Newark post., 1915-08-18
G. OF THE CLUBS

Elk Mills 6 IL 354
RESULTS OF SATURDAYS
GAMES
Elkton, 8; Newark, 8.
Traction Co., 2; New Castle, l.
Parkside, 6; Elk Mills, 5.
SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY
New Castle at Newark.
Elkton at Elk Mills.
Traction Co. at Parkside.
Parkside Crawls up on New Castle
By defeating Elk Mills while
Traction Co. was taking the mea-
sure of New Castle the Parkside
team on Saturday jumped within
one game of the league leaders. 1t
looks soft, however, for the leaders
next Saturday as they play the
local club while Parkside stacks
up against Traction Co. Traction
Co. and New Castle had a great
battle, the former winning 2 to l
largely by the great base running
of DOC" Doherty and the steady
pitching of Morley. Parkside and
Elk Mills also played close
game but the former managed to
nose ahead 6 to 5.
Locals Give Rank Exhibition
The Newark club gave thrill
ing exhibition of how the national
game should not be played on Sat-
urday and consequently lost to
Elkton, 9 to 8. The visiting team
was recruited with several Elkton
High School players but this made
no difference as far as the final re-
suits were concerned and as mat
ter of fact these recruits put up
creditable game.
When it comes to actual fielding
errors the work of the Newark
Club was not so bad at that, but
when head work and errors of
omission are considered, good
night" Hogan was hit hard, it is
true, but that happens to the best
of pitchers at times and on this
occasion was not altogether the
cause of the locals defeat.
The one feature of the game that
probably interested the fans more
than anything else and caused
much adverse criticism was the
way Brown fioundered around base
in trying to play the shortstop po-
sition. Just what this players
idea is of the duty of shortstop
would likely be interesting. On
Saturday the one important thing
to him was to stay close to second
base when there was a runner on
that bag and as there happened to
be a runner on second nearly every
inning Brown made that his home.
Such a small matter as leaving the
position uncovered that he was
paced out there to fill was very
minor consideration. However,
just what could be expected to
happen under such circumstances
did happen. Balls were hit right
through shortstop for safeties that
should have been easy outs. Just
such a hit as this started the bat
ting rally in the sixth inning when
Elkton scored five runs.
The necessity of keeping base
runner from getting too much of a
lead is of course important but it
is nothing short of dumb baseball
for shortstop to be out of his po-
sition every time that a pitcher de-
livers the ball when there is run
ner on second and this was just
what Brown did continually. AS a
matter of fact time after time he
stood within a few feet of second
until Hogan would deliver the bal
and then he would make dive fol
his position but of course too late
to get a ball should it be hi
through shortstop.
Brown played the same sort O
game at second base in the Park
side game two weeks ago and wa
directly responsible for Newar
losing that game and also tn
game on Saturday. Why some o
the older players On the club di
not call Brown for his punk way o
playing shortstop would seem t
indicate a lack of interest in tn
game on the part of the player
themselves. Brown has not HI
hard enough since he Joined tn
local club to qualify in the gul
drop league and yet he was put
the game while Scott warmed tn
bench.
Newark took the lead in the fir:
inning when with three on th
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