The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-24
GRIT WON TEE GAME.
Powers Pets Rally with the
Score Twelve to Nothing
and Beat Out TTott's
1896 Team. BE}A3t V,
AN AWFUL ROORBACK FOR NEWARK
The Battle Was for Second Place,
Which Jersey City Retains
Other Features of Sport.

Jersey City and Newark battled for
second place in the Atlantic Association
race at Oakland Park yesterday afternoon,
and Jersey City won after virtually Civ
ing Newark the game.
A dozen runs to none in favoro of Newark
is the way the score stood at the end of
the first three innings.
The large contingent of spectators from
Newark were jubilant, and looked dis
painfully upon the Gro wd of irate and dis.
consulate J~erseyites.
Then came the roorback for the people
from the Essex county way station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
In a tr1ce the Jersey City ball tossers
rallied from the lethargy and demoraliza-
ton which had given Manager Trott's
team such an overwhelming lead,
Thu game they had previously put up
was q great exhibition Of yellow ball play
ing. Fumbles. wild throws, muffs, poor
pitching, wretched catching, weak bat
ting and miserable base running were the
features which alternated without much
regularity to make the local spectators
disguised and the visiting auditors happy.
The game they put up there after was,
on the other hand, a great exhibition OF
grit, good ball playing, superb stick work,
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ing.
Such work could not help but tell, and
at the end of the next three innings
Manager Powers Pets had wiped out the
visitors lead and went them considerably
better, the score standing fifteen to thir-
teen in favor of Jersey City.
The kaleidoscope changes of baseball
also showed other interesting features.
Trott's erstwhile victory-f1ushed team
was now completely demoralized; the
battery was compelled to force short de-
lays in order to recover from their bad at
tack of "rattles," and the spectators from
Newark were laboring under a dose of
the local team, crazed with the intoxica
ton of success, were giving vent to their
intense enthusiasm by demoniac yeIlS,
wild cheering, stamping of feet and other
similar demonstrations.
In the Pets first three innings5 Friel
and Gerhardt were the only men to safely
reach first base. The former batted out a
single and the latter got the bag on balls.
Friel essayed to reach second, but Duffy
let McDermott meet him there with the
ball.
The Newarkers' first trial at the bat
yielded three runs, after three men should
have been retired. A base on balls for
left field fence by Fields, a single
By Lang, and a single by Mansen let the
first named trio score. Duffy Tailed an
other run in the second inning. He got
first on balls and scored on singles by
Coogan and Fields.
Then came the inning when Trott's
team had fun with the ball. Thirteen
men went to the bat in the heat and eight
of them made the circuit.
Six of them slugged the ball for safe
hits, two reached first on balls, one batted
out a sacrifice, three hustled forced hits,
and one reached first by error. The irate
spectators consoled the Pets with expires
sions of the following nature:-"Oh, what
a stiff" stGive us another pitcher" "Say,
Landmann, don't you want a rest?' you
make me tired" "Ice water for forty
four" Every time the Newarks made a
hit demoniac yells arose from the crowd.
When the local team went to the bat for
the fourth time e'Chick'' Hofford donned
one of Daley's old oats as a mascot. The
boys smiled at the action, and the smiles
chased away the hard luck hoodoo New
ark had imported.
Inland was sent to first on balls.
Dooms pitched O'Brien a high ~incurve,
and Tom swung around fearing the ball
would hit him. The bat met the ball and
Fields caught the sphere. AS O'Brien had
made no attempt to strike at the ball,
Umpire DAWN refused to acquiesce in the
visitors claim that Ton was out. Leo
Smith licked, b ms growing dld no
good. ~
O'Brien stepped again to the plate and
lined out a single. Friel, Lyons, Ger
hardt, Hofford and Landmann all did
likewise and Dooms went to pieces. He
hit Lang with the ball, Knowles batted
a single, Hiland flew out, O'Brien gath
cred a two Dagger and Friel made
another single. Before Gerhardt forced
Lyons out and retired the side the Pets
had tal1ia0 nine rms
Demoralized fielding and good batting
let them add half a dozen more runs in
the next two innings. All this time and
until the last inning they held their rivals
at a standstill, the visitors only getting
one safe hit in five innings, and only once
advancing any one as far as third base.
In the last inning they let Trott's
team make their runs number a bakers
dozen, singles by johnson andiFields, and
q passed ball letting the former score.
The Pets gathered ciphers in their last
three innings, the Newarkers having in a
measure recovered from their disorder.
The score follows
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