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Locals Cop Opener, 4-3; Evans Whiffs SeventeenPlaying before a shivering • Lefty Evans, new Rushville crowd of about 200, the Rush- hurler, gave a good account of ville Merchants opened the local j himseif letting the oppositionbaseball season Sunday by downing the Connersville Merchants, 4 to 3, in a tightly-played butspiritless encounter.The weather was more suitable , for football than baseball and | must have frozen up the athletes’ batting eyes, for both clubs looked harmless at the plate.’Carr, the Olympic 400-meter | champion, broke both legs in an auto accident and is through with athletics. His California rival, Eastman, went lame last year, and has been unable to re- i gain anything like his record breaking form of 1931-32.Now Lovelock, less than a year after his record-smashing 4:07.6 mile at Princeton, may be handicapped indefinitely by an in- | jured knee. The New Zealander has been running for Oxford again this spring but showing little of his rare 1933 form, although he hopes to be sufficiently improved to give his American lival, Bill Bonthron, a contest when they meet in England this summer.down with six singles and fanning seventeen batsmen.~The| Merchants were able to garner only seven blows off Moore, the Connersville slabman, but took advantage of Moore’s lapses of control. Evans walked six Con-nersvillians and Moore passed ! five of the Merchants, but | Moore’s sins proved more costly than Evans’s.Four newcomers—Tony Sharpe, Brooks, Stevens and Evans—were included in the Merchant lineup. Sharpe got two infield hits, Stevens a single and Evans a double. Brooks failed to connect but played a nice game afield.Some changes probably will be made in the local lineup in the next few weeks unless the hitting improves. Bus Linville, star slugger of last year’s team, has signed with the House of David professional touring team, and will be lost for most of the season.The Merchants will play here again next Sunday, with the Alexandria (Ind.) Red Men scheduled for the attraction.
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Rushville Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 23, 1934
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