The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-07
After MalOney Had Doubled in
Fourteenth George Singled
and Tigers Lost, 10.

G PECTACULAR fielding and great
- pitching by ICY" Barger and
Iron Man McGinnity, in which
the latter came out second best marked
the first game of the series with the
Hustlers in this city yesterday after
noon at Wiedenmayer's Park. Four
teen innings had to be played before
the verdict, and at the enc of that time
Rochester had scored one run while the !
locals were unable to get out of the
kalsomine bucket. The contest augurs
well for high-class ball today and to-
morrow.
There have been plenty of fine field
ing and pitching lone on the locals
grounds this season, but 1t is doubtful
if any players have equalled the work
displayed in yesterdays battle by the
members of both teams. Barger, who
is considered one of the best twirlers
in the Eastern League. was in grand
form. and during the fourteen innings
he allowed but five scattered hits,
which was just one-half the number
that McGinnity gave. The Tiger twirler
allowed but five hits in eleven innings,
and in the last three he was touched up
for five bingles. Some figured that if
the Iron Man had walked Big George
Mcconnell, who was signed from the
New York Yankees, and who took the
place of his manager at first base in
the thirteenth. and taken a chance on
Osborne. the game might have resulted
in a tie. Mcconnell is a big man and
! carries a wallop with him that is liable
to break up a game at any time. Nc
Ginnity took a chance on the former
Yankee, who made good by hitting to
centre for a base, scoring Maloney, who
had hit for two bases in his turn at
bat.
Benny Meyers's Work.
Benny Meyers was the chief factor
in sending the game into extra innings,
for he made Two of the prettiest catches
that have been made on the local
grounds in a long time. Both of his
stunts We're phenomenal in every sense
of the word. To make his first catch
he had to dive to scoop the ball from
the blades of grass, while, for his sec
ond he had to jump high in the air and
kidnap the ball as it speeded through
the ozone labeled home run" 1t was
in the fifth inning that he executed his
first great catch at the expense of Err
win. thus robbing the Hustler of a hit.
With one down Simmons hit TO left
field for two bases. Pattee dropped n
over to left field which Kelly got with
ease. Erwin then stepped to the plate.
Benny was playing deep, for erwin is
a hard hitter. Texas as he is called
stepped into one of the Iron Mans
curves and catching it on the end of
his BAT sent it out to short right field.
1t looked like a sure Texas Lacquer.
No sooner had the ball been hit when
Meyers started after 1t. Running at top
speed and seeing that his only chance
to get it was to bend low and make a
shoe string catch, Meyers did so. He
got up to the ball just as it was about
to hit the ground, md sticking out his
bare hand he nailed 1t. dead as a door
nail. Simmons, who had scored, was
a much surprised man to find out that
the run did not count. Not only was he
surprised, but also all the fans. who did
not think Meyers had been able TO
get it.
That Meyers Again.
Two innings later Osborn sent a long
fly to right field hat was headed for
the bleachers. AS he had previously
hit to right, Meyers was playing deep
for him. Picking out one of McGin-
nity's curves to his liking. he straight
ened it out and sent 1t flying high and
fast through the air. Benny was after
it, and as both the ohtfelder and the
pillet were making straight for the
bleachers, some one yelled to look out.
or he would do almost the same thing
as George Schirm, the Buffalo out
fielder. did on Thursday. A short dis
tance away from the little fence Meyers
saw that the bah would go over his
head if he did not jump and try to
spear it. Leaping high and sticking up
his bare hand at the same time, he
got a firm grip or the ball and killed
off a run. He followed that play up by
throwing Barger out at the plate in the
ninth inning when "Cy'' tried to score
from second base on Cancels hit to his
territory.