Bridgeton pioneer., 1897-07-08
DOWN WE GO.
"A Large Crowd at Base Ball Park. Bad
Judgment Loses the Afternoon
Game. Millvillians Happy Over
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the Result.
wen! we'll! well! If Millville didn't
win both games from us Monday. It
was not their good playing in the after
noon that won the game, but centrefelder
Wolsieffer's bad blunder that lost it for
bfldgeton. 1t was sorry lose for us too.
Bridgeton went to Millville in the
morning and played the game there to ali
attendance of fifteen hundred people.
When the game opened, they soon saw
what they had run up against. Millville
was ready for them. They had in ad-
dltlon to their regular team, Esper, of the
Baltimore National League, who stood
before the Bridgeton club and twirled the
balls in to them. They did not seem to
do much with his curves.
Posner went in to do the twirling for
Bridgeton,a and he was kept in the box for
SIX innings when he retired and Morris
was put in to finish the game. Millville
never got run off of the young pitcher,
not even man reaching first base.
But Bridgeton failed to score, although
OBrien got to third base three times, and
when the sum total appeared on the tally
sheet 1t was clean whitewash for Bridge
ton, with the figure eight to Millville's
credit.
The crowd were an orderly set and
everything passed off quietly ez cept of
course, the rooters who by virtue of the
game, made matters lively with their
yelling.
The regular League umpire failed to
show up, and Van Hook, of Millville and
McGear, Of Bridgeton acted as umpires
The score stood to in favor of Millville
at the close
Afternoon Game.
| After the defeat of the morning game
Bridgeton tried hard to redeem herself
and make an even break, but failed to do
so. They started in with a will, but alas,
! did not reach the goal
| When Miilville came to bat they made
one run. Mayhew was in the box for the
home team and it was soon seen that he
would not do. He was batted freely and
Captain Wolsieffer took him out and SUBJ
! stituted Morris after the visitors had
| gotten two runs to their credit.
They did not seem to do so we'll with
the young man who had for the last three
! games played pitcher in them all. The
| game was quite interesting from this time
on, although slow. 1t was when Bridge
full that Atherton stepped up and took a
turn. One came sailing in and he struck
II fair on the end of his bat. 1t went on a
! straight line over the left field fence,
making four runs, going up the score two
the best of the visitors. Then the two
thousand base ball enthusiasts shouted
and hooted for several minutes. This
put more enthusiasm in the game. The
| next inning Atherton did the same thing,
but the bases were empty.
! AT the end of the eighth inning the
score. stood to in favor of Bridgeton.
The home team failed to score in their
half of the ninth, but the visitors in their
half scored two runs all through bad
play of Wolsieffer. The first man at bat
sent a fly into deep left field. 1t was
Johnson's ball, and he started for it. At
the same time Woisieffer started for it,
He should have let johnson take the ball.
but they came together and fell; so did
the ball. That settled it, the game was
lost.
The umpiring of VanHook and McGear
was very unsatisfactory. Here is the
score by innings:
Bridgeton, 0 0 5 0 2 0 0 O-S
Mlllville, 2 o l l 0 2-9
Earned runs, Bridgeton, 8: Millville, l.
Two-base hits, Seeds, 2; Owens, Holland,
Gabson. Home runs, Atherton, 2; Har-
ris.
ACCIDENT TO A HORSE.