Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-23
CHAMPIONS" DEFEATED.
STATE LEAGUE PENNANT WINNERS
TROUNCED BY WlLKESBARRE.
Hazleton Learns With Much Emphasis
That There Are Others Who Can Play
Ball-The State Leaguers Show Their
Weak Points In a Fair Game.

Weak Points In a Fair Game.
With blowing of horns, waving of
coats and hats, and with other charac-
teristics too numerous to mention, the
largest and most enthusiastic crowd of
base ball rooters ever assembled in the
history of Frecland gathered at the
park yesterday afternoon to see the
Wilkesbarre Eastern league team out
class the pcnnant winners of the State
league from Hazleton. The local root
crs had been waiting anXiously for Il
month to see this game, and were on
hand early to capture the advantageous
positions of view, while the excursion
lists from Wilkesbarrc and the enormous
crowds which came in on the electric
cars began filling up the ground as early
as o'clock.
When the excursion train came in at
l o'clock it was a signal for Il stampede
in town, and every place where hot
frankfurt or IL meal could be purchased
was deugcd with hungry people who
hustled and surgcd us only base ball
cranks can. Bye and bye, when they
had bought everything eatable in sight,
they began filing towards the park.
For an hour Centre street was moving
mass of humanity, and every trolley car
in either direction carried hundreds of
people to the park gates.
The WilkeSbarrc players were the
first to arrive on the grounds and were
received with applause by their ad-
mirers, among whom were noticed Il
considerable number of Freeland people.
The HaZletOn men came in shortly
afterwards by way of the Washington
street entrance. Little interest was
taken in the preliminary practice of
either club, but as soon as Umpire Shov-
lin put in an appearance the crowd be-
gan to put its elbows on its knees and
the score cards over its eyes to prepare
for battle.
Umpire Shovlin called the game at
3.15, and proceeded to oflicatc on balls
and strikes, while Umpire Swartwood,
of the Eastern league, Oiliciated on the
bases. Iiazlcton was first at bat and
the game started amid much excitement
on the part of the lIazlcton and South
Side attendants.
Moran was the first batter and got to
first on balls, but was caught nicely by
Diggins in an attempt to steal second.
Hazleton did not score in the first inning,
while Wilkesbarrc made two on two hits
and three bases on balls. HaZleton tied
the score in the second on Fullcr's short
hit, Graham's base on balls and Jordan's
long thrce-baggcr left centre This
hit of Jordan's aroused the IIazlcton
contingent in the audience to the high
est pitch of excitement. and they seemed
to agree with him in wanting everything
he asked for during the remainder of
the game.
Hazlcton was blanked in the third and
fourth, while Wilkesbarrc made two in
the third on hits by Freeman, Wcntc
and Smith and an error by Schaub.
In Hazleton's half of the fifth they
scored three, on three hits and base
on balls and costly error by Mcmahon,
who failed to do his part in making
double play ON Schaubs grounder to
Bonner. In Wilkesbarre's half of the
fifth they got a bat around, but not
without considerable kicking by Jordon,
whose head by this time had assumed
an abnomal size by the fiattcry of his
admirers. After three men had scored
Jordan began to kick against Umpire
Shovlin's decision on balls, and because
he could not turn the latter from giving
Justice, he threw down the ball folded
his arms and attempted to walk off the
diamond.
The Hazleton players crowded around
the umpire and pleaded to let Jordan
have what he wanted, just because he
was not in the habit of kicking, not
wthstanding the fact that in playing
this childish act he was obcying direct
orders from those in charge of the club,
and was severely rcprimanded because
he did not do it earlier in the game.
The ridiculous plea of the Hazleton
players was taken up by their rooters,
who seemed to think that every ball
Jordan pitched should be strike, no
matter where it went. However, it did
not prove to be So and when the State
leaguers realized that Shovlin knew as
much about base ball AS any of them
and could not be bluffed, they sneakcd
back into the game, and the Eastern
league men started to do them in royal
style. -Four runs were scored in this
inning and another in the seventh.
Hazleton was BANKED successvely in
the sixth, seventh and eighth, Coakley
allowing only ten men to go to bat in
the three innings.
Jordan raised another kick in the
latter part of the game on llimsy pre-
text, but outside of this the game was
not marred by any disturbing influence.
On the whole it was one of the best
games seen here this season, and the
immense crowd which made every good