Smyrna times., 1889-07-10
Base Ball Notes.

WurDbv is a ''dandy" first baseman. I
SMYRNA goes to Dover on Friday ana /
Wilmington Saturday.
Peters made the first home run made |
on our grounds yesterday.
Dover defeated Milford at the former
place Yesterday by a score OF . to 4
Manager Voshell is in negotiation Tor
a new battery, the work being TOO haru
for one.
Wilmington plays here tomorrow
and a good game may be expected
They play at Milford to-day.
The first game under the League
was PLAYED at Wilmington on Monday
between Dover and Wilmington. The
score was 3 to in favor of Dover.
Milford went to Camden on Monday
to play their first championship game
but owing to dissatisfaction among the
Camden players the game did not come
of. Milford claims the game and the
$50 forfeit.
Visiting clubs have been besides out
raceous kicking, sometimes noisy and
profane. By the rules of the League
profanity is not allowed on the field
under a penalty of from 81 to s. for
each ofense. Nor are the players
allowed to kick and contend against
the decisions of the umpira.
Milford lost its second game out of
| eighteen it has played this season. It
was defeated by Smyrna on the grounds
of the latter on Friday last. At the
ninth inning the score stood to ., but
/ in the tenth inning our boys made six
runs to the Milford's three, giving
/ Smyrna the game by a score Of Il to s.
/ The game on Saturday between Cam
/ den and Smyrna resulted in a victory
/ for the home team after a closely con-
/ tested game by a score of to l. Meth
er side scored until the seventh inning,
when one of the Camden boys crossed
the home plate. Our boys then scored
a run in both the eighth and ninth
innings, giving Us the game.
The Smyrna club prides itself on
being made up of men who are some
thing more than players on the field.
/ Their habits and manners of, as we'll
as on the field, are those of gentlemen,
and this is awarded them wherever they
90. Manager Voshell will have no
other, and no others as far as he can
/ get information, need apply. For this
reasons the lovers and patrons of the
bat and ball, those who wanted a clut
for Smyrna, should sustain him well
financially.
Smyrna played her first champion
ship game yesterday, crossing bat:
with Camden at the formers grounds
The contest was rather one-sided, oul
boys knocking Bradley nearly out o
box, Peters making a home run anC
all the boys hitting for two and three
bases. The running catches by Camp
bell and Sterling, and triple play By
the Camden boys were the features o
the game. The score by innings wa;
as follows:
Smyrna. , 0 II o 0 4 3 OIL
Camden. 0 0 l 0 0 8
The difficulty between Smyrna anC
! Dover, about which so much has beer
said, is settled At q meeting Of tn
council of the League at Dover las
, night, Manager Richardson, Of tn
Dover club, arose and acknowledge,
} that he had done wrong, that b.
: should have got the consent of th.
Smyrna club for the release of Hutch
D ins before engaging him, and agreed e
pay Smyrna for the release Of the latte
and promised 10 treat Smyrna fairl
/ the next time they came there to play
: While he may not have got all TIA
was wanted in the way Of a release
Manager Yoshell, with the concession
made, was disposed to bury the hatche
: and wants Smyrna to treat Dover whe
+ they come here with that considerable
5 and cordiality as if nothing had haI
pened.
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