The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-07

noon tne heu QUA uolooloo Ino i1o
chester team Of the international
league at Rhoad park in this city by
a score of 9 to 8. 1t required ten
innings for the major leaguers to
turn the trick, single to right field
in the last half of the tenth inning
by Harvey Hitler, substitute short
stop, sending Mike Menosky home
with a deciding tally.
The attendance, though large, was
somewhat disappointing to the pro-
moters, G. w. Rentz, Jr., and }. b.
Black, Jr.; it was confidently expect
ed to make this a red letter day in
the history of the sporting annals OF
Bamberg. There were hundreds OF
visitors from the surrounding Sec
tions on hand for the athletic classic,
but the home folks did not turn out
SO we'll, and consequently it is prob
able that bigger crowds have been
damned into Rhoad park. From the
standpoint of good ball playing the
exhibition of the national pastime did
not measure up to the standard hop
ed for by many; however, there were
some very good plays as well as poor,
brilliant flashes of skill here and
there, which were at least sufficient
| to convince close observers of the
game that some Of the performers
were not mere ordinary ball players.
And. as a rule, the game was as good
as should have been expected for a
| practice exhibition. To begin with,
| contrary to the idea of many peo-
pie, the teams were not supposed to
be evenly matched. The highest class
leagues known to base ball are call
ed the majors. There are only two
of these, the National and American,
and the Boston team which appeared
in Bamberg is a member of the last
named organization; it is possible
that this league is trifle faster than
the National, although, strictly speak
ing, it is in the same class. The next
highest class of leagues is the AA,
and it is to this class which the In
ternationals belong, Of which Ro-
chester is member. Therefore, Ro-
chester is minor league club, while
Boston belongs to the majors. How
ever that may be, they were the two
best teams that ever played in Bam-
berg.
There was lots of oldtime hitting
and some old-time errors, too. In
the seventh inning the two longest
balls ever hit at Rhoad park were
raped out. John Collins caught one
of Clark's breakers on the nose and
slammed it far out to deep center,
and it might have been going yet but
for the plowed ground across the
road, the ex-White Sox player and
worlds champion pulling up at third.
A moment later Pittinger touched
the pill about where the two sides
of the old horse were sewed together
and in the absence Of the target en-
bankment that ball probably would
have been in Miami or the Gulf of
Mexico by now. Shades of Babe
Ruth were falling fast over the field,
for no cleaner home run was ever
knocked in Dixie. Eddie Foster, who
played second for the Sox, and who
less than a century ago began his big
league career in Washington, being
stationed at third base in the Ameri-
can league team of that city, also
poled out a triple, but he had had to
partly give thanks to Faulkner, the
diminutive short stop of Rochester,
who after playing brilliant ball for
several innings, evidently decided
that he was afraid Boston might buy
him, SO chained himself to tuft OF
grass and took a nap, as everybody
else watched the ball speed by him
for three-bagger. Kimmick, the
third baseman for Rochester, secured
a triple and single, the only man on
this team to get two hits.
Some pretty fielding stunts were
pulled by Pittinger for Boston at
third, and Liebold, formerly of the
White Sox, in center field for Boston.
In the fourth fast double play was
worked, Foster to Scott to Collins.
In the ninth Ware in left field for
Rochester made a wonderful peg to
the plate, cutting down Walters, who
essayed to score from second on a
clean single. Bub Mcmillan, Latta,
S. c., boy, who used to play with
Clemson and was last year with
! Greenville in the Sally league, show
, ed up we'll in center for Rochester,
| hitting the ball hard every time at