Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 11 July 1910 — Page 3

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Up against an enigma, the Greeleys of Chicago went down to defeat before the almighty Mitchell and his team mates in a one-side daffalr by a count of 10 to 6 at the Hammond Athletic Association ball park yesterday afternoon. The biggest crowd that his gathered at the local ball park since the last Tom Murray affair were spectators of yesterday's contest. The grand stand was comfortably filled and the bleachers were about half occupied. The less than twenty-five cent men were witnesses of the game also, but they were outised the fence. Three box cars stood on the Michigan Central tracks covered with interested baseball enthusiasts, who can tell you all about the game after it is over with by seeing it from the top of the box cars. Mitchell la Sting;? Hurler. Mitchell pitched his initial game for the Hammonds and got away with It. He not only got away with it but he proved to be a puzzle which was not solved until the ninth Inning. Although he yielded three hits in the first eight innings, none of them did as much as bother the new twlrler. But In the last stanza the visitors solved his delivery and pounded out three more singles. "Whether Mitchell tried to nitch or not la not known but at any rate it was not necessary as the locals had the game buried. Scored Twlc In Ftrat. The locals started their weekly assault in the opener. KIopp whiffed and Pearson sent a hot one to second, the latter fumbled and Pearson was safe

on first. Rohde singled to right and Pearson got as far as third on. the hit. Khde took second on the first ball pitched and Fowler sent a long fly to center, Pearson scoring. McCay followed with a hard grounder to third who missed and Rohde crossed the rubber with the second tally. McCay stole second on first ball getting to third on a bad throw. Schmidt was given his base on balls, but Jergensen -Closed the round by fanning. The visitors were powerless, being unable to solve Mitchell's dope, while the locals were hitting the Chicago liurler at random. Hammond scored another run in the third by pounding out two singles. Again in the fourth the locals gave another exhibition of good stick work and good base-running and three more men scored. The visitors scored their first runs In the fifth inning, but they were not any farther advanced at the end of the fifth than they were at the beginning, as Hammond scored two tallies in their

half of the same stanza. The locals kept right on Bcoring in nearly every inning. Again in the sixth Pearson scored with his third run of the game. But the visitors came to bat

in the seventh determined to make things look good and one of their men'

counted. Hammond scored their ten and last run in the eighth inning without making a hit. J. ant Stanza Exciting. A grand attempt to over-power the locals In the ninth stanza was -made

by the visitors and what happened in ! this inning proved to be intensely in-' teresting and amusing. With the count 10 to 3 in favor of the locals, the 1 Greeleys took their last possible chance j to down Hammond but the start was' made too late. Doll opened the inning' for the Chicago nine and singled, Lar-' son duplicated the play and the visit- j ors gingered up a bit. It was amus-'

lng to watch the Chicago boys pick out their sticks and dance around thinking

mey naa a chance to win. Englebreit) came to bat, picked out one that he ' thought looked good and sent aj grounder to second, Jergensen threw! home but wild and the ball took refuge' behind a cinder and before the locals' could come in to help Klopp find the!

Dan iarson had crossed the rubber and Englebreit perched on third. KIodd

finally got his eye on the ball and held the visitor at third. But Englebreit ;

did not remain there long, Scott pound-I ed out his third hit a,nd Englebreit' scored. Hammond then awoke to find , the visitors closer to .victory by three

runs ana the next two men were easy outs. Batteries: Greeleys Larson and Doll. Hammond Mitchell and Klopp. GREYS DEFEATED

II AIL OVER 1I1G

Although Manager Leimbach of the Hammond Greys had three games book, ed for yesterday but one was played and In that game the Greys were defeated by a score of 5 to 3. The Zimmerman Colts of West Hammond made it a game apiece by defeating the Greys In their second game of the season at the North Side grounds yesterday afternoon. Both teams played hard to win the game but the West Hammond nine proved to' be the better of the two. A championship game will probably be arranged between the two teams to be played In the near future. Batteries for Zimmermans BUssmer and Hlldebrandt; Greys. Freyman and Barmon.

