The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-05
The News Of. Carbonda1e.
THE SILENT NAN
IS SOME PEACHES

Pitches Superb Ball and Backed by
Almost Faultless Work of the
crescents Easily Takes Game
from the West Side Browns-Great
Batting by the Pets-score, lid.
once again, boys: "They're still our
Pets!'"
with Kelleher, the silent man from
Forest City, in the box, the Crescents
yesterday took a game from the strong
West Scranton Browns and demons
strated anew that our team Is back
again in the land of victories and Is
playing in the form that 1t can.
The score was lid, and but for the
little wildness of Kelleher in the second
inning, 1t would have been H.. He
began to hand over some wide ones,
forcing two men home by base on balls.
After this inning he settled down and
pitched superb ball. the article of ball
that he is capable of handing over
when played often enough an article
of pitching that cannot be surpassed
in this section. After this inning,
backed by the snappy and almost fault
less fielding of the eight men good and
true behind him, not Il man passed sec
ond base. Two men did attempt to
steal to third. but they were caught by
Lotus true arm.
Twas not 1ieleher's pitching, how
ever good as II was. that won the day;
it was the hard hitting of the Cres-
cents. the same ball slamming that has
been the rule the past week. that piled
up the runs. Singles. two-baggers and
4, t,,,. In htH.N ,I,Gc
sent men scooting across the plate like
81 bunch of horses at a Suburban ham
dicap. Finally. when 1t was all over
and everything on the Crescents side
was to the good. every one of the $500
rooters went home. smiling with salts
faction. declaring it was Il great gang,
and that more than ever they were still
"Our Pets We played at fast pace
that we now have the fastest team Of
the season.
When Keleher.the man of few words,
stepped into the box in the first inning
and let only three batterS come before
him. we all felt good that he had made
good. In the second inning, however,
there were many who felt mighty un
easy when the tallies We're counted and
four runs were figured out. The For
est City man was wild, fearfully wild:
he was hit safely by the first three
batsmen and then, with the bases full,
he forced two men home by handing
over four wide chaps to two batters.
Those, however, who have faith in the
quiet mans unquestionable ability as
a\pitcher, pinned their faith to the be-
h lief that Nelleher would steady down
to his level, and he did In the third
fourth, fifth and sixth, only three men
faced him. In the seventh, five men
came before him, though only four
should as there was one base on er-
rOr. In the eighth there We're only four
batterS up, and in the ninth the men
went out one. two, three. The few men.
however, who got bases in these seven
innings didn't make much progress; not
one got past second base.
While the Browns were busy in the
second with their four tallies. two of
them gifts from Kelleher, our lads We're
buster. Emmett got four wide ones.
Flannery slammed Il two-baser, and
Emmett scored on an error of Conner
Davis on third. This was our first
run. Norris got a base on balls, and
Kelleher got first by McHugh, first
baseman, dropping the ball. With three
men on bases, Jimmie Murray came up
greeted with cries of "a homer, Jimmie,
old boy Jimmie didn't do the home
stunt, but he did do the next best. He
banged one out in left field, and when
Jim Jeffries finished chasing the ball,
Flannery, Morris and kelleher were
home, and lay in front of the scorers
table, painting after their hot chase
round the bases. Rosler followed with
corking single, and after Eddie Nc
Tierney pounded his former pitcher for
swocker of a three-bagger they trot-
ted home. McTierney scored on sin
gle by Cuff. There was joy among the
rooters; we We're three to the good.
In the fourth, two more on an error
by Thomas, Il sacrifice by McTerney,
Il two-base hit by Cuff and singles by
Emmett and Flannery. There was an
other in the fifth by an error by Nc
Hugh and two-bagger by Roster.
The last tally was in the seventh by a
two-base hit by Morris. scoring on
wild throw by McHugh in right field.
Morris never stopped running.
In the matter of hits, we We're four
to the good, securing twelve from Will
liams, while Kelleher gave only eight.
Ours were punched, and two and three
baggers, while the Browns We're scat
tered and when no men We're on bases.
The errors of the Crescents were of
little consequence. There We're only
two, all told, splendid record. Flan-
merry had one, muff of fly in centre,
which seemed hard to mark against
him, but in our judgment it was clear
ly an error due to his error of Judgment
in jumping for the ball. The error of
Emmett was his failure to stop a
bounding ball from Morris on a quick
throw of a hoty batted ball. Had
the ball not gone so far into the crowd,
and the runner reached second, EN-
nett would have been saved from the
error. The detailed score: