The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-23
The Opening Of the Local
Season Took Place Yes
terday, and the Locals
Captured the Victory
HALLIGAN THE STAR
BIG CROWD PRESENT TO LOOK
OVER THE CANDIDATES FOR
EASTERN LEAGUE HoNoRs IN,
1906

"PhiF' Daab's aggregation of Ho-
boken seIni-professional ball players
gave Billy Murray's Jersey City
Eastern League team close rub yes
,terday at the cricket grounds in Ho-
boken 1t was the first at-home game
Of the season Of the two Hudson County
clubs. and good number Of Jersey City
and Hoboken fans turned ont TO witness
the contest. Upward of five thousand of
them filled the grandstand and bleach
ers.
Manager Daab has strengthened his
team by the addition of several new
players, among them peing Heffron,
who was one of the stars last year Of
the crack St. Johns club, of Jersey
City. He filed the position of left field.
Manager Murray also introduced some
new material in the persons of Holmes,
at short, Moore at third and Munson in
the receivers box. The latter looks quite
capable and Moore may round out at
third, but he has got a long way TO trav-
Ell before he will catch Wally Woods, if
yesterdays exhibition is taken as a fair
sample. Holmes at short is the weak
one, and unless he had decided off day
he certainly will not Eli in with any de-
gree of satisfaction.
The old players showed up in. their
usual style, and We feel called upon to
offer a few suggestions to Manager Muir
ray and Captain Bean, that we think
will tend to increase the percentage of
our team this year. Of course, we do not
think for one fraction of second that
We can tell either of these gentlemen
anything about ball playing; if we could
We would be drawing our salaries from
baseball instead of pushing lead pencils,
but we think that the Jerseys have
weakness and would like to have it rem
edied. When batter hits a bali he is
supposed to run, regardless of where the
ball has gone and not trot to see if some
ono will catch it or if it will drop foul
Many bases are lost through this system.
In yesterdays game Munson hit to left
field and fearing the ball would be caught
slackened his speed to first and when
Bertwistle muffed it he tried 10 reach
second and was promptly thrown out. If
he had used the speed in the run to first
that he did from first to second, he could
have made it easily. Ke;ster is also a
victim Of this habit, and unless he can
drive ball beyond the fielder he acts
disgusted and lays down. Cassidy also
has the same failing. and several others,
his running from second on a fly yester-
day being the worst piece Of ball playing
one could imagine.
We realized the coacher should have
stopped him, but he, too, should have
had his mind on the game. He is not so
good that he can afford to let any part
Of the game escape him. Two runs at
least were the srice paid for this sort
of baseball yesterday.
Halhgan was the star of the game in
the hitting line with three hits-one for
a brace Of sacks, and his fielding was
giIt-edged. The outfeld looks we'll and
we can count on them but the infeld will
have to come much stronger.
Jersey City scored the first run in the
second inning. Hoboken also tailed in
this inning and added another run in the
third. Jersey City tied the score in the
fourth and forged ahead in the fifth with
another tally In the seventh Hoboken
scored two runs, and the local fans went
wild. Their joy was short of duration,
however. for in the eighth Daab's boys
went to the bad and the Eastern Leag
uers piled up four runs.
Hoboken made a determined effort in
the ninth to retrieve its lost ground
with two tallies to it's credit, and with
two men on bases the chances for at
least tying the score looked promising.
Leonard. who had singled and had been
advanced to second. started for home
on Curley's long hit to left FIELD. He
was nabbed at the plate by Clement $
perfect throw in from deep left field.
TERSEY4 (tIr1Y