Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-06


The baseball match for the silver ball
and rosewood bat, offered by several Of our
business men and citizens to be played for
by the Penield Club ofOberlin College and
the Forest City Club of Cleveland, came of,
as announced, on the grounds of the latter
club, N Kinsman street, yesterday after
noon. These two clubs are, we believe, the
lest in the State. They played the first
match-game, as far as we are aware, ever
played in the State, in Cleveland, last fall.
On that occasion the 0berlin club were vic
torious, scoring 81 tallies to their opponents,
IS. About a fortnight ago, several of our
citizens, desiring to see another game be-
tween these two clubs, offered a silver ball
and rosewood bat as a prize to the club
which should be successful in a
match-game, to be played here on the
Fourth of July. The invitation was ac-
cepted by both clubs.
The Toledo train yesterday morning
brought in the Oberlin nine, accompanied
by about a hundred friends. They were
met at the depot by a committee from the
Forest City Club, and escorted to the ground,
where they played a practice game.
At ten o'clock the match commenced. the
Oberlin boys winning the choice of innings,
and going TO the field, the C~levelanders
taking the bat. The weather was excellent
for the game, and a large number ofspecta-
tors were present. The Oberlin boys played
in a uniform of black pants, belts and cap,
with white shirt the Cleveland nine ap-
peared in their tasteful uniform of blue and
white-blue pants, white cap, white shirt
and white belt. a tent was provided for
the scorers, and the general arrangement of
the ground was excellent.
The game opened we'll for the Forest City
Club, owing rather, however, to the ner-
vOus fielding of thOir opponents than to any
good play of their own At the end of the
first innings they had scored four to their
opponents one-an advantage which they
increased at the next innings so that the
tally stood ten TO four. In each of these
innings the C~levelanders scored a home-run
the first being made by McEwen, the
second by Hurlbut. These were the only
home runs made during the match. After
the first two innings the fielding of the
Peufeld Club p~erceptibly improved, though
il was not up to their usual standard at any
time. The advantage which the Forest
City had gained it steadily maintained and
increased. On the sixth innings the tally
stood Forest City 80, Penfeld Il. In the
next two the Oberlin boys were put out in
one, two, three order, without making a
tally. At the end of this innings, the
eighth, the game was closed by mutual
consent on account of the increasing twi-
light, the tally standing Forest City As,
Psnfeld IA.
During the latter part of the game, both
clubs changed their pitcher and catcher,
putting in fresh men and allowing the ex-
hausted players to do lighter work in field
ing. The Penhsld club sent in J. Fisher to
pitch and Boise to catch; the Forest City,
MrEwen to pitch and Clark to catch.
The playing Of the Forest City Club was
excellent throughout. They did heavier
batting than their opponents, but, as the
analysis shows, struck many fly balls, Civ
ing the Penfeld boys some excellent
chances for fly catches. Their base play
was splendid. They succeeded in putting
out thirteen of their opponents Oh bases,
losing but eight in this way themselves.
Smith, the catcher, Clark, the first base.
Hurlbut the short stop, and Villas, the
third base, won especial applause. Beauti-
full ~hy-eatches were made by the last two
gentlemen. Wright of the Forest City
bore off the only clean score of the day.
On the part of the Pen6eld Club, Mr.. Boise
especially distinguished himself in catch
ing two very swift fy-balls in the right
field, one struck by Clark, the other by
Smith. The batting of the Penfeld Club
was very careful and deliberate, their field
ing not equal to that of their opponents.
The umpires, Mr., Harvey, who filed the