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DIXON HELPS PT. JERSEY BEAT TIGER IN SLUGFEST
STAR INFIELDER HAS FIVE HITS AS TEAM CONTINUES COMEBACK FROM POOR START

PHILADELPHIA, PENN. (June 29, 1881) - The Broad Street Diamond hosted the middle game of the series between Tiger Social Club & Port Jersey B.B.C. on Wednesday afternoon, and the resulting encounter was a slugfest.

Pt. Jersey had a 2-1 lead after the opening innings thanks to a pair of Errors by Tiger, but the hosts turned that around with three Runs in B2 on run-scoring Triples by RF George Oman & 2B Griffin Gray, and a run-scoring Single by P Walter Johannessen in B3 gave Tiger a 5-2 lead going into the middle innings.

The visitors scored in T4 on a Double by SS Thomas Ashley to make it a 5-3 game, and then they took a 9-5 lead on a six-run rally in T5 that featured a pair of two-run Doubles by C Harry Thompson & 1B Cleveland Kuiper. Tiger responded immediately, tying the game 9-9 with a four-run rally in B5 in which C Edward Popper & 3B Harold McMichael hit run-scoring Doubles. Pt. Jersey then took the lead right back with three with three Runs in T6, with a Single by Thompson and a two-run Inside the Park Home Run by Ashley giving them a 12-9 lead.

The late innings started with the visitors adding to their lead, scoring three times in T7, the key hit a two-run Home Run by 2B Vincent Dixon, to take a 15-9 lead. Tiger scored twice in B7 and once in B8 to cut the deficit to three (15-12), and in the bottom of the ninth after a Single by LF Howard Boley made it a 15-13 game and put men on 1st & 2nd PH Leland Walker hit into a Double Play, and Pt. Jersey had escaped with the victory.

There were half a dozen Batsmen who recorded three or four Hits at the Broad Street Diamond…

• PtJ C Harry Thompson: 3/5 (2B), 2 R, 4 RBI, 4 TB – PB, 2/4 CS
• PtJ 1B Cleveland Kuiper: 3/4 (2B), 2 R, 2 RBI, SAC BUNT, 4 TB – DP
• PtJ SS Thomas Ashley: 3/5 (2B, HR), 1 R, 3 RBI, 7 TB – DP

• TIG 2B Griffin Gray: 4/5 (2B, 3B), 1 R, 2 RBI, BB, 7 TB – DP
• TIG 3B Harold McMichael: 3/4 (2 2B), 3 R, 1 RBI, BB, 2 SB, 5 TB
• TIG SS Martin Prince: 3/5 (2B), 5 R, 1 RBI, 4 TB – DP

…but one man had five, and that was Pt. Jersey 2B Vincent Dixon.

• T1: 1-run Single past SS off W. Johannessen (R)
• T3: Reached via Base on Balls by W. Johannessen
• T5: Single to LCF off W. Johannessen (R)
• T5: 1-run Single to CF off W. Johannessen
• T7: 2-RUN HOME RUN TO RF off M. Plank
• T9: Double to RCF off W. Gifford
• TOTAL: 5/5 (2B, HR), 3 R, 4 RBI, BB, 9 TB – DP – 99 GmSc (B: 3rd)

Dixon’s performance was the third-best by an A.P.B.L. Batsman this season, and it raised his Average to .388 (.990 OPS) with 29 Extra Base Hits (22 2B, 6 3B, 1 HR), 37 Runs, 34 RBI, and 3.6 Batsman WAR (6.5 WAR/90 G) through 46 games.

The victory left Pt. Jersey 22-28, which isn’t bad considering they were 12-22 roughly two and a half weeks ago. They are tied for last in the Colonial Conference with Alleghany, both teams nine games back of first place. Tiger S.C. is 23-27, alone in fifth place in the Metropolitan Conference and also nine games back of first place.