Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-11
TIGERS HERE FOR
8 DAYS. BATTLE
IN JERSEY CITY
Fighting to Keep Out of Cellar
POsition-Secretary Mathes0n
Says No Two of Present Team
Will Play Here Next Year.
Home Friday.

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Though they returned to Newark this
morning, the Bengals, after their long
trip around the circuit, will not be
seen in action on the local grounds
until Friday. During the next three
, days the Tigers will do battle with the
Jersey City Insects at Jack Ryan's ball
lot. The boys we're hoping that 1t
would clear, for they do not relish a
double-header in this series. Somehow
or other the Tigers and Skeeters nave
had unusually bad luck on the weather
proposition this season. Ten postpone
ments were hung up between these two
teams, and while the outlook for a
game was not so promising early this
morning. it frightened up toward noon,
and the boys took hope.
Some of those ten postponements
have been played off, but these two
teams still have about four double
headers which must be decided. While
il is improbable that Providence will
pass Newark, the Tigers will rave to
fight harder during the coming week to
keep out of the basement.
Last week they won only two out of
eight games, .250. This pace will hard
ly keep them in their present position,
lowly as it is. From now on 1t Will be
a fight to keep out Of the cellar, and
with a majority of the remaining
games to be played on his own ball
lot the Iron Man hopes that his team
will at least be in seventh place and
escape the ignominy of cellar cham
pions" when the curtain is rung down
one week from next Sunday.
Collins has been out of the game be-
cause of blood poisoning, which has set
in from picking a soft corn.
Bill Bailey is still suffering from in
digestion and the team is in very bad
shape. Bob Fisher has a badly swol-
len hand, which he fears is broken, and
so on down the line. Secretary Ma
thison stated that there will not be
two men on the team snext year who
are on the roster today. This Is put
ting it rather strong, but it Is known
that there viii be some sweeping
changes. Bailey, Dalton, Agler and
Louden are to go back to the big show
and their absence will leave big holes.
The infeld next season must needs be
practically new. Fisher is the rock
upon which the Newark management
must build. In the outfield the Iron
man will also nave some new faces,
among them Billy Zimmerman, who
will come here next Saturday, as was
exclusively announced in Saturdays
Evening STAR.
Jack Dalton's ankle has healed and
he is ready to return to the game to-
day.
Joseph Agler, of Beach City, O.,
regular first baseman of the Newark
Eastern League Club. demonstrated
his ability as a mound man when he
performed in six innings of the second
game of a double-header between the
Tigers and the Grays at Rocky Point,
r. l., Yesterday afternoon. The final
tally, however, was a 10-to-7 score in
favor of the Jakey Atz bunch. Tommy
Cantwell. the former Georgetown Uni
versity slabster, was showed in the box
by Manager McGinnity in the f~al
battle with the present cellar-ho5e RS.
He lasted just one inning, and In that
the big Providence sluggers clouted
him for just a triple, a double and a
single. Then sir Delaney, from Roch-
ester. N. Y, was given a chance. He
passed three men and was hi safely
about FIVE times. With kank Perry
one of the heaviest s%,uggers in the
whole circuit at jail R9h
the box. One strike, Two strikes' And
how that crowd of about 5000 did yell
But Joe couldn't find the plate on four
pitched balls, and the big outheldef
walked. But after that Joe had per-
feet control. a dandy curve ana a
good amount of speed. Had Man
ager McGinnity showed Ag'er into me
box after that lambasting OF Cantweli
the second game tally might nave also
favored the Tigers. joe famed tbree
batters, and the trio 1t critical
moments. Furthermore, he was touched
ND for six safeties while on the rubber.
The first set-to resulted in a 3 to !
victory for the Bengals. Ducky Holmes
toed the rubber for the invaders and
he was invincible-that is, when things
looked bad. 1t was practically the
best game that Ducky has worked in
This season. He allowed five safeties.
Including two two-sack swats. Billy
, Slime. who, was given a somewhat
severe beating while he toed the mound
,in one of the games against the Nc
Ginnityites earlier in the week, OPP
posed Holmes in the initial ARRAY, and
he also pitched a good game. Bill was
inclined to weaken in the critical times,
however. Just enough tofput him on
the short end. Benny Meyer was the
chief battersmith in the first contest.
He hit safely three times, and his time
" batting was practically responsible
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