The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-02
CLARK'S HOME RUN.
II Helped Scranton TO Win from Syracuse
Yesterday.

II Helped Scranton to Win from Syracuse
Yesterday.
The sa1t-lickers from Syracuse lost
to Scranton yesterday by score of
8 and 4. The game was witnessed by
$500 persons. Owing to the Thinning tie
game of Monday the rivalry between
the teams was intense and resulted in
the kind of a batting and fielding con-
test that the rooter dearly loves to see.
Kilroy, an old-timer who pitched in the
American association for the Athletics
of Philadelphia, and who, with Syra-
cuse, last year was considered one Of
the gilt-edged pitchers Of the league,
was in the box yesterday Mr.. Kill
has a beautiful smile calculated to
rattle the batsmen, watches the bases
like an old turkey caring for her little
ones. and performs a lot of cock-a-
doodle motions too numerous to men,
tion. Mr.. Kills feathers stuck out
magnificently-at fntervals-yesterday
In the third the Scrantons caused Mr.
Kills feathers to droop. There were
two bases given on balls, four singles
made and homer sent over center field
fence by Clark. 1t all netted five runs.
Mr.. Kill had allowed his feathers to
droop, but he stuck them out xgain
and kept the game well in hand, ex-
cepting in the sixth, when ne was
touched up for two singles and two
doubles, resulting in two earned runs.
Delaney Was in tho Box.
The same Delaney, with his cap
cooked meaningly over an eye, and with
q left leg which shoots forward like
battering ram when he is about to
deliver, was in the box for Scranton.
He gave more men bases on balls than
he had license to do, but he kept the
enemy's hits well scattered. OF Syra-
cuse's nine hits, only one was good for
mora than first base. There We're no
passed balls, no wild pitches, no bats
men hit and only three errors.
The cannonading began in the last
half of the third. Radford went to first
on balls. Rogers made a short hit
forcing Radford out at second. Delaney
had four balls presented him, Rogers
advancing to second. Ward made a
long hit to right field and filed the
bases. Brady made a short hit. scor-
Ing Rogers. Ward reaching second by
Eagan's error. Johnson hit for base
and scored Delaney, Brady being forced
out at second.
With Johnson on first and Ward on
third, big Bill Clark selected a stick to
his liking, spat upon his hands, hitched
up his Mary Walkers and strobe to the
rubber. The second ball pitched was
to his liking and-smash. Away it
went into the clouds and toward Pitts
ton. disappearing over center field
Fence Just east Of the blackboard.
And the crowd went crazy. Kilroy
began to return to consciousness as
Clark finished his walk around the
bases. Whitehead went out from Kill
roy to first. Score too.
That Terrible Fifth.
In the first of the fifth Moss made a
single, Rafter flying out to Brady and
Moss going to second on Kilroy's base
on balls. Welch flew out to Brady.
Simon went to first on balls and filled
the bases. Minahan knocked out a
two-bagger. scoring Moss and Kilroy.
Griffin had the third strike called and
Minahan and Simon were left on the
bases. Score to 2.
In the Scranton half Of the sixth
Whitehead made a single; Houle flew
out to Eagan. Radford forced White
head out at second. Rogers made a
two-bagger. scoring Radford, and Rog-