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PLAYED A FASTTEN INNING TIEfiettysfeurg Hwaver Battle agaia betire Large Crawi m Hina FieU. Lacal Flayers Cause Saaut ■ to M ia ArgaamiLThrill alter thrill marked Gettysburg’s game with Hanover on Nixon Field Tuesday evening until one of the fastest contests seen here in many months came to a close in the tenth inning in an argument with the score a tie at three runs. It was an unfortunate ending but one precipitated by tbe feeling of local fans and players that the Gettysburg nine had gotten the short end of the deal from start to finish.In the tenth after several close decisions—and one not so close—had been given to Hanover, Oyler hit to thi and went to second whea the was hit thrown high. Lawrence | wad umpiring the bases at the time and? said he was entitled to only one base on a ground rule. Ira Plank dis-■ puted the ruling, saying that he had reached first ahead of the throw and could take second. The argument ' started as the clock struck seven and j closed fifteen minutes later when Um-pird Gilbert called the game on ac-' eouit of darkness.i Tlie continuation of the dispute by the ilocal captain and players looked liklt;| decidedly bad generalship for thefe was nothing to be gained by deplay and everything to lose.Oyler on first and Stair and following, Scherdel weakening things generally coming our way, uld seem to have been far better cs to play it out. erdel pitched for Hanover and, the eighth inning, had every-his own way. Johnny Myers got the first tame at bat, was soon ed off first and after tbat no one near hitting safely until Me-started things in the eighth, ven innings only three batters ScherdeJ, his teammates beck-bn up in great style and showing well how the game should be played.Meantime Hanover got to Hoar, scoring three earned runs; one in the first on a single by Herman and a double by Stover; one in the second, on a single by Rice, a sacrifice by Small and a hit by Hostetter; and one in the fifth on Hostetter’s double and Stover’s three bagger.Gettysburg got busy tor the first j time in the eighth. Mekaffie knocked a rattling single through short, and Jack Starry hit to the swamp* for three bases, scoring Mehaflie and crossing the plate on Muff Oyler’s out at first. Johnny Myers set the crowd wild in the ninth when he sent the ball far beyond the track into the high grass for a clean home run, tie-ing the score. Then came the tenths the argument and darkness.Gettysburg has not played a better game the entire season than on Tuesday. Only one error was registered against them and that was an easy fly which McDonnell dropped, to be relieved in right field the next inmng by Stair. Nixon Field has never seen a faster double play than that pulled j off in the ninth when, with Scherdel on first, Eline sent a grounder to Plank, who threw to Oyler at second and then received the ball at first, a fraction of a second before Eline slid into tbe bag.r John Bream made one of his famous running catches in deep right-center and Oyler, whose playing , around short was little shy of marvel-, ous, had two fast running catches back of third and second. During the game he had five put outs and six assists, many of them difficult ! Tuesday’s game brought out a big crowd of local rooters, with Hanover sending scarcely a score of alleged enthusiasts.1
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Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1914
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