The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-11
EAGLES HIT TIMELY
TO SHUT-OUT GRAYS;
rus AND 'CY STAR
ny r. n REID

That spit-ball of RUS" Hawekotte's
and the errorless play of the Eagle
fielders set the Cambridge Grays back
Sunday at the local ball yard, to o.
The shut-out was made possible by
the fact that the diminutiye Eagle |
hurler allowed the Grays but two hits
during the encounter. Sickle and
Hunt were the collectors of these two
precious hits.
The Cambridge batters we're lifting
high into the outfield, and well enough /
for the Eagle players in the gardens,
the balls all came nice to field, with a
few exceptions. Cy Fitzgibbons was
the player in the right garden who had
some Of the most difficult flies to get
under. In several cases, the clever
right felder's speedy legs carried him
under possible texas-leaguers.
Cy is There Again
1t is no more than justifable to take
this space to pay a bit of respect to
the play of Cy Fitzgibbons. The right |
fielder has played his berth throughout
this season and in past seasons, with
out any side-slipping Of the least bit
He is without doubt, the best iead-on
man the Eagles have had since their
organization. A player that gets on
base as often as Cy does, either by
hits, walks or hit by pitched balls, can
be gated none other than an all-l ound
man at the game. In Sundays game, !
he collected three hits in four times to
the plate, stole three bases, made
thee put-outs and was there without
an error for the nine frames. 1t has
always been his business TO beat Cam
bridge.
Six hits were collected by the
Eagles, half of them going to Cy. ].
Logan took the fourth of the number
by collecting a nice double. MINER
came in for a single and Hubbard
topped the half dozen with final
Birdmen Show Class
No doubt, from now on, the Eagles
are going to win ball games, for they
have nothing other than a classy out
fit, capable of playing clever exhibit
tons of the national pastime.
To start on the winning ways the
Eagles made good for one tally in the
second inning, which should never
have been recorded on the score sheet.
Clear as the eye could distinguish,
Hubbard let one go by in the second
inning, which was as good strike as
ever crossed the pan, but Umpire
Cornthwaite called it a ball. Two
men were down and the two strikes
had been made and the decisian pre-
vented the Grays from retiring the
side. The result was that Hubbard
singled on Battson's next offering,
scoring Henges ahead of him.
The clubs rocked along for a few
more innings, with nothing any more
exciting than a hit by Stickler for the
Grays in the fifth inning and billiard
play on Diffenderfer's grounder. Have
kotte stuck his glove in front of Diff
fenderfer's hot grounder and allowed
it to billiard over to Logan, at second,
who made the assist to first base.
Rus" had better go out and chal-
lenge Schaeffer for the billiard title.
Logan Doubles
To make things a bit more lively, the
Eagles started things right, in the
sixth, icing the game away. Fitzgib-
bons led-off with his second single of
the game. j. Logan attempted to sac
rifice him along twice, but failed; so
after Cy had stolen the base, John
soaked the third chance to left, good
for two bases. Diffenderfer got his
hands on the ball, but the ground was
too rough for him to keep his equilib-
rum and he let it drop into the ditch
under the score board The Gray
fielder did his best, but Logan took
credit for a two base hit. Fitzgibbons,
Of course, came in on the blow. Min
ner singled to center, scoring Logan
who made home easily after Long had
let MINERS hit go through his legs
The two runs were all, for Byrkett
Knight and Eubanks went out in order
on ground balls
Cambridge never had much of a
chance to score, inasmuch as they
failed to get a runner past first base
The splitter was working in fairly good
shape for Rus" and the Grays were
not touching it in the right way. All
their crashes went high into the air
thus enabling the Bird fielders to gel
under them and wait for them to come
down.
One More In Eighth
One more Eagle rally came in the
eight inning when Cy led-off with his
third single of the matinee. The
speedy player stole his third base. J
Logan sacrificed him along to third
Cy scored on the throw to first to ge-
MINER who had hit to short. Hun
dropped the ball, allowing Minner t.
remain on base. Byrkett was out By
a fly to Long. knight hit to shor
and forced Minner at second.
Diffenderfer and Winters famed IL
the ninth and Long went out, ]. Logan
to Byrkett
The Eagles VIII play at Cambridg,
. next Sunday
The score and summary;