The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-09-01

Base Ball.
l, Another good game of base ball wa
IT witnessed between Mount Holly and Viz
e centown on Saturday, on the grounds q
IT Vincentown. There was large crow
out, many going from Mount Holly t
/ witness The contest. Failure of some 0
the Vincentown players to reach tn
a grounds early, caused the game to begil
y late, 1t being after four o'clock when tn
+ first ball was pitched and 1t looked TO
l. awhile as If 1t would be long contest, a
j a wrangle occurred In the first inning A
e fellow named Wright went into the UNI
8 pire's box and the first exception taken tt
8 his actions was when he attempted to star
7 the game with an old ball. After some
talk a new ball was thrown out and thu
g game began.
. 1t did not take long to show that Wright
: was either crooked or ignorant. He was
decidedly off on balls and strikes, but
trouble began over ball which struck
the bat of the batter and the umpire called
} 1t ball. The rules are plain on this point
} and strike should have been called. The
Mount Holly team at once objected and
there was quite wait The Vincentowr
} men knew that the objections of the
} Mount Holly team were well founded, but
they urged the umpire to adhere to his
like turkey gobbler and gave an
exhibition of what he did not know.
Finally one of the directors of the
Vincentown team said the umpire was
sion the smart fellow whose name was
Wright, but that was about all there was
right about him, left the field amid the
jeers of the spectators and Ernest Haines
took the position of umpire. He made
out fairly well and while one or two of his
decisions were against Mount Holly they
were not Intentionally lgiven that way.
One of Vincentown's players failing to
arrive Jimmy Reynolds was placed on
third base and it was his run that won
the game He should have been declared
out for he deliberately cut second base by
at least eight feet, but the umpire did not
see the play and Jimmy was able to score.
While Mount Holly was defeated the
result was not entirely satisfactory as the
Vincentown management was confident of
having walkover with big score, but
the two sides were very evenly matched
The Schoield brothers were the battery
for the home team aud the catcher kept
the crowd laughing by the good humored
sayings he would get off.
First inning. Mount Holly at the bat
with Matthews the first man up. He was
thrown out at first Gillian hit to Reynolds
who made one of his wild throws and
Gillian reached first safely. Bennett got
hit and reached second. Gillian was
thrown out trying to get to third. Par
cell went out on fly. Vincentown's first
batter was Rush and he got his base on
balls, and reached second on an over
throw by Semon. Dwyer popped up fly
which was taken by Thorne and he threw
to second in time to make a double play,
but the second baseman dropped the
ball. Worrell was the next man and he
was the fellow over whom the dispute
arose. He struck out. w. Schofield hit
ball right into the hands of the third
baseman and that was the end of that
inning.
| Second inning. This was a short inn
| ing. For Mount holly Gerts sent fly to
first, Thorne struck out and Haines hit one
into the hands of the first baseman.
For Vincentown Darwood struck at the
first ball pitched to him and sent fly TO
left field which was promptly captured.
Bush went out on fly to shortstop and
Reynolds struck out.
Third inning. Semon went out at first,
Smith did the same and Matthews struck
out, and Mount Holly drew blank.
Vincentown sent H. Schofield up and he
hit one to shortstop who handled the hit
nicely but could not catch the runner at
first. He got to second on wild pitch,
and the Vincentown crowd began to yell
with delight The deposed umpire had
position In the stockholders pavilion and
he shouted himself hoarse over the play.
but the delight was quickly turned to
sorrow for Schofield thinking he could
play as he pleased started for third and
was nicely caught by throw from Semon
Alloways went out on a fly and Rush
struck out
Fourth inning Gillian struck out.
Bennett was thrown out at first after fine
stop, by Vincentown's pitcher. of holly
hit ball. PARCEL sent a fly to second.
For Vincentown Dwyer hit to right field
and stole second. Worrell went out at
first, Dryer going to third. W. Schofield
struck out. Mount Holly pitcher motion
ed to throw to third to catch Dwyer and
the other side at once claimed foul. The
umpire gave q favorable decision and
Dwyer started for home Thorne ran out
and touched the runner, but the umpire
declared him safe. Then another dispute
arose and the rule book was brought out
again and 1t was shown to the satisfaction
of the umpire that he had given a wrong
decision. The runner having gone home
on the ruling. could not be declared out,
however, and he was sent back to third.
Then the Vincentown players wanted the
batter sent to first on the ground that
there was balk, despite the fact the UNI
pire had just decided otherwise. The
farce In this inning was brought to close
by Darwood being thrown out at first.
1
Fifth inning-In this inning Mount
Holly had good chance to score. Gerts
hit to right field, but the fielder failed to
hold the ball. Thorne hunted and the
ball was thrown to second to catch Gerts,
and the second baseman also dropped the
ball, and both runners were safe. The
next man up was Haines He hunted a
ball that was an infeld fly and was caught
by the pitcher who threw to second.
Gerts, with the idea that the batter was
out, did not hurry hack to the base and
was caught and declared out. This was
clearly an illegal decision, as section eight
Of rule 81, says the batsman is out
eff, before two hands are out, while first
and second are occupied, he hit fly ball
other than line drive, which can be
handled by an infelder. In such case the
umpire shall, as soon as the ball is hit,
declare it an infeld or an outfield hit. y
The umpire failed to do this, and allowed
double play to be made. This decision
made a great difference as Semon the next
batter hit to left field, Thorne going tc