Evening journal., 1906-09-10
DOVER BALL CLUB
LEFT THE field
BrideeViIIe Scored Two Runs
Against DOver'S Nothing
Then Trouble Began
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BRIDGEvILLE. Sept 1O.-The
Bridgeville baseball team won the
STATE championship by winning the
deciding game Of the series from the
strong Dover team at Dover. Satur-
day. The score was to I'm favor OF
Brldgeville. but the umpire awarded
the game TO Brldgeville 9 to 0, as
Dover refused to play after Bridge
Vile had made two runs.
/ The management Of each team
lagreed on Umpire Hurlock, and the
! lconcensus Of opinion was that he was
giving the best decisions Of any UNI
plre at Dover this season. Even the
chronic ldckers of Dover seemed
pleased. but there came a change
after Bridgeville had made two runs
and Dover had failed to tally. In the
sixth Benson got a walk to first;
Hoover and Townsend made hits,
scoring the two runs. and Dover then
retired the side. Then when Dover
started to bat Alice was induced by
hseveral admirers of the Dover team
to put Hurlock out Of the game and
substitute another umpire from Dover.
The claim was that Benson should
not have been given a walk to first
The claim was made after the two
runs had been made, nothing being
said before, and it was a case of want
ing to kick that's ALL The umpire re-
fused to leave the game. and awarded
IL TO Brdgeville Dover refusing to
play.
Several promiennt Dover people ex-
pressed to the correspondent their de-
cided non-approval Of Dover's action,
and complimented Umpire Hurlock.
The game was advertised for three
o'clock sharp, and the Bridgeville
team was on the ground ready to play
but Dover had no pitcher. Yerkes
was in New York. Griffith had a bad
wrist while Topham had been over
worked during the week and could
not be put in. An automobile was
bringing Del" Willis to the game,
but IL had broken down, and another
automobile pressed into service shared
a like fate. Dover was In n delimma,
and as an indication of Bridgevilles
/ generosity and lack of fear of Willis
and the Dover bunch they awaited
until four o'clock for Willis, whose
advent gave such hope to the Dover
ties. only to be blasted, as the Bridge
Vile boys began to rap him for singles
and doubles, scoring two runs Bridge
willie could have claimed the game
when IL was not started at three
sharp, as advertised and agreed to,
but had Dover beaten and wanted to
show them on their home grounds
The game was played sixty per
cent gate receipts 10 the winner and
forty to the loser. but the Dover man
agement refused to pay anything un-
less we would agree to give Dover
the game 9 to 0, when Bridgeville
would get forty per cent. No sane
man would consider such a proposition
and finally Dover offered fifty per
cent, call Saturdays game off, as
though It had never been played. and
play five games this week to decide
the championship The Bridgeville
management refused such proposit-
ions, as there is no question as to
Bridgevile being due sixty per cent,
and viii institute suit proceedings
unless the amount due is paid.
The Dover club was certainly out
classed IN the games for the champ
ionship. After two tie games. seven
other games were arranged, Bridge
willie winning four out of five, and
winning three OF them on Dover's
grounds. Dover got one game score,
2 TO 1. In the five games Bridgeville
made 21 runs, while Dover got but
six.
Benson and secord were the battery
for Bridgevillei willis and zearfoss
for Dover.
]. e. LAYTON.