The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-07
GAME
TO THE PALS
OcaIa Boys Confused Play Saturday
Showed Up Badly Beside Steady
Work of Their Opponents

Saturdays game between the Wild
cats and the Pals was the most heart
breaking exhibition of the national
sport ever shown in Ocala The Wild.
cats had the game in their grasp the
entire nine innings and then failed to
close down on it. Bonehead base run
ming and the failure to jerk pitcher
were in large measure responsible
for the defeat. Time after time the
Wildcats had men on bases and then
foolishly failed to push them across
the plate. In the first inning Francis.
was caught at third when there was
no need for him to take the risk and
Leon was caught asleep on first. In
the second inning Rymer took a nap
ON third. In the fourth Masters was
out at the plate when he ran on an in
field hit to the pitcher when he might
have waited for better chance or
until the pitcher threw to first. In
the fifth Liddell slept on first. In the
sixth Masters took another nap on
third. In the eighth Hernandez got
caught off third. Our offensive game
was weak in it's base running and we
failed to make many possible runs
that would have won the game. On
the defensive the team played good
ball and only has two errors charged
against it. The weakest part of the
defense was the pitcher and then the
management for not jerking Herman
dez in the seventh. Hernandez start
ed the game off well. One hit in the
first and two in the third, none of
which caused any damage, were the
only things that touched him until the
seventh. 1t appeared then that Her
nandez gave completely out. The first
man up in the seventh was Peters. He
hit a fly almost to the center field
fence and Jimmie Liddell made a nice
run and camped under the ball but
when it came down Jimmie let it slip
out of his glove. Larzo followed with
an infield hit. Gonzales singled and
scored Peters. Holden was hit by the
pitcher and filled the bases. Sanford
hit a two-bagger and scored Larzo
and Gonzales, but Holden was caught
ar the plate on Rymer's perfect throw.
Callahan doubled to left and scored
Sanford The side was then retired
when Robinson hit to Leon and Wynn
hit long line drive to Wood in right
field. Not satisfied that the Pals were
really hitting Hernandez, the iWld-
cats let him go back in the eighth and
it was pitiful to see the boy try to
pitch when he had nothing but a
prayer Quinn led off in the eighth
and hit one to left that almost hit the
fence but Rymer caught it so Her
nandez still pitched. Peters singled.
Larzo singled. Gonzales got hit and
the bases were full but still Herman
dee pitched. Holden hit to short and
Peters was forced at the plate but in
an attempted double at first Larzo
j crossed the plate with the fifth run
for the Pals. A new pitcher in the
middel of the seventh inning would
have stood mighty fine chance OF
stopping the batting rally of the Pals.
We had three men who could have
tossed them over for the two innings
but Hernandez still pitched. That is
how the Wildcats lost the game. Now
a little about how the Pals won it
They played miserable ball all the
way through the game. Nine errors
are charged to their side of the
ledger. Their manager, Robinson,
made four errors himself but he used
i Judgment in one place that counter
balanced all his errors. The Wildcats
began to hit Sanford pretty hard in
i the fifth and sixth In the seventh
we got three hits and two runs off him
and made another run in the eighth.
/ Nearly every man up would hit the
ball on the nose and Sanford showed
!, that he was getting weak. In the
teighth we made one more run that
put us only one run behind the Pals
i Had they been stopped In the sew
tenth the game would have ben tied in
the eighth). In the ninth Leon led of
with a single off Sanford. Without
hesitating moment Robinson mo-
toned for Epperson to go In the box
The switch from a right to a left
ihander and the change of pace and
delivery put a stop to 0cala's hitting
and the game was ended with the
score five to four. Robinson showed
: good headwork when he took Sanford
! out There is no one who saw ths
game but feels that the Wildcat.
could have pushed Leon across the
!, plate with the tying run if Sanford
) had finished the inning. The Pal.