The mirror., 1923-08-16
BASEBALL

in Saturdays fracas over their friendly
enemies" from down the river, the Hud-
son, Wis, railway shop men, by count
of to 8, in six inning game, does not
necessarily mean that the victory was won
strictly upon its merits.
Early in the season Mr. o. Solheim,
manager of the railway men, engaged a
series of three games to be played with the
locals on the latters lot at different inter-
walls. The locals took the first game on
June End, by large majority, the Hud-
sonites copped the second, on July, 9TH.
Thus the locals won a double victory in
Saturdays contest by romping off with the
long end of the score as we'll as winning
the two best out of three.
Merits: in speaking of winning ball
game on merits, can, perhaps be classified
as baseball duck" If so, then the local
tribe were surely wearing horse-shoes on
their feet for spikes. They got all the
breaks in the game, and the Umps, too,
seemed to favor the locals on the base
lines. However, we refrain from directly
accusing the Umps of deliberately favor
ing the locals in this respect in decisions
on the runways. We are of the honest
opinion that these favorable decisions were
given on the spur of the moment, in all
sincerity as he saw them. Such is luck in
baseball, not merits and true sportsman
of the game is always willing to abide
thereby.
The game being rubber" between the
two teams, the locals came out all dolled
up in Confidence" feeling confident they
could show their entertainers how to play
the game. Well, there was some very
good, some very bad and some very indif-
ferent plays made, causing the game to be-
come somewhat listless.
Ny, the locals "Speed King had ex-
pected stronger opposition in the box and
being somewhat disappointed in this, it
seemed to have a telling effect upon his
nervous system for it was plainly to be
seen that he was having trouble with his
control valve. In the early chapters of
the game, aided by alright support, he
got away very well. 1t was in the opening
of the second round when the visitors re-
corded the first marker and in doing so
it could not be charged to Ny. Odenwald
was the first man up in that round and he
was thrown out B'kt to H'dy. Haugen
got double to left-center. Zarske struck
out. Ross grounded one to second that
should have retired the side but H'dy
dropped the ball, allowing Ross to be safe
and Zarske to score. Reynolds got
single to short-right that held Ross on
second. King hit a grounder to third
that retired the side on forced play by
Fro, unassisted. During the next two
frames the "Speed King" pitched some
high class ball. In the next round it looked
as though he had lost all control. Peterson
the first man up coaxed him for a pass.
King after getting a two and three count,
was hit terrible wallop on the head with
the next delivery which gave him free
transportation. Nuckleby struck out.
Thompson was hit with a speedy one in
the side, filling the bases with free tickets
and only one gone Carlson went out on
foul fly to Fro. Odenwald came to bat
with chance of winning or tying the
game and this the "King" fully realized.
He turned loose bombardment on Odin-
wald that made him think he was facing
some big Lacquer. The "King" completely
outguessed him and when Odenwald COM
pleted his third hearty swing that retired
the side on a strikeout, the local baseball
"bugs" gave the "King" tremendous ap-
plause. The visitors collected brace of
runs in the last stanza, one which was an
earned run, the other gift. Haugen
drove fast grounder down the third base
line and Fro made a wonderful stop of