The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-07-04
Sporting.


The game of base ball at Mount Holly,
on Saturday, with the Cambria club, of
Camden, was enjoyed by large number
of spectators. The Mount Holly club was
successful. Score IL to 5.
There will be two games of base ball at
the Fair Ground, to-day, one at 10 A. M,
the other at $50 P. NJ The visiting club
will be the Ringgold. of Philadelphia.
The Bordentown club opened their sea-
son on Saturday by defeating the Brad
ford club, of Philadelphia, in hotly-con-
tested game. The game abounded with
plenty of good plays and also several poor
ones Crawford's fielding was very COM
mendable. The score was Bordentown.
IA Bradford, s.
"Unless the people of Burlington give
their base ball club better support in the
way of attendance at the games it will
disband" This item appeared in Bur
lington paper last week, and, after Satur-
days exhibition, we should say the club
cannot disband any too soon. To request
people to come out and sit through such a
game as was played on that day is asking
too much. There was good attendance,
a number going over from Mount Holly.
The game was with the Bristol team, and
should have been fine exhibition and
close contest, but it resulted in disas-
trous defeat for the Burlington club Bris-
tol made four runs in the first inning, but
that did not dismay the home team, and
it played good game until the fourth in
ming, when the umpire, Burlington
youth who evidently feared his townsmen
might win, gave rank decisions against
them. This took the heart out of the
Burlington club, and from that time on
they played in such careless, Indifferent
manner that the audience left tn ground.
Here is a description of base ball
match written by a man who doesn't un-
derstand the game.
The game Is great invention. 1t is
easily understood. All you have to do is
to-Keep your eye on the ball.
1t is all about the ball.
They also use bat. The bat is a club
built on the model of the club that Poca-
hontas saved CAPTAIN Oscar Smith Il
think it was) from being demolished
with.
This is why the organization is called
club.
One fellow takes the club and stands
on line, and another fellow stands in
front of him and fires the ball at him.
The chap with the club hits back.
The ball flies in the other direction.
The first fellow drops the club as
though he was scared, and rams like a
pickpocket with a policeman after him
Several fellows run after the ball
somebody catches it and fires it at some
BODY else, when the chap who had the
club stops running.
Another fellow then takes the club. and
the same man, who is called pitcher
pitches on him, and he hits back, knocks
the ball, drops the club, and cuts loose
for big shot bag they call the first base
Half dozen fellows out on picket duty
scramble for the ball.
One reliable basebalist is posted behint
the clubman, in case the clubman misses
the ball, to see that it don't go by and hi
the umpire.
When one side is out the other sid'
goes in, and when both sides are out 1t il
called an inning
1t is quite an intelligent game. depend
ing entirely on the use of your legs. Th
first principle of the game is running.
When you are lin" you run away from
the hall, when you are tout" you run al
ter it.
1t is splendid exercise, keeps You 81
warm. Consequently il is always playe'
! Ia the summer time.