The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-24
MlLLER'S LUCKY Hit
Saved the Puritans From
Defeat in the Great
Game~on Saturday.
WHEELMlE3lN ENJOY THE DAY
Jersey City Cyclists Out in Large
N~umbers-Meade and Smith
. to Play Pool.
WHEELMEN ENJOY THE DAY

THE prr;tans won from Greenville on
Saturday afternoon in the most interest
ing game of baseball played in this city
this season. The day went against
Greenyille solely on account of the fact
that the Puritans secured a lone game"
PLAYER in the peripathetic Billy Miller
without whom the Puritans would nave
had a much harder task to win II tney
would have won at all. Miller covered
second base and himself with glory al
the same time. He opened up in the
first inning by nabbing Johnson's terrific
liner and making a double play. But his
heart breaking performance was IN the
seventh inning when he smashed the paii
into the right field bushes, losing it there
and bringing in Mccormack and Ches-
terfield. Before the game Captain Cnes7
terfield entered into an agreement with
Captain Peters that a ball lost IN those
bushes should count for but two bases,
but when Miller made the hit and
scored a home run giving the Puritans
the lead. he promptly forgot all about
the agreement. A gigantic kick on the
part of the Greenvilles awaited nothing,
Miller declaring that he wouldn't play
If he were only allowed two bases on
his hit. These bushes, which are very
near first base, have won many a game
for the Puritans, but were it not for the
fact that Miller is a left handed batter
the agreement would probably never
have been entered into, all the remain
ing seventeen players batting right
handed. Rather than ~disappoint the
crowd, however, Captain Peters allowed
the home run hit to stand
Nearly three thousand people were
massed in the grand stand and along the
base lines, and for six innings they saw
a red hot exciting contest replete with
brilliant plays and terribly in earnest.
Chesterfield WOUND himself up like a
corkscrew, and did his level best to
make the Greenvilles fan the air. But
he met with a set back. the like of
which he never expected. The Green
villes landed on his curves with terrible
force. and sent the ball spinning toward
the outfield until the fielders must have
each covered a mile or so in nabbing
them. In the first inning the first three
men were retired on fy2 balls. In the
second inning this was repeated. Of the
twenty-sevep men put out. twelve were
retired on f1y balls. Most of these were
nabbed by Craft in left field, who
made a number of remarkable catches.
1t must be said to the. credit of the
Greenvifles that they punished Chester
field more severely h any other team
that he has been up against this season.
Ambrey. the Greenville twirler, on the
other hand. proved a puzzle for the first
five innings. holding the Purftans down
to one run and striking out eight men.
In the sixth inning he began to weaken,
and with the lucky hit of Miller, to-
gether with a few. scratch hits, the
P%uritans m~ananged to pull out of the
game. 1t was a close shave for the
Puritans, and as one of the spectators
said. They had to play up to their
chests, town. For th~e-GreeEvilles the
defeat is no disgrace, and the only re-
greet is that they'd do not play more games
in town.. Following is the score
= F G.