hop between his legs, it enabled Nolan
to advance to third on the hit. While
Johnson was drawing a pass on balls,
Nolan scored on Fos' error. Johnson was
finally put out by Bur. Myers was passed
on balls but Bevis retired the side by
striking out. This ended the visitors scor-
ing until the first half of the fifth chapter.
Then on another battery error one more
score was registered. Thompson again
led off by striking out. Nolan got a hit
through short for single but a moment
later, Nolan was thrown out at first, Eos
to Hen. Johnson was passed on balls and
went to third on Meyers double. While
Bevis was batting, Bur issued wild pitch
that allowed Johnson to score and Myers
to advance to third. Bevis grounded out,
Bur to Della to Hen.
The locals by grabbing two run lead
in the opening round were never headed.
Pendemonium broke loose among the local
fans in this round and during the re-
mainder of the game, it reigned supreme.
With the visitors one marker to the good,
in the opening frame, the locals came to
bat with blood in their eyes and determi
nation stamped plainly upon their faces.
Shu, in waiting for his favorite, was
passed on balls and stole second. Della
bit on two wide ones and passed up fast
one that cut the center of the plate for the
third strike. Dit was passed on balls and
Gall was hit with a pitched ball, filling
the bases The first one delivered to Eos
was called ball, the second he swung at
and caught a corner of the agate for a
foul or strike one. The next was teaser
but it went for ball "two." The next
one being fast one and Eos seeing it
was going to cut the base for strike two,
swung his "Big Bertha" with all his
strength, hitting the agate squarely on
the nose, driving it out to deep right
center for as clean home run as was ever
hit on the local diamond. The hit cleared
the bases, but Eos seemed to forget that it
bags, "known as bases," while racing
around the circuit to complete his home
run and in breech of such an act he was
called out by the Umps at third. Sher
went out on an infeld fly to Nolan, re-
firing the side, with one hit, three runs
and no errors.
In the last of the second round the locals
got one more run and in reality they were
robbed of another byhot properly defining
the difference between a "blocked ball"
and "dead ball. Hen led off with a
single and stole second. Bur and Hin
struck out. Shu lined one down the right
field foul line that was good for home
run driving Hen in head of him. In
the argument that followed Hen was
placed back on third and Shu was ordered
back to first by the Umps. Later book
of rules was produced and the scorer was
instructed to give Shu a two Dagger and
credit Hen with a score. Della was hit
with a pitched ball but Dit retired the side
by going out on long fly to Sullivan.
Two hits, one run and no errors.
Doyle, who worked upon the mound in
the early chapter for the visitors, had
rather poor control at first. This was
principally his undoing. For out of the
two men he passed on balls and the two