Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-27
HOFFMAN'S HOLDUPS
CR|MP HARRISBURG
CockiIPs Crew Too Anxious to Win
and Overlooked Several
Good Chances
By "UnD"


Overanxiousness on the part of
Cockills crew lost an eleven inning
game for the Harrisburgers at Island
Park yesterday. Reading won, score
to 2. 1t was the second time this
season that Izzy Hoffman's bunch put
chances.
Reading played better ball than
Harrisburg. 1t was the best game
Reading has played in three weeks,
and was further evidence that Hoff-
man and his crowd handed Allentown
) four games in the last series. The
: lineup that represented Reading yes
terday was a regular ball team. AL
lentown played a picked team.
John Fox pitched, and had the
goods, but the deliveries were not sys-
tematic. Fox used his saliva twisters.
They were responsible for at least one
run in the first. An easy grounder to
Fox was not fielded because Fox could
not pick up the wet ball. In the final
spasm, Izzy Hoffman who could not
find the pill during the game, was
walked after two strikes and two balls
were called on him.
Coaching on the part of Emerson
also figured in the loss of one run for
Harrisburg when he failed to stop
Miller at third. All these mis-
takes will happen with ball teams
The game was interesting and a fast
battle, the eleven innings being play
ed in one hour and twenty-five min
utes, record for the Tri-State.
Reading Played a Good Game
Reading put up a brilliant battle,
giving Ramsey the best kind of sup
port. Ramsey was hit in one inning;
while Fox was touched up in two in
nings. Readings stars were Gleason
and Cruthers. Whalen, Mccarthy
Cruikshank and Emerson were NOV
ing with good results. Each team had
a bunch of sensational plays.
Reading scored two runs in the
first inning. Joyce singled by Crist
at third, and went to second on
Hopke's out from short to first.
Whalen had a chance for a double,
but 5uggled the ball. Covaleski hit to
Fox who was unable to get the ball in
his fingers, Joyce taking third. Cova-
leslki took second on Hoffmans out at
first. Gleason's single scored Joyce
and Covaleski
In the sixth Harrisburg scored two
runs and tide up the game. Cruik-
shank singled to right. He stole sec
ond and went to third on Boezle's bad
throw to second. Cockill put down
slow hit to Ramsey and beat the
throw to first, Cruikshank coming
home. Cockill scored on Millers
triple.
In the eleventh, Joyce singled to
left and went to third on Covaleski's
Single. Covaleski walked to second,
Fox being asleep at the switch. Hoff-
man who had done nothing, was walk
ed Gleason singled, the ball going
through Whalen's legs, taking an ugly
Jump. Two runs scored. Harrisburg
Pould do nothing in their half of the
Eleventh. During the game a number
of valuable merchandise prizes for
Special work was given as follows:
Charley Miller, suit of clothes from
Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart, for maxi
ng the greatest number of extra bases
pm hit; leather dress suit case for
making the most timely bingle, from
he tar-Independent; and an order
Tor five dollars worth of merchandise
PIT Doutrich and Company, for the first
man on the home team to make a
hit.
George Cockill, a safety razor for
making the most hits in the game,
rom Bretz Brothers, hardware deal
ers, and material for a suit of clothes
or being the most valuable man on
mis- team. The cloth came from an
hdmirer of the Harrisburg team.
Chick Emerson was given bat by
Joseph Pyne for making the first hit,
and John Fox will get an umbrella
rom Mayor John K. Royal for maxi
ng the first sacrifice hit.
Cruikshank Was Lucky
Cruikshank received a credit slip
good at Lester Holtzmans cigar store
and pool rooms, for five dollars, for
nalttng the most sensational catch,
md also a pair of baseball shoes for
being the first man who was walked.
Ellis p. Gourley, of the Senate Hotel,
presented the shoes.
Mike Joyce, of the Reading team,
will get box of A. ]. Cassatt cigars
rom Smith and Keffer for knocking
put the first bingle in the game; and
zzy Hoffman will receive a seal leath-
pr card case donated by Mercer Tate,
r., for being the first visiting player
Who walked. The score of the game
follows: