The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-02-10
BIG GAME FOR BAMBERG.
Boston Red Sox and Rochester Grays
Here On April 5th.

: sent, baseball lovers of Bamberg anC
the surrounding counties will bt
served a rare treat at Rhoad park il
this city on Tuesday, April 5th. New
er before in the history of Bamberg
and only on very few occasions II
any other city in South Carolina
south of Columbia, have two big
league ball teams locked horns fol
the fray. But the splendid base bal
which the Bamberg club furnished
during the season Of 1920 evidentl!
made some folks somewhere sit VI
and take notice. For on the date
above mentioned the two best bal
clubs that ever cavorted on a Bam'
berg lot will be arrayed against each
other here in mortal combat, express
inc it in terms of diamond slang
The two teams who will play an eX-
hibition game here are the Boston
Red Sox, of the American league, and
several times worlds champions, and
the Rochester Grays, Of the speedy
International league, a class AA or
ganization which ranks right up with
the majors. This will really be the
crowning athletic or sporting event
for Bamberg. It will be big thing
! for the town in more ways than one
and should result in some excellent
advertising. If you wish to put a
town on the may you've got to get
out and hustle and place it somehow
| in the eyes of the world at. large.
Just such an exhibition as this is one
way of doing it.
Walter E. Hapgood, one of the big
men of baseball, former business
manager of the Boston Braves, then
champions of the world, and now a
half owner of the Rochester club
along with George Stallings, the
great field manager of Rochester, is
arranging exhibition games through
out the country. Mr.. Hapgood was
in Bamberg Friday of last week for
this purpose, and after comforting
with several sports and wide awake
young business men of Bamberg,
signed the contract providing for the
first string players, that is, the regu-
lars, of the Rochester and Boston
Americans to play here.
These big league teams carry an
almost unlimited number of players
and this will mean that probably
fifty baseball men from all parts OF
the country, and some Of the games
brightest stars, including several of
the sporting writer's from the big
metropolitan dailies, will make their
appearance here. The Boston club will
put in several weeks training at Hot
Springs, Ark, just before coming
here. And one feature of the exhi-
bition will be the fact that on Sun
day, April 3rd, this team will leave
Hot Springs to play in Little Rock
against the team of that city in the
Southern association, and will then
Immediately Jump all the way from
Little Rock to Bamberg without
stop. That seems to be putting us
on the map; doubtless none of these
players has ever been in Bamberg,
and the chances are they will board
their pullman in Little Rock sing
ing the old song so familiar to our
army heroes, "Where do we go from
here, boys, where do we go from
here?'
There are numbers of people in
this section who have never had the
pleasure of seeing a major league
team in action, and in taking advant-
age of this opportunity they will be
fortunate in seeing some stars on
the Boston team which is being dop-
ed as a contender for the American
league flag this year. Among tnelr
number are such men as Joe Bush,
whose binding speed in the box won
him the nick name of Bullet Wally
Schang and Jack ''Stuffy'' Mclnness,
formerly with Connie Mack's Won
derful Athletics, Harry Hooper and
Everett Scott, each one mentioned
having been at one time or another
prominent members of worlds cham
pionship teams. Scott is today rec
ognized as the best short stop in the
game and holds the worlds record
of having played in more games con-
secutively than any other ball player
who ever lived This year Scott Will
enter upon his sixth season without
failing to take part in every single
game of his club, close to 700 in num-
her. Such a record of physical con-
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