Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1910 — WRENS GET FOUR RUNS AND DONAVIN BUT ONE. [ARTICLE]

WRENS GET FOUR RUNS AND DONAVIN BUT ONE.

Pitching Battle With Light Hitting In Which Wrens Proved Best In Pinch And Were Victorious. Sunday’s ball game with Donavin, 111., was the best, of the season and the Wrens were victorious by the score of 4 to 1. Vincent Lakey, of Chicago, made his first debut in a Wren uniform and won the hearts of the fans as well as the game by the cleverest box work seen on the diamond this year. He is a first cousin of Johnny Hanks, last year’s favorite, looks like Johnny smiles like Johnny, is a southpaw like Johnny and takes victory as modestly as his cousin, who was the whole bakery while occupying the center mound for the Wrens last year. Lakey allowed only six hits and with the exception of the third whpn two occurred, there were not more than one in an inning. The visitors scored their' lone run in that frame. Johnson struck out, Swartzell made' an error that let Gyer land safely on first and Crosier hit safely. Gyer hit trying to stretch himself around to third, but a quick return by Jess Wilcox caught him at third. Crosier, however, went to second on the play and when Markley hit safely went home. Markley was nipped at second a moment later when he tried to pilfer. That was all for the visitors as they could get no farther than second and that far only twice. The birds did all their scoring in the fourth inning, chiefly on errors. Elmer Wilcox, first up, led off with a single. Lakey put a slow grounder to the pitcher, who had his fingers crossed and while trying to decide whether to throw it to first or second, let both men land safely. Jess Wilcox then struck out; Elder was safe on an error of R. Foster, at second, and Wilcox crossed the pan. Swartzell put a fly to center field and was out and Morgan, who is somewhat of a pinch hitter, lately, drove one safely to right field and Lakey and Elder both scored. Morgan was playing in the roll of a highwayman and after stealing second and third, he took a big lead off third, drawing a throw and then went home when the juggling got wild and the catcher made a poor throw. Malone struck out, closing the inning; the scoring and leaving the fans breathing easily. McLain was not feeling well and Elmer Wilcox was at the receiving end and caught a faultless game. He also got two hits, one of them a twostationed affair: that threatened for a time to break into another run. In the sixth the Wrens crowded the bases but nothing came of it. Jess Wilcox hit safely. Elder was hit by a pitched ball, Swartzell hit safely and although Morgan sent out a fly to right, Wilcox did not score. Malone then struck out and Kevin flew out to left. The ball game was what would be called a hummer almost any place. It was spirited, clean and at times brilliant. The pitchers worked like their lives depended on it, and the crowd warmed up to the new Wren slap artist and gave him all the support that comes of confidence. An effort will be made to have him finish the season with the locals. / The summary: Donavin R H PO A E Gyer, cf 0 1 3 0 0 Crosier, Ist 1 3 8 0 0 Markley, c 0 1 8 0 2 Larson, p 0 1 0 9 1 R. Foster, 2d 0 0 1 1 1 L. Foster, ss 0 0 0 2 0 F. Johnson, 3d .... 0 0 0 2 0 Richardson, rs 0 0 2 0 0 L. Johnson, If .... 0 0 2 0 0 Total 1 6 24 14 4 Rensselaer R H PO A E Kevin? 3d .'... 0 0 4 3 2 ss 0 0 2 2 1 E. Wilcox, c 1 2 8 1 0 Lakey, p 1 0 0 10 0 J. Wilcox, rs 0 1 0 2 0 Elder, If 1 0 1 0 0 Swartzell, Ist 0 1 10 0 1 Morgan, 2d l 1 2 4 0 Malone, rs ..... 0 0 0 0 0 Total 4 5 2T 22 4 Two base hits, E. Wilcox; struck out, by Lakey 8, by Larson 8; double plays, Jensen to Morgan to Swartzell; hit by pitched ball, Elder, Umpires, Bruce Hardy and Elliott.