The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-14
Base Ball.


The Continental Field Club, of Mount
Holly, will play ball at Lumberton next
Saturday.
Mount Holly has won five games this
season and lost three. Of those won four
were shutouts.
Thorne, Mount Holly's pitcher, has Is
strike outs recorded In his favor, but
strike outs do not win a game.
Mount Holly will go to Medford next
Saturday. Whether 1t will come home
victorious or defeated will be told next
week.
Mount Holly did not seem to be able to
hit in its usual form, despite the fact that
the batsmen declared the opposing pitcher
mot much"
Only one error recorded on each side in
the Mount Holly game There were
some very nice plays on both sides. The
catcher for the visitors took a foul fly
right against the fence.
Mount Holly, on Saturday, took dose
Of medicine 1t has been giving other clubs
this season and suffered shutout at the
hands of the Covenant A. A., of Phil
adelphia. The visiting team was strong
one. and 1t was apparent from the start
that the home team would not have a
walkover. Nothing was doing until the
fourth inning when Covenant player
was sent to first base on balls The next
mon nv, hrptad opd haof tha ho1I RI frct
advancing the other player. The third
man tried the bunt game and hit slow
one down the first base line which Thorne
got but could not make double on 1t. He
threw to first and caught the runner, but
the other two had gone base further
The next batsman hit hard one which
went just far enough inside the third base
line to escape being foul, and before the
ball could be recovered two runs came in.
The only real chance Mount Holly had to
score was in the sixth inning. The bases
were full. An attempt to work the
squeeze play" was made The batsman
was ordered to bunt, but the man on third
did not appear to have been given the
signal, and he did not start home quickly
enough and was easily thrown out. This
made two out and the third man was dis
posed of without much trouble. The
game ended with the score Q to 0.
Medford went to Vincentown, on Sat-
urday. and ran up against stiff PROPOSE
ton, the enthusiasts of the latter town
having put up lot of money to get a
team that would eat the glassblowers up.
They had some c-ackerjacks. Maxwell.
of the Athletic staff, was in the pitchers
box Smith, Southern League catcher,
was behind the bat, aud other celebrates
were scattered around the diamond.
Medford took Its regular team. The &C
counts of the game differ. Medford says
there was some ground rules whereby a
ball thrown beyond first or third base
would entitle the runner to two bases, and
that this rule was agreed to by the UNI
pire and the captain of each team before
was no such rule. And on this disputed
point the result of the game rested. In
the eighth inning Medford player man
aged to get to second base. He started
for third and the fielder threw low, the
ball rolling past the baseman, and Med
ford's captain ordered the runner to go
home, on the ground rule. The baseman
recovered the ball, threw 1t to the catcher
easily touched the runner, and the umpire
declared him out. Then the discussion
arose. The VincentOwn people say the
ball rolled but few feet and even If there
were ground rules they did not count In
that instance as the ball did not touch the
fence A disinterested spectator, how
ever. says the ball did roll to the fence.
So that 1t all depended upon the ground
rule, and with the idea that there was
such regulation Captain Schoenut re-
fused to play any longer. There was the
usual pow-wow and the umpire finally
pulled his watch and then forfeited the
game to Vincentown.
This caused some dissatisfaction and
Harry Knight. President of the Medford
Field Club, told the manager that the
game must be played to finish. The
Vincentown players had left the grounds
ana messenger was scut iof tHSm. lucy
were found at the hotel, some of them
having already changed their clothing.
On being told the decision they declined
to again resume play. They said that
game had been finished. The decision of
the umpire settled that. If they went
back to the grounds and again entered In
to contest It would cost just the same as
"a new game. This put all idea of playing
out of the question and the contest was
ended. 1t was pity there was dispute
over the umpire's decision, although 1t
was very natural that such thing should
occur. As was said at the outset the
whole affair rests on the point whether
there was ground rule. One side de-
clares there was, and the other says there
was not At any rate the umpire decided
to the contrary, and all umpires are liable
to make mistakes. While Vincentown |
was keeping Medford from scoring 1t must
be borne in mind that the way 1t was done
was by the employment of professional
PLAYERS. and all the time Medford was
doing The same thing to Vincentown,
neither side having scored up to the close
of the seventh inning. Outside OF leaving
the field Medford appears to have had the
hotter of the argument.