The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-06-08
BASEBALL

Well, Cap Peuline, the pilot of the M.
S. P. ball team, allows as how he has got
a bunch of sluggers. And, guess, Cap
is correct as per usual. Any team that
can pound pitcher Meyer, a premier
amateur pitcher of the Twin Cities,
playing with the Montgomery Ward
club of ST. Paul, for fourteen hits in
seven inning game, must be a slug
ging outfit. Oh, my, you should have
seen how "old man" Bona slashed
that ball. Yes, and the "colored, boy" Bur,
Sher, Dit and "walrus" Gall came in for
their share of wallops as well as all the
other favorites too.
Oh, yes, the score, most forgot to men
ton it, 9 to 7, our favor. "Good game,
we won" says the reporter. Features?
Three-bagger by Bur, Sher's assist from
deep center that retired runner at third
and Bur's bad inning when he showed
signs of blowing up in the fourth frame.
Take it from the scribe, it was a game
to set the fans painting with excitement.
Free hitting some fast fielding and
generous sprinkling of errors kept the
pendulum swinging this way and that until
the onlooker's hardly knew whether they
were afoot or horseback. Boy oh Boy!
it was regular heart breaker. All of
two hours of heart palpitation. The game
might have gone on indefinitely, or at
least until darkness. But it was graciously
agreed to call off the game in order to
allow the visiting players and fans to re-
turn home in seasonable time.
In the first round of the game there was
nothing of any Importance to record. But
after that, things began to happen and
each particular incident followed so quick
ly upon the heels of its predecessor that
the fans could hardly keep in tune. With
the opening of the second chapter the visi-
tors drew the first blood. Otto lead off
with an infeld grounder and went to
second when Dit let it ramble on out into
left field. Goswitz was a good waiter
and finally drew pass. Marsh struck
on grounder to center, Mattson went to
second on the peg to the plate. c. Han
son and Meyer, struck out, retiring the
side. When the locals came to bat, it
looked for time as though they might tie
the score, for Bona led off with a single
and Gall beat out an infeld grounder for
single. When this "old war horse" can
pull off feature of that kind, it must be
an omen of bad luck, for Eos went out on
pop foul fly to Porter and Sher hit
grounder to Marsh that forced out Bona
at third. Hen struck out, retiring the side.
In the third round, the visitors could
not get wise to Bur's slants and benders.
The side was retired with goose egg,
but when the locals came marching in
from the field they had blood in their eye
and it was something scandalous the way
they started to land on Meyers offerings.
Bur led off with triple to right center.
Shu struck out. Mye hit grounder to
Porter but he could not handle it. Lund-
strom backed him up in big league style
and grabbed the ball out of the grass in
time to throw out Mye at first. Bur
scored on the sacrifice. Dit hit grounder
through the infeld defense for single but
a moment later he was hit with a batted
ball by Bona that retired the side. Bur's
run evened up the score, making the count
zone" by each.
In the opening of the fourth stanza,
Bur showed signs of blowing up. How