The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Good Game of Base Ball.

There was an exciting game of base ball
at Burlington. on Saturday, which. while
not replete with brilliant plays, was suff1
GENTLY interesting to keep the crowd
keyed up until the end came Florence
Burlington and Mount Holly were the OPP
posing teams. Each team had won a
game, the latter shutting the other out in
the contest here few weeks ago, and
Florence was determined to win out in
this game.
| In order to make victory sure Florence
got two players from Camden-Perkins
and Berry. The latter officiated in the
position in which he is entirely at home,
that of catcher. Perkins played at second
base. Neither one played with his usual
snap, although Berry made fine catch of
foul fly after running through the crowd
to get it, Perkins was hit in the mouth
by pitched ball in the first part of the
game.
Mount Holly had some new players, too
One Of them was on first base and the
crowd had it that he was League player
His work did not show it, for in the first
inning he allowed two balls to go past
him, which was disastrous to the Mount
Holly team. After that he braced up and
did better. Logan played with Mount
Holly.
The first inning began with Mount Holly
at the bat and the side was BANKED
Florence went in and by fumbles on the
part of Deal and Loveland, were able to
score four runs before the side was retired.
In the second inning Mount Holly scored
two and Florence one Then run getting
ceased until the sixth inning, when Mount
Holly got three runs, and in the eighth
Florence got another, through a muffed
fly by Wolfrom
The ninth inning opened with every
body on their feet. Mount Holly had two
men out and one on third base when
pitched ball struck Berry's glove and the
man ON third scored. The umpire, think
ing the ball a dead one, declared the
ing along the third base line. 1t was one
of those crowds that can always be count
ed on when game with Florence is in
progress on their home grounds. 1t is al
ways ready to assist in winning the game
by any means. When the umpire gave
his decision this crowd surged on to the
field, completely surrounding the umpire,
who after considering the arguments, de-
oided that tho ho11 1uoo q fo,,l ond ordarod
the runner back to the base. More wrang-
ling ensued, darkness came on and the
game was not finished On the strength
of the situation Florence claims to have
won the game by the score of to 8, and
nobody seems to care much for that claim,
although the umpire declared the. game
not won, or practically the same thing, as
he announced 'all bets off"
The true fact about the play was as the
umpire first declared it, The ball was not
foul, but glanced from Berry's glove and
was caught by an outsider who tossed it |
back to the catcher There is no guessing
about this. This statement is the result |
of eyesight.
Randall was in the pitchers box for |
Mount Holly, and did his part well, Flor |
ence getting five hits off of him, while |
Rhubart, pitcher for Florence, was touched |
up for seven clean hits. The error column |
showed eight for Florence. Four of these
were made by Cheeseman, the crack short |
stop, who was very much out of gear.
Mount Holly had three errors. The hits
were made as follows: For Florence, Pea
cock Hill, Hobbs, one each, Morey, two. |
Mount Holly, Jarvis, Deal, Madden, Lo-
gan, Loveland, one each, Wolfrom, two |
As soon as the game was over the
manager of the Florence team wanted
Manager Lamb to sign for another game
on the same grounds. He would not do
so but is willing to play game next Sat
urday on foreign grounds, Beverly pre-
ferred.