Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-08-18
BASEBALL NEWS.


pest that section had in the wav OF
baseball artists. On "Wednesday We
played the strong American Lec:o,
team at Elkins. They were the first
10 score-two runs Coming in their
EAR OF the second inning. Then in the
iourth we tied the count ant tninss be-
gan 10 look very rosy, BAT il was for a
shoit time only. In the very next IN
hine our team completely went q
f'eceS, anu 1t was 4 question in tie
minds OF the spectators whether the in
held was trying to make more errors
than the outfeid. The total at the end
I OF The game was elev n errors. The
score OF this game was Elkins II,
IShepherdstown 2.
Hostilities were again renewsI with
the same team on Thursday. We start
ed OH in a whirl. scoring three runs
in the first inning. We held this lead
until the fifth, when the Leglona;res
tied the count and in the next inning
forged ahead with the tying run. This
run was disputed by our team, as they
say that il did not count-inasmuch ss
Legge, our veteran catcher, tagged the
runner at least four feet from home
plate. Another argument in our favor
was that the Elkins crowd on the side
lines said that the runner was out and
that the run should not have counted
However, the umpire had spoken and
the boys did not argue any more and
continued the game. This run proved
to be the winning run of the game, as
the final score was Elkins 6, Shep-
herdstown S
On Friday the team played in
lhomas, and they were up against the
real thing in the way of opposing
pitching, the gentleman in that capac-
lty letting Shepherdstown down with
three hits. Fortunately enough, two of
them came at the right time and we
were saved from a shut-out. The
final score of this game was Thomas
8, Shepherdstown /.
Saturday afternoon found the team
crossing bats with the strong Liberty
Athletic Club in Cumberland. The
Shepherdstown crew was out to take
this game, as they did not have the
nerve 10 come home without having a
win to their credit. So they started
out in the first inning to put the game
on ice. This scored a run in this in
ming, and two more in the fourth.
They held the Cumberland team score
less until the eighth, when they put
across three runs by good solid hitting.
The score was tied at the end of the
ninth, and the crowd was nearly 60
ing into Mysteries. The game went
twelve innings. In our half of the
twelfth Snyder got three-bagger and
then N. Mckee singled over second,
bringing in the winning run. This
was the only game that we won on the
trip, but this one was worth winning
more than all Of the others, as the team
that we defeated has had no trouble
this season in defeating the teams that
we were unfortunate in losing to. The
final score of this game was Shep-
herdstown 4, Cumberland 3.
The Cumberland News gave a most
interesting account of the game in
that city last Saturday, from which we
take the following extract:
In the hardest fought game played
here this year, the Liberty Athletics
lost out in the twelfth inning on Satur-
day to the Shepherdstown, w. Va,
Collegians by the score of 4 to 3. The
visitors deserve plenty of credit for
the brand Of ball they put up and ali
through the game they made hair-rais-
ing plays that kept the crowd in con-
slant uproar. The real hero Of the
game was Jack Snyder, the Shepherds
town feet left gardener, who robbed
several batters of long hits that SEEM
ed impossible to reach. Snyder open
ed the game by scoring the first run
and it was his triple to centerfield in
the lucky twelfth that settled the argu-
ment. Potts also played a sparkling
game in the outfield, robbing Cretchley
and Dreaming out of probable extra
base hits. Brandy" Myers did the
flinging for the West Virginians and
had a world of excellent control,
whiting ten batters and allowing nine
hits, three Of which were punched in
the eighth frame, accounting for all
of the locals tallies. This was the
second game that Myers had twirled in
two days, twenty-one innings in ala
regular iron-man stunt.
We had an interesting session here
on Mondy with the strong team from
Strasburg, Va, whom we defeated in
Charles Town a couple of weeks ago.
The VIRGINIA hove came IN win and