The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-09
The G1adiators Are Too
Strong for the Great
Giants.
SNAPPER LANG's THREE HTS
New York's League Nine Was Out
played at Every Point by
Patsy Powers Ball TOssers.

Snap Lang made three hits yesterday.
Think of It'll
All in one camel
And one of them was a two-bagger!
And the only other time he went to the
bat he hit hard to left field, and If Jim
O'Rourke had been just a little slower
there would have been still another double
to Snaps credit.
He never did it before, but he may have
taken a turn for the better. All Jersey
City applauds his good work yesterday
and wishes him good luck in his effort to
handle his bat just right and beat some
life into the ball.
And how the boys did play. The only
really bad thing was when Joe Gerhardt
let that hot one of Cores slip between his
legs. That let in two runs and was mex
cusable.
There were only about four hundre
spectators, despite the fact that the
Giants were playing the home nine, but
the game was good enough to satisfy the
biggest crowd ever seen in Oakland Park
that is to say, the Gladiators' game. New
York did not put up a very good game.
HOW THE GAME WAS woN
OF course everyone in Jersey City knows
what the score was, for THE JERSEY. CITY
NEWS got out an extra, but it may be IN
teresting to know just how the game was
won and lost.
There were no runs until the second in
ming, when Gerhardt scored a safe one to
left field, q good steal, a passed ball and
LYONS single. That gave the Gladiators
the lead, and they kept it until the end,
increasing it greatly in the third inning,
when the Snapper made his first single
after DAILY had flown out to Slattery, stole
second, got third on Georges wild throw
to catch Knowles mapping at first, which
he had reached on Roger Connor's muff;
and flew home when Gore held Hiland's
fly. Gore threw to the plate, and Knowles
stole third because Whitney failed to hold
the ball when Murphy shot it down there.
O,Brien hunted a little one to George for
a sacrifice, but was safe, because the willy
New Yorker was unwilling to let Knowles
score. But then came the great Fr1el, who
laced the ball down to the left field fence
for two bases, and Knowles and O'Brien
scored.
The next inning showed wv more runs
for the home club after two men were
out. DAILY made a safe one, and Lang,
the Snapper-who would have believed
it?-banged that unfortunate ball in the
eve, and it sailed away down into centre
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tie pitcher came home. Lang was so elated
that he stole third and just fell home on a
passed ball.
RUBBING IT IN.
The only other runs made by Jersey
City were in the eighth inning, when
O'Brien led off with a two-base hit to left
centre and came home on a good single by
Friel, who got second on the throw in,
went to third on a tumble of Gerhardt's
stinger by Slattery, who had gone to short
in the fourth inning, and was thrown out
at the plate by Hatfield, who was pitch
ing and got Lyons bunt. Joe stole sec
ond, went to third when Friel was put
out, and got home on a passed ball.
The Giants first scored in the third,
when Joe Gerhardt's error let in two
runs, and again in the sixth, when Stat
terry went to first on four bad balls, took
second and third on a passed ball and
came home on Hatield's sacrifice to
O'Brien.
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