Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
. BISONS' FIELDING AND
TIGERS SLIPUPS COSTLY
Tight Game Was Won and Lost on Plays
in the Field--Kennedy Is Ordered to
Alter Base Paths.
JACK ENzMANN HAS ASKED FOR ONE WEEKS REST

There's nothing the matter with the
handspring of the Tiger machine.
Harry Swacina and the Bengals are
humping the pill hard, but not safe
ly. There are a lot of reasons why
+ Newark got beat again yesterday
The best of all is that Buffalo got
one more run and won the game 3
runs to 2. Sometimes games are won
on pitching, sometimes on batting, in
: fact quite often that way, and once
In great while by fielding. Yester-
day was one of those rare occasions
Z when fielding played the principal
part. Aside from the eleven wallops,
which Buffalo outfielders pulled down
the Tigers hit at least five balls hard
enough for base hits. but the Bison
infielders, notably Truesdale and
Roach, cut off about five hits that
would have done the damage. 1t was
hard to lose those long wallops which
went right at Mann and Murray, but
those smashes which Truesdale and
Roach fished in and dug up out of the
dirt did the real damage. We lost on
poor fielding, while they won on
classy work
Incidentally, Groundkeeper Kennedy
has been given orders and instruc-
tons to remodel the infeld at Vie
denmayer's Park. 1t was poor piece
of judgment in the first place which
ade the Newark infield a turtle
ca of the coneave variety instead
a'the shallow basin-like, convex
orm. Had the third base line been
properly banked for a@eam of New
-rk's speed on Tuesday, Gagniers
{inging bunt would have been a ellit
I'd produced a run. We are not
aking excuses. All of these little
aails loom up Importantly though
ay seem insignificant. A team with
lewarks speed on the bases will
enefit Immensely by banked base
lines, just an inch higher than they
are at present. Jack Dunn showed
pretty good judgement when he laid
out his diamond at Oriole Park for al
heavy, slow team.
Speedy on Paths. 4
There is nothing the matter with
the Tigers OF course the fans like
to see the home team win every
game, and the players like to win all
of them, too, but once in a while
luck takes hand in the game. The
Tigers are not yet playing their best
game, they are not stealing as many
. bases as was predicted, but there is
plenty Of time and we are still in first
place. A game at this stage of the
race lifts team almost out of the
cellar to first place. If the Tigers
had a slump in June there would be
some cause for alarm. Just now
the last two days have brought forth,
however, which tests the timber and
the real merits of a baseball team.
BuclSing against a jinX when every
thing goes wrong has started many
teams on a long losing slump, but
the real championship club keep on
fighting and in the end class must
tell. The Giants got away to dis
Z NAL start, losing their first two
games, but they showed their metal
by never fiinching and they are on
the top of the heap today.
Enzmann to Rest.
Johnny Enzmanns failure to con-
tinue his Savannah form has been
one of the keenest disappointments
since the team returned North.
Johnny has asked Manager Smith to
give him a weeks rest to recover his
former cunning. None of the players,
not even Smith nor Enzmann himself
know Just what affiicts Johnny. 1t