Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-21
KELLY'S BATTING
POSITION BRINGS
ABOUT RALLIES
Jack Generally Leads Off in
Sixth Round, and as He Is
Good at Starting Something, a
Batting Fusilade Is to Be Ex.
pected--Tigers Lose to Grays.

Every team has its lucky inning.
Many fans have come to look upon the
seventh round as the big lucky inning
for the home team the country over,
wherever baseball is played, but there
is nothing 10 the superstition. 1t is a
fact, however, that the urging the play
ers receive from the fans in a close
game by a concerted outburst, such as
often takes place when everybody
stretches, spurs the players on and q
rally often develops. That most of the
scoring is lone in the seventh round,
however, is not true. OF late h Tigers
have developed a habit of doing most OF
their scoring in the sixth inning.
In their last seven games the Bengals
have scored something like thirty runs
and fifteen of these have been scored
in the lucky sixth. A glance at the dope
shows a very good reason for this. 1t
is just this. Jack Kelly generally leads
off in this session and Jack is there
when 1t comes to starting a rally. In
three of those seven games Jack was
the boy to start 1t, and in w others
he figured prominently by driving in
runs. Yesterday he started 1t and car
ried Newark's only run around when
Fisher singled to right.
In the sixth inning every man has
batted at least once and some of them
twice. Tt is just about his time that
the batters have a pitcher sized up.
This is another very good reason that
rallies often occur about this time. 1t
is also true that many pitchers begin
to feel the strain after the fifth. All of
these theories are manifest in the rail-
lies which the Tigers have been maxi
ing In this round, and ii Is now up to
local fans to root for h lucky sixth.
.
Meyers error, Rocks force, Bedients
pass and Phelan's single were RESPONSE
BILE for the Grays' first tally, which
came in the second round. The Ben
gals tied 1t In the sixth, when Kelly
singled, went to third on Rocks bad
heave and raced home on Fishers safe
wallop. The Clam Diggers made it five
more in the seventh m Bedients
double, Phelan's hit, passes to Atz and
Tarleton, Peterson's safety and Meyers
bad throw OF Rocks smash. In the
ninth Elston was hit by eBoice and
Sherry ran for him, scoring on Tarle-
toms two-bagger.
Today marks the final appearance Of
the Grays In Newark this season. The
Bengals must win today's game to get
the series. McGinnity's men have cap
tured four series from the Clam Dig
gers, and lost one set of games to the
Atzites.
Low McCarty has shown wonderful
improvement during the last fortnight
in his hitting and he bids fair to be a
hrst-class catcher next season. Mac
has been hitting in hard luck regularly.
There will be a meeting of the New
ark Club officers some time within the
next few days. The financial report
and other business matters will be
cleared up. 1t viii probably TAX place
on Monday.
II look for Bedient to develop into
one of the best pitchers in the league
next year" says Jack Kelly. HI
throws his fast ball and his curve ball
with practically the same motion, and
when he has experience and perfect
control, he will be a pretty perfect
pitcher. Bedient, the Grays tell me, has
lost several hard luck games, especially
to Rochester" Bedient Is the property
of the Boston Americans, but will prob
ably be with Providence again. Yes
terday he had eleven strike-outs.
Tomorrow is an open date.
The reception Agler got when he re-
turned to his old stand warmed his