The mirror., 1923-06-07
Saturday. June 2

Saturday, June
The local aggregation had not forgotten
the three humiliating defeats they suf-
fered last year by the hands of the Hud-
son Railway Shopmen from Hudson, Wis
consin. Last Saturday Mr.. o. Solheim
had his crew of railway men on hand, as
per schedule, fully expecting to repeat.
But alas! he bumped up against cast
iron determination, with the opposition so
thoroughly entrenched that he was forced
to retreat by 13 to count, in six
inning battle.
On account of the oppressive heat that
existed during the afternoons fracas and
the slowness in which the game dragged
along only six innings were played. How
ever, those six innings were filled to the
hrim with free hitting and every player
on both teams was given plenty of work
to do in retrieving the ball. The scorer,
too was kept real busy in recording hits,
runs and errors. There was one item in
particular he was called upon to record,
something that never occurred before, that
was recording four runs in row that
developed from one hit. The bases were
loaded with one out and Myr at bat.
From a spectators point of view one
would have thought Myr was coaxing
the pitcher for pass. He stood at the
plate and never offered to make swing
until the count stood two strikes and three
balls. When the next delivery came sail
ing up to the plate for the third strike,
Boy, oh Boy! What smash that old
apple did get. 1t sailed out to left field
and only stopped by coming in contact
with the cell hall. The three base run
ners scored with ease and Myr completed
the circuit with a good margin to spare
The local umpire came in for a con-
siderable amount of criticism in various
decisions. However, it must be conceded
that he was trying to do the fair thing,
showing no partiality and giving decisions
as he saw them or what he considered
was right. No umpire can give close de-
cisions in accordance to everybody's in
clination so they are compelled to give
them as they themselves see them.
The local squad were the first to score
and this came about in the last half of
the second round. By clouting out four
singles, four ply wallop and a three
bagger, six runs were recorded. Then in
the third, seven more counts were chalked
down which developed from two singles,
two doubles, one triple and brace of in
field errors. This ended the locals scor-
ing and it was quite sufficient to win
whole flock of games.
The visitors were held scoreless until
the opening of the third chapter. Then
on pass, three singles, one double, one
three Dagger and a couple of infeld err
rors, five counters were recorded before
the side was retired. In the sixth frame,
a pass on balls and couple of singles,
produced one more run.
Burton was on the mound for the locals
and he was never in any serious trouble
except during the third encounter when
the visitors punched five of their eight
hits garnered off him during the whole
fracas. He struck out six men and passed
two on balls.
Harding who was very successful in
holding the locals to six scattered hits on
October 9TH, 1922, was on the mound
again for the visitors in Saturdays con-
test. His last encounter with the locals
proved to be quite disastrous for him and
his team mates. He allowed twelve hits