The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-02

The game of the season was played
. at Mount Holly, Saturday, when
Pemberton came down accopanmied
by large crowd of admirers who were
not only full of enthusiasm but thev
had their pockets lined with green
backs to be bet on their favorite team.
They did not have any trouble to get
their money covered and they went
home sorry and poorer than when they
came. The game was to have started
at 3.15 but there was dispute over
the selection of umpires and it was an
hour later before the matter was
settled. When Mount Holly went
to Pemberton the previous Saturday
1t was not given any say in single
matter concerning the game. The
umpires had been selected, ground
rules had been made and other things
fixed without consulting Mount Holly
and no change would be allowed. But
when Pemberton came here the first
thing they did was to insist ION nam
ing one of the umpires. The man
they had selected was one whose repu-
tation as to unfairness was such
that he was not considered for a mo-
ment and then there was an hours
discussion over the point, finally set
tied by selecting corporal Brown, a
Camp Dix soldier who did excellent
work. William Chambers, who has
acted in a similar capacity, officiated
behind the bat and there we're not any
disputes over his decisions.
Mount Holly would have been
justified in leaving the ground, but
there was large crowd present and
there was desire to give Pemberton a !
trouncing. With the feeling that such |
an end would be accomplished !
the home team very wisely put up
with the wrangling of the Pemberton |
people and finally got to work and |
accomplished what was the chief desire |
beat the visitors and kept them from
going home and proudly claiming that
they were the league champions
Newman. the 1925 beauty" was in
the box for Pemberton, but when the |
game was ended he looked more like /
25 cents He certainlygot his bumps"
for Mount Holly touched him for 10 !
hits, more than he has had against |
him in any two games this season. |
Berner, former pitcher for Mount
Holly, was in the box for the home
team and he did good work.
Pemberton scored its only run In the |
first inning. The team was short one
man and player named Lloyd was
substituted He hit the first ball that
came to him, stole second and came
home on hot one by Shemelia. Loud |
rejoicing by the Pemberton followers.
Nothing much was doing until the
third inning, Cossaboon got hit and |
tried to reach third on McCue's sacri- |
flee but he was thrown out. Alloway
hit safely and Jimmy Gresnwald fol-
lowed suit Alloway scoring and the |
score was tie< In the seventh Nor.
gan drew base on balls and scored on |
Alloway's hit, and Mount Holly was
ahead, very iubilant while Pemberton
followers looked down their noses and |
the Pemberton pitcher mopped the
perspiration from his brow.
In the eighth inning WorreH got a !
hit for Mount Holly and went to sec
ond on Jack Gillam's sacrifice, and to
third on Bsrner's hit. Then Larry
Gillian was put in to hit in place of
Clevenger. Larry is postmaster at
bunting and he swung at two which
went foul. Ordinarily the next play
would be to hit the ball out, but Larry
used his head and again tried the bunt
which was successful so far as he was
concerned, and Worrell scored
1t was then ,Pemberton last chan
and Irons struck out. Shemelia got
hit and Pembsrton thought they saw
CLEAN of daylight. Newman sent
one to Morgan who caught Shemelia
at second and Cossaboon quickly COM
pleted double play to first. The
game was over. Mount Holly was the
winner and the Pemberton crowd went
home unhappy and with less money
than they came to town with, the
most of it going to New Egypt rooters.
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