The mirror., 1923-09-06
BASEBALL

Loney's All Star team went down for
the count in Labor Days engagement with
the M. S. P. aggregation, on >the latter's
sand lot, the M. S. P. winning by to
5 score, in a seven inning game.
Labor Days game between the two
series during the season. The locals by
winning Mondays game, made clean
sweep of the series, winning all three on
small margins. The first one which was
played on July 4th, was 4 to affair;
the second on August 4th, terminated into
an 8 to victory. These two games were
of the eight reel variety and during the
three games played the All Stars failed
completely to make single earned run.
Loney was on the mound in Mondays
game for the All Stars for the first six
frames and during his period in the box,
the locals pounded his SLOW ball to all
corners of the lot Fourteen safe hits were
charged to him but on account of some
poor judgment in base running, the locals
were held to only six counters and just
one-half of them were earned runs. The
first allotment of these markers came in
the last half of the third round. Four
singles two wild throws and one muffed
thrown ball, recorded four runs. The
last of the sixth round saw the last con-
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only two of them in two small packages.
Enough hits were made along with other
opportunities being offered for the locals
to make whole flock of runs. AS it
was, it took a two-bagger, free ticket,
three singles and a long sacrifice fly to
produce the two counters. c. E. Ander-
son pitched the last frame and he sent
the local sluggers back to the bench in
rapid succession, two of them by the
grounder.
Bur was on the mound for the locals
and barring his wildness at times he
pitched remarkably good game. How
ever, the All Sars staged dime novel
finish but Bur was not responsible for
that for chances were given to retire the
first three batters up, the first two by
strikeouts and the third on an infeld
grounder. 1t was no fault of Bur's that
the defensive blewsup and allowed a last
inning rally. The All Stars garnered
their first marker in the opening of the
second round coming by the way of a
free ticket, two wild pitches and one sin
gle. They were then held scorelese until
the opening of the seventh and last round.
Three singles, one free ticket and three
errors allowed four runs before the side
were retired. Bur was credited with three
strikeouts during this stanza but unfor-
tunately one of them reached first in safety
en- an error and a little later-scored.
Bur allowed, all told, BUT six singles,
struck out ten men, passed one on balls,
issued eight wild pitches and hit two
batsmen. If he could have controlled his
'hooks" little better he was, otherwise,
in form to have pitched shutout game.
AT the conclusion of the seventh and
last chapter when it became necessary to
call the game because the allotted time
had expired quite a number of local fans
persistently continued to razz, hiss and
handy about slurring and personal re-
marks. Its poor sportsman of the game
who will not root for his favorite team,
here or elsewhere But it is unsportsman-
like, indeed, to throw personal or slur-
ring remarks. Every fan here knows or
had ought to know that this place is
governed by cast iron rules-baseball
games included. When the time expires
allotted to the game it must be called re-
gardless of which team is on the winning
side. This is thoroughly understood by