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Liverpool Authoritatively Avenge First Game Defeat

The shock of the four runs to three defeat at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur in the first match of the first to four EOI Cup series, occurring in their own ground, barely had time to settle in on Reds as they stormed back the following day to administer a nineteen runs to one whipping of Spurs. There was nothing Reds could not do if they simply wanted to, scoring seven runs in each of two separate innings, and batting out twenty four base hits including four twos, two threes and a home run. Every one of the Liverpool starting IX delivered on attack, and Joshua Reid held Spurs in check yielding only four base hits and four bases on balls which Tottenham could convert into only a single run in the ninth innings, once the game had been out of reach for hours. Second baseman Shorland, seventh in the Reds batting order, had a perfect performance with five base hits in as many tries, scoring three runs of his own in the process. With this match, Liverpool establish a new run scoring mark for a Cup-tie and simultaneously erase the stain of a sixteen runs to two defeat at the hands of Port Vale suffered only September last in that Cup’s round.