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(Special to The Tiies.) Whiting, Ind. July 11. The Whiting Grays played two games one on Saturday afternoon, and one yesterday, and were defeated on both days. The game on Saturday was with the Leland Giants, the champion colored team of the world. The game was a great drawing card, and all were satisfied that they had witnessed a good clean game of ball. The score was 5 to 3. The batteries for the Giants were: Daugherty and Petaway and for the Grays Weber ana McKenna. The score by innings: R. H. E. Giants ......3 1 0 0 1 0 0.0 0 5 9 7 Grays 11100000 0 3 6 7 Two ' base hits Girard, Babcock Lloyd and Payne. Stolen bases Callahan, Hansen,

Johnson. Struck out by' Weber. 7; by Daugherty, 9. Yesterday afternoon was the game between the Garys and the Whitings. The game to see the least of it was very exciting. It having lasted for thirteen innings. Gary won the game in the first two Innings, when they scored four runs on errors without a hit. The Grays livened up, and tied the score in the seventh inning, holding them down until the thirteenth inning, when Eberling of Gary made a home run, and won the

game for Gary by a score of 5 to 4. The lineup was as follows: Gary. Whiting. Crane L. F. McCann Jackson 2nd base Callahan Eberling R. F Babcock Llewlyn 1st base

Williams C. F Carringt r Geoghegan 3rd base Hansen Grennan.. S. S ..Ehlers Copeland C McKenna Smith P. Evans The score by innings: Gary 220000000000 1 5 Whiting ..1 00002100000 0 4 Two base hits Babcock, 2; Girard, McKenna, Crane, Copeland. Home run Eberling. Stolen bases McCann. Hansen, 2; Ehlers. Struck out by Evans, 14; by Smith, 3. Bases on balls off Evans, 1; Smith, 3. By the crowd who attended the Saturday game, it looks as though they will be looked upon with favor by the people. A game has been secured for next Saturday with the Union Giants, another colored team from Chicago.

GOTCH WANTS TO BE THE i

HUE MAN'S HOPE NOW

Frank A. Gotch, world's champion wrestler, has announced through Harry H. Frazee, the Chicago theatrical magnate and promoter of the Gotch-Jef-fries tour, that he would like to fight Jack Johnson for the heavyweight boxing championship. "Not five minutes after Johnson had knocked Jeffries out in their Reno battle," said Mr. Frazee last night. "Gotch told me he could whip Johnson and that he would be willing to fight the negro giant if given proper training for ten months or a year. "Gotch asked me to put the proposition up to Jim Corbett and see what he thought about Vjt. Corbett In pnthulatlc "I met Corbett yesterday, told him of Frank's plans and he became wildly enthusiastic over the idea. "Everybody knows Gotch is a sterling athlete and the greatest wrestler in the world. They knew he is about the most powerful man in athletics, that he is young and that he takes the best of care of himself. Where is there another man more promising or capable of whipping Johnson. "Gotch plans," continued Mr. Frazee,

"to place himself in charge of some master of boxing, a skilled Instructor like Tommy Ryan or some other fighter of the old school. He wants at least a year in which to prepare for the fight. He is firmly convinced that hecan whip Johnson and wants to try it. "There is one thing that Gotch wants understood and that is he doesn't care to make any stage appearance before or after the fight. All he wants is to whip Johnson. He doesn't care about .jnoney, for he's through with the wrestling game, and has made himself wealthy in the last few years." Had One Clove Battle. Ten or eleven years ago Gotch engaged in a ring contest in Alaska, and received a fearful lacing in twelve rounds, although he was not knocked out. After the battle Gotch picked up his opponent and tossed him out of the ring. Since then he has never appeared in another ring battle, tween Mr. Frazee and Gotch last night, Several messages were exchanged beand It Is planned to have Tommy Ryan go to Gotch's home in Humbolt, Iowa, soon to talk over the proposition with the wrestling champion.

