Evening journal., 1916-07-03
We had some real baseball Satur-
day.

we nad some real DaseDall Satur-
day.
Brownson and Brandywine had a
lively tilt.
II took them two hours and forty
five minutes to decide the ten-in-
ming rampage.
The heat OF the day had every
body excited. Everybody wanted
Eddies goat, and at the Madeley
game Phinny Hastings was told he
wasn't much.
Mt Salem says Bethany won one
of its games because the umpire
wasn't awake.
That means there may be some pro-
Rests.
Who wants to be an umpire? II
nsed to be nobody loves fat man"
That saying is mild along side OF
nobody intends to love an UNI
pire."
Lefty Firms rest on the Atlantic
leagues bench must have done him
good. He is pitching nice ball for
Eastlake. Perhaps he finds the bat
fers different.
Frank Dunn is creeping up. With
"Old Man" Dougherty in the box he
downed Bancroft.
The game at Front and Union was
p hard one on nerves. Just at the
Dpportune time somebody made an
error, or failed to make a hit
Brandywine will never win a
game if they can't take advantage Of
such chances as they had Saturday.
They had twelve men left on bases.
They should have had about fve
runs in the fifth. The men on third
should have waited minute on the
Erounders they tried TO score on.
They weren't forced and the play
would have had to gone to first If
anybody was to be put out Instead
they started for home and we're easy
outs.
Isn't IT funny how the crowd on
the side lines or in the bleachers
want to Judge all the balls and
strikes? A good many Of their ver-
diets are imaginations. Get back OF
she plate.
Eddie. the Jump" was told Satur-
day morning that he was taking an
awful chance in umpiring that game
But he was game. Some Of the play
ers and fans we're so anxious about
the game that they we're really
''bugs." If you would tell them to.
day that they said so and so" they
would call you one Of those things.
Prince Mousley was so excited thai
he openly accused Eddie OF throw.
sing" the game and accepting pay fol
80 doing. Another crime charged
against Eddie was stealing the balls
that we're used in the game. Ther
so top this McCarty says Mousley
got his balls.
The real verdict must be that an
auful lot Of balls went over the fence
or grandstand and never came back
II you believe the managers, there
asn't even a portion of an umpire in
the league.
Guess the league better raise the
umps salary and get a couple Of biz
aeague men for each game.
The Brownson Brandywine lef
field crowd thought they were on al
open lot and during the last few in
nings il was impossible to keep then
back. Brownson's players coul6
hardly find the bench.
With the exception of one or two
every team in the league thinks tn
other seven teams and the officials
course. is not true. Friendly rivalr,
helps the sport, but cut out the DIT
terness and cut throat methods.
Everybody get a new start and e
out to Front and Union tomorrow 4
see Brownson play Towanda, morn
ing and afternoon. Root for a loca
amateur team to down one OF Philly'
best. Eddie will Jump
Come on. Mousley, Proud. Crossar
McCarty, Johnson and the rest o
YOU fellows. cerebrate the holida
with Peace.
The grabbing season is general
supposed to start in July, but ther
are some Wilmington umpires VIII
insist il begins in April.
Leach Cross has retired, hut IN
faithful old Double Cross is lust a
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