The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-12
JOHNNIE GORDON'S BOYS
GET THEIR THIRD BUMP

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THE Irrepressible Young Man from
I South Scranton Comes Thrice to
q Carbondale with Collection oi
Z Players from the Four Corners Of
the Town and Is Sent Home with
Only His Car Fare and Free Sup
per-Score 1O-11 in Favor Of the
Crescents.
Every once in a WHILE Johnnie Cor
don, of Scranton-who shouts "fudge!
at the rooters-gets ambitious to win a
victory from our Pets" Taking a
Stone avenue car he gets transfer to
4 North Scranton, and hurrying up to the
Notch" he kdnaps a couple of play
4 ers from the has been" Eureka team.
Returning he asks for a Luzerne street
transfer, and going to the neighborhood
of Eddie McTierney's home he lays vlo-
lent hands on what loose material
q there's lying about. When he boards
the South Side car on the way back
he never stops until he is some distance
beyond the city line, where he picks up
: what record men there ure TO spare iii
i 'Minooka, and hurrying home he mort
cages all the South Siders who are
only too anxious to partake of Carbon
dale's warm-hearted hospitality. Then
Johnnie and his widely scattered fam
lily come north and get off at Duffy's
field. where twice before yesterday they
got the drilling jars and jots.
Well, yesterday, Johnnie came to
town with one of these teams that he
gathered from the four corners of the
Electric City. In the evening Johnnie
and his cosmopolitan bunch went home
delighted and charmed. as usual, with
the hospitality that everybody who
comes to Carbondale speaks of so we'll.
Did this mixed pickles team win? On,
no! Only one team can win. Usually
the Crescents--who still belong to us
do this. so there isn't much OF a chance
to divide up with the other fellows
Maybe it wasn't Il square deal to rub
1T into Gordon and his pets" Il third
time, but twas the only thing we could
do.
However, be it said. while we're talk
ing, we didn't have a whole lot of mar
gin; just enough though. The score
was lilo, and we didn't have to linger
to make any more runs in the last half
of the ninth. And everybody took a
long breath, when Billy Flannery
caught the last Gordon man out in the
ninth, ana breathed moro freely.
The holding in of our health was due
to the fact that it was an off day for
the PETS" for they made more errors
in this one game than they did in two
weeks before. Eight were chalked up
against the Crescents at the end of the
game. 1t seemed to be in the air. for
who would ever picture sport" Thomas
making four errors in single game.
Then picture Jimmy Crane and Dick
Monahan making errors out in the field
on comparatively easy chances. These
are cited to show that this "otiishness,'
as it were. ran right round the team.
Jimmie Murray and Billy Emmett too,
each had one. Twas in the air. sure
ly. But no one has any kick coming.
We won and they are still our Pets"'
1t was our good batting that Won the
day and Eddie McTierney's unparal-
leled base running. He scored twice.
without having got first base on Il hit.
Mr.. Mangan, who comes from Mnooka,
was in the box. and he got his bumps
just at the right time, when there We're
men on bases. Dick Monahan was the
stick hero of the game. In the fourth,
he cleaned the bases, bringing three
men in on a two-bagger. In the fifth.
his three-bagger to right brought in
two more. He also had two-bagger
in the second. but he couldn't score
Monahan's hitting, plus McTerney's
base runnin, won ont for us. OF the
ten runs of the Gordon buckas, only
one was earned. while four OF ours We're
gotten on their merits. The hits which
the Crescents bagged came in punches,
while the hits off Owney were so scat
tered that they We're of little value, and
would have counted for naught but for
the errors that came in punches lust at
the right time to pile up runs.
Three scores We're made by Scranton
In the first inning. after two men were
out on errors by Thomas Murray and
Crane. and two-base hit by Hopkins.
Carhondale made two in the first by a
hit by Murray, an error by Merrick on
McTierney's drive. andaCuff's single.
Scranton made another by McAndrew
hitting two men In succession after two
men made their bases on hits We went
one ahead in the fourth, making three
runs on Monahan's two-baser, after
Emmett got his base on balls and Flan-
merry and Thomas hit safe.
Two more We're added in the fifth by
Monahan on his three -bagger, taking
In Emmett, who hit for two sacks, and
Thomas, who walked on four wide ones.
scranton went one ahead of us in the
sixth by clearing four runs on hits by
Merrick, Philbin ana Moriarity, aided
oy base on balls and two errors by
Thomas and one by Monahan. The
Crescents tied the score in the same
inning by McTierney stealing every
base in sight after getting base on
balls. In the next inning the tie was
broken by Scranton scoring one, and
IN thensame inning we went one ahead
oy scoring on hits by Murray and
Thomas and an error by Gordon.
Scranton made one In the eighth, tieine
the score again, ana in the same inning
we went ahead again by Mc,rierney re-
asatins, his daring trick of running
'ourd the bases without stopping after
getting his base ON an error, This see
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