The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-06-16
BANlBERG WAKES UP.
BamberS's New Star, Radcliffe, Pitch
es Wonderful Game Friday.

Well, they came to life; and woke
up too. And by the way, how long
has it been since you have seen a
nine inning game in which one of the
teams only had 26 men at bat? Last
Friday Radclitf, the youthful Tar
Heel working in his first home game
for Bamberg, probably pitched the
most remarkable game ever twirled
at Rhoad park. His victims were II
young gentlemen, mark you, nobody
said ball players, but gentlemen, from
Ehrhardt. And the I'll" is used
here not as a foot ball team but be-
cause it includes two substitutes who
participated in the melee. For nine
innings it was three up and three
down; Ehrhardt failed to reach Sec
ond, got to first only twice and did
not have a runner left on base. In
the fourth inning Zeigler, first man
up, singled to right, but was immedi-
ately doubled off first when Large
gobbled up F. Rober'sts fly. The only
other visitor to see first alive was j.
Roberts, who walked in the fifth; the
next batter grounded to short and a
fast double play resulted, Price to
Large to Bamberg. 1t was truly a
remarkable performance for Rad
cliff and he was in turn rewarded with
sensational support from his team
mates. Not an error did the home
hopes make, and Large, Charlie
Rentz and Warren all took in some
difficult chances. The old veteran,
"Bub" Cooner, worked Radcliff to a
queens taste and caught a fine game
behind the bat, and oh we'll, catch
er isn't supposed to hit so very much
anyhow. Perhaps the best catch Of
the game was pulled by F. Roberts in
center field for Ehrhardt when he
deliberately stole an apparent two
Dagger from the bat of RadcIff. otto
Large starred afeld and at bat, cut
ting off at least one, possibly two
hits, while Hard Luck Warren electri-
fed the crowd when he crossed the
road in far right field, dug his clod
hoppers deep into the soft sand Of
the corn field, delved his hams high
into the heavenly realms and clung
to a sure double from Purcelle's bat.
He received an ovation-the boil
weevil is here you know, and so ova-
tions are about all that ball players
can expect, although they won't buy
the baby any shoes. The Bamberg
team hit we'll, and made two double
plays on the only Ehrhardt runners
to see the light of day on the bases.
Radcliff famed six and walked one.
To keep the record straight, the score
was 10 to 0. Purcell famed eight,
gave up 12 hits, including a double
bv Large and a triple by Brabham,
and passed four men; he was as wild
as ever Jesse James had the reputa-
tion for being in the rosiest of his
racy days. He could have done
worse. but in certain innings he was
as weak as boarding house soup.
Ehrhardt did not play as poor game
as the score would otherwise indi-
cate: Bullock had an off-day. but Ty
Cobb does also sometimes; they were
only charged with two errors and
haven't such a bad team either. With
little more intelligence in running
bases and pep on the paths the Giants
couldn't have come down here Fri
day and defeated the home boys.
Things rocked along for three inn
ings without a score. Then the fire.
works started in the fourth. Some
body lit the fuse, rammed stick of
dynamite under Purcell, the explo-
sion came and he blew up and south
paved himself to an ignominious
licking right then and there. Brab-
ham faced him to start this delight
full round, and was issued free trans
portation to first. Charlie Rentz then
injected some of his old time dirty
stuff and laced neat single to CEN
ter Ga which "Bi1l' raced to thirt
and the old war horse pulled up safely
at second on the throw in. Bullock
came to the rescue of Bamberg by
having two passed balls here while
Warren was at bat on which both
these runners scored. Warren walk
ed and Capt. Bamberg hot footed it
to first and almost caused everybody
to faint by beating out a bunt down
the line. "Gyp" Rentz struck out,
but Price banged a clean hit to right
on which Warren counted and Bam-
berg went to third and tailed when