Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-25
TIGERS HITTING
] BETTER IN SPITE
| OF THEIR DEFEATS
Bengals Have Averaged Nine
Hits Per Game Since Leaving
Home, Kelly, Dalton, Agler
and Cady Batting Consistent
l~y--ChampiOns Take First
Game on Errors by Fisher, the
Recruit.
rrrom a STAR oorre.pondent.l

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, July "a
pleasing feature of the Tigers work
thus far on the present trip has been
the Improvement in the hitting of the
Bengals. In the FIVE games played
since leaving home the Bengals have
averaged nine hits per game.
That they have not been wasting
them is evidenced by the fact that the
forty-hve hits have counted for
tw~enty-four runs. Kelly, Dalton, Agler
and Cady are all hitting consistently,
and Bailey, George Smith and Louden
have shown improvement in their
bingling, and, with Cady in the game,
the team a it's full batting strength.
No pitcher has a lead-pipe cinch
banning the Bengals.
The one big fault, however. has been
a tendency all along to waste the
safeties. In other words, the men were
not batting often enough in the
pinches. During the las week there
has been q big improvement in this
respect. Even Babe Reams has been
hitting oftener, and he is making the
fnfeiders work to head him at first.
Fisher Burns Up No Grass.
Bob Fisher, late of Danville, ILL.,, did
not burn things up in his first game.
An examination of the grass around
short did not show that the green
sward had been. singed by his fielding.
but he is a likely-looking youngster,
and was plainly agitated yesterday by
IL ..A,,~l-- IL I,nd
Agler grovelling in the mire at times
for his throws and doing jumping
Jack stunts at -oth times. At bat he
appears TO have a good eye, n meets
the ball ~squarely and strongly, but he
failed to land it safe in four tries.
He is a pleasant, bl~ue-eyed, tan
faced chap. and is built for baseball.
They say he had lots of the Did Pep
per- in the Three-Eye League, and
the Bengals need all of that they can
get,
AsIer Has a Boil.
Joe Agler is suffering from a boil on
Che left leg, and his speed on the
bases has been hindered. He asked
for a two-day furlough to visit his
family in Beach City and attend to
business. but Manager McGinnity
could not spare the kid.
Clarence Wagner Visits spenry.
Clarence Wagner stopped over to
d a visit to Andy Speary, his old
High School teammate. Wagner was
playing with the Portsmouth Tide
water League team when the organi-
cation shipped water. He was on his
way TO Ottawa to get a job in the
Canadian League. Joe Agler bought
Il new black hat yesterday, and his
first two attempts were line singles
yesterday. He nearly separated
Spencer from one of his paws. in the
eighth, but the official scorer called 1t
an error. Joe should have had three
hits.
Holmes lost his bearings in he eighth
and Bailey worked him for a base on
balls. Agler landed on one which near
~ took Spencer off his feet. Bailey
went to third on the Beach City Kids
drive. Kelly tore off a base hit and
Bailey broke the ice. Dalton whacked
the leather ion e~ntvc ana Ag - re-
corded M. 2.
"Herr'' Camel. who was doing a heel
and-toe on the bench, derricked Holmes
and sent Wilhelm to the centre of the
diamond. Fisher hit into a double play,
but. always on the job, Kelly beat the
throw to the plate. Charley Smith
popped UP.
Dan Moeller led off in the> very first
Sound with a homer over Bailey's head.
There was nothing doing until the fifth,
when the Hustlers tailed thrice. Spen-
Ger and Moran both got credit for safe
ones, Fisher booted one and made a
bad heave of another and Moeller
walked. That gave the champs their
tallies.
After the Tigers came within a run
of tieing the score in the eighth the
Repeaters tailed twice. A single by
Foster, sacrifice. Simmons's double and
an out did the trick.