Bridgeton pioneer., 1895-09-12

There was no game Wednesday between
the Bridgeton and Millville teams. There
was large crowd present and Bridge
ton was on the ground to play the game.
Millville arrived on the grounds late.
They had with them Tom Smith, the
Philadelphia League pitcher; Rice, short
stop, of Cape May; Foulkrod, Carfrey
and Noblitt, of Salem.
But trouble arouse over the disputed
game in Millville. Manager Doughty,
and Assistant Manager Smith, of the
Millville team suddenly came to the
Bridgeton management, and demanded
that Bridgeton play the disputed game in
Millville on Friday. Bridgeton was not
consulted as to the date, and had not
agreed to continue the championship sea-
son longer than the 4th of September, and
of course, when the Millville manage
| ment wanted the Bridgeton team to agree
to play Friday, it was met by refusal.
Then the management of Millville refused
to play the game Wednesday. This threat
did not swerve the local management,
and when time for play came, the Bridge
ton team went in the field.
Scheible was in the box and Kid Will
liams behind the plate. Umpire Gleason
called for the batter, and no Millville
player responded, The ball was regular
ly pitched and after three men had been
declared out, the Umpire gave the game
to Bridgeton by a score of too.
The great crowd cheered and applauded
and the Millville boys retired from the
grounds.
Several of the Salem players were on
the ground, and an arrangement was
made for an exhibition game with them.
This announcement was made in front OF
| the grand stand and was received with
| the greatest applause and salem was
given hearty cheers.
The action of Millville is indetensible,
| and is but the result of season of defeat
for them, as Bridgeton was already the
winner of the cup and pennant, and Mill
vile had been beaten a majority of the
series. Early in August Bridgeton, it
will be remembered, went to Mill
vile. There was no umpire and no
effort was made to secure one. Hughes,
pitcher, had been claimed by Salem, and
Bridgeton was in duty bound to stand by
| Salem, until the ownership of Hughes
| was decided. Bridgeton offered to play
the game under protest, but Millville re-
| fused to permit the game to goon.
After the fracas the managers of the
Millville and Bridgeton teams met,
| and the Millyille manager declared his
intention of claiming the game
| and counting it. Bridgeton offered
to play the game off in the Millville
| grounds at any date before the season
was over. Millville did not take advan-
tage of the offer and decided to make the
date when it pleased, without consulting
Bridgeton.
Bridgeton had but one thing to do. Its
players were under contract for the
schedule season, ending on the 4th of
September, and our season ends at that
time. The local management did the
| only thing honorable, and is sustained
without exception by the Bridgeton pub
| lie.
| Millville could not have won the cham
pionship by winning Wednesday. Even
| f they had, and the game had been
agreed upon for Thursday, and Millville
| should have won, it would have only tied
the score. Our boys have fairly won the
! championship. They have won the series
| from both Salem and Millville, and the
| championship has been awarded just
| where it belongs, to the Bridgeton Base
| Ball Club.