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IRVIN PITCHESOTTUMWA BOYS TO 60 VICTORY'Babe* Didrikson Stars For Bearded Bearded 'i'rihe In One Hurling.A crowd that packed the grandstand at West End park Wedncs-! day night expecting to sec Th« ° j House of David team defeat the ‘ I Millard All-Stars handily, instead saw the locals, behind masterful pitching by Larry Irvin, hand the visitors a 6 to 0 trouncing. The game went seven innings by agreement.| The feat of Mildred (Babe), | Didrikson in retiring the All-Stars a I scoreless in the only inning she e! pitched was quickly forgotten as0 | Irvin, in spite of some discourag-- | *nR support in the early innings, . | turned the hard-hitting Beards . I back with a steady succession of| strikeouts. All in all. “Lefty” j struck out ten men or rather ( nine men and one woman, for the I Babe, leading off in the first, was t nailed on strikesThree-Kun Blasts.The All-Stars won with two three-run blasts featured by longdistance clouts of various Sorts, including a home run by A1 Yacko, a triple and a double by Dick Matthews and doubles by Alvin Ross and Irvin. The first assauit on Tolies, a bespectacled southpaw. came in the third and again in the fifth they had him rocking j back on his heels.After Irvin had retired the visi-I tors on strikes in the first frame, j the crowd got to see the famous j Olympic girl athlete work on the j pitching mound. The slim, boyish I Babe threw the ball with the same grace of any ballplayer and i with considerable speed j Here’s what happened during I her tenure on the mound: Ford I rolled out to Mullen: Traul flied | to Hunter; Yacko singled over second and Ross was thrown out by ! Joseph.The first Millard sortie against 1 Toiles. who took the mound in the I second, came suddenly. Matthews | opened the third with a long triple | to right and scored w’hen Irvin doubled against the fence in cen-j ter. Larry went to third on an j infield out and scored with Yacko, w'ho had walked, on Ross’ two-1 base blow to the scoreboard, j Blakeney kicked Reese’s grounder, j but Horan fanned for the third ! out.Yacko Clouts One.Yacko began the fifth by drtv-' mg one of Tolies' speedballs high j over the scoreboard for a home j run Ross singled to right. Reese j whiffed, but Horan singled to j short. The runners advanced on I Sauers’ infield out and scored as I Matthews doubled to right. Hol-j land had his hands on Matthews J drive but couldn’t hold it.While Irvin seined always to be master of the situation, he was in trouble in both the third and fourth because of shaky support. In the third with one gone, Tolies singled to center. Conley drew' a pass and when Irvin uncorked a wild pitch, the men went to second ana third. Mullen fanned and Traul threw out Holland.The Millard southpaw’ found the fourth even more disconcerting.J After Hunter had fanned for the second time, Joseph got a Texas league single into center. Cross I hit to Reese, w'ho thew’ to Sauers I in time for a forceout at second.
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Ottumwa Daily Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 20, 1934
Page 12
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Michael W.
NA, 31 Jul 2023
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