Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-10
SHELTERS HAVE NO RESPECT
FOR Ed. DONNELLY'S PITCHING
His Moist Ball Delivery Fails to Battle SchlafIy's
Sluggers and Tigers Lose Final Game
of the Series, 4-3.
OK BREEN PULLS SOME INSIDE BASEBALL"

Against Jersey City, Ed Donnelly,
the only member of the Tigers pitch
ing staff who uses the spit ball, has
no luck, it seems. That fact was
amply illustrated at yesterdays game
between Newark and Jersey City at
sWiedenmayer's Park. Ed had one
bad round, was yanked, and the
Shelters won the game, to 8. The
leaderless Bengals waited too long to
try to land the punch, and when they
+, did get working 1t was nearly time
| for the final gong in the ninth round.
Then spirited rally, which produced
two runs, went for nought, because 1t
fell one point shy of tying the score.
Donnelly pitched for Larry Schlafly
up in Troy, and it may be that
Schlafly has some inside dope on him
or that he knows the combination of
his pitching. Suffice to say that Ed
has won only one game in four starts
against the Shelters. Perhaps Larry
{ knows that Donnelly has a tendency
1T times to be wild and orders every
| man to go the limit on balls and
strikes. Whatever his secret is, he
has 1t on Donnelly. Against Montreal
Ed looked like an Ed Walsh, but
Shelters are fond of damp, musty
places, where they breed, and 1t may
/ be that they also like the damp
pitching.
A feature of the game was the re-
turn to form and fame of J. Vernon
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or less of a problem for ball players
wearing Newark uniforms. He
pitched a tantalizing game against
the Bengals yesterday, tempting them
by easing up at times and then
Tightening up when a little hit would
have done the damage. The real
cause of the Tigers failure to score
enough rims to win, in spite of the
/. handicap of three runs Jersey City
gained early in the game on Donnelly,
was the inability of Billy Zimmerman
to come through with one Of his pinch
punches at the right time. Bill Is
just now having a little batting
slump, but indications are that 1t will
be short-lived. The P. o. N. always
cid find Providence pitching a. tonic
WBSn he SullciSu lIOll d Sihiiihi
malady. Furthermore, it was about
this time last season that thinner
man began his batting rally that car
ried him over the 300 mark. He is
now sticking down around the ESQ
point. Bill was up twice with two
men on bases and two out. Both
times he bounded to Calhoun for the
third down.
There wasa another reason, too,
why Newark did not at least tie the
score. 1t came in the eighth inning.
Higgins opened with a pass. Myers
batted for Bell and forced Bob at
second base. Dalton, then hit to
Breen, who fumbled the ball and
! had no chance for either runner. He
deliberately stepped back and
planted himself in Myers's path. Hi
ran into him and was called out
"for interfering with a fielder" by
Umpire Hayes. Eddie Zimmerman
Y promptly protested the game. ) Like
all protests 1t will probably die a
natural death in one of President
= Barrow's waste baskets, or perhaps,
the pigeon-hole in his desk.
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While the Tigers were beaten they
put UP a better denfensive game than
the Shelters, not to say that the
Shelters were not steady in the field.