The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-11
SPORT FOR THE PONIES.
Springfield Plays an Errorless Game and
Wins with Easc--Scranton's Fielding as
Poor rs the Visitors Hitting Was Good.


Poor as the Visitors Hitting Was Good
The 500 spectators at yesterdays
game in this city between the Spring
field Ponies and Scranton were offered
their moneys worth of amusement. 1t
was spectacle of pot-pourri base ball
playing, in which the visitors presented
everything good and Scranton every
thing bad. The Ponies made monkeys
out of us.
The detailed score does not tell the
true story of the game; it does not
show that many a ball went through
Scranton's infield without proper effort
being made to stop 1t, nor does the score
show that Scranton's outfield was full
of nice easy places to let the ball drop.
Coughlin pitched a better game than
Delaney, who retired after the sixth
inning, but it isn't fair to record so
many hits against that pitcher. If the
rules of, scoring allowed it, Whitehead,
Radford and possibly Ward would have
more errors charged against them than
you could shake a stick at.
During five of the nine innings We
were kept on merry chase after
singles, doubles and triples of all kinds
from the daisy clipper to the sky scrap
er. When the Ponies thought they had
exercised us enough they trotted out
on the field, amused themselves a
moment or two by retiring us faster
than thought and then came in to
wallop the ball and mosey round the
bases as they pleased.
Didn't Have Good Time ut All.
lit was awful The whole circus was
very aptly illustrated by a sweet little
woman in pink and white Knox, who
asked of her escort, why do those
Springfield fellows catch all the balls
and run all the time? Why don't they
let the Scrantons have some fun out
of the thing?" Her companion showed
his hat further over his eyes and asked
her "for heavens sake, not to talk
so loud"
Round Thomas Johnson went in the
box in the seventh, and four hits, one
a triple were secured off him; he sent
one to first on balls and had one strike
out to his credit.
The fact that only one Scranton bats
man struck out and that only Clark
and Radford were sent to first on being
hit by q pitched ball and base on balls
respectively, indicates that Coughlin
was hit often. Many a singing
grounder or a long fly was, however.
spoiled by Springfield's sharp infield
work or brilliant catches in the out
field. Altogether their outhelders had
nine putouts, while we only had seven
in the same territory with all SPRING
fields heavy hitting.
In the sixth inning Captain Donnelly
was struck on the left hand by a
pitched ball and after playing the next
inning in the field retired. Lynch came
in from left field to Donnelly's position
on third, and Callahan went into the
field.
Ward opened the game with two
bagger, and Radford sent one sailing
apparently safe over Garry's head, but
the agile fielder pulled it in while run
ming toward the fence. Ward was
obliged to return to the base and scored
on Stearns scratch triple which bound
ed over Schifflers head. Stearns scored
on Clark's out from Mcdonald to Gill
bert.
Scranton's only other run was made
in the sixth. Clark singled and Smith
flew out to Lynch. Whitehead forced
Clark at second, reached third on w.
Johnson's single and scored on Brady's
safe force hit. T. Johnson fouled out.
How They Kept Us Down.
In the second, third, fifth, seventh and
ninth we were retired in one-two-three
order.
Ward singled in the third and was
forced by Radford. Stearns flew out
to right field and Clark was hit by a
pitched ball. With two on bases, Smith
famed out. Again in the eigth we
failed to connect with golden oppor-
tunity. Clark singled safely but Smith,
Whitehead and w. Johnson were re-
tired, only the latter's drive going into