The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-06-03

mark 4.
A we'll placed single to right field
by Charlie RentZ in the last half Of
the 18th inning Friday afternoon de-
cided in Bamberg's favor against AL
lendale one of the most exciting
games of ball ever seen at Rhoad
Park. Allendale started off like a
house afre, and it must be admitted
that every Bamberg heart was in a
throat. Keel, first up for the visitors,
reached first safely on wide throw
by Turnipseed from short. Allen
then singled to right Keel reaching
third on the play. Johns was then
passed by Hammock, loading the
bags with nobody down. John Nc
MILAN pasted one to deep ,center for
three bases, three runners coming
over the plate, and scored the fourth
run when Mack Riley, the next bat
ter, hit a sacrifice fly to left field.
Bamberg scored one in the first on
Large's double and Charlie Rentz's
single, but tAllendale annexed two
more in the third on some good hit
ting and rather loose fielding, ap-
parently having sewed the game up.
The feature of the game were the SEN
sational hitting of Large for Bam-
berg, and the game uphill fight of the
Bamberg team, coming from five runs
behind in the third inning to triumph
gloriously in the 18th. Large fat
tened his batting average with three
singles and two doubles. in. six at
tempts. Charlie Rentz got three hits,
and let it be repeated on the strength
of his days work in this game that
"Gyp" Rentz is just about the hot
test thing around the hot corner ever
seen on any old ball field. Mcmillan
for Allendale had a good day and to
give credit where it is due, that town
has real ball team, but there is
hardly a place on the local team for
any of their players; in fact, it is
indeed doubtful if some of them could
even make some of the South At
lantic league clubs.
Schultz, finging for Allendale,
pitched last year for Milwaukee, of
the American Association, which
league ranks next to the American
and National, and right sweet pitch
er he is. But his infield cracked be-
hind him in the third inning, and this
along with some consistent hitting Dy
the locals netted our boys four runs.
Be it said for him that he was not IN
his usual form, and was touched up
for exactly IA hits. In the 7th the
home hopes tied it up. Then in the
10th and again in the 18th the Vlsl-
tors got a man to third with only one
down, and each time stock went down
a little, just little. Mr.. Hammock
proved himself equal to the occasion,
and in the tenth famed the next two
batters; in the 18th Wolfe behind the
bat missed a. ball, which rolled a few
feet and thanks to the poor judgment
of Johns, the runner on third who
tried to score on it, Wolfe got the
ball and easily tagged him out, and
Mack Riley then struck out. Next
came the 18th inning climax and the
rollicking reeling finish. The game
was won with one man out. Watson
began the inning with grounder to
short and was thrown out, Allen to
Riley. Large then continued MS
usual tricks, Che has a regular habit
of getting two baggers), so ne
doubled to left Charlie Rentz, the
old war horse, who in years gone by
has saved and won many grand ola
ball game Tor MS Holle Io"n "ioiA
is proud of him as ball player ana
hot air artist, next stepped to the
plate with a grim determination and
the light of victory cleaning in his
batting eye. With two strikes on
Charlie he poled a clean single TO
right and Otto Large alrplanlng
from second, dashed across the rub
ber with the run that sent the Allen
dale team to it's doom and brought
everlasting JOY and gratitude to the
hearts of local fandom. The attend
ance was 1000. The box score fol-
lows:
Allendale ALB R H PO A Il
.Koo1 q 6 1 0 7 0 0
Allen. IS - &c l l U