The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-09
MORSE HAS THE CREDIT.
With Very Yellow Fielding Behind Him
He Gives the Grays a Goose
Egg Dose.

1t required just eight innings Satur-
day for the shaken-up Miners to come
to their senses and realize that they
could hit Egan hard enough to get
runs. Up to that time only six hits
had been made off the Clamdigger and
three of the six were by Bonner
"Cap'n" Bonner, if you please. But
visions Of releases came to Grffin's
men in the eighth and they parcelled
out Egan's curves to the extent of four
hits for six bases and three runs, two
of them earned. Seven or eight hun
dred critical followers of the game saw
. the trouble.
Meanwhile your Uncle Morse had
been pitching in championship form,
with the yellowest kind of ochre-col-
ored fielding behind him up to the sixth
inning. Until then the Miners seemed
to be on the defensive and content to
keep the Grays from scoring. 1t was
then that the home team brushed the
cobwebs from their think-tanks, shook
the snarls out of their joints and began
to play ball. They struck the proper
gait in the eighth and made the only
runs of the game.
Barry, the lively young ex-Bison
shortstop, played in Boards position
and was as frisky as a calf just before
killing time. His livelness was the
most conspicuous feature of his work
1t was not strange that over-anxiety
forced him to juggle bit and do, some
poor throwing, but these discrepancies
We're more than balanced by the ex-
tent of territory he covered his timely
two -bagger and some great speed on
the bases. He loomed up to much bet
ter advantage than could be expected
of player who had been out of the
game for so long a time.
GRAYS OPPORTUNITIES.
Up to the finish the Grays had more
opportunities TO win than you could
shake a stick at. Only in the sixth in
ming was the circuit free of Providence
runners, who got their scoring chances
on critical battery and fielding errors,
but Pop Morse always pulled himself
together at those times and made
monkeys out of the enemy's batsmen,
with the result that they found them
selves decorated with nine lurid horse
collars at the wnd-up.
Weigand was the only Gray to make
an error His was a bull-headed one
in missing CoOney's assist with two
out on what should have been an easy
force play. But it So happened that
Morse was the individual whose turn
it was to bat I'm the runs and he in
gloriously famed out. That was the
Grays only slip. but their clean field
ing was not much to their credit, as
Egan had the Miners at his mercy,
Bonner eXceptcd, until the eighth
out of Ronner's four times at bat he
swatted the ball four times for six
bases. The swats We're not of the easy
swatsey- -swatsum sort, either; they
were hard, vicious. business-like swats
that tore through or over the diamond
at a speed that would have torn mitts
into bits But Bonner was sharing the
fun all by his lonesome
With two out in the first inning Bon
ner drove one to right field for two
bases and Massey walked, but Eagan
grounded out to Drauby. With two out
in the opening half Mcguire became
mixed with himself on an easy ground
ball, but Bonner made a good catch of
DiXon's fly.
-- TWO SCRANTON ERRORS.
A force hit and Barry's bad throw
TO second put two on the circuit with
two out in the second inning. Mas
sey hit one of the runners in the back
and they each got an extra base. The
side was retired on a grounder to Bon
ner.
O'Bren's walk, with two out, and
Bonner's single in the third was fol-
lowed by Massey's easy out on a bal
hit in front of the plate.
The Grays filled the bases in the
fourth, with one out, on a single, O
force a. single and walk, but fly tC
Massey and a grounder to Bonner got
the Miners out of a bad hole. In the
Scranton half Gunsons single and
Weigand's error put two on the bases
but Morse famed.
The situations were not so much or
the hair-raising order until the Miners
did the trick in the eighth Bonner
opened with two-baser over third ant
came home on Massey's groundel
through short-held. Eagan forced
Massey and reached second on a passed
Oall scored on Barry's drive down tn,
right-line for two bases. Barry wa.
obliged to give an exhibition of runnlnl
In order TO score ON Gunsons warn
grounder through Bassetts territory
Mcguire flew out to Braun and Mors,
struck out
Mcguire made his second error In tn,
ninth and IL came within a hairs
breadth of letting the Grays score
With one out Mcguire made botch o
eraun's grounder. Coogan, who wal