The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-05-09
Lakeland Takes First
of Series From Tampa
CBy Egbert F. Guskl

Our baseball boys returned home
yesterday afternoon and opened up "a
three-days' stand against ihc Grow
from Tampa. piIotod hy fhIf good old
scout, Tommie Leach. and had real
honest-to-goodncss home m.uE au-
nexing the said baseball game by the
score of ten 10 five % VAS good
game, a hard game Co score. and s,ill
a harder game TO write up The
home boys. smarting from q defeat
handed them in the ninth inning hy
the crew Of George StrvaU. 30 jay
town. Saturday. uumasked an attack
in the first two frames which proved
ample to win with.
Gladu. who usually hits them On the
immediate vicinity Of right field.
crossed up the opposition by doubling
into left field. Whitley Howalski. best
second sacker in the league. moved
him up q station with a nice sacri-
fee which Nance handled. Mr.. Reil.
late of the East Coast League and one
of the hardest working pitchers in
the circuit. uncorked a wild heave
and Frenchie counted with one tally.
Manager HARRISON looked at four Of
Reils offerings and refused to take
his gun off his shoulders. and as a
consequence of such foresight was
rewarded with a free trip to first
base. Nance, at this stage CT the
game, had a short passed ball and
everybody moved up a peg. Stewart
grounded out to second base and Har-
bison took third. Our new third
the plate and hit the first pitched
ball on the nose to center field. II
woulud have been good for a pair of
sacks anyhow, but Lady" Luck was
not to be denied. The ball took
bad hot and cleared Finzell's head
by pair of feet and the fourth es-
tate scored it a home run. Mike"
Jordan, who has been shifted from
left to right field since the acquisition
of Johnson, ended the inning and the
rally by giving Nelson Leach a hard
chance at second base The boy who
presided over the destiny of the
score board, hung up the numeral
three. The locals. not being satisfied
with a lowly three, proceeded to salt
the game away. Bud Gibson, first
l.
Smith moved him up one station with
a nicely placed sacrifice pop
HUMPHREYS registered his first hit of
the afternoon, fine drive to center,
and ellison counted at the pay sta
ton. Gladu duplicated his first eff
fort and placed short one in left.
Bert being left at second base Whitley
Wowalski hit in the same territory,
and with the bases thoroughly popu-
lated, Mr.. Rel delivered himself of
another wild pitch, Bert punting
HARRISON still had the stands clam
oring for hit-thats all he did do
three sacks to center field, and he
was the only Highlander on the
paths. Lightfoot, who had been play
ing in right field for the opposition.
speared the ball and got the worst
of the argument, a torn finger nail.
Time was called until change could
be effected. Finzell was sent to left
field, Dave Brack shifted to right,
and the game continued In the
meantime, Bonnie Stewart had hit a
sacrifice fly to left field and counted
the Frenchman. Jordan brought the |
inning to a close by grounding to
nelson Leach.
Reil settled down and pitched air.
tight ball for the next three frames. (
and the best the locals could do was
three hits and no counters. In the /
sixth and seventh inning, to keep
pace with the opposition. who had
begun to count. the locals annexed /
one in each frame.
The old man got along in fine style |
until the third, when the visitors /
showed over a counter, then he settled
and held them until the sixth and |
seventh innings, when they counted
once in each frame. In the ninth a
brace of triples and a sacrifice fly ac-
counted for the visitors other two
tallies.
The same teams furnish the oppo-
sition for the next two afternoons,
after which the locals journey to
st. Petersburg for a series of three,
returning to their own back yard for
nine in a row.