The evening Republican., 1902-05-26

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Park to-day.
Noristown will play at Uniol
street grounds.
Hoffman Kuhn were both OF
hand and were given a warm vel
come.
! Audrey the new man handles hin
self like good ball player.
| Hoffman made two nice catches
in left field.
| Maxwell failed to getahit which il
unusual.
| Meehan played great game at
Third for Wilmington on Saturday.
| Kuhn run the bases on Saturday
like fiend.
| Walker pitched star game
! Hartley continues to hit the ball
hard.
| Wilmington A. A. played an er-
rorless game.
There is a rumor that News will
be at South Side Park to-day.
Manager Frysinger surprised the
Princeton boys by givi ng them $25
more than the guarantee.
Harley has received an offer to
play first base for Cleveland.
1t is said a number at changes
will be made. on the Wilmington
team this week.
Bonner has accepted an offer to
play second for the Newark, N. j.,
team.
The manager also made Foreman
an offer which was refused.
AT South Side Park on Satur day
afternoon the Wilmington A. A. de-
feated the Princeton team by the
score of 5 to 2.
The game was witnessed by 1900
persons which was nearly as many
as attended the opening game.
Everson pitched good steady
game for the home team and the
hits made of him where well scat.
tered. He had fiawless support,
not an error being made back of him
while at times the fielding of Will
mington was brilliant, Hoffman
pulling some sure things down out
of the air in left field.
To-day the Wilmington A. A.
plays Roxborough and good game
is expected. The team goes away
to York for tomorrow and We'd
nesday and their first game at home
will be on Decoration Day with the
strong team of the Bloomburg State
Normal School, which has defeated
some of the leading college mines
this year.
Saturdays score follows:
Wilmington A. 40 1902 COOKS
Nassau O2O00-2
WILMINGTON WON.
Wilmington defeated O'Rourke's
Cosmopolitans in a close and excit-
ing game at the Union streetground
on Saturday afternoon by the score
of to /. Walker was in the box
for the home team and pitched an
excellent game holding the visitors
down to four hits.
KID Jordan, who was the crack
pitcher of the Chester Athletics last
year, was in the box for the COsmo-
politans, and he got touched lively,
while the visitors could touch Walk
er only four times, Bonner drove
home run and Hartley made as
usual, long hits that counted good
for three bases. Jordan was touch
ed so actively that he was put in
the stable and Liebfried took his
place.
The score was as follows
Wilmington 1OOO1lO0x-3
Cosmopolitans 100000
In hotly contested game of ball
over Washington Street bridge, the
Ebonys, crack 17-year-old team,
colored, defeated the strong Vesper
team of Chester by the score of 10
toS The Vespers are composed of
white players about 10 years of age,
their first defeat this season was in
the hands of the Ebony. The most
remarkable feature of the game was
the pitching of Leon Wild of the
Ebony ho struck out IS men. Nc
Gill for the Vespers did some fine
fielding. The Ebonys haven't lost
game.
The Thurlow A. A. base ball team
of the west end, Chester, came to
this city on Saturday, and played
the Aetna A. A., of this city. The
Chester boys claim they were I'M
mercifully roasted by the umpire,
and therefore suffered a defeat by
the score of Is to -. The Thurlow
players claim that in the seventh
inning they scored three runs by
right, bnt these were denied by the
umpire, who called the game.
= The Boys League has organized
ball team and would like to hear
from any team with 14-year-old
players, challenges are received by
Manager Theodore Kruger, Thirty
second and Moroe streets. The
players are as follows: James Logue
c.; Charles Pepperman, p. (Capt.); |
George Brannon, SIS, John Maske,
ID, Howell Pipino, 2b.; Theodore
Kruger, 3D. Jacob Lenderman, IT,;
Harry Kruger, cf; Harry Schill |
niger. r.; Clarence Baldwin, sub.
The manager promises fair treat
ment to all corners.
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