Daily Republican., 1882-08-16
OUR BOYS DEFEATED.
THE FIRST GAME ON ThE NEW
GROUNDS A LARGE CROWD
PRESENT.

Over 500 persons assembled at the
new base ball grounds yesterday, at
Front and Union streets for the purpose
Of witnessing the contest between Our
Boys and the Defiance. The occasion
was the opening of the new grounds and
the receipts were to go towards playing
for the new uniforms worn for the first
time by Our Boys. The suits looked
nice and were much admired. The
sun having disappeared under a cloud
made the afternoon a desirable one for
the sport as well as being pleasant for
the spectators. A scarcity of seats
caused large crowd to stand
in close proximity to tho home plate
and along the fences. The policemen
had some difficulty in keeping the
former crowd back, but in the future
all this trouble will be remedied by the
erection of more seats and the stretch.
ing of rope around the home plate.
Downing of the Our Boys was absent
and officer Pierson was substituted in
his place and played exceedingly well
at first whileSlmpson played at second,
and Tatnall left field.
The game was called at $50 o'clock
with Our Boys at the bat. Stidham
led off with fly to Higgins. PiersOn
sent q grounder to right field, reached
first, stole second, and scored on pass.
cd ball. Simpson struck out and Weller
was put out by a hot liner to Mccall.
Higgins opened ouS the game tor the
Defiance by knocking ball toSimpsou
and was put out at first. Connell sent
. hot ball to Weller, made his first,
second and third bases and scored on
series of errors. Bridgeman made
a good hit, but through reckless play.
ing was caught between the I'd and Sd
and put out. Mccall was put out by
fly to Stidham and the Defiance retired
to the field. In the second inning Our
Boys succeeded in scoring three runs
and the Defiance made foHr runs
through numerous errors and wild
throwing on the part of their oponents.
In the third inning Our Boys were
retired with but one run and the Def
ance came to the BAT During the pro-
gress of this inning Our Boys made
some brilliant errors and their throw.
ing was terrible, which no doubt caused
their defeat, as the Defiance scored five
runs. At the end of the third inning
the score stood 10 to in favor of the
Defiance and things looked blue for
Our Boys, while the audience began
to feel disappointed on account of the
poor playing on both sides. Their
spirits revived however ia the next
three innings when some excellent plays
were made and each club retired In one
two, three order. In the seventh in
ming the Defiance succeeded in scoring
two runs and in the eighth retired with
q blank. Our Boys made one run in
the seventh and eighth inning and
three on the ninth thus losing the game
by two runs. Some difficult plays
were made by several of the members
of each club. Keisendeter caught a
running foul back of the bat in the fifth
inning and was loudly applauded. We'll
Ter, Stidham and PiersOn of Our Boys
did some excellent playing in the field
and Tatnall at left caught one or two
good flies. At the bat Tatnall and Kei.
sendefer took the lead but Hayes and
Foster were not slow. The Defiance
were all heavy batters but McCloskey
and Skelly carried off the honors while
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did some fine playing.
William Green umpired hegame un-
til the close of the seventh inning when
he was compelled to retire on account
of an unjust decision and VIM. Clark
took his place. Our Boys did all in
their power to please the audience in
every way and in this they we're par
TALLY successful. They, however,
should have more practice, especially
in throwing, as that caused their defeat
yesterday. The score by innings is as
follows:
Defiance Il 5000 20 x-12
Our Boys 1 0 0 0 l l 80
At the new grounds the Olympics
and Quicksteps play on Thursday, and
Our Boys and the Young Americas, of
Philadelphia, on Saturday.
Games played elsewhere
At st. Louis-Athletic, 3; st. Louis, 1.
At Reading-Active, 6; Atlantic Of
Cansda,0.
At New York-Metropolitan, 4;
Cleveland, 4.
At Cincinnati-Cincinnati, 10; Balti-
more, l.