The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-06-27
Big Rally In Sixth Gives Mar
ion Victory Over The
Pythian Team
CAPTURE GAME BY
SCORE OF 1916
Beeman And H. Jones Pound
Out Homer For The Mt.
Vernon Knights

Wy Tltu Ild1tED
Those baseball fans VINO have an
aversion for low-scorcd pitchers bat
ties, but are kept upon their pedals
when the game is filed with excess
i've hitting and scoring, would surely
have been right in their element could
they have glimpsed the erratic and
hectic fracas staged between the Mt.
Vernon Knights of Pythias ball toss
ers and TIE Marion Steam Shovel Co
forces in conteg. at Marion Satur-
day afternoon.
The two aggregations combined to
show the Marion fan flock the big
gest variety of diamond antics they
ever had beheld in one matinee, some
difficult to identify as a part of base.
ball.
When the wary-fingered score tabu.
lators had finished their task of count
ing and recounting the results of the
run-gathering activities of the frolic,
they announced the final figures as
1S to 16.
Oh, yes, as to who won. Mt. Yer
non won-that is, yesterday - not
Saturday.
A Walloping Festival
Inside baseball was cast into dis
card in the Marion fiasco. There was
no varying of tactics by either team.
BUST that bulb" was the word. Ev-
cry cubber took toe-hold and swung
from his heels in an effort to clout
the Spaulding product off the rese1.
vution.
Tho 40 healthy swats recorded by
the two outfits. 19 for Mt. Vernon and
21 for Marion, would lead one to sus.
pect that they were fairly successful
in their attempts to slay the pellet.
For the home troupe. the war club
propelled by Mills led the attack with
four safe wallops. The Mount short
stop was closely pressed for the high
hitting honors by H. Jones, D. Jones,
land Porter, all of whom connected for
three solid swats off the two opposing
Fingers. Critchfield rang in with a
pair Of hits, while Beeman, Popejoy,
Perry and Norrick grabbed one each.
Not to be outdone by the profuse
hitting and run-getting. the error col
umn boasted abnormal totals too. In
all, there were 16 fielding miscues,
with each crew guilty of eight
Won't Say Quit
You would be inclined to think that
Ia team that was trailing with the
count at to would just about give
up all hopes of hiking out and garb
bling the pole. This was the way mat
ters stood at the end of the second
round. Marion had been the agrees
o., pounding the ball numerically
and sending nine counters across the
disk in the first two innings. Mt
Vernon had managed to annex one
run in the second frame,
If anyone at this stage of the game
had ventured as much as to predict
that the hopes from Knox county
would be leading the way with three
points to the good before one-halt o
the fray was over, he would have beer
set down as fit subject for a clinic
for insanity.
But such came to PASS. The knights
changed q disorderly retreat into ;
brilliant .dvance, and bCl hot rp a
the finish of the first half with II doz
en- runs to their credit, while d. Jones
who lad relieved Norrick in the sec
ond frame, had held the Marion slug
gers in subjection. Score IL to 8.
1t was during this bombardmen
that Marshall, the Marion slabster
the same Mr.. Marshall by the wa.
who was as mystifying as an orienta
ritual when ke appeared here agains
the Pythans a little over week age
became so perceptibly unmanne
that he was granted leave of absenc
from the mound.
ID. Two Ruthian blows were registere
by Mt Vernon in this onslaught, on
by Beeman who led off in the thir
with n four-bagger, and the other b
Fl. Jones, who in the fifth frame, wit
one man aboard, sent tho horsehid
buzzing over the centarlelders hea
!. for the longest hit of the game.
% II 1t Only Had Rained
1t With the pitcher who had come
" the rescue of Marshall none to
W steady, prospects for a Mt. Verno
a. win in the fifth looked bright, and
II the Mount beavers could have keI
1, the Marion clouters shacNed, the II