The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-11
Defeated the Strong Scranton
Team.
AN EXCITING CONTEST
A Large Crowd Witnessed the Game at
the TrOtting Park Yesterday Afternoon,
and saw the Home Team Take "A BAN
FROM she State Leaguers.

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iRNzA TyEFSJ a very large crowd |
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/%BN Y4ft NssS@ The contest was be- |
E'B L I'D = tween thestrong Scran |
~ a." ton team of the State |
LsEgue and our champions When the last
man was put out in the ninth inning the
( score showed seven rams to the home team's
credit, while Scranton was presented with
five through errors of the home players.
Patchen and Bradley are the only ones not
credited with making an error.
! Outside of the frst and second innings,
the game put up by the champions of the
county was hard to beat. In fact, It was
equal to the performance Of the State League
teams. 1t has often been claimed by patrons
of the park that tie home team was equal,
If not superior, to a majority of the clubs in
that league and the result of yesterdays
con test adds greatly to that belief Reading
played ten-inning game here, ard it was
mainly through taeir good luck that they
won.
Messitt, as usual, played an excellent game
behind the bat, lie caught two men mapping
at frst. His throwing to bases was very
accurate, and he is also credited with two
hits, one two-bagger
| Barring the first and second innings, the
home team played excellent ball, with snap
I,y;,, tI,o+ ,,Ioo
of the features was tive double plays par
ticipated in by Aartin, Henry and Shaffer.
Both Setley AID Bradley put up their usual
good game, The latter got one fly in left
| field while Setley captured two and made
! several good stops of ground balls He, how
ever dropped fly on which he had to run a
considerable distance.
Shelter appeared to have an off day, al
though he redeemed himself by capturing
several badly thrown balls
Shenandoah scored two runs in the first
inning. Fulmer was the first man to face
| Flanagan, and he struck out Martin fol-
| lowed with a hit to short stop and was re.
tired at first base. Then Toman stepped to
THE plate and knocked out three-base hit.
lPatchen was heartily appauded when he
faced the twirler for the Scrantonians and the |
audience had great faith in his ability to bring
the runner in. The second ball pitched he |
lined out to deep right field for a
home run, bringing in Toman ahead of him. /
The "roeters" for the home team began to |
feel very comfortable until Seranton's half of |
the inning resulted in three unearned runs. |
They should have been retired without a |
single run. The first man up was Hess. He |
hit to Tomap, who threw the runner out at |
first. Hogan hunted the ball and reached |
first base He was advanced to second by |
Pietz taking his base on balls. On Leidys |
hit Hogan scored the first run. In trying to |
head of Peitz at third base Sheafer threw |
wild, letting in the two runs. Tighe went
out on fiy to Bradley and Fritz succumbed to |
Setley's curves BIZ striking out
The next inning was short one. Messitt /
went out at first, and Henry and Bradley |
each failed to connect with the ball
In Scrahton's half Moran reached first base
on an error by Toman Zecher was the next
man up. setley had pitched one ball when
Manager Bradigan called to him from the
players bench to leave the box and 20 to left
field, Bradley taking bis place. This action
was severely criticised by many upon the
grand stand, and when Setley came from the
field at the end of the inning he was heartily
cheered. Setley was certainly pitching good
bah up to this time, and il was no fault of his
that the runs were scored, al of them being
uneaEned. He struck out one man and the
opposing batters had only one hit off him.
The management no doubt thought he was
weakening, but many questioned the wisdom
of the change
On Flanigan's out from Toman to Shaffer
Moran scored the fourth run for Scranton.
That was the last run scored by the visitors
until the eighth inning, when they added one
more to their tally.
In the sixth Patchen brought in the third
run for Shenandoah ON Messitt's two-bagger
and the following inning they took the lead
by two more runs In the last inning, the
most exciting of all, Henry got his base by
muff by Fritz of third strike. Bradley
attempted to bunt the ball and as result
sent daisy between first and second. Leidy
made one of the best plays Of the game, in
retiring Fulmer by running fly catch,
Martins out at first brought in Henry, and !
Bradley subsequently scored the last run on
an error Of Moran's by dropping a thrown
ball from the catcher.
In Scranton's last inning they went out in
short order. The score: Z