The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-02
The News Of Carbonda1e.
OUR PETS" ARE IN
Their OLD TINE FORM

0EUN VkU IlPIL ] VNF
I They Shut Out the Scranton Alumn
I Team in an Errorless Game Yester.
{ day Afternoon, and Had the Morn
ing Game Cinched, but for the
! Error of Putting Jack Fee in the
Box for Two Innings-Two Fine
. Games That Show the Crescents
Are Playing the Game Again.
. Scores, 7-2 and 100.
Crescentc, 10; Alumni, 0 (afternoon).
Crescents, 9; Alumni, (morning).
And they are more than ever "Our
Pets!"
Altogether, perhaps 5000 persons left
Duffy's field yesterday, satisfied that
they had enjoyed two of the best
played games ever witnessed on that
diamond and they left we'll convinced
that the Crescents-who are "Our Pets"
~-are back in the game again; pre-
pared to redeem the disasters of the
past few weeks. The knockers" have
won their last twenty-five cent bets;
they are on the run and everybody Is
happy.
We lost the first game, after the
second inning, during which six runs
were made off Jack Fee, who went into
the box with a stiff arm. But in the
afternon! Oh, my! How we did win!
We have enough of glory to last for a
spell. A shut-out and an errorless
game. Unquestionably it was the best
game of the season and there was
never a more pleased crowd than the
throng which left the grounds before
S o'clock, eXulting over the days con-
quest. The spirit of the players had
its effect in playing, which If MAIN
tained to any degree, will send down
almost any team, like set Of nine
pins before a big bowling ball. En-
thustiasts who have seen the best kind
of ball playing gloried last night in
eXpatiating in the work of the team
in both contests but particularly in the
afternoon, when the PETS" played all
round the Alumni and lost them in the
game of hide-and-seek. AS intimated,
the morning game was more our prop
erty than the Alumni. After the Sec
ond inning, when McAndrew took Fees
place, only one run was scored, while
we earned two. Owney held the Hyde
Park lads down like a spiked rail on
No. plane on the old Gravity.
And so evberyody is happy And they
are still "Our Pets!"
The Afternoon Game.
One basket of peaches-bright-ha
Joseph Harrison-came from Scranton
to twirl for the afternoon game, and he
made good, aces high.
Joe was little late in getting to
the ground, so our Owney went into the
box. He pitched three innings, and
had the Alumni bunch at his mercy as
in, the morning; they got only one hit.
AS Owney will be needed later in
the week, and two games in one day
is not advisable for any pitcher, Harri-
son went into the box right after he
reached the grounds. From thence un-
til the ninth inning, no man but one,
little Genie" Tropp, saw third base;
and he didn't linger there long. Har-
rison's work was superb. He couldn't |
be touched with any safety. Five hits |
were the Hyde Parkers' limit. Four |
of them were singles; one, Tropp's a |
good three-bagger.
The fast work of the Crescents made |
the innings mighty short Only one or |
two flies We're batted; the rest were |
short, but hot, infield drives that kept |
the Crescents working. And how they |
did work. Oh, peaches! 1t was a case |
of Whack, then a busy fielder and a |
man out. This was kept up for the |
nine innings. Harrison was as faith
full and true as grandfather's clock;
while the men behind-our "Pets"-
were as regular in their work as a
healthy, growing youngster is at his
three meals every day. 1t was a repe-
tition of three men and out, inning af-
ter inning; just as steady as Cresceus
going the last quarter on his record
mile. The fielding on t'other side,
when we weren't slamming the ball,
was likewise pretty much hot stuff,
only we saw them few better.
The lead we got was obtained in the
fifth, when Morris started with base
on balls. A hit by Emmett followed,
then base by Harrison by hit by
pitcher Murray made a hit, Roster
got his base on balls, then Cuff knocked
slashng hit to left field, which
scored three of the runs. Morris, prior
to this, made his way home and Ros-
Ter and Cuff came home on a wild
throw from left. In the eighth, we got
two more by a hit by Morris and a
by Emmett The last run
was In the ninth on hit by McTier-
nan and three-bagger by Cuff. Then
1t was over but counting the runs and
hits. The score: