Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-16
Oritani Breaks
Even In Two Games
On Columbus Day

The world-beating Orltanls had
great double bill on in Hackensack
Columbus Day. The Ridgefeld
Parks and Tenafys furnished the
amusement. In the first set-to the
Park boys with Lowe in the box won
an interesting game by the score OF
6 to a, Herr Thormahlen hurting for
Oritani. 1t was only case of the
worm turning, for Oritani has been
pounding the life out of Ridgefield
Park all summer. Whenever she
wanted to bring up her average, the
Park crew would be booked and
beaten. And as between the two
teams there really is not such vast
difference, all things considered.
The Tenafly Tie
The second game was with Tenafly,
and it furnished the tamest sort of
sport, because it was inane and
emotionless. There was hitting and
run-making in the first game, but
the Tenafly affair was a frost until
the last few minutes of play.
In advertising the attraction of a
double header, it was announced that
Harper, a Hackensack boy, but now
on the pitching staff of the Wash
ington Americans, would play with
Oritani. Ancker, who was the main
stay of the Tenafys this year, but
who was given a tryout by the Phila-
delphia Athletics early in September,
F., nId a
third laurel to his crown, having
beaten Oritani twice before this sea-
son. This was quite enough to draw
crowd, one of the largest ever,
but the regular price of twenty five
cents admission was not touched
upon in the announcement of the
dual performance. When the silver
quarters were planked down at the
ticket wicket the answer came,
"Half dollar today" and folks just
had to pay it or else go back. 1t
being a holiday not many went away.
For the game, Harper had it a bit
on Ancker. He pitched no hit, no
run game, and Ancker yielded three
hits and no runs.
Harper struck out the side in five
innings, and had total of twenty
three strikeouts, and not the sug-
gestion of hit For seven success
sive innings Tenafly went out in one
two three order. In the eighth catcher
C. Vossler reached second on wild
pitch and three strikes. He saw the
ball was wild one, hit at it and lit
out, being coached over to second as
Oritani was slow in finding the ball
near the backstop.
The next man up, q. Vossler,
struck out, and c. Vossler stole
third. Ryan then struck out, and
j. Miles was at bat. At this juno
ture C. Vossler made one of the most
unusual series of attempts to steal
home ever seen on a diamond. AS
Harper would wind up, Vossler,
would take running start, and rush
for home. Miles fouled and he had
to go back. Again Vossler got the
jump on Harper and Miles fouled as
he almost reached the plate. The
third trial winded Vossler, but he
waited for the count, and it reached
the stage of two strikes and three
balls, and once more he started for
home, getting there as Miles famed
and retired the side. 1t was haz-
ard, of course, but one of the most
dazzling performance ever witnessed
on any diamond.
The game was one where two pro-
fessional pitchers were playing with
amateur clubs, and it was naturally
a pitchers battle all the way. Ancker,
also, retired Oritani seven innings
one, two, three.
The strike out record was as unique
as it was unusual.
In the eighth Harper struck out
four men, but Vossler reached sec
ond on the last pitch. The next