JOHNSON GETS AFTER G. LITTLE

Charges made by George Little that he faked his fight with Stanley Ketchel; that none of his ring battles since he became champion were fought honestly, p.nd that he was the biggest liar in the world, were denied by Jack Johnson who departed yesterday for New York to open a week's vaudeville engagement tonight. "If I could break my contract with Hammerstein I'd stay here In Chicago and make George Little eat every word he said about me or make him prove them," declared the heavyweight champion. "He's the one that's lying, not me. I probably will be back in Chicago in about two or three weeks and thenI ll

&ve Mr. Little some real entertainment, legally or any way he wants to settle

matters. I'm getting mighty tired of his accusations and I'll make him prove

them."

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GAME OF THRILLS MAKES FANS WILD

Barring its unhappy denouement, yesterday's battle between the Cubs and

Giants on the west side was by long odds the mast exciting and uproarious that has entertained a crowd since the early days of baseball. The score was 10 to 9 in New York's favor and some of the crazy bugs made that an excuse for a rowdy demonstration. Our notion of nothing1 to be proud of is a disposition bo crabbed as not to be satisfied with an exhibition which Included for a single price of admission everything that ever happened fn a ball game, with the exception of a hit by pitcher and an out on foul bound. The latter feat has been ruled out for years, and all the batsmen yesterday became too expert yesterday in dodging wild pitches to let the former feature creep Into the box score. In addition, an array of twenty-six athletes, almost enough for three nines, was trotted out for the fans to look over, and it is not often that one is treated in one day to such a wealth of talent in action.

feat with the count 2 to 1 against them before a large crowd of spectators. The north side aggregation from Hammond gave Lowell one of the hardest fought games of the season by handing them the winning run on a wild boot. The Hammond team outhit the Lowell nine but their errors were responsible for their defeat. Manager Hojnacki again Issues a challenge to any team in the county. Batteries in yesterday's contest were: Hammond Lovenduski and Vonish; Lowell Irwin and Yates.

FORESTERS VS. COLTS. The Foresters kept up their loosing streak yesterday by going down to defeat before the Kindel Colts at Klndel's grove by a score of 9 to 7. Manager Huber of the Foresters claims that he was robbed and says that his team would have easily won had the decisions of the umpire been correct. Next Sunday the Foresters will play the Kamradt Colts at the West Hammond grounds. Batteries used in yesterday's contest were: Foresters Young, Boyle; Klndels Kindel, Tague. LAPORTE, 4; PLYMOUTH-1. Plymouth, Ind., July 10 Laporte defeated Plymouth Clippers, 4 to 1. Score: Laporte 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 Plymouth 00000100 0 1 Batteries Swartz and Corbey; Love and Ogden.

CLAIM TO BE CHAMPS. The Cook Cubs still claim the amateur championship of Hammond and proved that they wera capable of holding it by defeating their old opponents the East Side Sluggers in & thirteen Inning- contest Saturday afternoon by a score of 3 to 2. The feature of the game wu the home run my Erleweln. Manager Kohl will accept a challenge from any amateur team. For games address Gecrge H. Kohl, 92 DOty street. NO GAME SCHEDULED" The Hammond baseball club passed an idle day yesterday owing to the fact that no game was scheduled. Three teams have challenged the club for next Sunday tout Manager Smith has not decided as yet who he will play. STANDING OF CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago 43 20 ..023 New York 42 26 .618 Pittsburg 35 31 .530 Cincinnati 37 34 .521 Philadelphia 32 36 .471 Brooklyn 31 33 .449 St. Louis 31 40 .437 Boston 27 47 .365 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New York, 10; Chicago, 9. Boston, 5; St. Louis, 2. Brooklyn, 2; Cincnnatl. 0.

LOWELL WINS. In an exciting game at Lowell yesterday afternoon the St. Cassmers of Hammond -went down to honorable de-

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