The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-08-06


one thing-object to the umpires de
cisions. Jim Berry officiated, and the
amount of kicking done and the ignorance
Of rules displayed made up for all other
deficiencies.
The way in which the visitors gained on
Mount Holly in the ninth inning shows
that over confidence is dangerous thing.
There is but one way to play ball and
that is to keep at it until the last man is
out, just as if every run was strict ne
cessity.
Vincentown will play Florence to-mor-
row afternoon at Vincentown.
Two to one was the score in fine game
between Bordentown Field Club and
White Hill, on Saturday.
The Moorestown Y. M. G. A. team met
with its first defeat on Saturday. Loose
playing allowed the Bellfield, of Philadel-
phia, to win by the score of 10 to 2.
Medferd went to Haddonfeld on Satur-
day. Wescott, pitcher for the latter, W as
too much for the visitors and they went
home defeated. The score was 6 to g.
The Riverton Athletics met the Phila-
delphia Field Club on Saturday. The
game was loosely played by both teams
ending In favor of the former-9 to 4.
E. L. Kerns played at New Egypt, on
Saturday. Slocum, for the home team,
played fine game in the box and in the
field. The score was to in favor of
New Egypt
Poor Florence. To be clicked" by Bur
lington was bitter pill, butte be shut out
and that by cast-off pitcher, was sore
that even the pleasure of beating Mount
Holly could not heal.
Manager Lamb believes in living up to
his engagements. He has game with
Medford next Saturday, and he has started
out to find players to enable him to be
on hand when the umpire calls 'batter
up"
Klein, the Fifteen dollar beauty" was
in the box for Florence, and while he
struck out ten men, he allowed hits at a
time when they counted. Both teams had
new men on for the result meant some
thing.
Blackburn, of Riverside, is somewhat
of a pitcher. He had strenuous day
Friday, when he was up against one of
the strongest teams In the country, and he
went into the box next day and landed his
club to victory.
Vincentown defeated Pemberton, on
Saturday. with ease. The score was 10 to
1. Pemberton tried three pitchers during
the game Gillian, Woifrom and Norcross
Cheeseman allowed the Pemberton team
only two hits
The Beverly Athletics won game from
Bridgeboro, on Saturday, by the score of
Z to 4. Freck, who has heretofore been
able to keep the Beverly players from hit
ting, had, as pitchers will once In awhile,
an off day, and the home team landed on
him for Is hits.
Cheeseman, Florence's third baseman,
did not get his hair cut, and he had lost
his mouth protector, so he played his
usual game, throwing ball over the first
basemans head, and failing to handle
Billy Smiths hot grounder. Burlington
scored two runs on Jakey's misplays, then
the manager took him off the base and
told him to get the hair out,of his eyes.
In order to have things as nearly equal
as possible, Beverly and Riverside played
at Burlington on Saturday. The game
was to decide series and to see who
could get the purse of 800. Blackburn
of Riverside. pitched an elegant game ant
made four of the eleven hits secured by
his club. The score was to in favor o
Riverside.
There was great game of ball at BuI
lington, Friday afternoon, when tn
famous colored team, the Philadelphi
| Giants, played with the locals. Black
burn, the Riverside pitcher, was In th
: box for Burlington, and held the heav
hitters opposed to him down to six hits
s Ten innings were played and the gam
f had to be called on account of darkness
: with the score to 5.
Two defeats in games where the clail
a for championship was one of the stron
r points was dreadful shock to Florenc,
8 who had really begun to think themselvt
the only thing on earth. Saturday was
:, sad night in Foundrytown. Charlie Pei
: cocks plumes were not spread to til
\ breeze as they were on the occasion {
! putting Dick Lambs club out of exis
6 ence. He did not stand on the corner an
= drink ice water and call to reporter
"put it in the paper" There was no lou
! inquiry as to what a certain newspap
% would have to say now. None of the
, things occurred. Everybody in Floren'
) went to bed early Saturday evening. Blu
. ington put them to sleep.
d The greatest game on Saturday was
At Florence. Burlington went up hoping
10 win, but, with a crippled team, feared Il
IN contrary. To shut out the Foundrytov
,e bunch was beyond their dearest hope
Nv Dub IHdJ WAS Tile way IL ChuOU' Up w VI
4 the eighth inning neither side scored, b
IN the visitors thought 1t was time to
he something, so they got two runs and
n the ninth they got another. Florence W
h unable to score. And the man who d
in the good work was Rhubart, the pitct
III who was sent adrift by Florence becau
re he let Burlington win once before.
re pitched the game of his life and Florer
m was able to get but three hits off his {
CHI livery.
nd Manager Lamb had reorganized tel
an on Sunday when he played Bristol. FIR
lte the looks of the score he must have ha
to disorganized bunch. Rhubart, who
is signed with him, sent word that he CO.
SITS not pitch the game. Rhubart claimed
ess have notified Lamb on Thursday but
les latter did not hear of it until Stature
ore night. Then he had to hurry around
fill the breach and he succeeded in gett