The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-08-08
Danville Wins First Of Little
Worlds Series By
Gift Route
BLUBAUCH AND DANCEY
BOTH EXPLODE AT ONCE
Fans See Amazing Reversals
Of Form In Course OF
Afternoon


the bad Sunday afternoon. When it
was over. the game was over. What
happened thereafter did not change
the result. LoOkee-Mt. Vernon S,
Danville 10.
Sundays mis-exhibition was an
nOunced as the starter of a series OF
five games between Mt Vernon and
Dsnvllle for the Knox county cham
piOnship. It was denominated a cit
tie world series," but that merely was
hy.. way Of pleasantly {,
A better than average crowd was
out to see the game. Danville sent
out considerable of crowd to pull
for their own team. But they might
az we'll have stayed at home, save on
ly for their welcome contributions at
the gate. But as for pull, Danville
didn't need it. With Mt. Vernon bent
on giving away the game, no pull was
necessary.
What happened was that in that
first inning Danville got to Blubaugh
on the jump and he blew. Then, just
to help 1t along, Dancey, who was
trying to hold down the hot corner
third-found it entirely too hot, and
he blew too. This practically simul-
taneous blowing put Mt Vernon all
to the bad almost before the fans had
got fairly settled.
In that merry romp, IA batsmen
walked to the plate. They hit any.
thing. The innings summary shows
4 total OF six hits, one for two sacks
and one for three. Every Danville
batsman who had glimmering of an
idea Of how to place his drives push
ed them at Dancey. He is credited
with three boners in that interest
= ing. interval. AZ;
When the inning was over, Dan
willie had 10 runs and Mt. Vernon had
not even started to play yet. AS a
matter of form, the game went
through eight more innings, but as a
matter of fact, the game was finished
in that first half inning.
After eight Danville batsmen had
faced, Blubaugh, he was chased to
the right outer garden to rest and to
pull himself together. Don Wootton,
who had left his cartoonist job on
the Cleveland Plain Dealer to come
down to Mt. Vernon to play in this
~ ri 1od in
from center to relieve Blubaugh. AS
a pitcher he's an excellent cartoon
list. The appearance of Wootton on
the mound seemed to have a bad ef-
feet upon Dancey, who proceeded to
explode all over the lot like sky
rocket.
Somehow the inning was finished,
Danville pyramiding and taking prof
IT'S until she had accumulated 10 runs
The rest of the game belongs to Mt
Vernon, but not enough to affect the
result. After the first spell of ner-
yousness, stage fright, or whatever it
was, the boys came back to life and
nanville never had look-in.
Blubaugh went back on the slab
and held the visitors to two hits, both
of them singles. Danville got the
wiggles and the wobbles, but they
played 1t safe and in moderation.
Maui for Danville kept the hits
scattered and kept sharp eye on
the bases.
The game had one other feature
lot of wrangling. In the sixth, Por-
ter, the ump, who had been ridden
rather hard by the crowd, decided
he'd had enough of the razz and
threw down his mask and windpad
and quit. That had the effect of
stopping the play until he could be
induced to come back. When Porter
picked up his discarded mask and
pad, the crowd gave him a hand, just
to show there were no hard feelings
The score:
Mt. ". 80. O21 0 0 40 + 5 6 s
Danville 10 0 0 % 0 0 0 O-1O 8 6
Batteries-Blubaugh, Wootton and
Berry: Maui and Dent.
Two base hits-Dancey, Berry.
Kimmel
Three base hit-Henderson.
Left on bases-Mt. Vernon 4, DAN
Vile s.
Struck out-By BlubaugA 3, by
Maui 3.
Bases on balls-Of Blubaugh 2, off
Maui /.
Passed ball-Berry 1.
Umpires--POrter and Looney
Time--2;15. ~.