The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-08
SKEETERc STUNC
The 6IRpS.
Exciting Contest Between
the Rivals for First Place
Ends With Jersey City on
Top.
SAILORS ARE SHUL OUT
TAILENDERs BADLY DEFEATED
BUFFALO AND ROCHESTER,
AND TORONTO SPLIT EVEN.

The temperature dropped eleven de-
grees in Baltimore yesterday and reliev-
ed the Baltimoreans from the effects of
the awful hot spell that has existed for
several weeks. Jersey City has been lead
ing Baltimore by four degrees. After
the clash between the Birds and the
Skeeters yesterday in thir struggle for
supremacy, Jersey City came out on top.
The two teams have been playing with
other teams of the Eastern League cir
cult at nip and tuck race. Interest was
centered throughout the whole circuit as
to what would happen when the two
rival teams first clashed at this stage of
the game. Jersey City drew first blood.
That ought to satisfy the most ardent
local fan, and satisfy the most pessimis-
tic that fhe struggle for the pennant this
year is in earnest. There are all kinds
of stories being spread to the effect that
Baltimore or Providence will wave the
pennant from it's own grounds next
season. The Jersey City aggregation, de-
spite its handicap of crippled players in
the early stages of the contest. has
shown that it has the best mettle and
no game played this season demonstrates
the fact more forcibly than tile clash of
yesterday. All sorts of criticisms of the
playing of both teams are INDUCED in.
But the genuine fan sees struggle that
must rest eventually in the present con-
test on the merits of the two leaders.
That it took ten innings to decide the
contest is not an argument of the pes
simistic fan. Both teams may have
played sserratic" ball. But an analysis
of yesterdays game shows to any old
baseball player that both teams are striv-
ing to win. The Orioles welcomed a
chance to dislodge the Skeeters from first
place. With the same vim the Skeeters
entered the arena. anxious to hold the
top perch. That the game was s'erratic''
only shows that both teams were a trihe
over-anxious. And in this instance it
wasn't pitchers battle either. The
close score of 10 to 8 in ten innings play
ed to decide the struggle clearly shows
this. The men behind the bat on both
sides pounded the man in the box behind
the ball. The Jersey City men pounded
Burchell for fifteen hits. The Baltimore
men pounded Thielman and Linderman
for twelve. Jersey City made FIVE errors.
Baltimore only made four, and yet Jer-
sey City won. Thielman for Jersey City
issued four passes and struck two men.
in the ninth inning when Jersey City
COB hit Thielman for two sacks, the for
mer scoring on the latter's double hit.
Thielman retired and Linderman took his
place. Manager player Jennings of the
Baltimore team sacrificed Rothgeb to
third. Mullen cast a long fly to Halli-
gan, who swallowed the bait but Roth
geb got home with run that tied the
score. The tide went out and Loudens-
lager died on first. Linderman retired
the Birds in one, two, three order in the
tenth. Then the Jersey City batsmen
to Jordan. Woods laced the ball to.
Jennings, who made bad throw to
Jordan, Woods meanwhile fleeing to
third. Jordan made wild lunge to
second Woods got his goal. Wander
grift sent Woods home with nice drop
Of the ball to centre.
The score: