The daily gazette., 1882-06-22
REPoETERs, EASY VICTORY.
Playing the Policemen at Base Ball
and vanquishing Them Without much
Effort,

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and vanquishlng Them Without much
Effort.
The reporters of the city press have met
the enemy, and the enemy is theirs, This
time they played a picked nine from the
police force and the triumph was secured
with very little effort on the news-gatherers,
part. Again have they shown what excel
lent players they. are, and fully sustained
their already widely known character as
first-class players on the grassy diamond.
The game took place yesterday afternoon
at the old amateur grounds in the presence
of an immense crowd of spectators. When
it was at its height It is estimated
that upwards of a thousand people were
| present, and these viewed the splendid play
ing OF the reporters with pleased satisfac-
| tion. atfla - u
The game started out with the reporters
at the bat and the first inning was played
| by them In an audacious way which placed
several well-earned runs to their credit.
About this time the policemen began to
object to the umpire Kelley, who has a
reputation for fairness that is unexcelled,
and TO talk about the losing side having to
buy barrel of beer. The talk against the
| umpire continued until the game closed and
was the unpleasant feature of the affair, but
the illusions to the barrel Of beer ceased
when the score of the reporters began To
increase in way that made the policemen
look for the conclusion with hopeless long
ing. Why they stopped was explained when
they said reporters never drank beer.i OF
course they were willing to pay for it.
In the field the reporters did excellent
work. a With Conard at first, Reeve at
second and Entwisle at third, Davis, Brown
and Foster in the field and Shields as short
stop, this is not surprising The only error
at fielding was an accident. This was when
| Davis struck foot against the inevitable
tussock while making flying catch and fell,
Badly hurt he was placed under Officer
McVey's umbrella and soon recovered. The
playing of the policemen was very surprising,
considering the boasting that had been in
dulged in. AT the bat the official perform
ances were heartrending. A Abrawny patrol
man would strike at ball, but the bat
would whistle through empty air, and their
| only runs, with the exception of those made
| by the two Taylors and Boster, were stolen,
| Officer McVey would have done good playing
If he had paid more attention to catches
than to fighting with the irreproachable
umpire Kelly.
On the seventh inning the policemen
seeing crushing and overwhelming defeat
inevitable, wanted to stop, but were shamed
into seeing the game ended. So the un-
equal contest went on, and when the police
men went last to the bat they covered them
selves with glory. Chambers struck out as
usual, Sparks went out on fly, and Cannon,
tho crack catcher, was cleyerly stopped by d
foul taken by Mcdonald. ~ an - w /
The game was ended, and the reporters
had won.f The victory had been easily
secured TO this aehievemeht thel reporters
point with pride-not because they have
beaten the policemen, for they are easy
to beat, but because they have shown people
what training and retiring modesty can do
| against muscle and bravado, The score
was-reporters 26, policemen'6. At'A 4
GOOD GAME FOR THE FOURTH.
II is altogether probable that frst-class
game will be played here on the Fourth of
July. rScheutzen Park will be secured and
match game which is now being arranged
for will be played by newly-organized nine
from the old Quickstep and Our Boys against
| the Reading Actives, who are doing such
good work this season. Such game would
no doubt attract much interest and big
SATURDAYS GAMES.
On Saturday game will be played he
| tween Our Boys and the Unknown at the
Amateur grounds. On the same day the
Enterprise will play mine al Newark.
ENDING IN A FIGHT-THEr GAME OF THE
sEAFoRD AND MILFORD MINES FoR TuR
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
| Especial correspondence of the Gazette.l I
| SEAFoRD, DEL, June 21.-A game of
base ball for the championship of Delaware
was played here yesterday by the Seaford
and Milford mines. One game had already
been played and this had been won h3 the
Milford. Much money was bet on the re-
suit, and the Seaford men before the game
commenced were heard declaring If they
could not win they would break the game
up in fight, and this they did.
The umpire was very fair one SO far as he
knew about the game. The Milford won
the toss and sent the Seaford to the bat, and
at the end of the first inning made four runs,
The Milford made three runs on the second
innings, the Seaford made two, and the
Milford made three runs, and then the Sea-
ford came in at the bat and got what we
style white-wash. The Milford was served
in the same style, and on the fourth inning
the Seaford had two men on the bases and a
man at the bat when there was an overthrow
by I.ank of the Milford nine and fell into a
crowd. Lank could not find 1t until two
men made home, and then Judgment was
asked for by the captain Of the Milford nine
on dead ball. The umpire was not allowed
to give his decision before there was gene
raj fight and the game broke up, standing
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