Many of the wildly cheering Scranton rooters boasted that they could already see Allandale handing over the pennant they had so easily won the previous summer, and which must float from the flag-pole in front of the Scranton high school another season.
The finish was highly exciting.

Allandale managed actually to tie the score in their half of the ninth, but Scranton still had an inning in which to do something.
Thad Stevens led the batting list in the ninth; and some other heavy artillery followed close on his heels.

Thad got first on a neat little hit.

"Just" Smith advanced him a base with a sacrifice bunt.
Then Horatio Juggins, who was seldom ever known to fail when it was up to him to do something, met one of those speedy shoots of Patterson on the end of his bat, and perched on second, while the winning tally came in.
That closed the game, since Allandale had already had their turn at bat in the ninth.

Juggins was the hero of the occasion, and that glorious hit of his would long place him on a pedestal in the estimation of the Scranton High scholars.