The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-06
EASE RALL GOSSIP.

BASE BALL GOSSIP
The Lehighton club played return
game with the Drifton club last Saturday
on the grounds of the latter. There was a
large audience present numbering oyer one
thousand. As Drifton had played our boys
a close and exciting game last week, many
expected to see another close game, but in
this they were disappointed. The game
opened at $3.50 with Lehighton at the bat
Jennings led with a two Dagger to centre
which was followed by two errors of Nc
Garvey on hits of Simmons and Chambers,
a base hit by Holly with another two bag
ger by Chrstman yielded four runs. and
another runner scored on a sacrifice. This
come. They only scored In one inning,
on three hits and two errors. The Lehigh-
ton batted Heiser hard; the total was -
clean hits, among them two baggers.
Lukens pitched first class game for Le-
highton, holding Drifton lown to six scat
tering hits. Lehighton played good field
ing game. Score:
/ 2 3 G 7 s 9
Lehighton---5 0 0 0 3 0 90
Drifton--0 0 3 0 o 0 0 0-3
Base hits-Lehighton, y; Drifton. 6.
Two base hits-Lukens, Jennings, Rother-
NAL ana Chrstman. Three base hit
Mulvey. Errors s-Lehighton, 4; Drifton 5.
CheLehighton team journeyed to Wilkes
barre on Labor Day and played two games
with the crack club of that city. The first
game was called at 1914 a. m., with Lux
ms and Jennings in the points for Lehigh-
ton, andMiller and Fesser for WilkesbarIe.
1t took but one inning TO show that the
Wilkesbarre club was out-classed by Lee
hlahton, who began the game by taking a
good lead at the start and keeping it up to
the finish, Lehighton played a magnia-
cent fielding game-haying but one error,
that wild throw by Jennings to second.
Rothermal relieved Lukns in the third
inning on account of sore arm. He
pitched fine game. Score by innings:
RHF
Lehighton - O2O13 % 6 /
| Wilkesbarre - 0 900 0 OIL 9 7
After the boys partook of hearty din.
ner at the Mansion House they were again
taken to the grounds and proceeded to adj
minister a coat of white wash to their op-
ponents. In this game O'Hara did the
twirling, and he did it in such mastery
style that Wilkesbarre could obtain but
two scattering hits. They tried hard tc
make q score, but the clever fielding anC
O'Hara's good work prevented il, Jen
nings batted hard in both games-haying
two two baggers and a single in the after
noon game, The only error of Lehightor
was a muff by Chambers of thrown ball
The audience at both games was small ow
to parade and the numerous plcnics.
RHI
Lehighton 30 / 5000 O21O-4 s
Wilkesbarre ---0 0 0 0 0 0 90 . .
The celebrated York club-lhe dusk,
monarchs of the diamond-played here ol
Wednesday afternoon, before fair size,
audience. The game was not as wei
played as it might have been, but becam
quite interesting in the last inning. Tn
game opened with Lehighton to bat, an
they were retired without scoring, as ais
was York. In York's half of the secon
inning they scored four runs on four single
and one error. Jennings came up with fir
in his eye in the third and hit a two bagge
TO center; Simmons followed with anothe
TO left, and amid much applause two rur
were scored York further increased I'll
lead in the next two innings by scOriu
. four runs on errors of Yenser and Rothe
mel. The home team scored two MOI
runs In the 9th on singles by O'IIara an
y Chrstman, dead ball and two error
The fielding of York was very fine-it rol
e bed Lukens and Chambers of two-bagger
O'Hara pitched a fine game and workt
. hard for victory; had be been support'
n properly our club would have gained vi
tory over one of the best clubs on the di
s. mond as It is, everyone is satisfied wi
u the showing our bo' made. The folio
ing is The score by innings:
g Lehlghton, --O OO2 0000 , 90 S
York, -- o 4 . 2 0 o Ks 6
l. Two base hits, Jennings, simmons al
a White. Earned runs, Lehighton, 3; Yor
/. Umpire, Bartholomew.