The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-12
Lively Game of Bali.


Having been offered fair inducements,
the manager of the Mount Holly base ball
team took the players away from home on
Saturday and had contest with the team
at Delanco Several of the friends of the
home team accompanied the club and
those who went were all repaid
Delanco has good club, nice grounds
and plenty of people willing to turn out
and encourage the players financially and
otherwise. The grounds are not enclosed,
the management relying upon the contri-
buttons thrown into the hat that is passed
around during the game and on the adj
ditional receipts from the grand stand,
and it is fact that they realize more at
every game than Mount Holly does.
The game started with Delanco at the
bat. Mount Holly made some costly err
rors and Delanco did some heavy batting,
Stecher clearing the bases with home
run. When the third man had been re-
tired it was found that Delanco had scored
six runs.
This set the home contingent wild and
they were willing to count the game won
right there But Mount Holly went to
work with the stick Stecher, who held
the Cuban Giants down to two hits last
season, was in the box for Delanco, but he
had no terrors for our team and they went
at him right lively. With the bases full,
Thackara repeated the long hit of Stecher
and made home run. Every man on the
team went to bat and Stecher got tired.
He was relieved by Torrie, who succeeded
in retiring the side, but not until nine
runs had been scored.
In the next two innings Delanco made
two and six runs respectively, while
Mount Holly was BANKED. In the fourth
inning Delanco did not score and Mount
Holly made four This caused the Mount
Holly followers to feel better, and they
yelled with delight when in the next in
ming our boys tied the score and prevent
ed the home team from adding to their
figures.
But the Defiance admirers were given a
chance to shout in the sixth when their
team shut Mount Holly out and ran two
up for themselves, the score standing IS
to IA.
The seventh was blank for Delanco,
but not for us. Campbell was given his
base on balls-the fourth time during the
game-the opposing pitchers feared him.
Thackara struck out Campbell stole
second and made dash for third. Tobin
threw the ball wide and Campbell came
home. Black got hit, Denness got home,
and the Mount Holly shouters got wild,
for the score was tied. Burke made hit
which advanced Black to third, he having
stolen second. Kingdom made a sacrifice
to Verga, who could easily have caught
Black at home but he threw to first and
put Kingdom out and Black scored what
proved to be the winning run, the next
man being put out at first
Delanco was unable to do anything in
the next two innings and the game was
ours.
While the score is large it does not by
any means, indicate an uninteresting
game. On the contrary, there was the
greatest interest manifested until the last
man was retired, and there were plenty of
chances for the followers of both teams
to yell themselves hoarse over the situa-
ton. Delanco will play at Mount Holly
next Saturday, and it is safe to predict
that there will be game worth witness
ing.
SATURDAYS score follows: