The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
BRYAN TOSSED BALL.
Notable Opening of the Baseball Sea.
son at Frederick.

Frederick, Nd, May 20.-Frederick
baseball season opened this afternoon
with victory for the local team over
Hagerstown by score of 4 to 0 in a
Spendidly played game, witnessed by
a crowd of nearly 1000 persons. The
occasion was made notable by the
presence of William Jennings Bryan,
who pitched the first ball, prefacing
this action by delivering brief tenn
perance lecture.
| What kind of ball do you want,
high or low?" he called to Catcher
Peloquin, of the Frederick team from
the pitchers box. ANY kind" called
back Peloquin. well, young man"
replied Bryan, "the fewer nigh balls
you take the better for you" Then
he pitched the ball. His throwing was
not as good as his running, for the
ball went beyond the catcher's reach.
In very snappy game of ball Sat-
urday Washington College went down
! to defeat before the Western Mary
land Collegians to 2. 1t was the
only game in which Western Mary
land had the opportunity to show its
strength against a team of the late In
! tercollegiate League. Hanks, for
Western Maryland, pitched a great
game, striking out seven men and al
lowing only three hits. Smiths field
ing was another strong feature of the
game. Wilson, Washington's second
baseman, was the star for the visitors.
In it's opening game last Saturday
Mount Airy defeated it's old rival, New
Windsor, to 2. New Windsor's two
runs came in the third inning on an
error by Talbot after hard run
and Spencer's hit over rightfeld fence.
Mount Airy got busy with bunts in the
sixth and pulled the game out of the
fire. Lewis struck OUT Is men and al
lowed but two hits. The catching of
Gunther was fine. Tomorrow Mount
Airy will play St. Helena at Mount
Airy.
On Saturday Reisterstown won a
stubbornly contested game from the
McCulloh A. c. on the Reisterstown
grounds by / to o. For II innings
neither team could score, but in the
thirteenth Worthington dropped an
easy fly from overconfidence and Pow
ers crossed the plate with the lone
tally. The features were the pitching
of Flater and Braden and the heady
work behind the bat of Gabler.
The Westminster Stars defeated the
Silver Run Stars two games of base
ball on Saturday last, at Silver Run.
The score of the first game was to
4. Batteries es-Westminster, C. Long
and E. Eckenrode; Silver Run, H. G.
Knipple and G.. Maus. Struck out by
Long, 13; Knipple, 3.
The second game was to 2. Bat
Observation-Disclosures, w. r. Green and
c. Long; Silver Run, Knipple and
Maus. Struck out by Green, 8; Knip-
pie, 0.
They Young Nationals are going to
play the Silver Run Stars, at Silver
Run, May %. H. Byers, captain and
manager, would like to hear from any
strong team not over the age of 16
On Ascension day, May %, at VIM
K. Leppo's, there will be two games OF
base ball between Cranberry and
Snydersburg. The first game will start
at one o'clock p. mand the second will
start as soon as the first is completed
These teams play good ball and all
wishing to see two good games of base
ball should not fail to be on hand
The Cranberry boys have selected sew
eral good players. Among them are
Stoner and Babylon and several other
Snydersburg lineup in the first game
will be: Simmons, S.; Albaugh, 1b.
C. Reed, 3b.; Stof1e, c.; Webster, p:
Snyder, 2b.; W. Reed, cf.; Wagner, If. ;
Croft, rf.