The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-09-26
Lost and Won.

given on the Mount Holly base bal
grounds on Saturday afternoon, the par
Elephants being the Mount Holly and Penn
berton ball clubs Mount Holly lost th,
game in the second inning, and deserved
to lose it. 1t won the contest in the nintl
inning and deserved that ending, for tn,
errors of the second were overcome by tn,
good work at the finish.
The Pemberton team was composed o.
Frambes, Hightstown man who has off
eiated for Pemberton before, as catcher
Conway, regular pitcher; Jones, regular
first base; Dougherty, imported for th,
occasion, second base; Matthews, of Dor
dentown, who has been playing with the
strong York, Pa. team, shortstop; Hop
kins. regular, third base; and the regular
outield. Mount Holly bad its regular
team with the exception of second base
This necessitated putting third basemar
Armstrong on second, with Linton in the
field. The second baseman, Kettler, failed
to appear.
The game began by Umpire Custis max.
ing the usual announcements in the voice
that commands attention. Pemberton
went to the bat, and Dougherty led of
with hit which landed him on first.
Heisler was thrown out at first by Parker,
Frambes struck out and Hopkins was put
out by Butler
Armstrong and Seaman struck out, and
Baker, after making a good hit, was
caught mapping at first.
In Pemberton's half of the second in
ming Conway made hit and was advanced
to second by Armstrong fumbling Mat.
thews' grounder. Jones made a hit OF
which Conway scored, Matthews going to
third. Darwood hit an easy one to But
Ter which the latter fumbled, and Mat
thews went home. Norcross made a good
hit on which Jones and Darwood scored.
Norcross was caught at second by Sea
man. Dougherty and Heisler struck out
Four runs for Pemberton and Tylee
Whites megaphone came near getting
cracked in its owners desire to blow of
his jubilant feelings.
Neither side scored in the next two in
nings. In the fourth Seaman made hi
and got to first and was advanced by
Jones. He would easily have made the
base but for dirty piece of work by Penn
berton's imported second baseman, who
deliberately hit the runner with his fist
retarding him to such an extent as to allow
the ball to get to the base ahead of him
The umpire did not see the trick Seaman
Immediately appeared to the man who hi
him and told him what would happen ii
he repeated the performance or even got
in the way. The second baseman attempt
ed to appear unconcerned, but it was nc
ticed that he did not seem anxious to gel
In Seaman's territory after that.
In the fifth Pemberton again got tC
work. Dougherty was put out at first
Heisler got base on balls and stole
second. Frambes was thrown out at first.
Heisler scored on Hopkins hit and Con.
way was retired at first. One more run
for Pemberton and the megaphone that
much nearer destruction.
Mount Holly thought it was time to be
doing something and started in with that
intention. Sooy made clean hit, followed
by another by Butler. Jones popped up a
fly to Dougherty. Sooy got to third, But
Ter remaining on first. He started for
second and when Frambes threw to catch
him Sooy scored. Loveland sacrificed and
Seaman went to third on the throw Lin.
ton was thrown out at first One run for
Mount Holly and great enthusiasm among
the small boys in delight that the game
was not to be shutout
Pemberton was easy in the next inning
and Mount Holly got notion it could re-
peat the performance of the previous in
ming. Parker struck out and the mega
phone howled. Armstrong got a base on
balls. Seaman made a hit, advancing
Armstrong, the latter scoring on Bakers
hit Sooy flew out to DarwOod, and Sea
man, who thought he could get home, was
caught by Darwood's fine throw. One
more run for Mount Holly.
The score was now five to two in favor
of Pemberton and the opinion seemed to
be that the home team was doomed to de-
feat So firmly was this impression i'm
bedded in the minds of the Pemberton
contingent that they began to make ar
rangements for the third and deciding
game. One man went so far as to assert
that the contest must take place on the
Medford grounds and volunteered to talk
to Custis about it. Colby Budd came to
the conclusion that Mount Holly could not
play ball and would never catch up. so he
went home early to carry the news to the
fellows at home who were so unfortunate
as to be unable to come down and see
their pets do up the county -seaters. and to
get the drum corps out to greet the victors
when they arrived. Con. Wiley did not
see much use in staying to see the finish
but it was decided that somebody ought
to stay to report how it was done. SO Con.
agreed to wait and Tylee White decided
to remain and give one glorious farewell
blast on his horn.
In the next three innings Pemberton
failed to score and then came the last half
of the ninth which was Mount Holly's
only chance to make good. The prospect
was not cheering. Butler was thrown out
at first Jones made hit, but was held
at first by Loveland going out on a fly.
Linton made hit and advanced Jones to
second Parker made a hit on which
Jones scored. Armstrong was next at bat
and Conway was getting nervous. Losing
control of the ball he sent one in which
caught Armstrong on the back of the
head and the batter dropped to the ground.
The game was delayed for time, but
when it was resumed Conway was up in
the air and was not able to hold the other
team down. Seaman landed a good one
into the outfeld and Linton and Parker
scored. This tied the score and the Mount
Holly contingent was jubilant while the
corner was very silent. Baker
was the next man at the bat He already
had three hits credited to him and Conway
did not know what to do with him. Put
ting on his thinking cap he studied what
kind of ball would be best to send the
batter. Having decided he sent it in. 1t
was just the kind Baker gets fat on and
he caught IL squarely on the nose. High
up into right field it went, the eyes of
everybody on it. Norcross made fran
tic effort to get after it but it was far be-
yond him and it finally landed in the corn
stubble. Before it touched the ground,
the man who was running for Armstrong
had scored the winning run and the game
was over, but such good hit was not to
be missed and Seaman ran home, while
Baker continued around the circuit, max
ing home run which was not needed and
which could not be scored. The official
finish was six to FIVE
The shouts of the Mount Holly hackers
were heard for long distance, people in
the neighborhood of the post Office plainly
hearing the cheering 1t is said that
the echoes were heard at Pemberton.
Tylee White said whole lot, but none
of his utterances went through the mega
phone. The Pemberton contingent who
went home with the idea that Mount Holly
was too easy for them are said to have
made remarks, but on the whole congrat-
ulated themselves that they were not on
the spot TO witness the terrible end.