Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
TIGERS GLAD TRIP
IS NEARING CLOSE
Game at Rocky Point Tomor-
row Winds Up Long
Series.
A DOUBLE-HEADER TODAY

| PROVIDENCE. r. l., Sept. g.
Newarks long trip around the Inter-
national League circuit, which has
lasted for three weeks and has sent
the Bengals to every town on the
circuit but Jersey City, will wind up
here tomorrow with a game at Rocky
Point. Needless to say, the Tigers are
not sorry that their long journey Is
coming to close. Since leaving home
the Tigers have won two out of three
games at Toronto, the only series they
captured; lost one to Montreal, three
out of four to Rochester, broken even
at two and two in Buffalo, dropped
three out of four to Baltimore and
have lost one game here. That makes
six victories and eleven defeats the
Tigers have met on the road.
Rain necessitated a postponement
yesterday, and, while double header
was on the card today, the prospects
are not very bright for either game
being played. The Tigers meet the
Donovan clan at Rocky Point tomor-
row for the first time in two seasons.
Rocky Point is twelve miles outside
of Providence, and is a watering place
on Narragansett bay. The fans have
a long journey to see Sunday base
and the diamond laid out on a cliff.
"A rope is stretched In centre field to
prevent the gardeners from running
into the bay in case of a long drive
Playing baseball at Rocky Point re-
minds one of what the game might
have been during the stone age.
Most of the present Tigers have
never played there. Swacina, Getz,
iGagnier. Billy Zimmerman, Hi Myers,
Bob Higgins, Bell, Barger and a ma
1ority of the others never saw the
field.
It was on this field that a Newark
team piled up seven errors behind
Bob Holmes once upon a time. They
adopt ground rules at Rocky Point.
A hit into the left field crags is worth
three bases. There is very seldom a
crowd If there was, the rickety, old
grand stand would collapse. The dia-
mond slopes seward at per cent
grade, and 1t takes some putting for
a big man to pull in from third to
home on a sacrifice fly. Going to first
base the advantage is the other way,
as the incline aids the speed of the
runner. The Tigers who have never
played there are eager to see for
themselves the horrors of playing on
Rocky Point.
Eddie Zimmerman and Jack Dalton
are about the only Tigers who have
performed on the field and both agree
that Rocky Point is an ideal place to
hold clambakes, but baseball contests
''nevaire," as a Frenchman would
say.
Jimmy and Dalton have been
soaring Billy Zimmerman and the rest
of the bunch telling them about the
horrors of playing at Rocky Point.
The field is strewn with boulders,
canyons, rocky passages and enough
natural history to make the Yosemite
Valley and the Yellowstone Park
regions loolz~li a billiard table in
comparison. 1t was on this grounds
some few years ago a certain Inter-
national League outfielder was nearly
killed by being hit on the head by a
fly ball while enjoying the wild
grandeur of the crags and surround
ing scenery. On this particular occa-
sion said gardener was watching a
sail boat with it's wings Tapping in
the breezes down on the bay and he
forgot all about the game in his rap
tured nominations on the pleasures of
the idle rich.