Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-12
City Hall Leather Hunters.
The Nesvspaper Mine Send Them nil Ov

The Newspaper Mine Send Them nil Over \
 the FfeId-Sport for the scribes.
 ''Hollodee.' shouted Captain Clerkin of the | City Hall nine to member of the newspaper nine yesterday afternoon at Hamilton Park It was supposed that there some hidden meaning in the expression, Fire Marshal Kennedy chimed in with the cry, ''Now we've got 'em!" So they did get 'em- got'en bad, for when five innings had been played the scorer had marked 42 runs to the credit of the scribes, while the officials could count only 20. Probably the blues was the dynamite that lay meath the Gilbertian war whoop of 'Hollodee." Now we've got 'em" Brethauer took up the bat at 4:30, while the l newspaper men spread themselves to capture l him, which they did handsomely, Walker at short throwing him out to Lyons at first base. The next two men went out, leaving a goose l egg to the credit of the City Hall invincibles | Then the scribes went in and batted Brethauer to the tune of five runs. In the
 second inning the scribes again blanked their l opponents, while in their half the quill l drivers piled up fifteen moro runs, making ! the score 20 to against the officials Breth- I auer was batted so badly in this inning that { he exchanged places with Clerkin, the latter l going between the points and Bre thauer be- ' hind the bat. The change did not work very E well, for after a while Colonel Healey was ! called in to pitch, and still the newspaper ! men kept the officials hunting the leather. It
 was in this inning that ball was batted to ! Assistant Superintendent Coogan, third base ! man on the City Hall nine, which doubled him up in heap, and
 Colonel Healey tried to pick up the
 somehow he didn't succeed. Town Agent \ Reynolds was impressed into service and { played right field for the officials. After the
 newspaper men, taking pity on the felders \ they had kept running all over the diamond ! went out, Clerkin faced Scott ln the third \ inning. His determined manner showed that \ he the need of bracing up, so he sent the \ ball way down the field for two bases. The ! scribes then began to play loosely, allowing ! the City Hall men to score nine runs, they
 adding only one to their score. In the fourth ! inning Coogan got down to second Maher ! throwing the ball short to Splain, who was I playing the base. Splain, instead of throw | ing the ball back to the pitcher, made feint ] and put it under his left arm. Jimmy" ! then unconcernedly stepped off the bag, when
 Splain, who was watching him, gently tapped
 him in the corporosity with the ball. ''Jim-
 my'' thought it was all right, but went in
 when called by the umpire. This was one
 of the points that Jimmy hadn't learned in
 the game. Both sides increased their score by two in this inning. In the next inning an
 attempt was made to disable Editor Graves
 1t third base, for after two were out Q \ hot grounder was sent to third. Graves
 tried to pick it up, but the ball picked him in
 the eye. He was only slightly wounded,
 however, and resumed play amid the applause
 of the small boys in the audience who ad-
 mired his pluck if not his science. The off, ! cials went out with nine runs added to their
 score, and City Clerk Pigott wanted to cal the game. The scribes wanted some more sport at the bat however, and they had it. ! Nineteen runs in all were scored by them in this inning, when they succeeded in totally
 demoralizing their opponents Four differ ! ent pitchers faced them in this one inning,
 but they easily batted them all While Breth-
 auer was playing at short in this inning he
 threw ball to Stowe at first base
 which the latter probably took for bomb
 from an Egyptian battery, for it knocked the ! Soapine man clean off his pins. The fun ! ended soon after this as the scribes took pity ! on the weary leather hunters of the City Hall, and after scoring nineteen runs al owed | themselves to be put out. Mir. Weaver, the
 telegraph operator, umpired the game and gave satisfaction, as his errors were evenly
 distributed. MT. Fred Betts kept the tallies, ' though acknowledging that he didn't banker
 after the job. The hines were made up as ! follows City Hall nine-Clerkn, C.; Breth-
 auer, D.; Stowe, 1b Kennedy, 2b.; Coogan.
 3b.; Healey, ss. Pigo$t, If; Geary, cf; Key
 nolds If. Newspaper nine-Maher, G.. Scott, lp; Lyons, 3b.; Splain, 2b.; Graves, 3b; | Walker, ss.; Phelps, lf.; Conklin, cf; Coun-
 tryman, If. Following is the score by in
 nings