Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-07-11

The Mt. Carmel club arrived early
Thursday morning to test their skill and
knowledge of base ball with the repre-
sentatives of Freeland's diamond. The
leak in the clouds prevented the morn
ing game and only one was played,
which began at 2.30 p. m. and dragged
along wearily for nearly three hours.
Occasionally brilliant play would re-
| lieve the monotony, but upon the whole
it was one of the deadest games PLAYED
here this season. The visitors were
careless in the field and did good work
at the bat, while the home club was pro-
ficient in both those places, but showed
the utmost recklessness in running bases
To this alone they can attribute their
defeat; it was not their errors, neither
was it the superior fielding or batting of
their opponents that lost the game for
them. 1t seemed the height of nonsense
for player after player to try to steal the
whole diamond on a battery that has
played professional ball for the past
four or five years. The experience of
the first few who tried it had no effect
whatever upon the others. One PLAYER
after reaching third three times tried to
steal home just as often, but it wouldn't
work. This sort of play cost at the
lowest estimate six runs. Welsh and
Simmons were the battery up to the fifth
inning, when McGeady was put in the
box. The change was not beneficial, as
McGeady was not prepared to throw,
having taken the place of J. Carr, who
was struck by fly ball in the face just
before the game began. He gave the
first three men their base on balls, but
steadied down after that. Simmons
base throwing was not up to his standard,
in fact all the players seemed to lack
their usual confidence, without any ap-
parent reason. The score by innings
was
Freeland. .........0 9 O10O OO1 2-6
Mt. Carmel. ......0 0 0 8 211 1Ox-7
sHENANDoAH-FREELAN
The Freeland club drove to Shenan-
doah on Friday morning and presented
the Schuylkill boys with their third sue
cessive defeat this season. The result
of the game was surprise to the people
of Freeland, as the club were pretty well
broken up after the Fourth, and many
thought if they could prevent shut out
they would be doing well. The battery
work of Welsh and Simmons did all the
play, the fielders having perfect snap.
A home run and three-bagger by Nc
Garvey were among the features of the
game. The score was 3 to in favor of
Freeland.
SUGAR NoTCH-FREELAND.
At 6.35 Saturday afternoon the Sugar
Notch club arrived here to play the fol-
lowing day. AS they had sent no def
mite answer to the manager here about
their coming no preparations had been
made for game, nevertheless all the
arrangements were quickly made and
with q liberal sise of the printers ink
more than six hundred people were pre-
sent at the park when the game began
Before last Thursday Sugar Notch was
the only club that had succeeded in de-
feating Freeland on their own grounds
this season, and in game with this club
the home team was expected to do pretty
good work to come out on top. The bat
teries were Kane and McCarrick for
Sugar Notch and McGeady and Simmons
for Freeland. Both pitchers were new
to the opposing sides and both were
batted hard at times, the visitors doing
most of it just when safe hit was need.
ed. Freeland had the lead in the fourth
inning but lost it in the fifth Sugar
Notch, in their half of the seventh, had
the bases full and two-bagger into CEN
ter field sent three men home. A few
more clean hits in this inning brought
i'll two more runs. This gave them a
lead of six and it was hopeless task to
try to win the game in the next two
innings. McGeady struck out eight men
and Kane five, but the latter was more