Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
BOlCE, BAILEY AND
LEE HEROES Of
DOUBLE VICTORY
lrvingt0n Boy Keeps Hits Scat
tered in First Game and Is
Cool at Critical Times, VIM
ming the First Game-Bailey
Has Seven Hits Out of Nine
Trips to the Plate-Wyatt
Yields but Six Scattered Hits.
T. OR the ext three days the sched-
ule-makers of the Barrow league
have dnprnPd fhnt The N-nr-nrl-

Ok the next three days the sched-
ule-makers of the Barrow league
have decreed that the Newark
team shall entertain the Jersey city
Skeeters, hated rivals from over the
meadow.
Newark eopped both ends of the
doubie-header with the Grays yester-
day. George Boice, the Camptown
twirler. pitching an excellent game in
the first and winning, 1873, while WYATT
Lee, twirling in his last years form.
brought the Tigers home in front in
the second contest. About seven
thousand ans saw the two games and
cheered themselves hoarse roofing for
George Boice in the first game. Mana
ger McGinnity. made no mistake in
taking Larry Sutton's advice and sign
ing up Boice. Had it been published
that Boice was due to start his first
game many more of his friends and
local admirers would have paid their
way into the park.
Boice's work in his first Eastern
League game put him in right with the
local FANS, n he was the talk of the
town last night wherever two fans met.
He allowed nine scattered hits. two
runs. famed three and gave but one
pass. At bat he had one hit in four
official tries.
AT the end of every inning he was
roundly cheered. and he received an
ovation when he made his way from
the grounds to the clubhouse after the
first game.
Harry Bailey. the Tiger right fielder.
showed a wonderful flash of form yes
terday. His work with the stick stood
out prominent in the Tiger attack.
IN the first game he had a pair of
singles. a double and a triple, three
runs and a stolen base. In the field he
MADE a good stop of a smashing liner
from Tarleton's stick and held the hjt
10 a single. In the second game Bailey
mad three more hits. including a triple.
ana scored one run. During the day
ne drove in five runs and scored four
himself. He jumped into the 300 class
by making his seven hits in yesterdays
double barreled victory.
Among the features of the first game
was Joe Agler's catch of a low line Nv
from Anderson's bat in the third. Joe
caught the ball with one hand while
running full speed toward the right
field fence.
Newark made fifteen hits count for
twelve runs in the first game. Buick
went five. innings and was relieved by
Crowley In the second game the
Tigers drove Mcleod to shelter in one
inning. Lavender pitched good ball.
but the Tigers found him in the
seventh.
Dalton smashed out three of the most
vicious liners ever poled by any batter
in the first game. Jack leads the Tigers
In two-base hits. having made his
seventh double yesterday.
Nee did the unexpected by stealing
second in = fourth inning of the first
game after Meyer lad two balls and
no strikes. If he hadn't gotten away
with it he would have been a bone
head" but his headwork enabled him
to time the try nicely.
Lee pitched a heady game. t. was
his first victory since he defeated the
Toronto Maple Leafs here on Sunday,
May I. Lee is now in good form ana
ready to take his turn regularly.
Tigers stole five bases in the two
games Bill Louden would have been
cerdited with q steal of third in tile
second inning of the second game had
not McCarty been mapping at first
base. Louden led with a single be-
tween Collins and Rock, after Meyer
had walked. McCarty forced Meyer.
and that put Bill on second and McCarty
on first. Louden made a dash for third
and got there. sliding under Collins
easily, but McCarty got away slow and
Collins whipped the ball to McDermott.
who caught McCarty trying to reach
second. The rules say that a man
cannot be credited with a stolen base
If another player is put out on the
same play, and Bill loses credit for
the steal
The box scores of both games:
FJraf Game.