Smyrna times., 1889-07-17
Rase Rail Notes.

Dover plays here on Saturday, and
Camden on Monday.
Smyrna plays at Milford to-day, and
at Camden on Friday.
Camden defeated Milford at the
latter place on Friday. Score, to 2.
Milford went to Wilmington on
Monday and lost the game by a score |
of to l.
Dover lost their first championship |
game yesterday, Camden defeating them
in a twelve-inning game by a score Of 4 |
to 3.
Smyrna's cOlored club has been re-
organized under the name of the Silver
Maple Leaf, with John II. Price, mana
ger to whom all communications should
be addressed, and JohnYork as captain.
Pete Downs and David Watson will be
their battery.
Wilmington sided with Dover in the
Hutchins affair against Smyrna, but
now that they have one of the same
kind in the Chapman-Seaford muddle
they think we ought to help them keep
Seaford out of the league until they
release Chapman.
The Morniag Nelcs says This man
HOveter (Of Dover should be looked
after by the State Board of Health or
committed as a nuisance. Should he
keep up his yelling at every game IN
the future HOveter will undoubtedly
land III the new insane asylum.
The Camden club has been remodelcd
and has new manager. Simpson,
rI,Dr ,I, . ,i,
has taken the rens, it is said, and is
| determined to work the club up Hilsey
and Dunn, of Philadelphia. have been
added, and Terry, of Wyoming, who is
expert, will play third base.
The Delaware State League games
Saturday were postponed by rain. The
Wilmington and Smyrna clubs were to
have played in Wilmington and the
| Camden and Dover clubs at Camden
| Wilmington and smyrna now have a
! postponed game each, the contest
scheduled for Thursday at Smyrna
| being prevented by similar conditions.
A meeting of the baseball association
was held at TIE hose room Monday
evening, and the balance Of the sub
scription collected. II. b. Grieyes was
made a director to succeed c. w Will
lumsen, resigned. 1t was decided that
the services of another battery were
needed and efforts are being made to
secure a good one at once.
The ready-letter writer of Dover
who wrote so many letters and dated
them from Smyrna, Dover, &c, to try
to cover up and make it appear that
Dover hadn't acted in an unfair and
iOckying manner in gobbling up for
consideration two of smyrna's players
when they were there to play against
them, has dried up since Manager
VOshell's full expose Of the affair.
Smyrna was defeated by the Dover
team az that place on Friday by score
Of to 2. The game was an interesting
one except il the third inning when
an eXcusable error by Peters and the
muil of little fly by Barnes let in four
runs. Peter Cooper, of Dover, umpired
the game and gave nearly all of his
decisions in favor of Dover. In the
first part OF the game, a ball was
Knocked in front of the plate by a
Smyrna player and he called it fair,
but on being knocked in exactly the
same place by a Dover player declared
1t foul, and the game was finished
under protest.
Milford came down from Wilmington.
where they were defeated, Yesterday
for the purpose of "eating the Smyrna
boys up, us Tommy said, and it looked
as If they were going to do it until the
ninth inning when Smyrna scored
three runs. In the second inning Cros,
got his base on balls, stole second. GOT
third on an error of Campbell and
scored on Demerest's hit. In the third
klg0y hit an easy grounder and got
hrst on bad throw, and then cam,
home on O'DOnnells three base hit
O'Donnell scored on an error of Camp
bell. Milford scored again in the skill
inning by Neister's two-bagger anC
Cross single. In the last inning f5l
Smyrna, Wharton hit to Knorr aud GOT
first on an error, stole second; Willum
sen and Campbell got their bases on
balls, Peters made a sacrifice hit anG
Wharton scored; Willumsen and Camn
bell scored on Murphy's two-bagger
Murphy stole third, but McLaughlil
hit to short and the game was over
The score follows:
smyrna. 0 0 0 0 O 0 s.;
Milford. 0 , 0 O l 0 0 o.
DELAWARE STATE LEAGUE.
re. wLP.c
; Dover , $50 Wilmington > .Gd
: Smyrna ! 332 Camden % .50,
= Milford , 1913