Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-13
CREDIT Squirt TO
REDUCED ROSTER
Fans Who Always Want to
Know "Why?" Decide That
Is the Reason.
.NEwsY NOTES OF GAMES


Baseball fans are an inquisitive lot.
When a team is going bad everybody
asks why. The same things happen
when a band of ball players are win
ming games. as the Tigers have been
doing.
After dissecting the dope both ways
coming over on the train from Jersey
City yesterday a knot of Newark
rooters arrived at the conclusion that
two very important facts have helped
the Tigers materially of late in their
fight to escape from the confines of
the second division. The logic
stretches over two vastly different
points.
The first reason advanced was that
the Tiger players, now that the squad
has been cut down, know that they
have to get on their top toes and hus-
tie to hold their jobs-the pitchers
know when they are going to work
and the order is carried out with ship
shape precision.
The other point is that a lot of the
players are ambitious to be recalled
by Brooklyn and are playing their
heads off to attract the attention of
the big boss over in Flatbush.
Whichever is right, the Tigers are
sailing along just now at a fine clip
and another victory will put them at
the 500 mark. The team has now
won nine out of its last twelve games,
which Is travelling at a $50 gait
Messrs. Finneran and Daily had not
been informed that double header
would be played and they arrived on
the scene late. Meanwhile. Wyatt
Lee and Bobby Wells were giving de-
cisions. Lee is left-handed umpire.
and for a while be had his hands
mixed up in calling them out ana sdtr.
Wells gave one decision that was
very doubtful in It's accuracy. rae
called a nice double down the first
base line foul and robbed Billy Da
Tim of a hit in the first inning.
Baseball is an odd game. In the
first tussle Sherrod Smith allowed
scored by the Skeeters. In the final
game Lee was knocked safely eight
times. but scored a shutout.
Scout Sutton's two class B pickups
-Witter and Shsrrod Smith-were
very very much in the limelight yes
terday. Leo looks as good in centre
as he did in right. His throw to the
plate saved the first game in the
eighth round and he banged out five
safeties in the two games. Sherrod
Smith pitched a great game and with
a little luck should not have been
scored on. 1t was very careless field
ing by the Tigers that gave Murphy
a home run on his wallop.
Manager Rudy Hulswitt. of the
Shelters, is suffering with a broken
rib. Lehr, the other second sacker,
has just returned to the game fol-
lowing an attack of ptomaine poison
He got it eating soft-shef CRIBS at
Baltimore.
Pfyle bumped his knee into Holm
ouist in the second game and had to
quit the pastime. Hard luck is piling
UP thickly on the Skeeters.
The Skeeters paid the Tigers about
ss40 Had the games been played
separately the Champions would have
had two $500 guarantees, or $500,
so Newark lost money yesterday. The
attendance was about S,4o0 paid adj
missions.
Tex Erwin. the catcher supposed
to come to the Newark club in ex-
change for Hi Myers, has been sold 70
Cincinnati by Brooklyn. The Reds
were hard up for catchers and re-
fused to waive on Tex. As Kraft
has been awarded to Newark. the
Brooklyn club will not send anyone
over from present indications. The
Dodgers have only four outfielders
and cannot spare any of them. Dali
-, hurt HE lao the other. dav round
ing third base and Myers was needed
badly by the Dodgers. Hi broke in
with two hits Saturday.