Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-15
Camp Morgan Nine
Epens up Series BY
Taking Second Game

Harold Morgan Conklin took a
Swallow OF water. frightened his belt
two notches and settled down to
business Saturday afternoon. When
the Ingots for the afternoon. Conk-
lin just sailed merrily along for nine
Innings and handed the Ingots q row
of goose-eggs. The battle, as pretty
an exhibition as has been staged on
the r. c. w. grounds this season, re-
suited in a 8 to 0 victory o Camp
Morgan. and tied the series at one
all.
Conklin always did carry the sus-
picion of being some pumpkin In his
own home town as a twirler. When
he u~nloosened in his first start some
weeks back on the local diamond he
looked like the real goods. But
lHarold's decriers have been many.
They said he was good for five In
interchangeable But Harold 4
tust that, and did 1t in finished fash
Hon. There was no fiuke attached to
his impressive victory. His infelders
were busy-but that's all. Seventeen
putouts by living at first base ndi-
Gates the extent OF the Ingots' hitting
prowess for the afternoon. In addi-
ton he famed Ave. His outhelders
might Just as well IA taken an at
ternoon off. Just one solitary fly was
.gathered in the outfield. Incidentally
the outheld produced q freak feature
for the afternoon-the lone ny
caught by the Morgans and two flies
gathered in by Ritter of the Ingots, q
total of three, constituted all the out
field putouts for the day. Until the
seventh inning not one putout had
been made by the outfeld.
Conklin hurled grand ball. He
flashed an assortment that was equal
ly as good as his headwork and calm.
You might just as well have tried to
shake an iceberg as disturb Harold
Ms aggravating indifference to the
outbursts OF his rival coachers or
rooters. They tried 1t in the fourth
and Harold responded by whining
two and causing a third to pop to
second.
Harry Apologize pitched for the
InRots for the first time in q month
and but for errors in judgment by
his teammates in both innings that
his opponents scored, h game
might still be going S on, Harry arr work.
were against him. This In spite Of
the fact that Putt Stinson and
willie" Christopherson, his short
stop and third baseman, rave him
wonderful support. Harry was touch
ed for eight hits but III Morgans
punched two Of these In the third for
their first run and two more In the
ninth for their concluding brace.
Some "Umps''
The debut of A. ]. Dougherty, a
professional umpire with excellent
records in the Atlantic and New York
State leagues, gave the game a nm
ished touch. Dougherty's decisions
were never questioned. His air OF
business. his big league OUTFIT. his
a -k~vIA raoAa 4k q sfnlan aFnTl
to play the game" to quote n OF
the Morgan players. Pick" Mullen
worked with Dougherty, Mullen TAX
ing the bases. Dougherty, who Is
now working at Morgan, will proba-
IDLY be seen at a number of future
games in this vicinity.
Low hanging clouds that threaten
ed TO stop the game abruptly more
than once helped the pitchers. Their
fast balls worked destruction to the
morale of opposing batsmen. Conklin
In particular used rare Judgment he
famed five batsmen, but four OF
these were for the third out and with
a man on base.
Conklin's strikeout work was but
one feature OF remarkable pitchers
control. Neither twirler allowed a
base on balls. Behind Applegate's
clever box work was the story OF a
lame shoulder. a tale OF real game
ness. Apply" was going 70 stick IL
out II the game went twenty innings.
Both sides wasted a brace Of hits
In the second inning. living opened
up the session for Morgan with a
long double between left and center.
Yenk drilled a single 70 center, living
pulling up at third. Yenk stole sec
ond. There was the situation-men
on third and second and nobody
down. Durham flied u behind
nrst, Rodda coming all the way over
to make the catch On sharpleys
sharp tap 10 short stinson made q
perfect throw 70 the plate. cutting on
|lTwfng. Yenk went 10 third. Sharp
Hey then tried TO bluH q steal 10 sec
ond. Bader threw hard and low to
etinson. Yenk tried for home on the
draw and was cut down By another
perfect throw from Etinson.
Puts work bordered on The
sensational all afternoon. He whip
ped en- over % nFst base from ceeE