Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-06
HO[NQUIST HERO IN
/ UNASSUM|NG WAY
Nobody Pays Much Attention
to Jeff-Even Forget TO
Send His Pay.
BUT HE CAN PLAY BALL

'SA A1ohnqulSt mas just about
cinched his job at first base until
Kraft gets back into local livery.
That such will be the case seems al
most certain, but meanwhile the III
gers should not suffer, for Holmquist
is improving in every game
Jer is one of the quiet fellows who
have very little to say--just attend
ing strictly to his knitting and mind
ing his own business, He attracts
very little attention and for this rea-
son he is often overlooked. When the
average ball player sits in the grand
stand everybody notices him. Not so
with jeff. He doesn't try to show how
much he knows about the game-just
talks as if he were regular fan, and
very few of the regulars recognize
him.
A sample of Jeffs luck in be-
ing overlooked occurred twice this
season. The checks for the champions
came over from Brooklyn today, but
Jeff's was missing He had been
overlooked. The same thing happen
ed with the season passes for the
players wives jeff was overlooked
but the errors were speedily righted.
jeff played a wonderful game around
first yesterday, taking all kinds of
throws and covering the position with
the skill of veteran. His speed on
the paths and his hitting make the
fans wonder why the quiet first
sacker, pro tenn, never adopted an
infield position long ago, but Jeff likes
to pitch and so he stuck to box work
until the present exigency brought out
efo q hon falaUpvs
That double paddiwacking the
Tigers gave the Shelters sort of
eased the sting of the Fourth of July
mishaps for the champions.
Luoue got out of all kinds of pre-
dieaments. Had the Tigers been
playing the Shelters even instead Of
spotting them three runs, Luque
probably would have been driven to
cover long before he was The New
arkers were too anxious, with the re-
suit that their efforts were wasted
Luaue did not seem to have a thing
that should puzzle Glass IA batters.
His curves break too soon to fool
anybody, but his wildness pulled him
through Time and again he would
get three balls on a batter. The
Tigers would wait him out and he
would shove two strikes over. Then
when they hit it would be a dinky
grounCer.
Toe much credit cannot be given
the Skeeters, however, for fighting as
they did, with a patched up team.
Pfyl, firstsacker, played left field,
while Wells, who is a catcher, ac-
cording to his union card. worried in
right field.
The umpires chased Mattern, Col
Inns. Witter and Bell, along with the
announcer, and three Tiger mascots.
1t was a motley group as it paraded
bv the plate Collins and Witter
came back in the role of pinch
hitters. Writer started the trouble
In the ninth with his single in the
second game, scoring the tieing run.
Umpire Mullin declared that
Luques move is not balk in spite
of the Tigers protests. The arbi-
trater says that substitutes who have
not been in the game can come back
on the field even after being chased:
This is a brand one and 1t had
the fans guessing.
Eddie Zimmerman is the latest
Tiger to get on the hospital list. Ed
is suffering with muscular rheuma-
tism in his back, and Tooley filed in
at third.
The Tigers had a shortstop on third
and a pitcher covering first base, but
the infield played jam-up game:
Getz and Move made number OF
sparkling stops and throws.
Umpire Harrison called a ball on
Murphy, when Smith shot over
perfect strike on quick return after
throwing to first Murphy deliper-
ately stepped out of the box, as
Smith was throwing the ball which
was a perfect strike. Harrison is a
good umpire, but he fooled that one
F'rill should be fined $500 for talk
ing to the fans in the bleachers and
the grandstand. He has altogether
too much to say!