The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-07-09
Grants closing out sale will last only a
few days longer.
Sporting.

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few days longer. =
Sporting.
Palmyra's base hall club beat the Man
hattsns on Thursday, Is to 9.
Delanco and Kenderton played together
on Saturday. Delanco scored IL runs to
| Kenderton's 5.
Walter T. Stewart, of the Mount Holly
Athletic Association. won the post novice
race at Riverton on Saturday. The prize
was diamond pin.
The Montgomery A. A. base ball club
will play here on Saturday. This is
strong nine and recently defeated the
Tioga and Doylestown clubs.
The Mount Holly management is giving
good games of ball. but is not making ex-
penses. Let them have better attendance,
or the games will haye to be discontinued.
William Ley, who played ball with
the Mount Holly club, last year, and who
was here this season with the Trainer
club. was drowned at Asbury Park, on
Sunday.
The trotting and bicycle races that were
announced to take place at Netherlands
driving park, near Burlington, were post
poned until next Saturday on account of
he rain.
On an affidavit, sworn out by John J.
Flynn, charging Mrs. George Howard
with selling his son, minor, liquor,
Mayor Gilbert exacted fine, and costs
amounting to $17.55.
A game of ball was played at White
Hill on Saturday afternoon between the
Burlington club and the J. P. Seward
club, of White Hill, resulting in favor of
the ]. P. Seward club, by score of IL to 2.
st. Francis Lyceum Club, of Trenton,
and the Young Mems Catholic Associa-
ton, of Bordentown, played return
game of base ball on the 4th of July, re-
sulting in favor of the former team by a
score of 8 to s.
The Millville club played two games on
the Fourth with the Clermont club, which
gave our team such a tussle recently
The Millville was successful. In the
morning the score was "a to 0. In the az
ternoon IL to 2.
A very exciting game of base ball was
played at Beverly, on Saturday, when the
team at that place met the Crescent A. A.,
the club that played here on the day of
the Zimmerman bicycle meet. After ten
innings of sharp contest the Crescents
won by the score of 8 to 2.
A race which was to have taken place
between the horses Billy Penn and Hazel,
the former owned by Patrick Martin. and
the Trenton Driving Park, en- July 4th,
which was postponed on account of rain,
will come off on Thursday afternoon.
The bicycle meet of the Mount Holly
Athletic Association, on Saturday, July
20, should prove more interesting than
the Zimmerman meet was in June.
There will be one more racing event-a
one mile novice, for which quite a num-
Der of local riders will enter, and John
S. johnson, the celebrated flyer, guaran-
tees to make mile dash in considerably
boasts that he will make it in two min
utes or less.
The game of base ball on the grounds of
| the Athletic Association on the morning
of the Fourth was not very interesting.
The opposing club was the Highland,
which played here earlier in the season,
and which had promised to put up close
game on the second visit. They were no
match for the Mount Holly team, who
beat them by the score of 9 to 4. The
game was called at the close of the eli ghth
inning, when the rain began to fall.
Rev. ]. H. Blaisdell, of Pennsylvania,
and Prof. F. T. Schultz, principal of
Penn Yam Academy, New York, have
purchased of Rev. Thompson H. Lam
don. of the Bordentown Military Insti-
tute.Fthe Bordentown Female College
buildings, which are to be opened on
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for young ladies. Rev. Mr. Blaisdell
is to be its president, and Mr.. Schultz
head master. assisted by full corps Of
instructors.
The thirty first annual regatta of the
Riverton Yacht Club was held on the
Fourth. The course was twelve miles in
length, starting at the clubhouse, going
down to Eight Mile Point, thence to the
Hover Spar Buoy, off Harrison's, thence
to the buoy off Eight Mile Point, thence
to Harrison's, finishing at the clubhouse.
The winners of the first class were Lor-
retta, Captain DIR. Street; second class.
Nettle Vice Commodore c. W. Biddle
second prize, Sea Gull. Captain Lee Cook
There was large feet of the mosquito
boats. A. G. Cook got first prize; w. R
and Norman Ellison, second prize; third
H. Mel. and H. G. Biddle came in first
but protest was entered on account Of
fouling the buoy fourth, G. M. Biddle, Jr
You might go long distance and never
see better game of base ball than that
given at the grounds of the Athletic AS
, ISOLATION, on Saturday. The Tioga club
one of the strongest amateur teams in the
country, gave our nine the hardest battle
yet played. The visitors were short one
player and Edwards, of the Mount Holly
club, filed the position of left field to the
satisfaction of all. 1t required ~ inning
to settle the game. The score was
Mount Holly A. A. Tioga A A.