Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-31
LOCAL POLICE
BEAT KEARNY
Molly, Tonghini and CIooney
Figure in BIuecoats' VIC
tory Over Kearny Team

The Perth Amboy Cops baseball
team made up for its early season
defeat at the hands of the Kearny
police team on the Raritan Copper
works field yesterday afternoon, by
taking this team into camp by a
14-9 score. The Kearny outfit de-
feated the Amboy team on the local
field by a 1919 score. The decisive
game of the series will be played in
Kearny in the near future.
Molly, a member of the South
Amboy police force and of the local
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association,
was the shining light. The mound
star of a bygone day, used a great
deal of his old stuff in yesterdays
contest, but his strength and endur-
ance are not as they were in his
hey-dey. The Kearny outfit collected
ten hits off his delivery. not more
than two in any one inning. The
South Amboy pitcher famed thir-
teen men and walked five batters.
Molly Also Hits Well
In addition to twirling a brilliant
game, the South Amboy veteran
with Manager Frank Tonghini and
Bill Clooney. led this local bluecoats
with the willow. Tonghini clouted
gu two triples, a double and two
singles in six trips to the plate. while
Clooney and Molly connected for a
double and three singles each.
Boan, the Kearny pitcher, showed
flashes of greatness, but was ham,
mered for a total Of twenty-five
safeties. He famed ten, walked two
and hit one batter. Van was the
batting and fielding star for the Wis
iting team connecting for a double
and two singles.
Amboy Scores First.
A single by Clooney and a triple
by Tonghini was responsible for the
first counter of the game. The Wis
itors placed q man on the bags, as
a result of a single, in the first in
ming, but he ven out stealing. Boan
famed three Amboy batters in the
first. A walk, a steal and a wild
throw in attempting a double play
gave the visitors q run in the second
round and the score was knotted.
half of the first, out failed to score.
The first Kearny batter in the
third, hit safely. but the next three
famed the breeze. In Amboy's half
of thu third seven runs crossed the
pan as a result of eight hits, six err
rors and a walk. Two hits, a walk
and an outfleld error gave the visit
ing team three runs in the first of
the fourth, and Boan again famed
the entire side, after Tonghini had
| singled in the last Of the fourth
| round.
The visitors failed to score in the
fifth, although two men got on base,
one through a hit and the other
by an error. Amboy was held hitless
in the sixth, the only inning during
this game, but a pass was issued and
one batsman was hit by a pitched
ball in this stanza. Two doubles, a
walk and a sacrifice fly gave the
Kearny players two runs in the sixth.
Singles by Tonghini and Burke, and
an error, accounted for the locals
ninth run in this inning.
Locals Hold Lead.
In the stretch" stanZa, a walk,
felder's choice and an outfield error
gave the visitors their seventh and
eighth runs. Molly's third hit, an
error, Tonghini's second triple and
Burke's second hit, accounted for
three runs in the locals hall of the
seventh. The Kearny team scored
their last run in the eighth, on an
error, and a two base hit. the Am
boy team made two runs i'll their
section of their eighth, while the
visitors were held scoreless in the
first of the ninth, and the contest
was decided. -,
The Amboy team showed up well
in this game, and it is believed that
a little steady practice will enable
the local bluecoats to beat many OF
the leading police organizations IN
this state. After the game. a feed
was given the visiting cops in Co
lumbia Hall.
The box score:
AmhOy