- Two Base Hits—Hagner, 2; La Joy, 1.
- Three Base Hit—Warcford.
- Home Runs—Hagner.
- Sacrifice Hits—Case, 2; Church, 1; Beach, 1; Black, 1; Mellen, 1.
- Stolen Bases—Case, 2; Larke, 2; Hollins, 1; Hagner, 1; Delvin, 1, Robb, 1.
- Left on Bases—Lowell, 8; Jefferson, 8.
- First Base on Errors—Lowell, 1; Jefferson, 1.
- Double Play—Case, Hagner, and Case.
- Struck Out—by Black, 3; by Mellen, 4.
- Hit by Pitcher—by Radams, 1.
- Wild Pitch—by Mellen, 1.
- Hits—off Black, 6 in eight innings; off Radams, 1 in one inning.
- [C] Batted for Black in eighth inning.
- [D] Hollins out bunting third strike.
[CHAPTER XXVI]
HAL-HONUSED
Tim Murnin witnessed the great deciding game from the press box, at the Polo Grounds, where he found a lot of other budding newspaper men who had been sent to New York to report the game for various journals. At a big ball game you find all kinds of people, and every class of newspaper or periodical reports the big games for its readers. Naturally these reporters try to make their reports interesting to their particular kind of readers and that is why, for instance, Swat Milligan in reporting the game to the Railway Signal described it in language that was perfectly intelligible to its readers, although it might be puzzling to the patrons of the Farm Weekly.
After Tim got started on his report he got to looking over the shoulders of the other reporters and had a great idea.
This is it. He would crib an inning or a part of an inning from each of the writers near him just to get their style, and he did it. When he got the jumbled mass together and arranged it according to the innings he wrote an introduction and wired the report to Lowell, where it appeared in the Reporter the next day. Here it is:
Lowell, 6—Jefferson, 5.
“Hal and Honus, the incomparable and inseparable beauties of the Lowell posy garden, render the Jefferson assault hopeless and Tim Murnin’s pets are returned as champions.
“Childe Harold, the peerless bunt killer from the Pacific, stopped them all. He dug them out of the trenches, climbed into the ozone for the high ones, and stabbed the wide ones for as natty a row of put outs as ever graced the fourth column of the box score.