Evening journal., 1912-08-13
LET'S
Get
Together
Sporting Gossip
and Comment

Are they of?
Let's hope so.
Nicholson got down in time to fade
Stanley, the boy who allowed the
Chicks three hits and one run on
July % and on frequent other occa-
sions stood them UP for fair.
This time it was Nicholson VS..
Stanley and Mich did the trimming
AS Covalesh isn't with the Buds
on this trip the Chicks ought to take
the series.
The por old Jahnsl Now Chester
won't have them. They must be
pretty bad to have that burg throw
them.
Beside having a splitter that he can
control and the ability to mix 'em up,
Nicholson knows how to field his po-
sition.
McKenna had to steal home to save
his out.
Why not line up for Dollar Day
to help the Chicks out Of the finan-
cial troubles?
Allentown is here for Wednesday
and Thursday games. The auto will
be presented on Thursday.
Stops of mile a minute drives by
McKenna and Jackson saved that old
ball game for us.
Two of Nicholson's hits were grab
bed off after two men were down in
the ninth
Before the game started Doc Kerr
and McKenna ran 100 yard dash and
had not McKenna stopped to recover
! his cap he would have beaten Doc.
AS it was Doc beat Mac 60 yards In
other words, Mac wasn't in the run
ming. He is game though, having
challenged Doc to a 20 yard dash.
Tony Marhefka drew his frst cir
cult wallop on the home lot. His
total is two. Which reminds us that
Snellenburg has handed out IS pairs
Of kicks" to the Chicks, Meyers get
ting five, enough to last the family
all year; Kerr, g.; Weeks, 8; Jack
son, 2; and Marhefka, Groh, Mecher-
ly. Fritz and Brazell one pair each.
The bull was hit almost as hard as
Snellenburg.
The Giants raised last years pen
nant but dropped the game in Car
dinals' basket, s to g. The Giants
did some tall hill climbing with Matty
leading but the suffragists clinched
the fight in the fifth.
Chicago had to use both Lavender
and Smith to take the game from
Donnelly, who tossed for the Bean
eaters.
Cincinnati snatched the game from
the Quaker City aggregation in the
ninth, edging out with one tally to
the good
Five hits punched in the seventh
gave Pittsburgh the third game of the
Brooklyn series. Nap Rucker work
neck for six innings, but took gas in
the seventh.
The Cubs. climbing rapidly re-
ioiced today at the reduction of the
Giant lead to six and one half games
The Maps trimmed Big Ed Walsh
in the only American League contest
of the day
Tony Marhefka's drive put the
Chicks on the lead that won.
Although the storm king lowered
over Front and Union ball yard YES.
terday New Castle wasn't even
threatened which of course means
that had any old game been scheduled
in the Rivertown, New Castle would
have grabbed it.
Pluvius saved George Raymond
the necessity of explaining why Van.
dever should have won the Saturday
game
The All-Wilmington League man.
ayers would push up the schedule
again II is a good idea.
Stanley had Jimmy Jackson's goat
tanning him three times.
Nicholson likewise had Johnn,
Castles goat. tanning him twice
Stanley did his best pitching in
the fifth inning when he struck
out McKenna and Fritz while the
bags we're loaded.
Up in Holyoke, Mass, Connecticut
League FANS think a great deal Of
Roger Salmon, the former Chick
since he pitched a no-hit-no run one
base on balls, eleven strike out game
against Hartford the other day. One
writer gushed this stuff at the ex
pence Of Roger:
Roger Salmon. the Southpay, WHIT
J put Holyoke on the baseball maj
) yesterday by twirling a no, hit, no
} run game, is the possessor of a priz'
collection of slants on which he Il
expected TO ride into the majors mex
season. Coming from the Princeton
halls OF learning he decided to cas-
his lot with Connie Mack and h
could not have done better, for undel
the schooling of Eddie Plank he deve