Evening journal., 1910-05-09
COUNTY LEAGUE
In PENNANT FIGHT
Big Season Opens With VIII
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the Winners

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Results of Saturday games:
Wilmington Gas Company. %; Brook
wood, 3.
dupont. s; Riverview, 1.
Griffith and Reeves punches of ball
players have brought Joy to their re-
spective camps and dealt out doses OF
sorrow to the bugs in Riverview and up
around the Y. M. c. A. by winning the
opening games OF the County League ser
les on Saturday.
The scores We're:
Wilmington Gas Co. %; Brookwood, 3.
dupont. s; Riverview, /.
The scores. OF course, tell only small
part of the big baseball story of Saturday,
May T. Some important details that went
TO make the openers the most auspicious
in the history OF local baseball were the
presence OF Governor Pennewill at the du-
Pont- Rivorview game; the send off Mayor
Spruance gave the wilmington Gas Com
pany- -Brookwood game. band concert
parades Of players and pennant raising
All the bugs OF prominence were out and
for the first time since last September they
enjoyed themselves slapping one another
over the backs when their respective
teams started those doings which get
everybody up shouting and stamping for
more. The band contributed its part to the
success OF the reunion and all in all 1t
was the biggest day local fans have had to
themselves for years.
The games-well most everybody In town
saw them or has heard them played over
many times since Umpires Maloney and
Dawson declared them off. A few off-side
views Of them, however, might serve TO
remind the fans that they really did see
the exhibitions.
over at Riverview The Wilmington Gas
Company team pounced on Brookwood
with all fours. batting their three pitchsra
to every corner Of the lot and creating so
many sore legs that there was hardly
enough linlment 4 ntown to rout the
pains the Brookwood boys suffered. There
are many Witnesses of that game who
say Brookwood developed a chronic case
of Johnny horse when Griffith split his Old
Mems Home squad on the Infants. Ger
tainly the score looks Il. However, Tray
nor and oliver have team that can go
fast, even though the bunch was distanced
in the first heat. VIII the Gas Company
team keep up the PAGER That question will
be answered authoritively for the first
time on hext Saturday when the squad
bumps up against DUPONT.
How the Teams Compare.
The Front and Union streets game wal
hummer from start TO finish The field
ing on both sides was what the fan woulC
describe as thrilling. and had not Levin
Ita frat
would not have finished with such lone
lead. The teams were more evenly match
ed than ever, and in saying that River
view showed the greater form since last
year. is not detracting in any sense from
the high quality baseball the present du.
Pont team is capable Of putting up. Tho
results of future games between these
teams viii depend almost entirely upon
Lewis and Crouch since the I'm and -he
outhelds of the teams can hold their own.
II Wilmington Gas Company and Brook
wood can do as well the pennant chase
this year win not be a runaway as 1t was
last season.
however time will ten.
on next Saturday dupont and RivervieU
win take on new teams, the Millionaire.
being scheduled to play the Gas team al
Front and Union Streets and Rivery'sv
and Brookwood at Riverview. Thes,
, games ought to prove as interesting as IN.
openers Saturdays scores.
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