The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-06-09
WI START A WINNER
The Shamokinites Smitten by
Our New Club.
AN INTERESTING GAME
The Visiting Pitcher Kept Our Boys
Thinking For a while, But Gave Way
Under the Strain and Then we Pounced
Upon Him.

The base ball season was opened at the
Trotting park yesterday afternoon under
very favorable circumstances, the
weather being delightful, the crowd num-
bering about 500 people and the home
team winning the game by good margin.
The season bids fair to be even more sue.
cessful than the last one.
The game was a pretty pitchers battle
for the first three innings during which
the Shamokin pitcher did not give the
home team hit and the two runs scored
were due to the passed balls of Boyd.
After that inning Kutzner became very
wild and three wild pitches three bases
on balls, a passed ball and rank error
by kutzner allowed the home club to add
three more runs to its score.
In the seventh inning Kutzner again be-
came very wild and in addition to his two
wild pitches gave the Shenandoahs the
benefit OF four hits. Boyd also CON
tributed another passed ball and the home
team added five more runs to its score IL
may be said that after the third inning
the Shamokin battery went to pieces and
the felders were too slow at critical
points.
Shultz, the Bloomsbury man, did
excellent work in the box and Catcher
Fulmer proved an admirable general.
Up to the close of the fifth inning the
Shamokinites made but one hit off Shultz,
bat after that he weakened somewhat,
still he put up pretty stiff game and
held the visitors down to five hits during
the balance of the game.
kutzner is credited with twelve strike
outs, but he is indebted more to "fanners''
than to his skill for that record. Lewis
famed the air four times out of the five
times he was at the bat and he was saved
"a mi 10 hN~Ir L
to second to cut Schultz off on steal
Fulmer was also an unlucky bat wielder
and was struck out three times of the
six that he went to the plate.
Musser, the latest addition to the home
team and late of the Demorests of Will
Transport, proved the star hitter of the
day and aroused great enthusiasm by his
two bagger and three bagger. Up to the
time he accomplished the first feat the
people were of the impression that there
wasn't a man on the home team who
could get the ball outside the diamond
Musser's work broke the ice and several
of the players found the ball after
The feature of the game was an aero
baic play of TOole. G. Drumheiser
knocked beautiful fly out to left field
and all who watched the ball soar through
the air felt certain that it was good for at
least three bagger. ToOle had been
keeping guard in deep left. He
gauged the flight and then -rrrted toward
the diamond at break-neck speed. The
ball appeared to drop several feet in front
of him and it was not until Toole had
turned a complete sOmersault, landing
squarely upon his shoulders, rolled over
like a ball upon his right side and with
the hand containing the ball held as high
as the awkward position would allow, that
the spectators realized that the side had
been retired and the Shamokinites were
deprived of two runs. Prolonged ap-
plause and cheers followed, but Toole's
modesty would not allow him to dofT his
cap.