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HANOVER GETS SWEET REVENGEGettysburg Amateurs Swe Disheartening Extiifaitian and JUlaw Rhrab taGallep away with a Ten tn Nothing Victory.R-e-v-e-n-g-e, sweet and complete, was the lot of five hundred happy Hanover fans in the neighboring city Thursday evening when Gettysburg's erstwhile famous base ball team performed on their field to the disgust of friends and foes and contributed a victory to the York Countians by the score of 10 to 0. A hundred or more local fans witnessed the slaughter Intoxicated with their long list of victories, the Gettysburg nine were at the mercy of the vengeful Hanoverians, from the time the first ball was pitched, and at no time did they show any symptoms of the big league stuff that characterized their playing before their successes spoiled them. The Hanover game was the climax of the past week and what a climax it was!Seven errors in the York game last Saturday and a miserable exhibition before the Salad Birds Wednesday-failed to teach a lesson, possibly be-] cause Gettysburg won in spite of them. But if the locals did not learn something at Hanover on Thursday, guardians should be appointed.Rohrbaugh did not have control before the game started, but with Bradshaw having pitched on Wednesday and due again for Saturday, Ira Plank saw fit to put in the box the man who'had held the Hanover nine scoreless for eighteen innings. For two brief rounds he la'csed, passed five| men, allowed several hits and showed I just abou’t how poor he could be with-jout his far-famed headwork.While Rohrbaugh was doing all ‘this, his team-mates were playing I grammar school ball back of him. Ira i Plank had three errors during the game and three others were register-jed against other alleged ball players., The exhibition would not have done 1 credit to a back lot Saturday morning 1 contest. Nine runs crossed the plate during the slaughter in the second [and third innings, Bradshaw finally i being rushed to the rescue.To cap the climax both teams start-, ed unsportsmanlike conduct near the ,! end of the game when darkness start-, game along by striking out and Gettysburg did everything possible to delay it. Fans objected and decent play finally prevailed. The so-called game was at last called in the eighth on account of darkness.Speaking of base ball it may be interesting to note that Gettysburg : had six hies as against Hanover's five,! w'hiie Gettysburg had to their discredit six errors as against Hanover's , one. Scherdel pitched for Hanover., The neighboring town will arrive by special train with a brass band on Saturday. If the locals “come back** 1 all will be forgiven. f Fans are asked to meet on the Square at 2:30 Saturday afternoon , and march with the band to Nixon : Field.** - *%
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Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 25, 1914
Page 5
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John C.
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