The Omaha morning bee., 1924-03-17

10 see the Ma
tional pastime resurrected.
They We're well repaid for their ef-
forts for back of that to 2 victory
registered by the locals over the Buf.
faloes of the Western league hides
few diamond thrills.
The 6 to score tells Of mighty
duel between Red" Schilling and Nc.
Millin. OF the locals against Sher-
manski and Gernandt, the latter a
lefthander, a battle to break 2 to
? lock that lasted through a half
dozen innings; a hit in pinch after
two had been retired, followed by
home run with two on the sacks Just
before the final inning of the battle
was reached, a threatening ninth
inning rally by the Bluffs that gave
promise of counting for a few runs,
and was snuffed out by a fast double
play: losing managers effort to
lead his team out of the darkness of
defeat with a few timely hits, and
the combining of youth and age in
making Shreveport victorious to
start its bid for fame. 1t was all
back Of that small score.
The youth and age part of the
victory was played by Rollie Eel
der. whose name has been breaking
in press scores for almost Is years,
and Fred Eichrodt and WaIly Da.
shiel, two rockies brought up from
Class ID leagues for a trial with the
locals. Eiehrodt furnished the hit
that started the scoring of the
game. He bounced a two-bagger
to right center. and base on
balls, force out, single coupled
with an error resulted in two runs
in the second. Zeider. the veteran,
poked out a single to left field af.
ter two were out in the eighth, and
the teams were in a deadlock, and
scored player from third base.
Next came the youthful Eichrodt
with two-bagger that sent Zeider
to third. wally Dashiel raised the
ball over the left field wall for the
home run that beat the Bluffs.
Before this, Manager Art Griggs of
the Bluffs had furnished the blow
that gave his team the tying run
with the locals in the third Thomp.
son had scored on Robinsons single
and Robinson was resting on third
base. with two out. when Griggs
came through. In the eighth Griggs
attempted to lead his club to the
front when he opened the stanza by
beating out an infield grounder.
move to second on a passed ball and
advanced TO third on a sacrifice. The
necessary help was lacking. Mana
ger Griggs was waiting with bat in
hand to take his turn at the plate in
the ninth inning just when the
chances looked good for rally. but
double play closed him out OF the
game.
Red" SchiIIing started the fling
ing for the Gassers in opposition
to Shermanski and taken as
whole Shermanski had the edge on
Red" but the latter furnished the
thrills that served to tickle the
populace. Only once did Sherman
ski get In . bad hole and Il was
in the second after Eichrodt's
double. He was assisted In his
trouble by Outfielder Lavelle. who
missed Schilling's single which per-
mitted Red to travel to third base
and two runs TO score. He re-
mained four innings and gave up
two hits.
Lefty Gernandt took UP the
flinging where Shermanski left off.
Lefty turned back the Gassers in
order In the fifth and sixth and
famed two batters in the seventh
with two men on the paths. He
seemed we'll on the way to close out
the eighth inning when Zeider
crashed n single down the third base
line that scored Barnes. who had
beat out an infield grounder TO start
the inning. The tally broke the .
to deadlock. Eichrodt then doubled
and Dashiel hit over the garden
wall. Rowlands followed Dashiel
with two-bagger. but Mcmillan was
retired on strikes.
Thompson lead In the attack for
Omaha with two singles and a
double. but his percentage WAS not
as high as that Of Griggs. who hit
twice and walked once I'm four
trials