The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-07

/ Riverside and Burlington got together
on Saturday on the grounds of the latter,
and as result there was great game in
which the Burlington team went down.
Riverside got one run in the first inniHg,
three In the third and one in the sixth.
Burlington got one In the first, one in the
second and one In the seventh. Sweeney
pitched for Burlington, new fellow, or
at least new name-Hankee- being in
the box for Riverside. The latter touched
Sweeney for eight hits, Burlington getting
six
Sweeney was home from Hagerstown,
on Saturday, but Mount Holly had signed
Morgan for the game with Delanco, and
Sweeney took Morgan's place at Bur
lington.
White Hill beat the Philadelphia
Browns, on Saturday, by the score of z
to 2
Florence Red Hots shut out the Browns,
of Riverside. Score, 6 to 0.
doc" Shrader umpired at Mount
Holly, on Saturday, and showed how
man can go wrong on a decision that is so
out of the way as to be noticeable to even
schoolboy. A ball was knocked In front
of batter, touching in front of the plate,
but it bounded out, was caught by the
catcher on fair ground and fielded to first
In time to put the runner out, but the UNI
pire called it foul This was a decision
without the slightest ground for justif1ca-
ton. The batter resumed his position
and made hit without which there
would haYe been but one hit recorded
against Morgan.
Riyerton played the same team that
Mount Holly was up against on the pre-
vious Saturday Frankford Independents.
Hercher, RiVerton's pitcher, allowed the
visitors but two hits and the score was A
to in favor of Riverton.
Florence got three runs, on Saturday,
while the Palmyra Field Club secured but
one.
Medford went to Haddonfeld, on Sat
urday, and was beaten by the score of
eight to seven.
Mount Holly had two good games with
Florence yesterday. The first was In the
morning. ''Spitball Silcox" was In the
box for Florence, Morgan acting for the
home team. Florence got two runs in the
first inning, and Mount Holly scored one
in the first and one In the third. Then
the game was even for ten more innings.
Neither side could get their hits together
in shape to bring good results. In the
18th inning, Bunting got a pass to first
and stole second, reaching third on an
error Parcel struck out, but Sweeney
hunted and while the ball was being
fielded to first Bunting scored and the
game ended by the score of three to two.
In the afternoon Florence had a pitcher
by the name of Yates. He had done good
work at Bristol the day before and Flor
ence thought he would be better than
rhn~k aka kn1
pretty well, but he got very tired before
the game ended and was not worth much
The game was one that kept the crowd on
edge. Sweeney pitched for Mount Holly
and he did not appear to be as effective as
in the past as he was freely hit. through
errors and bad throwing on the part of
Florence Mount Holly scored two runs In
the first inning. Florence got one in the
second. In the third one clean hit and
three errors allowed Florence to get three
runs and they were two ahead of the home
team. In the fifth Mount Holly did some
hitting and tied the score, but in the
seventh Florence got to work and ended
three ahead In Mount Holly's half of the
same inning, the home team got FIVE runs
and that put them one ahead. There
were two or three disputes on the part of
| Florence on the decisions of the umpire
and it looked for awhile as If the visitors
would leave the field They remained,
however, but the life seemed to have been
knocked clear out of them, and In the
eighth inning Mount Holly scored FIVE
runs and the game ended by the score of
IS to7.
Perkins did not play with his usual vim
yesterday. He was not feeling well, but
even at that he got two hits In each game,
two Of them being two-baggers.
Golden did not appear, so Lindsay
played short and Blackburn took second.
Silcox is certainly good pitcher. Yates
Is not. Rhubart could have done better
The Florence rooters tried to rattle
Sweeney and Peacock whenever they
went to bat but it was no use. Each man
hit the ball for two bases.
The umpire certainly was off In at least
one of his decisions, but 1t did not have
any influence on the result, except that it
made Yates play like sch )olboy.
The Mount Holly team stole second
without extra exertion. Sadler could not
locate the base and If he did happen to
get the ball down the second baseman
would drop it.
There were two games at Medford be-
tween the team of thai town and Burling-
ton. In the morning Gil Vickery oc-
cupied the box for Burlington. Up to the
ninth inning the score stood to in favor
of Burlington, but in the last inning Med
ford hit the ball hard, making five hits
and four runs, winning the game by the
score of 5 to 4. Burlington got back in
the afternoon, however, by winning the
game by the score of 5 to 8.
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