Show A HOT GAII gama 2 well vallo team carries off the abs eun bun fram the tha A C tie ii e baseball X game ame between the and A C teams last saturday on oil the A C grounds was w as a a highly interesting affair the boys t f med all in goca trim and a pretty worm warm garne was played winch chieh resulted in a victory fr ells wellsville ville the score being seventeen atef n to fifteen the teams were made up as follows wellsville ryan backstop alex Al Maug aughan liun pitcher owens first bake robt maughan second bae ba e smith tb third birj b base archie e h ie maughan right t fie field 1 d ase ar charlen a r le center field brown left field and Iop flop pelton short stop following the same order the college team was compoi composed ted of pond bankhead langton nelson Ralph Fay lor Sermon and thatcher That sam thatcher acted as umpire at the close of the first two innings it looked as though the delleville Wel leville team would have things thin their own way after that though I 1 the game was hotly contested in the third and 16 fourth arth innings the wellsville boys were whitewashed and the college be boys ys had the s me thi thing ng done to them in the fifth innings there were a number of pretty plays made on both sides and some exceptionally poor ones A large crowd witnessed the game and as usual there were man many y ym rs on e each ach side who I 1 imagined they knew it all and who were free in condemning the umpire we believe however that thatcher was as conscientious and just in his bis decisions as it is possible due sible to be and with one exception he deser deceres dee eres es praise for hw big fair fairness n ess the exception we would make was when one of the batters in the last innings of the college team knock ed what in reality was a foul the umpire laid gaid it was a fair ball in defence of this judgment it is ie claimed that it had been decided that all balls alighting where that one lid did to the i light ight of a frame work near the college building buil dio leven even though they were really foul ua in order to malic make judgment easy I 1 and quick were to be called fair ghis being the case there could of course be no fault found with the ump irpa decision A deplorable feature of the game occurred in the third innings wellsville was in and C Ilaug maughan hian bad baited and got as far around as second base when pitcher bankhead made a move to pitch but whirled and threw the bill ball to second where it should have been stopped by neson nelson but nelson was wap looking the other way and maughan manahan stopped the he ball with ills his head bead he fell to the ground like a log of wood and another player had bad to be appointed to take his place but taking it all through it was a good game well played and highly enjoyed by all who attended |