The Penn's Grove record., 1908-09-25
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Penn's Grove A. Al Pedricktown 0
Games o IA, Lost 5, Percentage 1877

PENIS Grove A. Al Pedricktown 0
Games won IA, Lost S, Percentage .737
Close to 500 persons turned out Sat
urday to see the game between Pedrick-
towns crack nine and the local J. A
AS. The rooters were out in force
Hightown being as well represented as
the local team, the latter winning after
an eleven-lnning nerve racking contest,
The local team presented their Usual
lineup with Featherer OH the slab. Ped.
/ rlcktown's line up was strong with some
! OF the old players of years ago namely,
Fell who was at one time considered one
OF the best slab artists in South Jersey.
"Poodle" Layman another old time star,
and Doughten. Blocksom, the banker,
| strengthen, the team at the first station,
while Snyder occupied the box.
II Smith had held first base in the in
itial inning after he had beat out Kille's
I muff of his third strike and not tried to
to steal second, Biddle's walk would have
| given him second and Featherer's single
put him on second. Holdcraft hit what
looked to be a Texas Lacquer but Lloyd
no was playing i'll, after a hard run
! caught it and doubled Featherer at first.
Three men only faced Snyder in the Sec
ond, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and
ninth innings. In the third and fifth
innings Holmes got a walk but was left
on base as the following batsmen could
do nothing to help Jack around. In the
tenth after Holdcraft had flied to Justice,
Hunter was safe on Doughten's tumble
but died on the first bag as Griffith hit to
| Blocksom and Fish famed.
In eight OF the eleven innings the"Sox"
retired the visitors in one, two, three ord
eE. In the third Justice tried for a bunt
but ben" threw him out al first. Lloyd
banged out the first talley, got second on
Smiths pass ball but was out on an at
tempt to steal third. Layman connected
for a single in the fourth, but Featherer
caught him off first and Bunk threw
him out at second. After Black was
thrown out at first by Featherer in the
fifth and kille had famed, Justice made
the third hit for Pedricktown, stealing
| second and third. This was the only
man to reach third and the only time the
visitors threatned the home plate, but as
Lloyd famed, no damage was done.
For i've innings the visitors were help
less before Featherer's superb pitching,
three men facing him in each inning.
In the eleventh Kille got hit but there he
died, for the following batsmen were easy
| outs, Snyder the last batter lifting a high
fly to Biddle.
The grand finale of the great contest
| came to an end in the last half of the
eleventh. Holmes the first man up,
peeled off a single, Raine, put a foul fly
TO DOughten and as it fell into his glove
the hearts of the home rooters sank.
Their spirits rose however, as Smith
smashed out a corking single to right and
Holmes by clever sprinting landed on
third. Blddle was next up and tried for
a sacrifice. Justice fumbled the hit long
| enough to get Holmes off of third. Then
started the manouvers between third and
the plate and the whole ~Pedrfcktown
team joined in the chase to run Jack
down. After doing a series of ducking
and lodging stunts our v~eratile second
sacker made a dash for third landing
safely on the sack amid the cheers Of the
crowd. Jack appeared "all in" after his
run. but after a rest during the argument
which invariably follows such a close
decision he was in trim to try again for
the plate. F~eatherer who had already
contributed two singles was expected to
bring the game to a end. as the bases
were filled and only n out. Snyder
was pitching his hardest and was show
ing sign OF weakening under the strain.
After Featherer had fouled two Snyder
took a chance by putting one over the
pan, and as Ben" famed the "High.
town" rooters let loose. 1t was o up
to "Bunk''.
By the way, Warmers stick-work Of
late has helped to win some tight games,
those with Gibbstown and Paulsboro es-
pecially, and every loyal rooter OF the
home team was on his toes as our first
sacker stepped to the plate. Megaphones
were brought into action and roofing
| started anew. 'EBdnke e-rs~s-sne GO
by and it was evident that Snyder found
it hard to locate the plate. The second
ball was a wide out shoot and as Chunk"
is a left handed batter it struck him un
the shoulder. This forced Holmes i'll
with the winning run, the only talley of
eleven long innings and terminating the
longest and mostly holly contested game
seen in Penn's Grove for a long time, if
ever.
The score: