The Jersey City news., 1902-04-25
SPORTS AND
SpORTSMEN
Jersey City Club Played
Springfield Eleven In
nings and Won
Yesterday.
NEWS OF THE WHEEL MEN
Stevens Plays Lacrosse To-
morrow Athletic Meet
ing Billiards.

ing Billiards.
The Jersey City Club of the Eastern
League hes struck its gait. Again yester-
day it defeated the Springfield team down
! in Massachusetts In one of the closest,
most exciting games New England has
ever seen. Eleven innings were played.
| There was a big crowd on hand, and they
We're worked up to the highest point of
enthusiasm dozen times. The Jersey
| City team showed to great advantage
There were several errors too many in
the game, but they were not resonsible
for the final result. MBoth teams batted
well and often. Jersey City had the best
Of this feature of the game by small
margin and showed exceptionally well in
fielding and base running
Jersey City went to the bat first and
tailed once before 1t was retired Then
| Springfield started out like tornado and
| made three runs. They were playing the
best bah they knew because they We're
worrying about that other defeat the day
before Jersey City scored again in the
second inning, and shut Springfield out.
but the home team tailed in the third
and still had two runs TO the good This
In the fifth. The Jersey City team was
finding Marnett and putting the leather
sphere out to the Woodlands. Spring.
field tied in the eighth and the game had
to go to the eleventh inning to make Jer-
sey City winner. That was great base
ball. and it was greater practice for the
Jersey City club. When they reach home
tomorrow night and rest few hours pre-
paratory to Sundays game with Balti-
more at West New York the Orioles will
| find themselves up against a proposition
that will be most difficult of solution.
Brown and Luby were in the box for
Jersey City and Clark caught them both.
They all did great work. Marnett and
Bowler pitched for the home team, and
they are among the stars of the first
magnitude in New England. That Jersey
/ City got nine hits from them is a guar
antee that the team is in a slugging hui
NOR The score:
Jersey city. ...11O21ooooo1-S q s
Springfield. .....3 OIL 5000 00o-5 3 5
Batteries-Brown, Luby and Clark;
/ Marnett, Bowler and Connor
The playing thus far this season of the
Harvard and Princeton baseball clubs
makes 1t appear that these teams are
again to be the two best college mines.
The single occasion when they will meet
although regarded by Harvard as ] prac-
tice game, may practically decide the col-
lege championship. On its Southern trip
The Harvard team performed well IN some
instances, while in others the players
showed such carelessness as would have
been met with defeat from stron ger
Teams, lhe oatllns was noe 80 eaeetiy7
Se,,,,, a,st,s
esId well wbep tba ofber was i, tbe box
herman showed up brilliantly. He batted
better than ever in his career and filled
his place well behind the bat. Stillman
and clarkson were weak in the box and
behind the bat wendell At frst coolidge
A. second sigiIto, ii tbird aud aratt,e,s.s
a secoiiu' eAiitoh a lhira ana Mat'he"s
at short made good infield. Left and
r ght fields are ne elec ed The nrese Mt can
didates. Rockwell, Marshall ar II Carr, are
~ srs4 a1a.. ,,,s 49, j.
iiop iirst ciass' ana there = none aInons
the candidates for these places that has
shown more than mediocre ability. Al
Princeton Coach Hfllebrand has been put
ting the team through ilght batting exer-
else, with special attention to sacrifice hit
ils anu bunting ahe nrst Team mas oeefi
piaslhs ele seeolu team oally Win lnVar-
lapls success, FoioA"lhs are the Two teams
as ehey played IA a game won py the hrst
team py ~ 70 = FIRST Ieana-CosSraye, I.
L.; steinwender 2p.' pearson ID; Meier
s.s-' Brown, II; Davis, RI; Wells, 3D.
Green, c. Duncomoe' p. second Team
McGiaVe, G.; Amen, rs stevens p.' Cor
many 0p.' Farneh' SIS. Preston ID;
itoys, c-i-; fersgthe' 20 ffeInan' RI
Yesterdays American League games re
suited as follows:-
At Baitinore.
RaItiraore q o O O O n q o-e
Philadelphia 30 l 0 o %
~ Ba5 a5lerles--Hughes ana Robinson; Plank
pstrsIs +, sais-s'. =. ........s : -