Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-06
ROOFING IS RIGHT
TONIC FOR TIGERS
Champions, Encouraged by
Home Fans, Make Sensa-
tiOnal Rally in Ninth.
DEFEAT ATHLETICS, 4-3

A little pat on the back and some
red-hot roofing by the home fans
proved just the right tonic for the
Newark International League cham
pions yesterday in their first home
appearance of the season. 1t took
sensational ninth inning rally, in
which Mike Heckinger was the hero,
and the champions by putting over
three runs in that rally defeated the
Athletics, to 3.
Three thousand fans saw the two
teams fight it out in pretty exhibit
ton, The Tigers, particularly Ray
Move at short and Bill Collins in
right, outfelded their rivals. but up
to the last round the enemy had done
the most hitting. Al Schacht, who
generally gets away good in the
spring, had the honor of winning the
contest for the Bengals. \ year ago,
on similar occasion, Schacht made
his debut by beating Brooklyn, so
history repeated itself yesterday.
ira Thomas, who had charge of the
Athletics. had Pennock and burning
two southpaws, to do his pitching
Ira started Pennoek, and the big
Lacquer got away with one run and
two hits in four innings. Heckinger
spoiled his row of cyphers by punch
ing a single to centre in the second
with Newark's only run until the SEN
sational rally in the ninth.
The Athletics meanwhile had scored
one run in the second inning through
u pass to Kopf, hit by Strunk and
another walk to Barry, followed by
Thomas's scratch hit. From the Sec
ond inning to the eighth the two
teams fought tooth and nail with the
score tied at l to l.
Raw Move made a sensational
catch in the first inning off Murphy,
and duplicated with a phenomenal
stop of q grounder off Oldring in the
third back of third base. Bill Collins
yanked one in after diving catch Oft
Eddie Collins, and these hair-raisins
stunts kept the fans on edge
The Athletics made a stand in the
eighth inning that enshrouded the
grandstand in gloom, for they showed
over two runs on clean hitting, and It
looked like a defeat for the Tigers
when the scoreboard showed to L
against the Tigers as the ninth
opened.
What happened in that ninth round
will long be remembered by the fans
so fortunate enough to be present.
Eddie Zimmerman, who had walked
twice, now drew his third pass. Then
Holmquist, who played half the game
at first base. swung a long fly to
left-centre. Strunk ran over and lost
it in the sun. Eddie Zimmerman
pulled up at third with Holmquist on
second base. Dion went in to run
for Holmquist. The fans began to
scent excitement and were on their
hind legs roofing hard. A pair of
runs would tie the score at least. Gus
Getz had not made a hit up to that
moment, but Getz was always strong
in the pinches. He slammed one of
Durning's offerings to centre for a
Texas Leaguer. Eddie Zimmerman
scored, making it 80 still against
Newark. By this time every fan in
the park was on edge. Heckinger,
who had singled in the second inning,
delivering in the pinch, now came up
to bat aagin at the physiological
moment
He lost little time in getting busy.
Squarely on the nose Heck met the
ball-it sailed out on a line to deep
left, while iDon and Getz flew around
the bases. Oldrfng got the ball and
heaved 1t desperately toward the dia-
mond, but he was too far out to be
Of any assistance to the Worlds
Champions. Getz's run was the fourth
and winning tally and as Gus scored
from first base, Heckinger got credit
for a triple.
1t was sensational climax-the
Tigers scoring three runs with no one
out and pulling a game seemingly
lost out of the fire. Everybody went
still a championship team. The score: