Smyrna times., 1902-08-06
SMYRNA TEAM PLAYS FASTER BALL.

Plays Fast Ball and Wius Game From MIL
ford, One From Townsend, One From
MiddletOwn and Ties Score with Dover
After a week of dishearten1ng work
in which the Smyrna team displayed |
an inability to hit the ball, a new
lease on life, as it were, was taken on
Wednesday and by fast playing Smyrna
has lost but one game this week. Our
team was somewhat strengthened by
the addition of Smith crack first base
man from the ex-North Philadelphia,
and the games played the past week
were fine exhibitions of ball playing.
Smyrna Takes Game From Milford.
Wednesday afternoon the Smyrna
team played at Milford and won the
contest after a beautiful ten inning
game. Lenahan was in the box for
Smyrna but the Milford boys couldn't
do much with him. The score was as
| follows:
r. H.
Smyrna ...... 0 / 0 0 81 IL 3
Milford .... o 0 O 0 x-4 S 5
Batteries-Lehahan and Gribley, Smyrna Hen
| ry and Neylan, Milford;
Pitcher Black of Townsend Receives BOquets.
Thursday the Townsend boys came
to Smyrna to take away a game with
them but they were lucky in scoring
one run. By mere accident the one
lone run was made in the 9th inning
otherwise they would have been shut
out. They had with them Harry
Black, Smyrna's former pitcher, but
they gave him miserable support.
Black was the whole game and the one
visitor in popular favor. During the
game he was presented with a hand
some boquet by his fair admirers o
Smyrna. The score was:
R. H
Townsend ....O 0 0 0 0 o IL 5
Smyrna......2 0 0 6 l x-10 y
Bait ries- Black and Howard Townsend
SymOns and Gribley. Smyrna.
MiddletOwn Falls an Easy Victim.
/ Saturday, Smyrna went to Middle
3 town, and put up such fine exhibit
tion of ball playing that Middleton
f was outclassed and after knockin
/, Hoover for twelve hits, she wake
away with the victory, 8 to 4. SymOn
pitched magnificent game and full
redeemed his record of the Tuesds
n previous. The score was:
J.. Niddletown.. 0 o , 100 "A 9
, smyrna...O 0 1 O5 o -9l2
Batteries-C Hoover and Selvage, Middleton
o symons and Grbley, Smyrna.
Dover Game Ends at Eighth Inning.
. Friday our team went to Dover, al
a for seven innings it was one of b
- fastest games played this seaso
a. Hafer, the crack Dover pitcher, WI
"a being hit hard, and defeat was staril
to Dover in the face. But it seem'
IS that Umpire Forkum was determine
m that Smyrna should not win, even {
~ merits, and called out some of t
most wilful and rotten decisions o
ot BOYS have run up against this seaso
- 1t was one of these decisions at t
~ beginning of the eighth inning, VIII
q the score was tied, that Smyrna cou
y not and would not stand, and CAPITA
90 Flynn called the Smyrna men off t
re field. Without going into a review
MT the case we are glad to say that
nd matter has been about amicably S,
n tied by the managers of the two tean
10 Smyrna will never again consent
r Forkum umpiring a game. There
II. always been satisfaction with Jan
of Salisbury as umpire, whom we
al lieve tries to give honest decision
p What can be said of Umpire SaulsbI
T, can be said of Umpire Cunning,
-be SMYRNA. All Smyrna wants is
.ee treatment, a right she is perfectly W
ant ing to accord to her opponents.
Dr. Wilmington Wins from Smyrna Easily
m
Yesterday, Wilmington came
en- Smyrna and walked away with
ed game as easy as it takes to tell it.
nm was the fastest team seen here t
.as season, and more brilliant exhibit
ON of hitting was never seen on a Smyl
40 diamond. Lenahan and Symons b
sex took their turn in the box but '
are mington seemed to have no differ
,ort in placing their hits where they W