Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-08-01

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| lReported for the Beacon.l
| The Leonardtown Baseball Club, sc
eompanied By about fifty girls and boys
visited Charlotte Hall Thursday last and
began game with the local team which
abruptly ended At the close Of the FIRST
half of the third inning.
At the end Of the second inning, which
was the last even innings played, the
score was 4to2 In favor OF Leonardtown.
When the umpire called the third man
out In the first hsls Of the third inning,
the score was 20 4 in favor of Charlotte
Hall, but il must be remembered the
Leonardtown boys did not get their
third inning, and judging from the way
they were playing II would not have
been much trouble 20 have continued
being shead on even innings, for
Dent had struck out four men while
Harrison had his first To strike out.
The whole trouble was, the Charlotte
Hall boys were taken by surprise and
were being outplayed and sooner than
be beaten they remembered the old ad-
age, ANY excuse Is better than none, /"
so stopped, and part of the town boys
being Disguised left the ground and went
10 seek the fairer ones.
As there ID always bright side Ia life
IL we look for It, we will pass from the
unpleasant part to what followed the
game.
After supper we were favored with q
solo by Miss Miles, one Of our Leonard
town well wishers, called. The Past and
the Future, and her sweet sympathetic
contralto seemed to soothe and rest all
who heard her as well as to make us
proud Of being able to say tina. she is q
st. Mary's countian. We were then
given rag time song by Jack which
brought Us back to thoughts of merri-
ment and we then went to the Gymnas-
ium building and danced until mid
| night. A LEoSARDTowx PLAYER
The game of ball which terminated so
suddenly on Thursday last at Charlotte
Hall has been the source of great deal
OF talk and misunderstanding, and to be
sure that outsiders do not come to wrong
conclusions, It Is necessary to hear both
sides. When the game was stopped in
the middle Of the third inning, the score
stood to 4, with two men out, in favor
of Charlotte Hall. and Umpire Thomp-
son. who seemed to be fair, but who GER
tainly was not up on rules, declared the
third man out on second base, because
he slid to the base and carried it with
him few feet from its place. (Say four
feet at most). He was touched while ly-
ing IN this position, and when the um-
pire declared him out, the Charlotte Hall
boys became so indignant at the absurd
ity Of the decision that they refused to
play unless he would change II. but the
Leonardtown boys, some of whom knew
that our claim was fair and just and that
they were arguing on the wrong side,
declared with equal flrmness that they
would not play unless the home team
would actually gioe them the point. The
wrangle lasted for q quarter of an hour,
at the end Of which time the Charlotte
Hall team had agreed to give up their
claim, only in consideration of the large
crowd Of spectators who had come to
see the game, but the Leonardtown
boys, not one of whom had left the ball
field, had become disguised, as they say,
or did not want to play the game ont,
and refused to continue The Leonard
town team has, We are glad to say, i'm
proved greatly, and may be stronger, but
considering that the home team had
made Eve runs in the last inning, four
of the hits being two-baggers, man ON
second and three or four of their best
batters to follow, It would seem that
Charlotte Hall had, at least, show.
The rule book says very plainly "that in
case of detached base the runner may
.follose the base"
A CHARLOTTE HALL PLAYER.