The mirror., 1923-07-26
BASEBALL

The Knights of Columbus baseball
squad from St. Paul failed to make the
grade in Saturdays contest with the local
aggregation. By failing to hit when hits
meant scores and faltering in the field at
critical moments, the K. C's dropped a
hard fought game to the locals by count
of to 8, in an eight inning game.
The game developed right off the reel
in pitchers battle and for three success
sive innings the nearest any runner came
to scoring was about six feet past second
base. In the second round O'Connell
reached second on two base hit to right
center. A moment later he was wander
ing around aimlessly about the bag and
was tossed out Ny to B'dt 1t was in the
third round that the locals had their first
opportunity to visit the second station.
Wor led off with two Dagger over the
center6elders head but shortly after reach
ing second he wandered little too far
from the canvas and was thrown out,
Walsh to Conry. Such snappy work in
snuf6ng out the life of prospective scores,
caused the game to be thrilling all the
way.
1t was the opening of the fourth round
when the K. C.'s drew the first blood.
One lonesome marker was recorded which
developed from a couple of passes on balls,
an overthrow to second and an infeld out.
Again in. the eighth frame they found the
way to the platter for a wild throw to
first, that should have retired the side
and single that followed was response
BILE for the two counters.
The locals did their scoring in the
fourth, fifth and seventh frames. In the
fourth, a pass on balls, a couple of sin
giles and one double, recorded three runs.
In the fifth, an infeld error, an infeld
out and single, scored one more run.
In the seventh, single, four-ply wal
lop, triple and two bagger recorded
three more runs, making seven in all for
the locals afternoons work.
Walsh opened up the game as mounds
man for the K. C.'s and the class of goods
he was producing in the early chapters
was indeed very battling. However, in
the fourth encounter he showed signs of
weakness and retired from the game en-
tirely in the fifth. During his peroid in
the box he struck out four men, passed
one on balls and allowed four hits. Three
of the hits being punched in the fourth
that caused his undoing. Shelley relieved
him in the fifth and for couple of
rounds he got by very nicely. A fast
double play in the sixth pulled him out of
very bad hole. The bases were clogged
and none were out. On an infeld grounder
that followed the runner from third was
forced at the plate and the batter was
thrown out at first. The next batter re-
tired the side on an infeld grounder to
first. Shelley allowed six hits in all, four
of them in the last round. He struck out
one man and hit one batsman.
Ny, the locals "Speed King" was some
what out of tune, although he came
through with well earned victory. He
allowed six hits that were scattered over
as many innings but when one considers
the number of free tickets he issued, why,
the K. C.'s had men on the runways all
the time, causing the local defensive to
be alert at all times Ny had eight chances
and accepted all without bobbe, how
ever he was charged with one error for
advancing runner on wild pitch. He
struckout five men, passed FIVE on balls