The mirror., 1922-07-20

O'Clock p. m., when the local fans, some
nine hundred strong came marching from
their various shops of employment to the
ball park to witness fast and furious
game that was fully anticipated to take
place. But, alas! the local fans had no
more than gathered upon the field, when
old Jupiter Pluvius, who had been
threatening for some time to do his worst,
decided the time had arrived for him to
take action and win the game by sending
forth heavy rain. My, Oh my, but how
it did rain for few minutes. The visit
ing fans sought refuge until the storm
was over but the local fans stuck
grimly to their posts defying Mr.. Jupiter
and clamoring all the while to "play ball."
The majority of both teams being will
ing to proceed with the game, regardless
of the mud and water on the diamond, it
was decided that the majority rules and
the game commenced. Boy, Oh, Boy such
a spectacular comedy act in baseballdom
was never staged on the local diamond
before. Talk about those "spit ball"
artists, those "knuckle balp performers
and those who can "smoke em" by the
batter, had nothing on the mud ball" that
was used here last Saturday. The pitchers
worked upon mound of mud that was
ankle deep, while the mud around the
home plate resembled a quagmire, and
the conditions of the diamond elsewhere
was in frightful condition. However,
the game proceeded for six successive inn
ings and at the end of that period, the
locals had come from behind and won the
game by an to count. Regardless of the
heavy and slippery condition of the
ground, there were several catches, stops
and plays that would thrill "Wooden In
dian." Ettenger, Ny, and Wor made some
running snatches of the ball in the outer
gardens that would make Iris Speaker,
Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth sit up and take
notice. And when it came to polling out
long hits, why, the "big sticks" had moth
ing on Klue and Sher.
The visitors made their first counters in
the opening of the second round and in
the opening of the fifth frame they an
nexed two more, which gave them fairly
good grip on the game.
They had held the locals scoreless dur
ing the first three rounds, but allowed one
run in the fourth, six in the fifth and
one in the sixth. Rose led the way for the
visitors initial score. He being the first
man up in the second frame, was hit with
pitched ball and went to second on Lam
gren's single. Moore hit high fly to CEN
ter that should have been an out, but Han
let it drift through his mitt, allowing Rose
and Langren to score and Moore to ad-
vance to second. Flynn went out on fly
to Shu and Prescott grounded one to Dts,
who took a felders choice and threw out
Moore at third. Klue went out on fly
to Shu retiring the side with one hit, two
runs and one error.
The brace of runs the visitors got in the
fifth round was accounted fer in the fol-
lowing manner. Klue led off with four
base drive to right, that gave him tre-
mendous ovation from both the visiting
and local fans. Peterson was tossed out,
Bur to Gall, and Golish struck out. Ettin-
ger was passed on balls and scored on Roses
three wide ones but Sher dropped the ball.
However, he recovered it in time to throw
out Langren at first and retired the side
with two hits, two runs and no errors.
The locals first lonesome score came in
the last of the fourth round and that was
a present. Sher, the first man up, was
thrown out Golish to Klue and Wor
struck out. Ny was passed on balls, stole
second and scored from that corner on two
successive wild pitches. Bur struck out
retiring the side with no hits, one run and