The New York herald., 1870-06-14
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

''ned Stoclings' Versus NIutuals-StilI An.
other Victory for the Western Terrihers.
Inc Union Grounds ut Williamsburg presented yes
,erday liveler appearance than any ground In this
vicinity has shown this season. Some 5000 or lOO00
spectators were assembled within the enclosure. The
stoops, windows and roofs OF tho houses IN the
neghDorhood, from which even q glimpse
at the game could be obtancd were crowded;
wagons, trucks and any elevation in the adjoining
streets which could ba improvlsed into favorable
standing place We're made use OF ana covered with
human beings anxious to see the famous ..red ieys',
In their opening contest--the reasons given in the
HERALD Of Sunday tending TO induce a large
crowd to be present at the game Of yesterday.
Everybody expected that the Mutuais would
make as good O stand against the West
ern boys as they did last year; that
they would give the visitors the 'awfuest scare'
they should get their trip, they did not trip them
up. The score givea below VIII show that, to "a
certain extent, the immense tnrong dsap.
pointed. There WAS some fine playing shown by the
Mutuais In several instances, but they showed
also
WONDERFUL LACK OF JUDGMENT
IN several ways. In the first place they put some
Of their nine in positions other than those IN which
tney nave been practising during the past lew wee KS
this told against them quite frequently Al the bat
they seemed generally to have gwen up all IDEAS OF
ct shoulder fighS With SUCH s stadiaSs Sa pitchef
as Bralnerd, backed by such perfect nelders this
MutIas was decidedly suicidal OF the nve who
got on the basis two evlnced q what might be
called stupidity which had most damaging er.
feet For instance, In the fourth inning Eggler made
two bases on long fairiou nit Nelson followed and
ba9ged the ball at second-that is he sent the ball
'roastng hot" against the second base bag; then,
boy like, he commenced dancing at first and finally
started for second with the COOL calculating Branerd.
AN Aiison OF & ana sweasey Wacnlng hin. he was pat
taken otr It would bea capital way for him to
-p.ish his desire by running his caput
pf>sfy rs..Vfpr
II Is not to be understood that Nelson wanted to be
put oL but if he dd he could have done better
He weat 10 third on Nelson's hit, and there he stood
watching the poy go oat, and never made an attempt
to reach 'home,n He had time enough to get safely
m but he stayed where he was and lie was left there
Z. Mills had popped up fly for Wright at the open
ing OF the inning, Nelson was second hand out and
two runs were lost ihat the Muuals might have had.
Ia the field they Were fully as faulty. They did not
and the .red iessr batted time after tiEe In the
same direction and were not cared FOR. Two or
three times The ball was sent whizzing past short
stop toward the field, when Nel.on did not even
make move to reach IT. He seemed rather to be
AFRAID 10 face It, George Wright OH tue other hand,
made attempts TO reach, and almost succeeded,
the bal whenever it came in similar manner. 10
be sure it did not come very Often but when it did
he was around In fact, tie seemed to be ali over and
yet never iniraded on his fellow players. TO partc-
ulafize further
THE PLAYING OF THE REDS
woGd be fnvidious. During the entire game there
were but two errors made by the Cincinnati nine
one passed bail by Allison and the other 'muif ,
by Sweasey. Otherwise the playing was perfection.
On the Mutual side there were "mutis,'' wild throws,
wild pitches, missed fly catchcsn all twenty dam
aging errors. had all
THE CHANCES
been taken by the Mutuals In the field the cred
Stockings would have had but four runs in the
tire nine innings, anu had Nelson and Egger been
more wary and wiry In running the bases the MI
tuas would have tied the score with then opponents
and thus have necessitGted a tenth inning. There,
that Is sort OF cons0jng sop for the "Mutes after
their bad whipping On their side G. NJ LIS deserves
special mention Tor finely taken tip bound, and
Swandell for good foul ny catch.
THE INTEREST
In the Red Stockings has, III consequence Of tlielr
victory cooled OIL consid -rabiy and 1t Is safe to
| presume that their other matches will not be 50
| largely attended, There may be many who will
travel TO fremont 10 see JneuI play tlir Unions,
cause gong there may be looked upon as q visit to
| the country. The Ecklords on Friday may draw q
crowd, but the visitors viii scarcely find again such
] q numerous ana wen behaved assemblage as that
which Witnessed the game OF yesterday.
The actions OF the nine on the field might well be
inflated by certain professionals in this vicinity.
The captain does not order his men about as If they
were so many performing monkeys, give vent to
makes error. The result is the men work cheer
fully and Willingly 1t is pretty certain also. that
the captain needed to he criticised on account Of his
actions he would not threaten to "knocx all the
teeth out" OF the honest and fearless scribe who
might try 10 do him o favor.
THE SCORE
OF the game Is as fOllOws:-(0uS runs times first
base was made on clean hits total bases, hands pat
out ana number OF times assisting on the basesl.