Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-29
HARLAN CRACK TEAM
BAGS SH|PBU|LD|hG
LEAGUE PENhAuT
Local Lads Break Deadlock With
New York to the Tune
of S to o.
DUMONr's WORK FEATURES

With added strength drafted from
the Steel League toam, in the shape OF
Joe jackson, Charity, and Dumont, the
Harlan Shipyard League team presented
A stone wall front To the New York Ship
team Yesterday afternoon at the Straw
bridge and Clothier field in Philadelphis
ard bagged the game by score Of 8
to O. This places the Harlan tcam de-
cisivcly at the head of the Delaware
River Shipbuilding League racc. other
rnmcs with Chester having been thrown
out on account Of ruled inelgibility OF
several Of their players, causing the dead
lock between Harlan and New York Ship,
which was played of yesterday IN Phila-
delphia. .,
As usual, Dumont's pitching featured
the gan,e-that n until Eddie Collins
walked in during the game IN hIs recently
acquired u. 8 Marine uniform. when nc
almost broke up the ball game. All the
spectators totally neglected the game and
ran to see Eddie.
Dt,mont. possessed Of sharp-brcaking
euvc, held New York Ship to SIX widely
arp~rated blows and struck nine OF them
completely out OF these srx blow, four
were kept in the Lennox family, WHICH
WIS lust and proper, the Lcnnox family
s,arcd two Of thcec blows and WIS hit by
a patched ball in four chances, while IL.
l~unox also got two blows IN four trips
to tho plate.
McI.inley, the New York Ship pitcher,
who usd to pitch hall around the Trl-
State circuit, also pitched good game OF
baseball. II WAS no soft assignment that
h. faced yesterday, yet he held his heavy
hitting opponents TO eight blows and
walked two, while he gained the distnc-
tion of striking out Joe Jackson on his
last trip to the plate. McGinlcy's best
pcriod was the eighth, when he struck
out the side IN rapid sequence, two of his
victims being ex-big leag,lcrs Martin,
eN-Boston Brave, and Joe Jackson.
For three innings 1t WAS q runlcss
hsttlc, then Mckinley had An unfortunate
inning in the fourth, when he started
hrs own trouble by failing 70 make the
plav to third base instead of To first when
the batter slammed a hard-hit ball into
hrs hands with man on second and one
out Had MCKINLEY made The play TO
thiri he would have nabbed the advance
man mile, and IT would have changed
the entire complexion Of the inning
Then a double steal was gummed up by
Catcher HYDE throwing too low 10 enable
started Hnri~n's scoring.
Cole made the first safe hit OF Nc
Gincv first up IN the fourth. Martin
then sacrificed, and with Cole on SECOND
McC,inlev basgcd Walters hard siam on
the first hop and threw 10 first, ret,rips
reur1na Walters, which allowed Cole 10
reach third Joe jackson WAS then psIr-
r>osslv paced, and when Joe and Cole
started a double steal Hydes throw 10
second wss too low, and s. Lennox fell
Cat on hn face IN catching the ball. Cole
scoring and jackson reaching third
Iynp then lifted two base blow into
lett field along the foul line, econng Jacks
son.
Charity n,~de personally conducted
affair out Of the next Harlan tally, thunp
ing the ball over the screen on top of the
eft field fence to open the fifth. With
two out IN the sixth Joe Jackson collected
his onlv bit Of the afternoon, double
to centre, and then tumble by ). len
r,ox scored Joe
They got their flfth and final tally IN
tho ninth, which Lynn opened with
base hit to left. Lake followed with
another single to left, and then Charity
forced Lake st second. Lynn reaching
thlni. Lynn WAS then potted at the
plate op an attempted double steal, but
delaved the inevitable long enough Off
Charity to race anrind 10 third. He's
then scored on a wild pitch. Score.