The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-07-29
Summer Sports.


Summer Sports.
Dobbins is playing first base for Denny's
Crescents.
On Saturday, at Delanco, the home
team beat Olympia at base BALI to a.
The Mount Holly base ball club will
play the Elm club, of Camden, next Sat-
urday afternoon on the Jail lot.
Philadelphia Giants, on Thursday, was
very interesting when rain stopped it.
Five innings had been played and the
score was to in favor of Camden.
Denny, the old pitcher, is still in the
game. He played against the Marions. a
strong club, on Saturday, and held them
to five hits. 1t was an eleven innings
game and Denny's team won, to 8.
The Athletic Club of the Schuylkill
navy base ball team went to Beverly Sat
urday, and took the home team into camp
in closely contested game. 1t was any
body's game until the last man was out.
Score: A. C. S. N. 5, Beverly, 4.
There was game of base ball in the lot
back of the Jail Saturday between Mount
Holly and Resolute, of Philadelphia
The ball was slippery by rolling in the
wet grass and errors were numerous
The score was 16 to 10 in favor of Mount
Holly.
William Wells, of Burlington, a and
Samuel Southland, of Ellisdale, shot two
seven bird pigeon matches at Bordentown
Friday for $40 a side, each match. In
the first match Southland killed and
Wells 3, and in the second Southland and
Wells a.
The second days event at Old Saugus
track in Massachusetts, on Wednesday,
comprised 10 heats, which were hotiy
contested 1t took but hours and 25
minutes to finish them, which the judges
declared beat all former records by an
hour The 2. 16 class was taken by the
bay gelding Easter in four-heat race the
time being s17s, 2.164, 2.17.
Camden defeated Salem, Saturday, in
Camden, to l. This is the third time
Blacks team has bumped them. Miller
retired the Salemites in order for five in
nings. In the seventh three hits gave
them an only run. mckinley did excep
tional work, making sensational catches |
of long, low drives. Fischman and Per- |
kins made two base hits and Perkins hit |
for three bases.
There was lively workout at the fair
ground track on Thursday afternoon be- |
tween Asa Roberts and his two sons, Mr. |
Roberts driving the bay mare, Alice NJ.
Clarence Roberts the bay mare CRANKY |
anna, and Joseph E. Roberts the sorrel |
mare Sallie s. The first heat was won by |
Granbyanna in 2.344, the second heat by
the same horse in $50, Alice NJ finishing
second in 2.304 and Sallie S. third in 2 314.
There was a general migration of yachts
down river from Beverly to Riverton Fri
day morning There were at least half
dozen little larks and nearly dozen more
catboats and sloops. They had fair
wind from the east that freshened to a |
good sailing breeze by the middle of the
afternoon, to the great delight Of the
shippers, the sailors and the crowd.
The past three Saturdays have furnished |
more racing than any three weeks in the
history of yachting on the upper Della
ware. AS starting time drew near the
big cats began to fiutter about the line.
1t was one of the prettiest starts ever
SEEN A line stretched from the stern of |
the foremost would have touched every |
boat in the fleet. The Peerless, of Bever
ly, and the Sea Gull, of Riverton, we're
soon cutting out the pace, with the others
close on their heels, and in the last run
down from the upper buoy the leaders
see sawed back and forth But the Peer
less crawled ahead at the critical moment
and the Titania coming up fast, crossed
the line second, tenth of minute to the |
good. The Sea Gull, however, received
second place on time allowance
The jib and mainsails were Sent over
the line five minutes after the cats. The
Isit soon took the lead, and the rate at
which she flew over the water babe de-
fiance to the efforts of her pursuers to
catch her.
T. Bonfield was first of the larks to
cross the line with a wide margin of seven
minutes between him and Edwin Cart
right When the mosquito fleet came to
the line, Charles NJ. Biddle was seen at
the tiller of No 1, with his daughter,
Miss Elsie Biddle, for crew. Miss Helen
Walnut was sailing with her brother in
No. IA. A. G. Cook, however, was not
to be beaten by any methods, and added
another victory to his clean record for
1902