Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-23
GAME
OF THE SEASON
Team Going Here Sun
day TO Battle With Their
Greatest Rival.

It is expected that the grounds of
the Perth Amboy Amusement Com
pany will be crowded with baseball
fans Sunday afternoon for the local
team, known as the Roeblings, and
the Trentons, known as the VALID
rons, will cross bats in what will
most likely be the greatest game of
the season.
The Waldrons are the champions
of the Delaware Valley League of
New Jersey. This game will be one
of the bitterest ever fought. The
Roeblings, on which the most of the
Perth Amboy players play, are run
ming in Trenton in opposition to the
Delaware Valley League, and are
playing independent ball, while the
Waldrons are the champions of the
league, having won that title last
season by winning 40 out of 4S
games played. "Rube" Burroughs,
who pitched the Waldrons to victory
last season, will most likely be on the
firing line for the Waldrons.
The Y. M. Q. A. team of Trenton
were known far and neal last sea-
son as n Of the strongest teams in
the business and after the Waldrons
won the championship of the Della
ware Valley League the fans of
Trenton demanded that the Y. M. G..
A. team and Waldrons should come
together. After a great deal of trou-
BILE the two teams came together, the
Y. M. G. A. with the renowned Ray
Egner in the box, and the Waldrons
with their mighty 'Rube" Burroughs
on tn efiring line. Every person in
Trenton who ever saw a game was in
line to see the great contest. The Y.
M. c. A. field of Trenton would not
hold the people. When the battle
was over the Y. M. C. A. had one tai
ly on the right side of the ledger,
while the Waldrons failed to score,
which made the Y. M. C. A. win by
the score of 10 the greatest base
ball contest that ever took place in
Trenton. The only run of the game
was a home run by Charley Hand
ford, now hitting so well with the
Jersey City Eastern League team.
The last seasons Y. M. G. A. team
was secured by the management of
the Roebling association for this sea-
son and are playing great ball under
the name of the Roeblings. The pres
ent Y. M. G. A. team had not lost a
game this season until last Saturday,
when they met the champion VALID
rons. This was a great contest, the
Waldrons beating the Y. M. c. A. 10,
and thereby pulling the Y. NJ. C. A.
out of first place in the league.
Special cars will be run to accom-
modate the crowds that will attend
the game from Trenton and nearby
towns. Manager Hughes has been
trying to arrange this game all sea-
son but has been fought hard by the
Delaware Valley League as they did
not want these teams to meet until
the close of the season, owing to the
Roeblings playing in opposition to
the league in Trenton. The game
was arranged, however, through the
very friendly feeling that exists be
tween Marvin A. Reilly, president of
the Delaware Valley League, and
Manager Hughes. Mr.. Reilly has al
so favored Mr.. Hughes by allowing
two of the strong teams of the Della
ware Valley League to play a regu-
lar league contest on Amusement
Park on Decoration day morning. A
large crowd from Trenton will also
follow these two teams to Amboy.
The Waldrons will line up as fol-
lows: Gray, c.; Burroughs and Will
son, p; Hammel, 1b.; Craig, 2b.;
Rogers, 3d.; Ash, SIS; Brown, 1T;
O'Rourke, c.f.; Foxy Gus VALID
ron, r.f. M