Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-10
TICE FIGHTS TO VICTORY IN
CRUCIAL TEST OF The SEASON
Defeat in Second Game of Series with Orioles
Might Have Cost Newark Club the Cham
pionship of international League.
EVERY ONE OF SMITHS MEN ON TIPTOEs

Like real champions the Tigers
delivered the punch yesterday.
They dashed into the fray, handi-
capped by the absence of two
regulars, and with the memory of
a stubborn slump ranking In their
minds, and left the field of bat
tie, at twilight, victors. 1t was the
crisis in the pennant race. Had the
Tigers been beaten the Rochester
Hustlers would have been keyed up
to such a supreme effort that they
might have swept everything before
them to the pennant Newarks VIC
tory by a score of 8 to yesterday was
eleanly earned, In spite of the rebuffs
OF fate and in spite of the fact that
Newark opened under a to handi-
cap in the very first inning.
Few of the fans, even those who
saw the game realized the tension
under which the Tigers worked The
Orioles have nothing In particular
against the Tigers, but Dunn's men
are fighting tooth and nail for third
place. and they battle every inch of
the way. They gave the most stub
porn opposition but the Tigers in
domitable will In the end triumphed.
Every man in the game was on his
tiptoes. In a way luck broke favor
ably for the Tigers, and then again it
did not. Tooley, compelled to sub
stitute in right field for Dalton, made
two errors, luckily they did not come
IN the pincheS, but each of these err
rors put Holmes in a hole and it was
by his grit that he pulled the Tigers
out each time. Bert made amends
for his fielding blunders by his SUI
perb base running, the old-fashioned
style, that the Tigers showed all sea-
son.
Hub Northen substituting in place
of Swaeina, who has been suspended,
let in one run with wild throw to
tho plate In the first inning, but
Swacina could have done no more
than Hub in the hitting line. He got
in his hit when 1t counted most--it
was a home run and broke up the
game, coming with Gagnier on first
base.
Gagnier again proved his real worth
to the team. 1t was either make or
break when Eddie came up in the
fourth inning with the score 8 to 2
against Newark, the bases filled and
one out. Eddie is not one of those
.3o0 nlCIefS VINO slump 10 .UOU III the
pinches. Instead of being that sort
of a slugger Ed is just the reverse.
He hit about 800 in the pinches and
about 200 at other times. Ed saves
the game and Northen won it.
Tooley's bast running lent a zest
to the battle which has been lacking
in the Tigers work of late. Bert had
been pent up on the bench for weeks,
and his speed was cyclonic. He car
ried two of Newarks runs around
the cushions and scored twice on dar-
ing sprints where glover man would
not have dared move further than
third base. His first good work was
in the first inning when he walked.
CottreiI started off wild just as
Schacht had done.
Eddie Gagnier instead of bunting
the first ball for a sacrifice used his
dome and waited for a base on balls,
too. That put the sacrificing job up
to Hi Myers. Hi is always there
when a bunt is needed. He did his
share to shove both runners along.
Billy Zimmerman tapped a grounder
80 Corcoran. The sorrell topped sec
'ond sacker realized he had no chance
10 get Tooley who spurted for the
plate with the crack OF the bat and
Bert scored while Billy Zimmerman
was thrown out at first base.
The Tigers earned this run clearly
on inside baseball Had Gagnier not
waited for a pass, being content to
sacrifice, Tooley would not have
reached third in time to score before