Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-29
TIGERS PRACTISE
MORNINGS To GAIN
TEAMWORK SKILL
Every Member OF Team Re-
quired for Morning Practise.
Tigers Suffer from a Woeful
Fielding Slump-Lose Second
Straight Twelve shining Game.

RIO one will be excused from morn
N ing practise during the coming
week, according to Captain Lew
McAllister and Manager o McGin-
nifty, of the Tigers. There has been a
lamentable lack of team work In the
Tigers showing during the first eight
games, and practise makes perfect, they
say. Lack of team work, in which the
Tigers were the most proficient in the
league last year, has cost the Tigers
at least three of the five games they
have lost. Every team has a slump
some time or other during the season,
and it is better to have 1t at the start
than at the finish, like the Bengals did
last year
As a rule when the batters are
slumping the pitching STAFF is able to
tide over the slump, or vice versa. but
il is q fielding slump that the Tigers
have run into just now. Perhaps the
new grounds and the strange surround
ings have something to do with tho
poor fielding exhibitions the Tigers are
putting up. They are hitting fairly
veil, but no pitcher. however good
could win a game with the support
that Holmes received after relieving
Johnson yesterday in the second
twelve-inning defeat in two days. The
Tigers are having their slump early
in the race, and there IL no reason
yet for the fans to feel discouraged.
There is one consolation about it,
however, and IL is that the players we
know are good are slipping up in the
fielding. Bill Louden has had nine mis-.
plays in two days. But the man who
will take Bill Louden's crown az the
premier slhortstop of the ,sague is still
to he discovered on m Of the Eastern
League teams, as now constituted. Bill
cannot account for his poor PLAYING,
himself, except that he has been break
ing in a new glove. but Loudea, whea
nc hits his stride. will more thar make
up for tine errors of which he is now,
guilty.
The>work Of Dalton AND Cady with
the stick in the pinches continues to BE-
the features of every game the Tigers
play. Yesterday Dalton singled twice,
driving in two runs and scoring once.
Cady had a triple, that drove in two
rnns in the FIRST and a single that lifted
another Bengal over the counter in the
seventh with what should have osen the
winning run for Newark. In the ff +
he walked as a starter, but did not get
around. His fielding is every bit sc
sensational as his hitting, for he ac-
cepted ~ten-chances yesterday. 80 'ai7
Little Joey Agler, the dandy, candy,
handy kid. made even the veteran Bud
Sharpe sit Up and take notice by some
Of the sizzling stops and the ready
fielding stunts he pulled off. Joe also
had two hits, be ID known, and .:;p-
parently has shaken the hoodoo by
which ha want for Snxnn do xyu r.ti%4zA,y4
q hit. 1t was the first time Joe reached
first on a hit since the opening day;
and the two safe bingles boosted Joe's
average about sixty points. Joe made
a unique double play in the sixth in
ming yesterday hat was q marvel fr
quick thinking. Pierce was on sec on1,
killtfer on third. and with one down,
when Starr smashed one on the ground.
Agler made one of those classy st Ups
OF his and touched Starr on the o4se
line. Pierce, the opposing pitcher. topk
a big lead off second and Joe pretended
that he was going to run down to sec.
ond TO get the Bison hurler off tho
bag. ~.illifer, the big league catcher,
who has been playing with the Browns,
and should never have fallen for. the
trick, fell into the trap headlong and
Joe whipped the bulb 70 Cady, getting
XII at the plate by six or seven feet.
Manager George Stallings, the ex-New-
ark 'eader, rubbed his eyes in astonish.
rnent, not only at this play, but IT
some of the other ones Joe pulled IF.
Bud Sharpe played his usual steady
and reliable game for the Herd and
had fourteen fielding chances, while
Agler had fifteen. Sharpe's work stood
out in bold relief to that of the other
three Bison first defense flelders. None
of them seemed able TO throw the PHI
early in the game, but settled down
after Pierce went into the box. 81,
Pierce is a left-hander with excel
lent control. some serpentine curves
and plenty of nerve. lie had the Tigers
guessing and allowed two runs after
he relieved MalarlheN, who was punl-
meled for five markers in the first ses-
sion. 1t seems tough that the Bisons
were beaten by all OF the other teams
they faced and then came to Newark
and we're handed a game that should
have been Newark's without a look-in
FOR Buffalo. Bob Holmes is still in hard
luck. He had the game we'll In hand up
10 the ninth, when the visitors tied
it up on ,wo rank errors, without the
semblance OF a hit.
No team could come any closer to
having a game won than the Tigers
did yesterday. for there were two out.
with nobody on base, in the ninth, when
the Bisons scored on the two misplays.
Holmes was responsible for one of them
when he dropped Agler's throw on
Schirm's grounder and then Sehirm
stole second and scored ON Louden's
Wild peg. The S~tallingites finally got to
o in h twelfth ond scored one
earned run, but the other two were due
to another pair Of errors. Tie Bisons
VIII play here today, tomorrow and
Monday, and then Toronto coine on
"wednesday for four games.