Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-16
.HECK|NGER'SS SWAT
UPSETS HIS HOODOO
Mike Slams One for Triple and
Breaks Hard Luck
Streak.
NEWSY NOTES OF THE GAME

For moment or Two yesterday
when Mike Heckinger slammed his
long drive to centre field in the fifth
inning 1t seemed that Outfielder
| Wright was going to spear the ball
and rob Mike of just another long
welt. For once, however, luck was
with the staunch Tiger backstop.
Wright sprinted desperately but the
ball descending just about at the spot
where the flag pole used to be, grazed
the tips of Wright's outstretched fin
gers, struck the earth and Mike
trotted to third, while Eddie thinner
man scored NewarlI's first run and
tied it up for the time being.
Heckinger hits in what one would
call desperately hard luck. There are
some ballplayers who can drill the pill
with terrific strength, but they have
a habit of pulling the pill to certain
portion of the field, with the result
that the outfielders get posted in
short order and always are lying in
wait. Such is not the case with
Heckinger, for he can hit to right,
centre or left with almost equal fury.
and with almost equally bad luck.
a punch and creep back when he
comes up, with the result that they
nab many long distance clouts.
Now maybe If Mike could just block
the ball over the infielders' heads
once in a while, it would help his luck
a whole lot, for he'd have them guess
ing, and 1t would be no time before
| he'd be hitting in a 400 stride. Mikes
average is nowhere near what it
should be for the manner in which he
| has hit the ball. Ordinarily, a player
are dragging everything he hits down,
but Mike keeps on pasting them, just
! the same. He has not had a real bad
| day at bat all season, which proves
| that he has the goods as hitter and
needs only a little change of luck
More than five thousand ickets
have been printed for the boys day
| tomorrow, to be held at Wiedenmay-
er's Park. The tickets will be given
| only to the boys at the Fairgrounds.
| An excursion to Coney Island will be
| held tomorrow, too, but this is not
expected to affect the attendance of
| the celebration given the youngsters
| by the Big Brother movement. Secre-
| tary Meader announced today that
Augustus V. Hamburg. president of
| the Board of Trade and also the Big
Brother movement, would pitch the
first ball before the game.
Gilbert got his revenge for the mall
treatment the Tigers gave him in one
round here a few weeks ago.
Lightning shattered the Skeeter
| fiagpole recently and the staff had
to be taken down. 1t is bad omen.
they say.
In the tenth and eleventh innings
four of five Tiger batters to face Gil
bert hit line drives right at Skeeter
infelders.
Lost in the twelfth, Curtis took the
defeat hard when Barry's bounder
skipped by Tooley
Gus Getz pulled one fiashy one
handed stop and Tiger Holmquist had
a stretch catch that was a gem, Out
side of that and Eddie Zimmerman s
usual consistent work in the field,
there was little sensational In the
fielding line.
Witter got a double in the first in
ming but was left stranded.
Leo Callahan visited Aunt Minnies
! place in Jersey City last night. Aunt
Minnie keeps a boarding house and is
famous with Skeeter. players for her
homemade pies Every time a play
er makes a home run at Skeetervi'le
he gets a nice pie. Leo did not have
any four sacks swats. but his aver
age is good enough. so he had his
| fill yesterday.
Heckinger, the champion hard-luck
| hitter of the league, drilled one for a
triple that sent in Newark's first