The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-06-12


Delanco plays at Mount Holly next
Saturday.
Forbes and McCue certainly did
some great headwork.
Delanco beat Auburn on Saturday.
Score to O.
Moorestown shut Burlington out on
Saturday-6 to 0.
Mount Holly's team played like vet
Grams. More space is devoted to this
game than usual from the fact that no
victory this season will be so satisfac-
tory to our players as that of Satur-
day. Absolute certainty perched on
the banner Of Florence before the
game, while corresponding gloom took
its place at the close.
Sweeney is a good pitcher, but he
was not the whole show. He struck
out nine men, but the team behind
him could not safely land their hits.
1t was great game at Florence and
repaid those who went to see it. The
home team was very sure of winning
and had been telling in advance just
what would happen to Mount Holly.
The number of runs to be piled up by
the foundrymen could not be estimat-
ed and Mount Holly was to be shut
out. One OF the very peculiar features
OF the contest was that all of Mount
Holly's work was done by its field, not
man being thrown out at first. OF
the n outs, q were on fly balls.
Charley Peacock, who is relied upon to
do the hitting for Florence, was caught
the first inning on fly ball sent to
his brother, who was on the Mount
Holly team. Charley got two hits nd,
to his disgust, was struck out by
Forbes. Charley got it back on his
brother in the third inning, when
Frank sent hot one straight to first
which Charley captured, but Frank
came back in the fifth inning when he
won the game by making three-base
hit and scoring on squeeze play.
Jack Devlin was the umpire. He
did very well and suited everybody
out on strike on a ball which was
over the batsman's head.
The Mount Holly players who live in
Florence but were not good enough for
that team, are just about right for
Mount Holly and they felt happy over
the result.
Florence had a semi-professional to
whom was given the name of Pickup"
He was right under every ball that
came in his direction. He had six
chances and took every one OF them,
but he did not do any hitting, being
caught on the fly three times and be-
ing struck out once.
Just think of it. Charley Peacock
who is relied upon by Florence to
knock 'em out of the lot, only got one
hit, while his brother, Frank, not good
enough for Florence, got two hits, and
won the game for Mount Holly.
| Frank Foulks, another Florence boy,
got one of the hits which counted.
Here's real richness. A report of the
game of ball between Eddie Williams
Palmyra team and East Park, says the
Palmyra team returned to form, with
manager Eddie Williams in the line
Iup." The score was II to in favor of
| Palmyra. The report then gives this
sweet morsel: "The field club connected
for IL hits, the popular leader (mean-
ling Eddie getting a timely single.
Wasn't that going someone hit out
of IL? A singular fact is that Williams
has been written to several times with
/ w a S51nAC du 0AOuAO lIOllH ,
and he does not seem to have time to
going to get the contest when he il
able to pad up with laid-off profes
SIGNALS he will be disappointed.
After being beaten by Mount Holly
Riverside went to Roebling, last Satur
day, and compelled the strong team al
that place to play IA innings in order
to secure victory by the score of 2 to l
civilians Warriors are what {
Philadelphia paper terms the Palmyra
Riyerton team, and mentions Eddie
Williams as the popular manager.
Eddie may be oil of that but he seem
to be lacking in courtesy, writing
materials, time, a two-cent stamp, o
perhaps all of them, as he has simply
ignored three letters written to him by
the Mount Holly management, al
! though he is reported to be in posses
sion of everything necessary to ge
Philadelphia teams towrite here for en-
gagenents. The manager of tn
! Mount Holly team is now justified il
dropping all further attempts to get tn
warriors to Mount Holly and let tn
, manager of the river front team gail
further popularity by defeating tn
weak teams he may pick out for sacri
flee. Communications from him nov
should 60 where those from Noun
: Holly have apparently landed--in tn
. waste basket.
Kodak banks at Boyce's. adv
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