East End Did Not Get Look
Camden Post-Telegram - May 10, 1909
Gardner's Aggregation Put It All Over the Southwark Players.
GREAT CREDIT DUE TO YOUNG VANHART [sic]
“Gee!” exclaimed the rattled and wild-eyed scorer of the East Ends, of Philadelphia, when the Southwarks bumped up against Gardner's Camden City team, of Parkside, on last Saturday afternoon. “Holy smoke! dis is de worst walloping ever we got.”
And so it was for the Camden City's piled up 19 runs to East End's 5 and won out easily by the score of 11 to 3.
Much praise for the great victory belongs to Frank Vanhest, the happy hearted little twirler from Gloucester whose tantalizing grin and continuous good nature, kept the East Ends and their rooters in a mess of mystification throughout the contest. Camden City sure did salivate the sphere calorifically, winning out essentially in the fifth by some hard slugging.
The score follows:
CAMDEN CITY
r. h. o. a. e.
Smith, 2b 3 3 2 5 0
Hughes, rf 1 1 0 1 0
Curray, 2b 0 4 1 4 0
Binger, cf 2 3 0 0 0
Clayton, lf 2 4 3 0 0
Johnson, 1b 0 0 9 0 0
Lafferty, ss 0 6 2 2 0
Clark, c 3 3 10 2 0
Vanhest, c 2 1 0 3 1
Totals 13 19 27 17 1
EAST ENDS
r. h. o. a. e.
Stinson, 2b 0 0 0 2 0
Dyer, c 0 1 5 1 0
Dunn, ss 1 0 1 0 0
Kane, cf 0 0 0 0 1
Potts, 3b 1 2 3 3 0
Nussle, lf 0 1 1 0 0
Reif, 1b 0 0 16 1 0
Non…, p 1 1 0 6 0
Powell, rf 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 3 5 12 6 1
Johnson out for interference with player.
Camden City 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 5—11
East Ends 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0—3
Earned runs—Camden, 7; East Ends, 2. Two-base hits—Curry, Potts and Nussle. Three-base hits—Curry, 2. Struck out—By Vanhest, 10; by Newett, 5. First base on called balls—Off Vanhest, 1; off Merritt, 8. Time—1h. 40m. Umpire—Mr. Nichols.
PRETZELS FROM THE PARK.
First real game of the season.
Anyone who has seen the Camden City team play, and among them are County Detective Marcus Carroll, Harry Dease, Janitor John S. Campbell and “Mike” Bradley who used to catch on Harry Davis' Camden team of 1891-92, are not at all surprised at their big batting and crack-a-jack fielding. That infield, stone-walled first baseman, Dick Johnson, second vaseman [sic], Dick Smith, third base, Frank Curry and young Lafferty, is a hard and an almost invincible propositon [sic] to make falter or totter. Then look at Pitcher Frank Vanhest who just smiles and shoots ‘em in, Clark the catcher who has a beautiful throwing arm and in the left field when he isn't catching, George Clayton, who left the Baltimore club at Lancaster without the knowledge of the manager, just because he was homesick and who made three hits and was responsible for three runs; George Burger, plenty good enough for any minor league team, and dear old “Pop” Hughes, who has been playing ball ever since he was a “kid,” in right field which is a rolling and rocky spot to cover but “Pop” does wonderfully well.
George Clayton's hit in the first sending in two runs was a walloper for fair.
Catcher Clark's bat was smashed by a pitched ball in the second and it landed direct in the East Ender's catching mit.
Third Baseman Potts, of the East Ends, who put up such a nice game on the sack, in the fourth inning had aleg [sic] wrenched in the fourth inning while trying to steal second base, but did not desert his teammates and played the game out to the finish.
Burger's liners were slashers.
George Clayton even took things so easily that he smoked Charlie Gardner's rich smelling “Mikado's” while copping in flies in left and left centre.
The attendance of all kinds numbered about 600, including “Noyl,” who does his share all right, all right.
Smith, many fans think, should be charged with an error in the fifth inning, but a reasonable interpretation of the rules regarding balls too hot to handle would seem to leave “Dick” out.