The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-06-23
WILDCATS WON THE
GAME IN A WALK
"All-Stars" Picked from Jacksonville
No Match for Home Talent
OF Ocala

Yesterdays game between the Wild
cats and the All-Star pickup team
from Jacksonville was an easy victory
for Ocala. 1t seemed that the local
boys had their eyes on the old apple
and in spite of the fact that the Jack
sonville aggregation used st. Angus
tines star twirler, were were able to
connect with twelve of them for safe
hits. Although the game was played
in one hour and As minutes, it seemed
rather slow and lacking in pep but
this afternoons game will likely be!
faster as the Jacksonville lads prom
ise a better pitcher than they used
yesterday.
Red Ulrich tossed for the Wildcats
and held the visitors to only six hits
but Red was little off color (prob
ably deep shade of pink and walked
several men and showed that he was
not up to his usual mark.
The feature work of the day may be
best divided into at bat and in the
field. Burrie Taylor acquitted himself
in handsome form at bat. He was up
five times, walked two times, got
double and two singles. His batting
average surely took rise against the
well known Hernandez. Rymer and
Leon followed closely at Taylor's
heels and secured two hits each, out
of three times at bat. Overstreet and
Liddell came next with two hits out
of four times up. Hernandez secured
two safeties out of four attempts.
The work of the Wildcats shows
much improvement at bat Not only
are the boys swatting the apple but
they are using a little baseball along
with it. Yesterdays game showed
four of the prettiest sacrifices ever
pulled off on the local diamond. The
boys are not trying to get glory for
themselves but for the team and when
it is time to sacrifice a man the offer
ing is made willingly and cheerfully.
This means that our team is coming
to the front. The sooner any team
plays for the team and not for the in
dividual the sooner that team is going
to make good. In the field Taylor
again showed up in good form. He
made an error or two in the first part
of the game but in the last inning or
two he redeemed himself nobly when
he snatched two from the grass in
deep short and made perfect throws,
catching his men when it seemed that
they surely had made infeld hits. Ry-
mer pulled off two sensational ones in
left field, one of which made the
grandstand go almost wild. He ran
back and nabbed one from the tall
timbers with one hand when it was
doomed to hit the fence for two or
three bases. In the other instance it
was his mighty wing that drew the
applause. He caught long fly in left
and made perfect throw to the plate
to catch the runner Rymer's arm is
going to win some ball games for the
Wildcats.
The Wildcats pulled off one rotten
play that disgusted the fans for a
time but those same plays happen in
the best regulated ball teams. A fly
was hit little back of shortstop that
either Rymer, Liddell or Taylor could
easily get but they were too polite
with each other and let it drop be-
tween them and even then were so
over-courteous that they could not de-
eide who was to pick the ball up and
throw it until the runner had scored
A play like this makes everybody feel
bad but we all know that they will
happen sometimes and we are glad
that this one is out of our systems.
Two double plays featured the
game. Leon caught hot line drive
on second and doubled Smith at first
If Brooks had turned the ball loose
a second sooner a triple would have
been made on Hernandez at second
AS it was the ball almost got there in
time to make the triple play. The
other double was made when Leon
caught a fly in deep center, relayed
the ball to Taylor who threw on line
to the plate and caught Hernandez
who was trying to score on the fly
This throw was another feature of the
game.
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