The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-06-30
BAS G BALL
LOCALS PULL TOGETHER.
Pinch Hitting and Good Fielding
Bring Victory Over Orangeburg.

Hitting in the pinches and driving
in runs with vengeance the locals
overwhelmed Orangeburg at Rhoad
park Thursday afternoon in slow
and lifeless ball game, final score Ii
to 2. Two "Bills' we're on the
mound for their respective towns. as
somebody told Bill Wolfe he could
pitch, but evidenced by the manner
in which the home boys hammered
him to all corners of the lot his friend
was probably just kidding him. There
at least remained some doubt as to
whether or not he was a pitcher when
the eighth inning was over. Be 1t
said for him, however, that his team
mates played listless ball behind him
and his twirling generally was as
good as his support.
To give credit where it is due, the
locals pulled together, played as if
they had a real ball team and are'due
praise and the old adage, "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant" Bill
Whitesides always gets jam up sup
port, and Bill Whitesides usually
pitches jam up bail, and all this hap
pened along with the consistent hit
ting Thursday in which he poled out
two safeties himself. There were
few outstanding features, but none
from an Orangeburg viewpoint. The
splendid hurting of 'Bilp' Whitesides
must be mentioned: this chap walked
one and in the last eight innings al
lowed two measley hits; in the first
they got two hits from his delivery,
and that was their all for the day.
Whitesides has pitched 2S innings
this year for the local boys during
which not an earned run has been Sc
cured from him and only II hits re-
corded off him. He surely deserves
the privilege and honor of starting
regular championship game whether
he stays through it or not. RadcllH
played a star game in center field,
and has won a home in the hearts of
local fandom. He works hard, is in
the game every minute, is fast and
covers acres of territory, and his hit
ting makes him a fixture as long as
he continues to want a job. "Gyp'
Rentz made a nice catch of a foul,
and every man on the Bamberg team
got two hits except Large, who got a
two-bagger, and George Price. In the
ninth Bill Glaze gave Charlie Rentz
in left field a chance to electrify the
small crowd and Charlie made good.
The ball was slammed on line over
the veteran left felder's head, and
for a fraction of a second Charlie
misgauged it in the sun and it looked
good for a homer; but Charlie has
the happy faculty of recovering him
self in that sun field, and so he turn
ed, leaped and dived with his gloved
paw high over his head and in it the
pill stuck and was driven with such
force that it knocked him down, but
he swung to it, thus giving him a
jumping one hand stab and the most
sensational catch of the season at
Rhoad park.
Jeffords, the first man up, hit the
umpire with a batted ball for sim
gle; he was sacrificed to second by
Oscar Lowman, went to third on
.Stumpy' Banks's single across Sec
ond, and scored when Glaze grounded
to Whitesides who threw to third in
stead of home. The other run for the
visitors came in the fourth when
Glaze made a scratch two-base hit,
and on his attempted steal of third
the ball was thrown to left field and
he came home. The winners big
round was the eighth. Whitesides
grounded out to third to begin it.
Large hit a Texas Lacquer between
left and center on which the left field
er made a two-base error. "Bub'
Cooner beat out an infeld hit on
which Otto went to third. He and
"Bub' here worked double steal as
Banks threw to second and Large
scored. Charlie Rentz singled and
Cooner tailed, Charlie going to Sec
ond on the throw in; Radcliff doubled
and Charlie counted, Radcliff going
to third on the throw in; Warren
singled and Radcliff crossed the rub
ber for the 18th run. Capt. Bamberg
flied out to second, and "Gyp' Rentz
singled to right, Warren being caught
going to third for the third out, and
thus ending Wolfe's agony.
Score by innings:'
Bamberg - --101 O02 34x-11 Is 2
Oronoaburo 100 100 600 9 )