, 1881-05-01
Nearly Five Thousand People Present
: to Witness the White Stocking
- Cleveland Game. ..
The Champions Victorious in the
Ninth Inning by Splendid
Batting.
Worcester Takes the Concelt Out Of
the Troy Team By Score
Of i to O..
The Facts and the Law in the Case Of
the Washington Nationals
Ball Gossip.

Chicago vs.. CLi1f ELf1NA.
Between 1000 and 5000 people testified to their
interest in baseball as popular sport and rec
rcaiou BIZ their presence yesterday afternoon
Mt White Stocking Park to witness the opening
OF the League championship season By the cham
Mon ChicaEos and the rcol EanizeG Cle'elands.
Tic day was bright aud clear. but decidedly
chilly anywhere except In the sunlight, and II
.ras all the more notable that SO great crowd
turued out under weather conditions SO 0u-
favorable alike to comfort among the spectators
md to good work among the players Bur the
big gatherlng Was Kept warm py one OF the most
exciting games over witnessed. and delighted by
seeing the home team achieve one Of the hand
soonest victories ia long record OF credttable
achievements. The Clcyelands presented team
greatly strengthened by comparison with the
oneuf inst season. the addition of Clapp and
Purcell having been made In the meantime.
Moynahan, another new player. WAS laid OF By
reason of disability, his place being filled By Ken
nedy. whoplayed an astonishing game, making In
the seventh inning. a miraculous Jumping one
hand catcA from G1e's bat, which cut on at
least one run. Tho Chicagos were the same
great nine, man for man, that were the regulars
Of the season of 1sso-Anson, Burns, Gore. Dali
rYmple, Kelly: Williamson, Cozcoran. Flint, md
Quest. Both teams were greeted with hearty
applause us they appeared on the field
Business began promptly at 3:3l Dalrymple
ook his place at bRt. and sent Dunlap hy.
iorcs grounder was fumbled by McGeary ut
hlrd but be was forced out at SECOND on Kelly 8
lit to Giasscock, Kelly reaching hrst, and going
10 second On passed ball Anson's two-baser
brought Kelly home, and Willtamsons double
pyer right-field fence enabled the big Captain to
tally There was no more tallytng by Chicago
till The fifth inning. when an earned run was
scored on Funt's single and Dalrympte's double
In the sixth, after Two ours. Burns hit furious
grounder 10 cehtre-feld for three buses. and
lie run~eettinR by cleveland began in the Soc
ond inuing, when singles By Giasscock and Phil
Ii the, third Clapp clearly fouled out to Flint,
rs was plain to nine tenths Of the people On
the grounds, but somehow Mr. DoescheE the
umpire '1n't his ears open just then, and Clapp
got gitl 1t his life. Corcoran, whu was pitching
wide and nervously, gare him his base on balls,
snd dia the same to Purcell. ADVANCING mem N 20
ky to Williamson should have been the third out,
bur WIS not, thanks to the umpire. Then Glass
sifh h a. double @ end % ibree runs 1ssuited It IS
worthy of remark right here tnat taough the
foul-tip decision YVES unquesHonably wrong,
aa inn innins vas ended by Ph
tns,: trying - MIKE three bases on his two-base
1t:raaa falling victim !1 70 some superb field
tntlied again in the fifth on Cores muf Of
Glasscock's easy fy md Phillips closo~fo1lowing
At the opening OF the ninth inning the score
stood to against Chicago. Corcoran started
In With hot W to Glasscock. Whereupon Flint,
TO t4o great delight Of the crowd, hit clean for
ciapp captured sea- away az S back A near M "t6e the
grand aS stsnd. . enabling Flint e run
was equal to The emergency. 4 screening
grounder to right permitted Flint to score and
ue the game amid tremendous cheering. Gore
nit safe and helped Dairy1nple t. second. Kelly
gong to third gut IN the way Of Glasscock, who
would probably have backed of and caught the
ball. As it ~cs~ McGeary went after 1t, but
tallied, Gores az to second. a claim Of inten-
Eonal Obstruction was thereupon entered by
McGeary, and long tangie ensued because the
entire Cleveland team coming up % to The % plate TO to
argue the point When the Play was resumed
Anson pasted nard and safe grounder to
The latter being e'a6lcd to score on account Of
Dunlaps mun Of Ciapp's throw. which If held
would have kept Kelly on third. Williamson
enaeq enc @ tae .nning 4 Win ny 10 hennea M the re-
Cleveland WIS hat,ked in the last half OF the
ninth inning. and the game ended with victory
for Chicago b. &c scoFs Of to ,o,+
aggrieved at the umpires decision in rha case
OF Da1rymple in the ninth inning. q remark or
TWO Is not out Of place. Attention has been
called abUve to the unquesuonably mistaken
ruling OF the umpire in the case Of Clapp's foul
tip in the third inning, whereby Cleveland was
enabled to score three runs. to which they were
certainly no more entitled than WIS Chicago to
the three runs In the ninth inning, which re-
suited from the decision in the Dulrympe case.
Granting, for the sake OF argument, that both
decisions were erroneous. and equally 60 it
nevertheless follows that Cleveland Xot the best
OF the umpirnR. obtaining thereby Il lead early
IN the game, which in nine cases out Of ten
episodes Chicago woltd have won the game by
score of to ?, so that Cleveland has in fairness
little reason TO find fault Below is