The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-06-05
SPORTING NEWS
MAKE SEVEN
ERRORS YET
WIN GAME

The Hammond X. of C,s defeated
East Chicago by the score OF 5 to 4
in spite of seven errors behind Hil-
brich, who pitched a splendid ar
ticle of ball-good enough to win
most any game. All Hilbrich did
was TO strike out IL men. pass only
one. and let the visitors down with
eight scattered hits, three OF which
were of the scratch variety. At
that. wretchcd support almost lost
the game for him on several diff
ferent occasions.
East Chicago lived up to their
reputation of being crapp
against Hammond and with the as
sistance OF two of the battling Nc
Shanes in their lineup they showed
plenty of fight right up to the An
ish of the old ball game The Twin
City crowd started right out with
a run in the first inning without the
aid OF a hit. A couple OF error and
a double steal put Johnnie McShane
yer with East Chicago's first MAJ r.
er but Hammond came right back
in their half and tied 1t UP. Muir
ply, first up, singled to left and
Danny Boyle was hit on the head
with a pitched ball, forcing him to
retire from the game for a couple
OF innings. After Boyle came to.
Dillon was put on first to run for
him and with men on first and sec
ond and none down. Handy beat out
a swell bunt along the first base
line. The bases were now loaded
with nobody out, but East Chicago
got out of this mess with only one
fast double play on Tommy Harle'S
grounder, which Mikula. the pitch
er. slowed UP just enough for the
second baseman TO get and toss TO
McShane at the middle bag and then
Johnnie relayed it 10 first in time
to nip HARE. Murphy scored on
this play. but the double killing sure
pulled the pitcher out of the hole.
and he then got Chandler for the
third out. leaving Dillon stranded
on third base.
again until the fifth. when East
Chicago went in the lead by putting
over one run OF a single by Mikula.
followed by a couple of folders
choice plays and two errors. one at
second and the other at the plate.
Hammond came back with a ven
geance in their half OF the fifth and
put over three runs on three hits,
two errors. a wild pitch n three
stolen bases. Only for some poor
base running In this round Ham
mond could just as easily had ive
runs instead of three, but the way
Hilbrich was going a two-run lead
looked pretty good at that stage of
the game.
Hilbrich held East Chicago In the
sixth and seventh, but in the eighth
inning Lott. the first man up. sock
ed out a long hit TO deep left CENTER
good for 4 home run and putting
East Chicago only one run behind.
was able 20 come all the way
around on the blow with ease. Hill
brich passed the next man for the
only walk OF the game. but he
soon pulled together and struck out
the next two batters and then made
the third one die on a grounder 10
Chandler.
Hammond did nothing in their
half of the eighth. but that old
East Chicago fighting spirit was
not to be denied in the ninth and
after Hilbrich got the first man out.
Harry Lierock. East Chicago cap
ain and third baseman. stepped up
and whaled one far out into right
field for three bases. Pat McShane.
next up. hit ono to Buddy at sec
ond and when he pegged home,
Fierock got his hands on but could
beating Harle's relay. and in the
meantime McShane had sneaked to
second base. In this crisis Johnnie
McShane singled sharply to left,
scoring Herock with the tieing run.
but Pat McShane was out at the
plate on Eddie F1ynn's throw home.
Lott. who had knocked the homer
in the previous round. followed
Johnnie McShane at bat, but Hi
brich worked on him carefully this
time and made him an easy victim
of strikes -or the third out.
When Frank Chandler, first up In
Hammond's half of the ninth. start
ed off with n long three-base smack
to right field 1t looked like the ball
game was over. u Hammond for
got they were playing East Chi
cago and that they still had the
foxy McShanes to contend with.
Well. here is what happened on the
very next play. Buddy McLaugh-
lin, who followed Chandler at bat.
raped a hard one down to Johnnie
McShane at short and what does
this bird do but make a good bluff
throw to first and then turn around
and catches Chandler on third with
a snap peg to Fierock. Buddy then
stole second base but when Prem
dergast flied out to McShane at
short for the second out. Hammond's
chances TO score looked slim and
everybody thought the game would
so int extra innings. Eddie Flynn.
however. renewed the hopes when
he hit one back at the pitcher that
hit him in the shins and rolled over
towards third base for a scratch
hit. This moved Buddy to third
base and put things ~squarely up to
Hilbrfch to win his own game, and
Larry came through with a hari
wallop down third base way. which
Rrierock sot his hands on but could
mt hold and Buddy lomped in with
The winning run.
1t was ar exciting game and in
spite of the loose play in spots the
big crowd of fans went away fully
satisfied hat they had seen a reg
ular ball game.