Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-08-10


REsOLuTKs v. SFARTASs-SrGRTANs THE
EicreRs.-Appended find report of the inter
esting game. Of Base Ball between the Resolute
B. B. c., Of Bedford and Spartan B. B. c., Of
Huntingdon, as furnished by the scorer OF
the Resolute Cls0. The game was a most
exciting ons and ''Our Boys struggled nobly
against fate aud tbs odds, but lost by core
Of ?. We are assured, how ever, that the score
would have been With the Resolutes had not
their shors Stop met with serious accident
n the second inning his hand was badly cut
by 'sirsng'' ball, and bled throughout the
entire game. The player brayely Tor rashly)
refused 10 DO relieved, and held his post
IN the fifth inning the Spartans made the
unprecedented score Of Is runs, at least
such score was never made before in the
annals Of the Resolute play, by an opposing
club. ] his inning would have closed with
Spartan runs, had not .Short Stop of the
ResoluIes matted three beautiful .s9y,s' in
seven strikes from FIRST hand IS. S. mufed
I'VE balls in the inning.) The Captains call
Of Tate on the Gy, which heretofore had
always been equivalent to take was
without avail, as the player could not hold
the ball because of his wound Adverse
toTiuRe thus gave the game to the Spartaus
II win Be seen that when the Spartans
closed then ninth inning, they led the score
b. II runs. and amid the cheers of their par
tisan friends, were declared the victors, by
larEe score but the vim and spirit o. tha
Resolute club is shown BY consulting their
''taiiies" on the last inning, when they
made the brilliant aud unusual score of Is
rpas without hand lost. Through all the
exciting contest the Boys played cody ard
eomPosedly. aud only when they had two to
snaze a tie, aad seemed certain to win. did
they appear 10 realize that they were stran-
gers in strange place, were playing muscu-
lar men, with the synpathies OF the crowd
adverse to their success, and on grounds
irregular and in all respects unlike their own.
They seemed only to note these odds at the
critical moment, and the next player AT the
ba. struck 9ut, with fair chance of making
be first Base, which advantage was not taken
anti 100 i2te; the charm was now broken
and IL next striker went out on ''foul fly"
The score now stood Is tailies with two
hands lost Center Field TO the bat took first
base, when Alsip went in and made a beauti-
fal hit TO center, which gave him second base
With King On third. The game was now
intensely exciting, even thrilling, and amid
painful suspense Frank, the gallant captain,
sook he bat; 5aet tAen passed bah By the
Pitcher gave third base an opportunity to
make hc1ne- which was not taken, and unfor-
tlnAtely The striker NeRt out on a .'fouI tip ~
The game closed, sRd the lsurels of the Res
olutes dropped for the frEt time, as victory
was theirs always hitherto. However. when
we know THAI the R. B. b. O., iscompssed of
young eiieminste boys that they went among
strangers alone and for the first time !; that
they found in the opposing clab strong ath-
lesie young meus and not boys Of their own
size, age and muscle" as represented,
and that the Sparsans were chosen '.nine,''
selected from the best players Of the commu-
pity, and gotten together especially for the
match, we can only wonder the score was not