The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-03
Batted for ]. Foulks in ninth.
S Batted for Beaudry in ninth.

sacrifice fly, Mendenhall; stolen bases,
McCue, Young; left on bases, Mount
Holly 4, Palmyra Riverton 8; hits off
Forbes in Z innings, off Chance in
2 innings; struck out by Forbes 5, by
Chance 2, by Laff1tt Is; base on balls
off Forbes 5, off Chance 2, off Laffitt 3;
hit by pitched ball by Forbes Laffitt);
passed ball, McCue. Double plays,
L. Gillian to Beaudry; L. Gillian to
McCue. Umpires, Sweeney and Doyle.
While Forbes was not up to his usual
form, McCue did not give him the sup
port he was entitled to. McCue has
contended that Chance is more reliable
than Forbes. Yet in the seven innings
pitched by Forbes the visitors got only
six hits and four runs. In the two in
nings pitched by Chance they got four
hits and two runs.
Devlin was not able to be on hand to
umpire, SO Sweeney and Doyle officiat-
ed. The latter seemed to think he was
the whole show and made all the an
nouncements and tried to officer the
entire ground. His great interest in
the visiting team was manifest from
the start. In the first inning he de-
clared Palmyra man safe when he
was clearly out, and in another inning
he called Lawrie Gillian out before the
play had been completed. Sweeney,
behind the bat, was asked to serve after
he reached the ground. He did not
come with the intention of umpiring.
1t is all nonsense to cry, when beaten,
that the umpire robbed you, but there
is not the slightest doubt that che UNI
piring of one of the men was decided
ly off. LaFitte had peculiar delivery
by which he caught men off first base.
Sweeney was appealed to on the ground
that the pitcher made a balk, but he
would not have it that way, regardless
of the fact that LaFitte drew his hand
all the way back, then threw it for
ward, a clear method of delivery.
The rule book says that if a pitcher
even makes motion with his knee
that he uses in delivery it is a balk,
and the book further says" any mo-
ton intended to deceive base runner
is balk."
The hit column tells the story. Pal
myra got ten hits, Mount Holly only
got six and they were not able to pro-
duce results. Palmyra would have
won the game with its professional
players, but the score would have been
lower had one of the umpires been
anyways square.
Blackburn played on his reputation
but he did not do so very much. He
wanted the crowd to notice that he
was the star ATTRACTION. He was
caught at second on very nice play.
LaFittee, old player as he is, was
caught at first base by very neat
trick. Beaudry gathered the ball and
stuck it under his arm. LaFitte
stepped off of FIRST and Beaudry snap
ped the ball to Foulks who touched
the runner. The other tried to put up
kick, but it was useless and he walk
ed off the field looking quite foolish.
Mount Holly has played wonderful
game this season. To be defeated by
the strong semi-professional club that
was here on Saturday was no disgrace,
nor was itsuch crown of glory for the
visitors. The same team that Delanco
sent to the woods would have had a
hard time here and Eddie Williams
knew it and padded accordingly. 1t
is all right to win at all costs, possibly,
but it was not very sportsmanlike to
bring professionals to defeat amateurs.
Following is list of the games play
ed by the Mount Holly team with the
scores in each.