The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-09-18
almond
Enjoys FINE
BALI GAME
ton Of X. C's in Stiff
Pitching Duel With
Olsen of Vets

eans Of Foreign Wars staged
OF the best played games of the
on yesterday afternoon at the
rlson Park diamond. The final
G was l TO 0 IN favor OF the
ghts, the winning marker being
oves IN the last half of the first
ng.
Ron this run was tailed, little
anyone think that It would rs
qa# score Of the entire after
>. v91ueh unlike their previous
9Rter, which wound up 10 to 7
sEor Of the Vots. yesterdays
avas 4 real pitchers battle be-
a. Dalton and Olsen. with the
4c having nil the best Of the
sr1ent throughout the contest.
egtsn allowed only five hits.
chs~oat ten men and issued but
Raf@ on balls. while his oppon-
was touched up for v bin
whtned five and passed two.
Vets five blows were we'll scat
i. no two coming IN n inning.
IN Itself IS evidence of the
that Dalton was simply in
Akhss IN tho pinches. The only
PLAYER to reach third was Mey-
sslsp tried 10 score from second
Pinch Hitter .McCarthy's clean
~ 10 left In the first half OF
Seventh. There two down with
,hJ- on in this round when Bud
snured Meyers roller and gave
a life at first. "Hank' stole
na-on the first pitch and then
/ Qpe strike called on him Cal
was removed for pinch hitter
|aFthy. who responded with a line
|hsxto left that looked like it
nEAa tied score. but Tommy
|la3set himself in front Of the
eor Danny Boyle's throw which
VA tust in time 10 enable Harle
le4k Meyers off the rubber and
ria for the third out. II was
ny piece of work and snufred
tie Vets only real chance to
OF only three other Vet base
advanced as q as second,
fee way Dalton was pitching
e As little II any possibility
| Iry Of these men to get any
near the counting station.
sf1-. of C.'a on the other hand
ssve-al good opportunities. but
nj tirhtened Up whenever the
sion demanded and with the
pf his mates, he kept his op-
1ts from crossing the plate In
hst the fret round when the X.
Is made the most of their
acss by eking out a tally with
ala o. a base on balls. followed
hunt which ment for a scratch
and q long sacrifice fly.
|ahRnle Mcshane. playing at short
|5lEce OF his brother. Jim, who
hurriedly called out Of town on
tstness trip Saturday evening, led
Tfth a base on balls and advanc-
Iii the way TO third on Boyle's
fnhpted sacrifice along the first
line, which counted for a
tch bingle. Boyle stole second
then when Sugar Handy hit to
shortstop, AIcShane was retired
he plate after beating the throw
e.8but the umpire claimed Mac
nut touch the base SO when the
her ran over 10 the bench and
led him he was declared out.
h' TO the surprise Of the crowd
several Of the players who
GIT he had scored without any
i fen. Handy moved to second
ha mixEp on this play and then
lrby Harle came through with a
lfy to Callahan which enabled
be TO score from third with ease
sfua was put over so quickly
al such an early stage of the
est that the fans had no idea
@this one little marker would
tually win the ball game. But
lnnink after inning passed on
both pitchers going in top form
lone tally began to loom UP aw-
! big and along about the seventh
Iad after Boyle and Harle turned
Meyers on the best play of
dAy, It looked like the one run
sin was going to be enough for
on to cop.
) base hits on both sides were
Ell scarce the only man who de-
ass any special mention as the
tanding star at bat is Frank
scaer. the Vet second baseman,
nicked three ~safeties out OF four
to the plate. This feat is all
moro remarkable when you con-
Il that the Vets got only five
Is all told. so you have to hand
b Fgeischer with three-hfths of
| teams total hits o his credit.
fnys Boyle was the only other
Ear to make more than one bin
being given credit with two hits
Of four times at bat.