The Washington herald., 1912-04-10
FORDHAM TAKES
EXCITING CONTEST
FROM GEORGETOWN
New Workers Drive 0'Con-
nor Off the Mound in
Third Inning.
FINAL SCORE is 8 TO :
BY NAT +. woRLEY.


Despite the fact that Georgetown con-
nected with the benders Of one Walsh.
who did the \twirling for Fordham yester-
day, for a total Of ten juicy bingles, the
New Workers managed to walk away
with the long end of a seesaw contest.
at the end Of nine hard-fought innings.
Score, 5 to !.
''wabby- o'Connor openeh the battle
for the HHItoppers. but his shoots were
anything but puzzlIng to the Fordham
boys and they walIoped them 10 the four
corners OF the field in the very irst in
ming, making three runs on four hits
before the game had been under way
ten minutes. In the third, they dupli-
Gated the trick. adding three more to
their total and chasing wabby TO the
henhouse, Dave White taking his place.
White had the Fordhamites guessing
from the start, only two hits being made
on him in the six innings he pitched.
But for his own poor fielding and the
support accorded him by his fellow
players Dave might have pulled The
game out of the fire. AS II was, how
ever. the seven miscues by the home
folk gave the visitors ample opportunity
to walk away with the game, and It
was only the long and healthy elouting
by the Hilltoppers in the final stages
that kept them in the running.
White had an opportunity to win his
own game in the sixth. when the sacks
were loaded with two out. but he bal
looned to right and the chance went
glimmering.
To Georgetown's credit 1t must be said
that almost everything that cropped up
in the game went against them, from
the time "wabby'' slipped while going
after Beckett's weak roller in the first
until Mory O'Connor came up with DAILY
on second in the ninth, two out and one
run needed to win. and famed out
Two Fordham men trampled over the
home platter on "Wabbys falldown'
and some foolish playing in the terri
tory covered by FIRST base and the
pitchers box in the following rounds
added to the general slaughter
Defense TOtters and FnllH-
Georgetown's defense, which has here
tofore been like stone wall, tottered In
the early innings and finally collapsed
altogether. Fury having passed pall
in the ninth, which let in another run.
Just enough for the defenders OF the
Maroon TO waddIe out OF the Hilltop
yard with the game.
walsh was damned. slammed, and
bifted; poked. kicked. and bitten. but he
hung on ike a cat with nine lives, ana
finished with most OF his fur and a set
of false teeth. Fury led the lombard
ment. the noise OF which must have
reached Connecticut Avenue and other
prominent thoroughf6res downtown. The
Georgetown catcher made single on
each OF his last three appearances At the
-Eeg.
two hits apiece and everybody else but
terding managed to grab slice as the
battle progressed. The last named
tailed TO land a Dlngie Tor the nrst time
in seven games, but Billy tried hard as
usual.
Two prominent prize ngnters ana a
great general did ali the stampeding for
the winners, Messrs. Snarkey, McCartny.
and Lee crossing the nome ruODer with
ali the runs scored Dy the new YORK
aggregation. besides contributing four
OF the eight blows wnicn alded IN
Georgetowns downfall
Daly handled ten OF the eleven chances
which came ais way IN good style, ms
one error DeIng on a nara nit grounueT
which bounded badly. plunked IN ms
glove, and rolled TO the ouIneId.
Hollander made a costly error. but all
of his FIVE chances were hard ones, and
four of them were handled nicely. Mory
O'Connor nabbed two foul flies which
tried hard to perch among the Rutomo-
biles near the frst-base line. and Sit
terding played grand game in the left
pasture.
Sharkey's neat play on Davis in the
third. when he picked the Georgetown
mans tap to second and by 4 quick
throw got him by an eyelash at first, was
the only bright bit OF work by the in
vadsrs. but their fielding game was
much better, all-around one than that Of
the losers and they only fell into the
error column twice.
The second inning was a record one.
but six men batting IN this round and
only four balls being pitched by each
twirler.
Fordham played the hit-and-rutA game
twice in the first inning. and il worked
to perfection both times, they being the
first club, TO visit the Hilltop this year
and work the stunt successfully.
Base stealing was one of the popular
pastimes. four men on each side grab
bing a sack on the catchePs and a half
dozen or more being caught in the at
tempt.
When the eighteen players were not
yelling at the Jump" who had a bad
day all around, they were doing every
thing else that goes to make baseball
game good. bad, and rotten
The score.