The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-08-29

VANQUISHED.
The Home Base Ball Team Beaten
by the POttSvilleS.
NOT IN IT AT ANY STAGE
Superiority Shown by the Visitors in
Batting, Fielding and Every Other
Point Of the Contest.

To tell the story Of yesterdays base ball
game with the Pottsville club at the
Trotting park is to recite tale of woe
which brings tears tiuged with disgust.
After all the claims the home team made
about unfair treatment on the Pottsville
grounds our people braced themselves for
battle of vindication on the home
grounds and despite the poor showing the
club has made since its admission to the
league many still retained the hope that
it had the ability to vindicate itself as
against Pottsville, but the showing made
yesterday effectually blasted such conso-
lation.
The conservative spectator could see
when the two clubs appeared on the dia.
mond for practice yesterday afternoon
that in general appearance the county
seaters were head and shoulders above the
Scranton heirs. The former are heavy
set, brawny fellows, with skin full of con-
tidence. The Shenandoahs, with the excep-
tion of Weikert, are comparatively dwarfs
and nervousness seems to mark every ac-
tion. This was particularly noticeable
and the visiting players did not fail to OBJ
serve and make capital of it.
The defeat of the home team was not
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win so easily caused some caustic COM
ment. Up 30 the seventh inning the coal
diggers were no more in the game than
the tariff is in favor with the people and
at that point it looked as If a shut ont
was certainty.
Dunkle was failure in the box. He
seemed wholly unable to control the ball
and kept Messitt jumping about like one
onla red-hot plate Two two-base hits and
a single netted two runs in the fourth in
ming and a three-bagger, a double and a
single, garnished with a wild pitch and
three errors by the infeld, ran the score up
to 9 to in the second inning.
Yeager was put in the box in the third
and succeeded in holding the terrific
batters down pretty we'll until the sevent b
| inning, when he was hit for FIVE singles
and a two-bagger.
1t was in the seventh inning that the
home team broke the ice which was fast
entombing it, and the work came from an
unexpected point. Ashenbach, Weikert
and Musser were looked to for the batting
| of the day, but it fell to the lot of Messitt
to carry off the honors, by bringing
| Weikert home and landing O'Hara at
third on a good single in the seventh, and
bringing in O'Hara with two-bagger in
| the ninth.
AT no stage of the game were there in.
| cidents to arouse genuine enthusiasm.
| When Messitt made his hits the home
people among the spectators became some
| what iubilant, but that enthusiasm which
is born of admiration was lacking and
| every degree of hope was squelched when
| the Pottsvilles went to the bat in the
| seventh and increased their score to 13.
| One Shenandoah man took a charitable
view of the game, and he was Councilman
Archie Lamb. "It only goes to show said
he, "how courteous Shenandoah is to visi
| tors 1t gives them everything to make
| hny nd 4 . -.
| could carry the grounds with them we
would not withhold the gift" Score;