The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-08-18

/ There was no necessity to go out
Mount Holly on Saturday to see a goe
game of base ball. for the best article {
that kind that has been put up here in
long time was given to the few spectator
who witnessed it, The Vincentown tear
was the opposing club. When the gam
| between Medford and Vincentown cam
to a close some weeks since, and the latte
was showed under by the largest scor
ever put up on the Medford scoreboard
Manager Woolston Haines, oflVincentown
felt pretty blue and about made up hi
mind to give up the business. 1t is no
often that "Woolse" gets cold feet, Blu
they were rather chilly that evening
However he got busy and reorganized hi
team and it was the new lot that came t.
Mount Holly on Saturday to do us up
They were all ''Viucentown" because thu
majority of them had letter W on theil
shirts and many of the natives call thu
town "Wincentown."
They started in with a vim and 1t looked
for little time as if there would bt
something doing. The battery was com
posed of two brothers named Schof1eld
The pitcher had lots of speed at the start,
but he weakened before the end came. In
the first inning Myers, of Vincentown,
got to first base. The next man up hit to
Gillian who fielded the ball to second and
caught the runner, but there was not suf-
ficient time to make double play. Wor-
rell, the next man up, made two base
hit, advancing the runner to third. W.
Schoield hunted and the ball was thrown
to Gillian, but the ruined bumped into
him, and he dropped the ball, preventing
quick return to the home plate, and a
run was scored The next two men were
easily disposed of.
Nothing more was doing until the
fourth inning, when pitcher Schofeld
reached first and advanced to second on a
sacrifice hit. In trying to catch the rum
ner off second Thorne made wild throw
and the runner went to third. Jimmy
who had been playing poor ball
for Mount Holly, was on third base for
Vincentown, and he put up very diff
ferent game from that which he
furnished here. He made two. base hit,
which brought in the second run for the
visitors. This caused the Vincentown
rooters to go wild and the manager felt
that he was all to the good, This was all
the scoring that Vincentown did, and the
game continued for II innings.
In the eighth inning Mount Holly took
a little try at getting runs. Loveland
was the first man up and went out on a
1y ball. Gamble, second base, sent a
good one into the corn in right field. I'm
der the rules it was good for two bases
only. Bennett, shortstop, then went to
bat and picked out one that suited him.
He sent this into the corn in left field.
The ground rules did not govern this hit
and before the ball was recovered Bennett
had made home run and sent the other
runner in. The Vincentown catcher, who
had been advising the Mount Holly rooters
to ''make a noise" and who had been
talking somewhat himself, had his desire
for a noise gratiied and he was quite
meek afterwards. Manager Raines took
a seat In the grandstand and remarked
that cranberry boys were more to his
liking than cornfelds. The score now
stood two to two, and thus it ended
AS the game progressed the Vincen-
town pitcher became tired, while Thorne
grew stronger with each inning. In the
18th inning it looked as if the game would
end in dispute. Myers, shortstop for
Mount Holly's inield and reached Eugene
Haines in right field. The runner crossed
first base and turned to the left and before
he could recover himself Haines had sent
the ball to Gillian who touched Myers and
the umpire declared the latter out. This
caused loud protest from the Vincen-
town club. They put up various arguments
to save their man, but the umpire stood
firm and the man was forced to retire.
Linton was right in his decision. The
rule under which he acted provides that
"'when the batter runs to first base he may
overrun that base If he turns to the right
after passing it. If he turns to the left
he renders himself liable to be touched
out before he gets back to the base" This
is just what happened. The runner turn
ed to the left and was touched out.
In the 10Th inning the captains of the
teams wanted to have the game discon-
tinued, but no agreement could be
reached. The inning ended and the UNI
pire announced that there would be but
one more inning played. Myers was the
first man up and he went out on the play
mentioned. Dwyer hit one to Gillian and
was an easy out Worrell popped up
fly ball which was caught by Bennett, and
the game for Vincentown was over.
Mount Holly tried to do something.
Seamon was thrown out at first. Haines
was given pass, and Smith and Cheese
man, who had been put in to bat for Love-
land, died at first, and Mount Holly's
chances died with the plays.
Both pitchers did well. Four hits were
made off of Vincentown's pitcher, six hits
being secured off of Thorne. This num-
Der in a game of II innings showed very
light hitting There was some good field
ing. Thorne had IA strikeouts; Scho-
field, 10.
Riverton played at Medford on Satur-
day, but the game was not interesting.
Medford won by the score of to 1.