Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-06
TIGERS Send rs Men 10 First Base
and EUen Dozen OF Them Score Runs
Pests Could Gather but Seven
Runs, Most of Them When
Enzmann Was Ballooning.
WYATT LEE TO THE RESCUE

This Is how the Tigers reached first
base yesterday: base hits, 10; bases on
balls. 6; hit by pitcher. 2; one base on
errors, 9, and one base by f%orceouts, ..
for a total of %.
When any team can plant twenty-five
men on first base, no matter how it is
done, through said teams strength or
its opponents weakness, that team has
a very excellent chance of winning the
ball anne Exactly a quarter of a hun
dred Tigers wiped their fleet on the
square piece of canvas which d~esignates
first base on the baseball diamond at
Jersey City yesterday.
Thirteen of them reached first base on
singles or base hits of greater worth,
six of them waited for the t~ime-honored
base on balls, two of them were struck
by pitched balls, two accepted the cush-
ion on wild throws or fumbles and two
more reached there by forcing a comrads
at second base.
This is not a very satisfactory way of
reaching the initial sack indeed, IL is a
very unsatisfactory method of getting
on base, but at the same time it shows
that the men who did get on that way
were hustling heads up or they might
have been doubled up.
Twenty-one of those twenty-five, who
rea ched first base advanced as far as
second, which Is also rather remarkable.
Fourteen of them got as far as third
base and twelve of them made the full
distance. The final score yesterday was
u to Z, and we took our fourth straight
from the Shelters, counting the afternoon
game In the Memorial Day series.
1t has been suggested by a benevolent
Newark rooter that in order to make the
games less one-sided an extra base sholld
lbe added to the course necessary TO be
Travelled to gain a run while the Tigers
are batting, making the diamond pen
tagonal In shape instead of rectangular.
1t has also been suggested that If this
plan is not feasible the Shelters will lie
required to touch on.y two bases to
score a run and the infield be laid out
In the shape of a triangle.
Robert Vaughn, who is a civil engineer
and an expert on mensuration, has been
put in full possession of these sugges-
lions and will give the matter weighty
consideration to decide on its feasibility.
In seven games this season Newark has
scored fifty-seven runs, an average of
8 1T per game. Do you wonder then that
we have copied five out of those seven
contests? Yes, the Tigers are some run
getting combination.
Young Enzmann has one fault that
has been the cause of his blow-up In the
last two games he has started, a fault
+l,u% bo slau,ad ~, +Ia trota;,9 +rfa ap1
has never gotten rid of, but he will
overcome it when the season wears on a
few more weeks.
johnny is young and full of vim. and
he opens the throttle wide and tries to
travel Mt a b~reakneck pace all through
the game. His nerves are apparently on
edge all through the game, and he never
eases up for a single instant; thus when
the eighth and ninth innings roll around
Johnny begins to weaken because his
enthusiasm is all he has left.
Tired In Eighth.
He was plainly tired out in the sew
enth and eighth yesterday and had to be
derricked. Had he spared himself a lit
tie after the Tigers piled up a eve
run lead for him, he would never have
been Inundated by being yanked. As 1t
was, Lee had to be called on to check
| the Pests after Jersey had scored five
times with one down in the eighth round.
Lee faced McCfone, n pinch hitter, and
made him hit into a double play. Lee is
a wonder. He went In with little warm
ing up, and he was touched twice for
hits in the ninth, but he has a con-
ddent air about him In his work that
worries and tantalizes the opposing bats
man almost as much as his curve ball.
His mile alone must be enough to drive
some of those Skeeter batsmen to
| desperation.