Captain Manager Church was first at bat and he hit one on Arthur’s left, which both Delvin and Hagner went after. It was too fast for Arthur to get his hands on, but Hans made a quick lunge and got it fifteen feet back of Delvin and threw quickly to first where Hal made a neat pick up and retired Church. Hollins tried to bunt the first ball pitched and missed. Then he struck hard at the second one and missed, and with his mind on nothing but fooling the Lowell infield by his change of tactics he forgot all about the rules when he saw the Lowell boys playing back and bunted the next ball which rolled foul and he was called out.
La Joy made one of his mighty efforts after getting two strikes, and it went out to left field where [Captain Larke caught it after a long run] close to the foul line.
[“Capt. Larke caught it after a long run.”]
It began to look as if each full inning would be practically the same, for the Lowell half of the third was also short. Everson batted one to La Joy which was easy for him, and Church, then Larke and Talkington were both retired by Hollins and Church.
In the Jefferson half of the fourth the fun began anew.
Warcford fouled off the first two over the stands and when Black offered him another one he didn’t do any waiting either, but rapped it far out over to right center in Robb’s territory. Ty picked it up after a stern chase and relayed it to Hal, for Sam was already well on his way to third and Ty played to catch him at the plate in case he tried to get home.
Things looked a little better, however, when Twitchell went out on a pop foul to Gibbie. Black thinking of the near damage which Brest had done in the first inning walked him, planning to get Mellen and a possible double play, but Big George knocked out a beautiful sacrifice fly to Talkington which scored Warcford. Tris saw that he couldn’t get the runner on third and quickly threw to Everson on second, catching Brest between the bases. He was finally run down by Johnny and Hal, the latter getting the put out.
This made the score three to two in Jefferson’s favor and it was up to Lowell to do a little better.
Robb missed one and fouled off another. The third one was also a foul, a tip, and Roger held on to it making a strike out for Ty. Then Hans walked to the plate and crouching in his accustomed manner watched two go by—one a strike and the other a ball. The third one he hit on a beautiful line over Hollins’ head between Beach and Warcford. Beach fielded it and threw to third as Hans had already passed second. He, however, went back when he saw that the throw would beat him.