The mirror., 1923-08-09
BASEBALL

Caps "sluggers" turned in a we'll earned
victory over Loneys All Star team out in
the locals back lot last Saturday afternoon,
the locals romping off with an to vic
tory, in an eight inning game. The Aoun-
dering All Stars were like a bunch of
little chicks in the palm of "Speed King"
and at no time during the afternoons fracas
was the king in serious trouble.
The local slab artist had mountain of
strength behind him in defensive, especially
so in Fro and Shu. Each player had nine
chances and some of them were difficult
ones to handle, however, they came through
with ouly one error charged to each. Many
of their stops and pegs would have been
envied by "big league" player.
The local gang were given the oppor-
tunity of handling three double plays. eff"
all these chances had of been handled
perfectly, the All Star aggregation would
have gone home scoreless. These chances
presented themselves in the fourth, fifth
and last round. In the fourth round Carl
Anderson coaxed the"King" for pass.
Loney was successful in dumping one and
when the"King" 6elded the ball he whirled
around and threw to second base with no
chance at all of getting Carl Anderson
on forced play for Carl beat the ball to
the bag by mile. The ball got by Shu
and Carl thinking it had gone far afeld,
raced on for third. Shu quickly recovered
the ball and raced out after Carl for third
but seeing that he sould not catch him,
tossed the ball to Fro which stopped Carl
in his flight and caused him to run back
for second! Fro then tried to catch the
fleeing Carl but Carl was too fleet of foot
and Fro was obliged to toss the ball back
to Shu who tagged Carl on the shoulder
as he was going by. The gang then turned
their attention to Loney who was midway
between first and second and undecided
which way he could 60. Shu having the
ball started to chase him back to first and
in due season tossed the ball to H'dy to
stop him from getting too near the bag
Hdy then took up the chase but Loney was
too agile for him and he was obliged to
toss the ball back to Shu and let him make
the out. This cleaned the bags and Ponath
retired the side on an infeld grounder
Ny to H'dy.
With the opening of the fifth round
another double play presented itself but
for an error of omission, it was bunged up
and the All Stars made their first marker
of the game on the miscue. Gerner led off
with grounder, both runners should have
been retired. There was no cause for
haste, the grounder being fast one and
was felded ceanly but Fro who handled
the ball was over anxious to start the ball
on its journey and doing SO he bunged
up the whole works by making poor peg
to second which allowed Gerner to score
and Mcpherson to reach second. A mo-
ment later in holding Mcpherson some
where near the bag Ny threw the ball to
Myr but it hit Nc Pherson somewhere on
the body when he was sliding back to the
bag and rolled along the base line toward
third. Mcpherson thinking he could beat
out any play on him, rose to his feet and
dashed for third. Shu recovered the ball
in time to retire Mcpherson at third. Tom
struck out and Clarence Anderson retired
the side on an infeld fly to Fro. During
the next two innings not single All Star
man reached first in safety. With the open
ing of the eight and last encounter, another
prospective double play presented itself
that should have retired the side, scoreless.
Lodge who batted for Pominville in this
round, struck out. Tom lifted high
fly to center and on account of the fielder
misjudging the flight of the ball, Tom
was credited with a two base hit. Clar
ence Anderson popped up an infeld fly
and Tom thinking two were out, started