Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
BASE BALL.

The Flushers and Terrors play at
Eckley Sunday afternoon.
Two whole weeks without game !
Base ball is not dead yet, is it?
White Eyes, Hazleton's Indian
pitcher, has been dropped for poor
playing.
The Eckley Terrors were defeated
by Silver Brook on Sunday. The score
was 80 to 11.-Standard.
Sandy Run went to Jeanesville on
Friday and were defeated by the club of
that place. Score, 11-6.
The Coal Dale-Tiger game, which
was to be played at Coal Dale last Satur-
day, was indefinitely postponed.
The -Slatington game for
$500 is off. 1t was bluff on the part of
Catasauqua's manager and showed that
he is not man of his word.
The Flushers of Eckley are open to
receive challenges from any amateur
clubs in the region. John Murphy,
captain; VIM. Hayes, manager.
The new grounds of the Drifton club
were opened on Saturday afternoon with
a game between Drifton and Jeddo
The home club won by a score of 1919.
The base ball editor of the Record is
badly ratified when he states that Gree
land had taste of what Lansford could
do on the 10th of last October" Guess
again.
Arrangements had been made for
Freeland and Sugar Notch to plav last
Sunday but a despatch was received
Saturday evening, stating Sugar Notch
could not come.
Many OF the fifth.rate clubs of the
region would like to play Freeland, in
order to make little money. We hope
it won't work, and that Lewiston Was the
last of such clubs.
-Lansford, in its desire to get game
with Freeland, is pursuing the tactics of
the Lewiston club. Should game be
arranged it is more than likely that the
result would be much the same also.
We would advise Lansford not to take
pattern after Lewiston in sending chal-
lenges. The score was 1874. Beware
GIMLERs-TIGERs.
The Tigers went to Highland Sunday
afternoon and met the Gimlers upon
their own grounds. The Gimlers were
anxious to redeem the two defeats given
them by the Tigers, and placed the
strongest club against them that they
could procure, even taking players from
the Freeland club and Hazleton. The
Tigers refused to strengthen themselves
by taking outside help and, although
handicapped by the disability of their
catcher, they faced their opponents with
their usual courage The batteries were
McGeady and McGill for the Gimlers
and Brislin and Welsh for the Tigers.
The batting of both clubs was about
equal, but the Gimlers punched their
hits while the others scattered them
through several innings. This alone
would have won the game for the Gim-
lers, but in order to prevent against any
possibility of defeat the umpire gave
it to the visitors sin the neck'' at every
opportunity. The Tigers made frequent
requests for change, and finding it use
less, settled down to accept their defeat.
In the seventh the umpire declared
Tiger out for being struck by foul ball,
and Manager Ferry then called the club
off the field, the score standing II to in
favor of the Gimlers. Although de-
feated, they were not disgraced, and still
remain the possessors of the title "junior
champions of the anthracite coal fields"
Since their organization four years ago
they have never been defeated by any
club whose players were under 81 years
of age.