Ransom’s Three Homers Lead Burnley
to Victory against Halifax Town.
Ernie Ransom, the young right fieldsman for the Burnley baseball club, put on a one-man show at Turf Moor on Monday to the delight of 1,798 supporters. Helped by a warm day and a strong wind towards left field, he led off the bottom of the first innings against Halifax Town starting pitcher Claude Copeland with a home run to provide the initial lead. After the Clarets fell behind in the game, Ransom also led off the sixth innings with another homer to bring the Clarets within two. He then drew his team level in seventh with his third blast. With that last blow, Ransom became the third man in the annals of the Third Division, and the fourteenth in League history, to hit three in a single match. All three were hit with no runners on the bases.
In the bottom of the ninth, Ransom had a fair chance to hit a fourth, which would have been a first for League baseball and also would have won the game for the Clarets. With sub batsmen MacAlonie and O’Solan on the second and first bases, respectively, pitcher Copeland, who had served up all three to Ransom, thought the better of it this time around and allowed him to advance to first on a base on balls instead. It was not the best of decisions, as MacPherson followed straight away with a sharp single past the short stop David for the Burnley win.
Burnley now stand at 17 wins and 14 losses, level for the seventh place with Liverpool and Southport. Halifax drop to twentieth with the loss.
