The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-06-17

One usually hears folks speak OF
the bitter end, but not so last Friday,
unless they hailed from Williston. The
end was sweet to the Bamberg people,
for by it Bamberg retains first place
in the league. 1t was great old ball
game, wonderful all the way, and
nybody's until that fatal error OF
Dodge's at the plate in the last half
of the ninth. And with a. thrilling
garrison finish the locals once more
brought home the bacon, score to l.
It was Williston's second appearance
in Bamberg and it's team showed up
far better and is greatly superior
club to the former aggregation. The
game furnished some splendid pitch
ing skill by both Kits and Smith
with an occasional long hit just to
create excitement, and some sensa-
tional fielding by both teams. Bam-
berg made one error and Williston
three, neither pitcher hit or walked
batter, and each gave up two
singles, a double and a triple, while
Smith struck out Il to for Kits.
Neither team had anything that
resem bled a score up to the seventh
inning. Then Steigle led off for Will
liston with a fuke double that should
have been fielded, and that terrible
Summerland came up next and picked
one to suit his taste, slamming it out
to left field so hard that it looked as
if the oil mill might stop it. One run
came over, but the batter was held
at third, and then Smith braced up
to the situation, whitfield the next two
batters and caused the third to roll an
easy one to second base. But Kits
was twirling such masterful ball that
this run seemed enough and it all
looked mighty bilious. In the locals
half of the 9TH Turnipseed began by
hitting a fly down the foul line into
right field and that same terrible
Summerland who had already played
the devil with us, raced from hrst
base after it and made sensational
circus catch. Otto Large then beat
one out to the infeld for Bamberg S
first hit. But that same terrible
summerland standing with his foot
on the initial sack took Charlie
Rentz's line drive and single handed
doubled Large, thus retiring the side
by his blame sensational work.
But the 9Th bore fruit. The ever
reliable "Gyp" Rentz, who led on at
bat in three different innings for the
home lads, began this round with a
clean single to right. Then Pete Wat
son, after two attempts to bunt which
resulted in failures, got freak two
Dagger to right, and Bull, whose name
is very appropriate, either Bull or
Beef suiting him fine, in trying to
head "Gyp" at third, made dandy
error by throwing into the automc-
biles, and "Gyp" scored as Pete pull
ed up at third. Kits came to his
own rescue, however, and famed the
next two batters. Then ball got
away from Williston's catcher and
| rolled down the hill, and Pete tried
to score on it. Dodge, while lying
on the ground threw to Kits who
covered the plate and tagged out the
runner. Williston didn't have look
in in the 9th. But Smith started 1t
for the home folks with screaming
triple almost to the score board IN
deep left center. Frank Bambers
hit a bounder to short, and Bull,
playing in close, pounced on 1t like
a tiger. His throw to the plate was
true heading the runner by several
feet. but Dodge lost the game when
the ball struck his nit and rolled OH
several feet as Smith slid viclously
over the plate.
Bill Brabham made nice catch IN
center as did Trotti did for the Vlsl-
tors. Turnipseed contributed some
neat fielding, and so much has been
said of "Gyp" Rentz's playing IN oth-
er games that the writer feels a
delicacy in complimenting him any
more for he doesn't know what to say
No more then for "Gyp." But in the
9th with a runner on base "Gyp's'
big bub on second saved the game
with one of the most sensational
catches ever seen at Rhoad Park ano
by far the greatest catch the writer
has ever seen an infielder make. The
writer's feeble vocabulary and poor
command Of the English language
does not permit him to give full cred