Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-04
A No Hit Game
Pitched By Greer
Against Wheelmen

through their hard won victory over
the famous Hackensack Wheelmen
last Saturday at the Fairgrounds. To
call it some game would be far from
doing the right thing by the home
team. 1t was some game and then
some.
AS game to watch and think
about, no one who saw it will soon
forget it. Ed Greer pitched another
no hit game, his second in Palisade,
and up to the Palisades ninth inning,
it looked like he might lose it on a
fiuke. The visitors had played hard
game to beat up to that time, and had
drawn first blood on an error. In the
first inning, after Rohr flew out to
Beckmann, A. Lauf struck out, and
Cristof, let him get to first base on
a high throw to Goemann. Then
Greer tried to catch Lauf mapping,
but threw a high one beyond Goe-
mans reach, and Lauf raced to third.
Mckay then went out, Ropes to first,
Lauf being unable to get in from
third on the play. Wenzel, the
pitcher who thinks so much of him
self, and who nearly had conniption
because he lost the game, sent siz-
zler right through Ruckenbrod's legs,
and in capered Mr.. Lauf with the
gift of run, the only one anybody
got in the game until the ninth, when
the self-same Wenzel man weakened,
allowed three hits and hit George
Beckmann a wollop on the elbow
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favorite faint. He was so badly hurt
he was forced to retire, and Goemann
took his place on the line, bringing
in the run finally that Won the game.
Logan then sent red hot liner into
left on which Ruckenbrod raced in
with the tieing run, and moment
later Cristoff sent Texas Lacquer
to left with the infield all drawn In
to prevent Beckmann scoring from
third, where Goemann had carried his
banner on Logan's shot to center the
latter reaching second on the throw in.
Thus the game ended with Palisade
able to knock Wenzel out of the box,
perhaps, had not the rules allowed
the game to end just there with three
hits, two in, and nobody out. Signor
Wenzel remarked after the game in
the little dressing room when some
one ventured to suggest that Pail
SADIE put up pretty good game, con-
sidering it was only village of 800
or 900 population, 81 wish the blank
ETY. blank town was in -"
naming the place located in a lati-
tude much warmer than Palisade.
This young man is corking good
pitcher and a rafting good player
generally, at least he showed up well
here, but he is far from a good sports
man to say such naughty things of
his hosts and in their own home at
that, humble as it is.
Of the playing that stood out in
this nifty game, of course the grand
work of young Mr.. Edward Greer
outshone all and was far and away
the most luminous bit of box work
ever seen here. Once before last year
he pitched no hit no run game here
against a New York club, but that
team was not in the same class with
the Wheelmen. The latter team is
all the time playing ball, and has a
reputation. It takes good playing to
beat them, and good pitching, too.
This time Ed had things all his own
way He was as artful as Mathewson
at his best, and coy as a maiden,
almost blushingly so, over his great
work of the day. His friends kidded
him about having an enlarged chest,
but he only smiled, knowing it was
not meant. Then some one told him
he might make the size of his hat
No. 9, and he again laughed. He sent
the enemy down for the count, one,
two, three, seven times in the nine
inings, and only twice after the first
ming did a man get to second and
only twenty nine men faced him in
the game. All in all, it was a game
any man would have been tickled to
pieces to win.
George Beckmann ate up the three
flies that came his way, and Mitchell
and Inninger each had two. There
was nothing missed or bungled in the
outer gardens. One of the two cap
tured by Inninger was, perhaps, the
most sensational catch ever seen on
the Fairgrounds. Catcher Lauf sent
a hard liner to right, which went into
Inninger's territory all right, but the
wind caught it up and came nearly
carrying it to Grantwood. But then
Inninger saw the thing in time, and
raced over to overtake it. Nobody
thought he had the ghost of chance,
but he stuck out his gloved hand and
the ball stuck! With that all the
automobiles at the game footed many
times, and the people shouted long
and loud. 1t was truly wonder
catch, and before such an appreciative
company, too.
Logan made a corking fine play in
the second, when Bello sent stinger
to him just to the left of the pitcher.
He raced over, made dandy pickup
on the run, and threw like shot to
Goemann, little low, but the latter
scooped it up in his usual way. Goe-
mann played fast game at first, as
he always has done, and had all the
honers of his position coming to him.
One of the most spectacular plays
of the game, also, was made by
Ropes in the eighth inning, when the
tall Schier sent hot bounder deep
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