The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-29
Sporting Notes.

sporting NOTES.
Next Saturday Mount Holly goes to
Beverly.
Mount Holly base ball club will go to
New Egypt on Thursday afternoon.
). F, Budd. of Burlington, beat the
Grubb team, of Beverly on Saturday, by
the score of to 4.
The keystone team will play the Med
ford Stars on Saturday, on the Anderson
vile grounds.
Next Monday there will be two base
ball games at Medford, morning and after
noon, Pemberton VS.. Medford, and big
minstrel show in the evening.
Riverside administered a shutout to the
strong Runner club, of Philadelphia, on
Saturday, the score being 5 to o. In 81
innings played but one run has been made
off Riverside This team is undoubtedly
a strong proposition.
Florence came to Mount Holly on Satur-
day and went home victorious Parker
was in the box for the home team and had
a good arm. Seaman appeared to be the
hoodoo this time, making errors which al
lowed the visitors to score four of their
five runs. Mount Holly had eight hits,
Florence six, while each had the same
number of strike-outs. The game was
umpired by man named Filter. Mount
Holly got two runs.
Jenkins, who had been playing with
Mount Holly, was back with Medford, on
Saturday, and not only covered third base
with credit, but put lots of ginger in the
game. While he made but one clean hit,
by his sharp playing he reached first base
three times and scored two runs. When
he was at Medford last he was with the
Mount Holly team and his appearance
was greeted with jeers On Saturday
there were not cheers enough to go
around.
Medford got into its normal condition
on Saturday by defeating Hermon, of
Philadelphia. This club was heralded as
one of the strongest in the city, and it al
ways has given good games, but it was
decidedly weak on Saturday. The game
started briskly Hermon made run in the
first inning. and it looked as if the con.
test would be full of ginger, but after fail
ing to score in the first two innings, Med
ford got down to work and scored right
along, finally closing with ~ runs to its
credit, while Hermon was compelled to
be satisfied with 2 Medford got II hits,
Hermon made but s. GUSTS umpired the
himself solid with some of the enthusiasts
who had been giving vent to the idea that
Custis had been bought over by the Mount
Holly management when the team from
this town played at that place.
There is movement on foot to revive
the Burlington County League of Base
Ball Clubs. This is a good move, as it
will be the means of bringing together all
IF ho riuolc in tho aOnnfv and with bo co
ball it is the same as any other sport
where there is rivalry there is always Y
good attendance. Charles Margerum, sec
rotary of the late league, has written to
the following managers. some of whom
have returned their answer, and they
think it will be boom for base ball in the
county: Pemberton, Mount Holly, Flor
ence. Burlington, Beverly, Delanco, Riv-
erton and Palmyra. This will make an
eight-club circuit. The season just pass
ing has been like many others to the
managers of base ball clubs in this vicin
ity They either have to paw a guaran-
tee which is sometimes larger than their
receipts, or get a second class team. Now
the league will overcome this, and as it
will be to the advantage of every manager
to put as good team on the field as he
can. Good games can be looked for if
there is league.
The Beverly Field Club captured the
coveted cup in the fifth tennis tournament
of the League of West Jersey Field Clubs
at Moorestown, Saturday afternoon.
Moorestown won the ladies' singles and
mems singles, while Beverly captured the
ladies doubles and mixed doubles, thus
leaving it to the mems doubles to decide
one of the most interesting matches ever
played on the grounds of the Moorestown
Field Club. This contest proved extreme
ly interesting to the end and brought out
many good plays on both sides. The Will
son brothers, of Beverly, who have only
been defeated once in five years, were I'M
usually good, while |. Dayton Roberts, of
Moorestown, made several wonderful
plays and was well assisted by j. Walter
Boureau, but the Beverly lads proved too
much for Moorestown. Miss Anna Wal
lace, of Moorestown. won from Merchant
vile by default and defeated Miss M.
Thorpe, of Haddonfield, 81, go. She
won from Miss May Catlett, of Haddon-
field, SO, so. This is the first year that
Moorestown has failed to win the tourna-
ment She won the first cup in three con-
secutive years and then started for the
second cup by winning last year.
The Philadelphia Giants went to Penn
berton on Thursday and drew large
crowd to witness their antics. They did
not have chance to get off many funny
stunts, however, for Pemberton had
team that kept the colored champions
moving. The Giants won, of course, but
they did not get through with that ease
which has characterized their success
when meeting other country clubs. They
batted the ball freely but the other side
did some good fielding and also found the
ball once in awhile. The Giants made
three home runs, but that was the result
of foolish field rule. If it had not been
adopted the runs would not have extended
beyond three bases. The score was 10
to 5. Bob Berry umpired the game and
did so in a very satisfactory manner
There was but one question on any of his
decisions. In one inning there was a
Pemberton man on second and one on first
base. A ball hit to the shortstop was
folded to second, from which place the
runner failed to move. The ball was then
sent to first but failed to head off the run
ner The Pemberton claim at first was
that the runner on second, sticking to the
base, was not out, but the umpire declared
it was double play, as the runner was
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