Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
STANDING OF THE CLUBS

Well, there has been a lot said about
Saturdays game with Bloomsbury it
has been knocked in Danville and
praised in Bloomsbury, it has been dis
cussed dispassionately and ferociously
attacked for and against, up and down
and crossways, and then repeated
countless times; so that the second
day after the contest there is scarcely
anything to say that has not already
| been heard many, many times by any
one who is interested enough in base
ball to listen.
/ Heartrending it certainly was, to
| have Providence aid the treachery of
Danville pitcher in swinging game
! to the team that we desire more than
anything else to beat.
| But allowing all the unpleasant feat
ures of the game itself pass, is it not
/ just as we'll that Bloomsbury won? We
all know that for weeks the fate of
base ball in Bloomsbury has been
trembling in the balance. Dissentions
among the managers and players, and
/ dissatisfaction of the fans with both,
have followed a series of defeats of the
Bloomsbury team. The knockers were
I out and attendance had fallen off to
| almost nothing, and the path of the
/ National Game in the Columbia coun-
/ ty seat was leading into dark places.
( 4 victory over Danville would do
more to revive interest and put the
/ team back on its feet than anything
else. Don't you think that maybe He
who sees everything, even to the spar
rows fall, unloosed the elements and
gave Saturdays game to Bloomsbury
to keep that town from forgetting that
the best of this life is found in con-
tinuing to strive against adversely.
While Bloomsbury is our greatest
rival, the rivalry is for the most part
friendly, and we believe there are few
in Danville who would not be willing
to give up game to Manager Sharp
less boys in the race so that the rest
of the series this summer between the
two towns can be played out.
So far this season four games leaves
each team with two wins. The statis-
| tics are as follows:
| June 4, Danville 4, Bloom 7.
June 8, Danville Z, Bloom 3.
July 10, Danville 7, Bloom /.
July 16, Danville 3, Bloom 5.
While Danville and Bloomsbury have
each won two games and stand even
at present, Danville has the advantage
in points, having scored 81 to Blooms S
| l6.
1t was in the seventh, which has
come to be sort of fetish innings in
Danville base ball lore, that Blooms
burg won Saturdays game. And the
setting of that scene and the events of
little while afterward will not be
forgotten for while by the players or
| the people who watched.
Danville had made one run in the
first innings, when Umlauf's base on
balls was followed by Livengood's s
sacrifice-and two Bloomsbury errors.
From them on until the seventh it
was draw, neither side scoring, al
though the narrowest kind of margins
saved the tally sheet from sully many
times.
All the while the storm clouds were
gathering, but so intense was the ex-
citement that only for fleeting glauces
at the heavens were eyes taken off the
diamond.
When Bloomsbury came in for the
opening of the seventh the flash of
lightning and the crack and roll of
thunder was almost incessant The
pale yellow darkness that sometimes
proceeds the heaviest storms spread
over the field, but in spite of the omin-
Gus signs men and women sat glued to
the benches.
Steffen, first up for Bloomsbury in
the seventh, hit clean to center field.
Hine followed him and laid a ground
er between first and second. BY an un-
fortunate arrangement between Liven-
good and Umlauf it has been decided
that in case Hine hit the ball Liven-
good was to cover second, and the
Dutchman running to his base left
open the spot where Hines hit passed
through the infield. That should have
been the first out.
With men ON first and second Cross.
in then laid spanking roller at Liv.
engood, which our second baseman
cleanly errored, while Steffin scored.
That should have been the second out
Dougher went down, Veith to Nipple,
Hine scoring on the play. Dougher'.
should have been the third out with
but one score.
Then started what is perhaps the
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