Evening journal., 1910-05-30
DUPONT LOSES
ON A FORFEIT
Game Stands for RiVerVieW
Until Board of Arbitration
Decides Questions
at Issue

W. l.. Pct
| Will Gas 60 ..................S $50
dupont ......-... .............2 66o
/ Riverview ...-..... .........-.e 500
| Brookwood ..-......... .....-.V 900
/ It is an old saying that ball game
/ is not over until the last man is
/ down" That is true. when baseball
/ is played under the most favorable con-
/ ditions. Under the most unfavorable
/ conditions. however. final results of
ball games cannot bo hung up until af-
/ ter the supreme court Of baseball has
had its say. and it will be before that
body the New Castle County League
board Of arbitration i'm this instance.
that the causes which led to the for
| felt of the dupont Riverview game
against the Millionaries on Saturday
must be cleared up before the final re-
suit of that game will he known.
l.. T.. Reeves. manager of the. DUPONT
team has filed a protest against Um-
pire Maloncy's gift of the game to
Riverview. Maloney called Carver out
i'm dupont half Of the ninth inning.
when the champions were one run be-
hind Riverview, because a batted ball
struck the batsman. Maloney insists
that the bah hit fair and struck Carver
on the back bound while he was on fair
ground Shuler protested the decision
on the ground that the ball had hit
foul and struck Carver on the forward
bound, and when Maloney would not
decide the play that way Shuler. ac-
cording to Maloney. ordered Crouch,
who followed Carver in the batting
order. to keep out of the batter's box
Maloney called the batter up and when
! Crouch failed to take his position with
! in the one minute required under the
/ rules. Maloney awarded the game 10
] Riverview under the rules bearing ON
forfeited games.
Reeves also contends that Malonev
/ was so confused over the play that he
| declared Carver out on a bunted third
strike. Maloney denies having made
the latter ruling on the play. although
the official score shows that he did
The Riverview squad agrees that Ma
loney's decision on the play was cor
rect. The entire dupont squad. quite
naturally. agrees with Reeves view Of
the play. The fans are equally divided
I'm their opinion as to whether the ball
dropped fair or foul. Whether Carver
vas NiiA vi a UuMNtu llllIu clIAkE uOeH
not concern many of them. since their
could be no question of the batsman
being out on such a turn
And there it is The rules involved
in the play. however. are so clear that
the arbitration board should not have
any trouble Strengthening out the
squabble within five minutes after the
contending forces present their argu-
ments.
The big crowd Of fans who saw the
game regret that it ended as it did.
They wanted to see Il run to a finish
if il took all night It was not "a
game that put the bugs on edge but
rather one Of those rolicksome combina-
tions Of clean hitting and miserable
fumblng that do the hearts Of ball
dom good once in q while. This inning
saw Riverview on the long end: i'm the
next inning DUPONT had the advantag ge
This inning clean hitting again gave
Riverview the lead: in the next inning
they lost it on fumbles. And so the
game see sawed until dupont balked
with the score board showing them on
the short end.
Beattie. Harrington and Burke were
the batting stars. Beattie also played
a brilliant fielding game. The only
other feature was the drubbing Mr.
Jahn got in the first inning. about
which YOU all have heard. If Smith,
errors were regarded by anybody AZ
additional features it might be wei
for the critics to remember that Smiti
has not yet recovered from a. threatene,
attack of appendicitis
Following is the score as Il stoo,
when the kick-up came:
R.HE
DUPONT o. ......122 o2-iO 10
Riverview .......4 o 2 0 03 0 I'll
wilmington Gas Company didn't d
to Brook wood what a big handful O
bugs had expected. Last time aroun
Grimth's sluggers pounded twenty
eight runs off the Infants" This tim
they got two, and only one of the pal
was earned. Thus Brookwood has de
veloped from helpless set into
formidable bunch that will make IN
so-called big teams go some to wi
their games with the team from no.
on. True It is that Brookwood los
by a . TO score, but to lose a gam
on such narrow margin after holdin
a top-notch team to four hits is not
poor showing by any means. Traync
and oliver will show two more ne
men, one an infielder, in the Saturda
game with DUPONT. and with thes
chaps in the game the Brookwood mar
ayers hope to have as fast a team a
there is in the league.
- The score:
R.HI
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