Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-08
Amboys Trounce Miners
i. In Smuggling Contest
Wood Completes Game

The Perth Amboy Athletic Asso-
citation baseball nine annexed ap.
other win to its record yesterday af-
ernoon when it conquered the hard
hitting Scranton Coal Miners AS
ISOLATION outfit in a smuggling match
on the Raritan Copper Works field.
10 the tune of a 1873 score. For a
time 1t appeared as If the local rep
" esentatives were to suffer defeat
for Harry Chunk Applcgate vas
forced to retire from the mound
with a sore arm. Bill Flynn is out
Of the game with a sore wing and
Joe Wood was somewhat unsteady
in his initial start Of the season.
Manager Applegate's warriors took
the field yesterday under the i'm
preston that they would have a
hard time solving the slants of the
Pennsylvania hurlers. but they were
also Of the opinion that the Scranton
boys. were weak with the willow.
The visiting team collected fourteen
safeties, including two homers over
the right field fence and two doubles.
They also are credited with making
a sacrifice hit and a. sacrifice fly, re-
ceived five passes and sever miscues
were made by the local nine.
To offset the chances given the
miners to score. the Amboy players
made fifteen safeties, including m
double. received seven passes and
the Scranton players made six err
rors. Seasaek, a left handler. start
ed for the visitors and lasted three
and two-thirds innings. and Hobbs,
a right handler. succeeded him.
Apologize pitched the first five in
rings for Amboy, and Wood finished
the game.
Locscr II Kept Busy
Errors, hits and plays were some
what effected by the condition OF the
field, which had to be gone over be-
cause of the recent rain, and a heavy
wind. Many foul balls were carried
into fair territory and n Two
catchers were not successful IN
catching any of the foul flies knock
ed behind the plate. In left held
Mickey Loeser was called upon to
Nhandie six chances. every n DIM
cult and the majority of them were
made more difficult by the wind. 1t
can be safely said that the outcome
of Yesterdays game rested on the
putouts made by the local left gar
den man.
Every member of the local team
hit safely in this contest. and Dona-
hue. Romer, Dzurilla, Mizurek and
Lorenzo led the field with two
apiece. All but A. Jones hit safely
for the visitors and Magulski ana
Dumbroski led, with three apiece.
Visitors Score First
The miners scored two runs in the
first round on two doubles, a single,
a sacrifice and an error, n anotner
counter in the second when Pitcner
Seasaek clouted the pill over the
richt field fence Amboy scored
two runs in the last of the second
on two hits, a walk and an error.
The visitors did not in the
third or fourth, and Amboy did moi
cross the pan in the third session.
A double play killed the miners IN
the fourth, Four hits, a walk and
hit batsman, gave AmDoy Tour
runs in the fourth, and the lead.
Seasaek was replaced by Hobbs In
In the fifth round. an error, a
walk and two hits enabled the visi-
tors to tie the count, and Ampoy
failed to score in the last hait OF
this inning. Wood went on ths
mound for Amboy in n sixth, ana
although the first two batters walked
and the third got A hit, there was
no scoring done. Catcher LORENZO
nipped a runner attempting to pill
fer second and the fourth and hftn
batters went put via a strikeout and
3 fv to Stinson. In this session the
visitors pulled a double steal, duph-
rating their feat of the fifth inning
Amboy again went into the lead
in the sixth as a result OF an error
and three hits, the third a doupIe oy
Wood. Although a little wiio' wopu
seventh and eighth rounds, while
Amboy added three more on a walk
felder's choice and three hits in the
seventh. The locals did not score IN
the eighth.