The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-29
SHEFFLER'S HONG RUN.
The Old Boy Lined 'er Over Center
Field Fence in Yesterdays Con-
quest Of Allentown.

Silly Sharsig and his aggregation of
ALLENTOWN Peanut-eeters were
body OF very uncomfortable indi-
Niduals as they rode to their hotel
SITTER yesterdays game with Scranton.
1e was the third game OF the present
erries and It was the third victory Of
rurnham's men, the score at the end
being 1873.
The one bright particular feature of
the contest was the fact that one Shelf
fer, the aged man who gambos
around the Scranton right field, in the
second inning, duplicated his feat OF
saturday by hitting the ball over the
center field fence. The good old man
rrceived thunderous applause from the
flaw hundred spectators present and
sr he took his seat on the bench he
cordially shook hands with himself.
Allentown started the game with
rush, scoring two runs on errors by
Jack OBrien, Mcintyre and Toft, fol-
lpwed by News three-baser. This lat
tnr gentleman Is the same individual
uho Saturday batted a beauty over
the center neld fence, and when he
came to the bat the fans looked anx-
irus. He had a terrific swing and
lnnded the ball between deep center
suu icll, SelllnB tITeS DdEs On IT,
When the side was at last retired
the Allentown men took the field and
sItimmel went into the box. This same
atimme' is the ungainly youth who on
hts last appearance in Scranton this
s,ason held the locals down to ono
ran and three hits.
After Knoll had gone out, Jack
O'Brien came to the bat and raped a
nice one to right field. Old Boy Shelf
fer grasped his hickory and some one
In the grand stand remarked hopefully,
"Dver the fence Shelf" The next
Instant the ball dropped beautifully in
ttie field back of the center field fence
and after the game thirteen little boys
fought for the privilege OF carrying
Nheffler's bat for him.
Stimmel was far from the Chinese
puzzle that he was on his first ap-
Iearance here, every man on the team
getting one or more safe ones off him.
tn the second inning the team batted
around, singles by Doherty, Pirate
CBrien, Millerick, Knoll, Jack O'Brien,
ahefiiers force and News error giving
Scranton five runs. In the third sim
tiles by Millerick and Kennedy, Nc
hanus' passed ball and News error
gave us two more. After two men
were out in the fifth Hub Knoll sin
al!ed, went to third on Stimmels error
and scored on Jack O'Brien's third sin
ale. In the sixth we made our last
two runs. loft singled to right and
moved up base on Stimmels kindly
giving Doherty base on balls. Then
Toft almost gave McManus heart fall
ure by starting for third, Doherty
went down to second at the same time
and the Allentown catcher was so rat
tied that Toft and Dohertys double
steal left them both safe. Pirate
O'Brien hit a scorcher to right field
and loft and Doherty came In.
In addition to the two runs by AL
lentown already mentioned the Pea
nut-eaters scored in four other innings.
In the third Henry doubled to right,
West singled and both scored on
Knox's muff OF Smoot's long fly.
In the fourth inning Jim Delehanty
was hit with the ball, Henru and West
singled and Joe Delenanty contributed
a hot one to the collection, two more
runs coming in.
In the seventh Smoot singled, went
to third on McManus single and scored
on Kuhn's drive, which Pirate OBrien
fielded to loft Joe Delehanty was
the first man up in the ninth inning.
He selected one to his liking and batted
1t far over Knoll's head, It almost
striking the fence In deep left. 1t was
fielded sharply and Joseph was held
at third base News sent hot one
to Pirate O'Brien and Del scored on
the play, making Allentown's last run,
as Smoot sent one to Jack O'Brien and
McManus banged out a hot one which
Kennedy pulled down. The score fol-
lows: