The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-22
BEAT THE LEADERS.
Outplayed Them at Every Point and Won
In q WaIk..-JOknsOn Pitches and
Plays q Great Game.

Scranton fairly walked away with the
leaders yesterday.
We won the game in the first inning
and never left it in doubt for a minute.
Rochester couldn't win If it had two
trys. The Barons' batting. Johnson's
pitching and the allaround good field
work each was sufficient in itself to
have prevented it. 1t was the kind of
ball that made us ask why are we not
on top of the heap instead Of at the
bottom.
There was nothing to find fault with,
not even the two errors of Keister.
Seventeen hits for a total of twenty
one bases, netting fourteen runs ten
of which were earned is a slugging
record to be proud of. Three snappy,
timely double-p plays is another thing to
set US shaking hands with ourselves.
Rochester's fielding was good but they
couldn't touch Johnson. Four hits was
the best they could do, and one of
these was of a questionable character.
For Scranton MCGUIRE, Hutchinson
and Eagan led in batting and in field
ing shared the hOnors with Johnson
and Ward. O'Brien showed up well
and Keister helped along wonderfully
with two pretty drives. Berger and
johnson made only one hit apiece. but
they We're very timely and made them
great favorites.
NEVER IN DOUBT.
The game was never in doubt from
the beginning. In the first inning after
Rochester had been blanked, Scranton
made four runs, three of them earned
Ward walked to first, got second on
Meaney's safe bunt, reached third on
O'Brien's attempted sacrifice, which put
Meaney out at second, and came in on
keisters bounder to center field. A
two-bagger by Mcguire brought in
O'Brien and put Keister In position to
score on an out at first. Mcguire
scampered in on Hutchinson's hot drive
TO right and the side retired by Berger
forcing Hutchinson at second.
In the fifth inning Ward scored an
other by reaching first on Shannons
misjudgement of his high infield fly,
stealing second and galloping in on
O'Brien's double
In the fifth came the slaughter.
Eleven men faced weighing in this
tnning, and when the end came seven
tallies, six of them earned We're found
on the score sheet. Mcguire opened
the fire works with a long, hard drive
into left field, which looked good for
three bases, but after a hard run and
circus leap Bottenus brought 1t down,
winning hearty round Of applause.
Eagan singled, got second on Hutch
insons base on balls, and with the
aid Of a good start reached home when
Berger singled along the third base
line. Hutchinson and Berger came in
on Johnson's double and the latter
scored on Wards single and q little
daring base running. Meaney got first
on Wards capture at second and made
the circuit on hits by O'Brien and
Keister. Maguire's single cleared the
bases.
Mcguire set the good example again
In the eighth, making a clean single.
By his failure to get down in going to
third on Eagan's single he was put
out, Daily making the throw from
short right field. Eagan stole second
and came in on Hutchinson's single,
Hutchinson going to second on the at
scoring on Shannon's error of John
sons slow bounder which bounded
away, struck the doughty Daniels shin
and wobbled out of reach.
At about this stage of the game
Startzell, who replaced Weyhing in the
fifth, was beginning to feel that weary
feeling, and it looked very much as
II he would share the fate of his prede-
cessor IL there were q few more in
nings to play.
Rochester scored its first run in the
third inning on walk, a single by
Weyhing and outs OF Bottenus and
Shannon.
In the fifth inning Boyd reached first
by reason of colliding with an inshoot,
stole second and was wiping his feet
on the home plate when Eagan retired
the side on beautiful catch of Shan
mons long curving drive into left gard
en-.
Shannon brought in Rochester's 9th.