The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-06-23
SLUMBER UvEETAkES TEAM.
Inc:tI> Hibernate in Ninth Inning at
E,hrhardt Friday.


IVY kingdom for ball team Bam-
berg has some mighty good individu-
al ball players, probably the best col
lection Of any town in this section Of
the state. But the word team i'm
plies its own meaning, while indi-
vidualism has never yet accomplished
very much in anything, and team is
just what they haven't got. Base
ball is a game not altogether played
with the hands and feet, but requires
slight amount Of skill also and
each player is supposed to have a
head on his shoulders that W0A t
rattle like a tin can. Indifference
and lack of interest never yet won a
ball game. Poor Judgment some
times wins in poker but it usually
loses in base ball. Then too in order
to play it successfully base ball is a
game that requires player to get
certain amount of rest and sleep the
night before. and with the interest
manifested by some of the boys if
any town is particularly anxious to
defeat Bamberg in the future just let
them hint at big all night frolic the
evening beforehand and send a kind
invitation to our boys to go over;
there's nothing like being sociable,
you know.
Ehrhardt was proud of beating
Bamberg last Friday, and justly so.
Not that they deserve any special
praise or credit for licking this bunch
the way they rocked along, for
neither town has a ball team; but
they at least had a game bunch of
fighters who wanted to win and who
were in there playing hard all the
way and never giving up. They were
licked to frazzle, but they didn't
know it, and that's the reason they
won. And in the ninth inning with
the score Z to / against them those
two MAGNIFICENT efforts and wonder
full catches by Roberts playing third
for them clearly demonstrated the
fact that they cant see defeat when
it's staring them in the face. That's
what they deserve credit for; they
have some pride, and heaven grant
that some of the same kind of spirit
along with some team work and head
work may be injected into the Bam-
berg boys; (not team yet, you no.
tice.)
And everybody who went down
there Friday except about seven men,
bers of the socalled team came back
sad, detected and yes, sore bunch.
There's no use beating around the
bush about it; we might as we'll be
frank and let Ehrhardt go to it. And
so long as you treat US as fairly and
act as gentlemanly as you have in
the last two games come to see us
again. But Ehrhardt won't enjoy
any merry-go-round at Rhoad park
while Bamberg stages an airplane
fight, because the locals don't pull
that kindergarten stuff at home. But
some of them are very young and
some nearly in their second childhood
and it might be suggested that if
nobody would follow them off from
home and let them play few games
with no supporters present possibly
they would become accustomed to
getting away from mothers apron
strings a few hours and win a game
on the road occasionally.
Bamberg started this game with a
vengeance on kirkland in the open
ing inning, and Large hit the first
pitched ball for hard single to
right. Two runs were made in that
inning. Bamberg made no less than
S6 hits including two clean doubles
and a long triple; they also un-
corked four errors from their sys-
TENS. Ehrhardt got 13 hits, several
for extra bases, and made three er-
rors. The visitors scored two more
runs in the third by timely batting
and another in the fourth, and prob
ably the scores would necessarily
have been kept on the ground if
Barker had not replaced kirkland in
this inning. In the eighth Barker,
worn from the undue heat and a re-
cent injury, weakened, and two more
tallies were driven home. Ehrhardt
scored one run in the second and
went until the ninth without another.
They seemed to be just teasing. Then
the crash came; zip, bang, bop, and
it was all over but the shouting. The
Woolworth building is pretty high,
but our boys could have looked down