Words could not describe the reception given to Hans and Hal by their team mates in the club house of the New York Nationals that afternoon, so no attempt will be made to do so, suffice it to say that it was thoroughly impressed on both that but for them the championship had been lost, and their names went to the top of the list of the Lowell Hall of Heroes. BOX SCORE LOWELL AB R H PO A E JEFFERSON AB R H PO A E Everson, 2b 5 0 1 1 1 0 Laird, 3b 4 1 2 1 0 0 Larke, lf 5 1 0 1 0 0 Beach, cf 3 1 0 1 1 0 Talkington, cf 5 1 1 2 1 0 Church, 1b 5 0 0 9 1 0 Robb, rf 5 1 1 0 6 1 Hollins, ss 4 1 0 3 5 2 Hagner, ss 5 2 4 2 2 0 La Joy, 2b 4 1 1 0 5 1 Case, 1b 2 1 1 12 5 0 Warcford, lf 4 1 3 3 0 0 Delvin, 3b 4 0 1 1 0 1 Twitchell, rf 4 0 1 2 0 0 Gibbs, c 4 0 1 7 2 1 Brest, c 4 0 0 6 0 0 Black, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 Mellen, p 3 0 0 1 1 0 Radams, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Huyler[C] 1 0 0 0 0 0 ----------------- -------------------- 38 6 10 26 19 3 35 5 7 [D]26 13 3 LOWELL 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3--6 JEFFERSON 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0--5 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.