Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-06

The Newark fans are still sticking
to the Newark team and are pulling
long and strong for victories in the
future. The Tigers are up in Toronto
today and they are tied for first
place. They are somewhat battered
because of injuries. but Manager
Harry Smith is very cocly and con-
fident, and there is a whole lot in
having a stiff upper lip when every
thing is going dead wrong.
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The game the Tigers put up yes
terday was listless and not like them
at all. They played as if they were
beaten from the start and they didn't
disappoint anyone who observed them
closely. They We're humiliated-they
were skunked-and by a team that
couldn't hold candle to them either
in the light or the dark.
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Jersey City didn't look very good, it
is true, and it seemed shame to
have the Tigers go down before such
a team. Larry Schlafy still has the
gray matter to win ball games with
an inferior ball club, and If he ever
gets real. live aggregation, Presi-
dent Barrow will have to call out the
reserves in order to save him from
breaking up the league. Schlaf1y
with a very poor team, is doing pref
ty fair at that
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1t was not generally known, but
Chubby Manser was pitching for his
job yesterday. He was sent in the
box to make good or else bow his
way off of the team, and the Irving
ton man came through like a cham
pion. He pitched a fine game and
refused to give up in the eighth inn
ing when things. not particularly
him, began to look blue. He
fought, though, to stay in, and he
stayed in, and he won the game by
a shutout, which is some pitching
after all. Manser has not been well
of late, and he has found it difficult
to get into condition. He was told
yesterday, it is said, that he must
produce the goods or give up the
ship. He made good in the pinch,
which is making good with a ven
geance.
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Jack Knight, who is playing the
game of his life at second base for
the Jersey City Club, is, according
to a welI-founded report, slated to
soon join one of the big league teams.
knight, it is said, will figure in a
cure several players who are almost
sure to strengthen the rather dilapi-
dated looking club as it now stands.
Knight has been up in the big
Show" before, but failed to fit the
The claim has always been
made that Jack possessed the ability,
but that his physical condition was
his one drawback. Now, it is said,
he is in great health and in rare form,
and his playing would seem to bear
out the assertion. If the Knight deal
goes through the Shelters, it is de-
clared, will not suffer the loss any,
as the players who will come to the
club in return would just about make
the team. The club linked with the
Knight deal is the New York Ameri-
cans. He was with the Yankees be-
fore, and figured in a trade with
All is quiet concerning
the transaction at the New York end
of the affair. But that is the dope
as 1 received it from a very close
friend of all concerned.
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Joe Peploski, the Seton Hall player.
has been prospect for the scouts
of various big league clubs. 1t is
known that only last week the New
York Americans offered the young
man an alluring salary to sign con-
tract, but alas. they were too late.
Peploski it is said, having accepted
terms from another Ban johnson
team, presumably Detroit. The Seton
Hall youngster is best known as a
pitcher, but he has other ideas as
to what position would best suit him.
He wants to be in the game, to play
regularly, and while he would not
nhiect in rinphas ~ toLa ~ l,;s ,,s.
in the box, he much prefers to play
in the outfield, where he feels that he
will be able to make good. In any
event, he has turned down the Yam
KEGS, proffered berth, but whether he
has accepted the Detroit offer, and
with 1t the promise to play in its
outf1eld, the young man doesn't feel
at liberty to state just at present.
1t is also known that the Philadel-
phia Athletics were after Peploski,
and Connie Mack may eventually Sc
cure the boy.
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Joe Tinker, one of the famous
baseball triumvirate-Tink Eyers
and Chance-is at the Polo Grounds.
in New York, today battling against
that famous old foeman, John ].
McGraw. But the proud Tinker, I'M
like his. entry in other days, comes
with head bowed down, for wished
on him." for a year at least, 1t is
presumed, are the tail-end Cincin-
natl Reds. Their record so far this
season under the management of
General Joe has been amazingly
poor To be frank, it has been
putrid. Yet no one can truthfully say
that all the fault should be placed
at the door of Joseph. AS a player,