Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-28
CRAMPS HERE FOR
THURSDAY A. N. GAME
Will Meet Bill Gallagher's Della
ware River League
Team.

Bill Gallagher's Delaware River bunch
of ball players will have opposed to them
on Thursday morning the crack baseball
aggregation from Cramps shipyard in
Philly. The up-nvcr crowd are said TO
TO be travelling pretty fast and Bill is
going to give them the best he has in his
locker Bill is still feeling sore over the
larceny of the game at Chester on Satur-
day and is seeking revenge. The afternoon
game will be with Eddie Plank's Steelton
nine. But the morning contest it is
believed will be the equal of the afternoon
game, in all that goes to make game
exciting. Rare judgment exercised by
Manager PAYNE Of Harlan was really the
margin by which the shipmnkers triumph
ed over the Bethlehem crowd on Satur-
day.
This may sound little curious 10 those
who saw Eddie Fitzpatrick kick the ball
three times for the "Beths" but an anaiy-
sis of the events will tend to bear out the
assertion in the first paragraph Lefty
Baumgartner wasn't in any too good
a form right from the jumps. He was
using his noodle, as the players say, and
rarly did he exhibit enough speed TO
disturb skyhght.
Lake hit hard every time up, wagner
and Payne both cracked out long ones
into the fence by reason of their being
hit night into the teeth of stiff breeze:
All of these things ought to have warned
Manager Ready that Lefty" was far
from right.
RUy, for Harlan, was travelling along
after the first inning like red barn on
fire but the moment he faltercd IN the
eighth he was yanked by Manager Payne.
The Harlan pilot didn't take any chances
of him brscing He figured the score
was too close 10 take chance and
Immediately showed Dumont into the
breach and his guess" bore fruit In the
shape of victory.
Curio,,sly enough the ball player that
Mansger Payne, Wagner, Joe Jackson and
all others who ever saw him perform claim
is the best on the Bethlehem team, Eddie
Fitzn,trick. looked the worst. Eddie
has been working on 8 farm outside OF
Bethlehem since he quit the Boston
Nationals and probably hasn't had much
time 10 practice Some of his chances
At third were difficult but he WASH Z
even sure Of himself on the easy ones.
He did slap one up against the fence,
however. showing that he still retains MS
batting orb.
When YOU look over the other catchers
on the circuit and start them up against
Harry Lake Of Harlan they all take one
Of the rear seating places. Harry can
peg, hit, uses exceptional Judgment 10
directing the defense and is chuck iull
OF pepper all the time lie caught that
game Saturday with spiked hsnd that
would have kept many less game boy
on the bench
Bill Martin certainly made himself
solid with the domestic rooters with that
timely triple Of his and that wonderful
stop and throw back OF second base.
Both came in the pinches and contributed
very materially 10 TIC ultimate survival
of ths Paynemen.
Harlan had more hustle TO the minute
than Bethlehem ever showed, even when
thsv vorc trailing with the count TO Y
against them. Manager Ready himself,
is Of the easy going school ol play, anu
it yefects itself In his teams conduct
On tbs other hand when Manager fayne
took the lines hs was hollering and yelplng
for ell ha was worth. Well you know
Fred got his big league training under
Huxhie Jennings who Is strong advocate
n Hosyenne" and vim on the held he
fAps like IL too.
1t sHemed IS If the fans were little too
mono TO "ride" the umpire on the shght-
ct provooation and SONS slmpleton tossed
q mop bottle out onto the held when ne
made decision against Harlan at second
This viii never do if We want the rest
of tbs country TO look upon baseball here
IS Just short of big league brand As
9 matter of fact the play upon which they
hollerad so loudly and so long was
perfectly fair decision, As the Harlah hi1h
admitted IN the clubhouse alter the game
Bill Gallagher isn't given 10 RAbnng
or hollering after it's all over but the
leader of the shipyards team IN the Della
ware league claims that the Jump
al Chester Saturday was a little too raw
Bill doesn't charge him with uniairness
but incompetency He says ne was
asking the players how the play was as
he didn't see il. He also didn't know how
to stand back OF the catcher and missed
lot Of balls because Of being in the wrong
position. 'Speck" Winters says he has
seen good many of them In MS time but
this fellow vas the worst he ever looked