The daily gazette., 1883-07-30
BEATEN BY READING.
THE ouIcksTEPs STILL GOING
DOWN HILL.
A REALLY DlsGRAoEFUL DEFEAT.
Twelve Errors, OF Which Fox is Charged
with six-HisWins shows up well .-Pyle
Heavily Battsd,

READING, RA.s July So.-SeVen hundred
people saw the Quickstep- Active game IN
this city, this afternoon ewhen the Whining
| ton club received almost the worst defeat of
the season, and was still more firmly Gxed
In the position at the tail end of the race for
the Interstate championship pennAnt, which
| 1t SO gloriously earned last week H
The principal causes of the overwhelming
defeat were the heavy batting of the Actives
and the miserable fielding. OF the visitors.
| The Actives hit for total of "a bases, while
the Quicksteps had ~ errors, six OF which
wer mad, By Fox at third base. His bad
| playing was matter ofmuch surprise In view
of the faultless work he has heretofore been
doing iu this position. Pyle AMI Geary were
the Quickbtep battery, and the Reading
players batted Pyle more freely than they
ever did before. In the seventh inning they
ratified him for ten base hits. The Actives'
battery Was composed OF Morris and Car
roll, aud Morris, who Is left-handed, pug
zled the visitors with his peculiar delivery.
When they hit him they hit hard, but be
struck out nine of them. For the Quick
steps, Albert, keinzle and Higgins made
two-base hits. The only double play OF the
game was made by the Actiyes. fhe
weather was threatening, but the game was
not interfered with. Following is the score
by innings.
Active ............ 2 8 0 2 8 x-l7
Errors, Quickstep, IL; Actives, 3; total base
ai1s 91ickstsP u; AGtlve "a; earned runs
of Pottsville; time of game, two hours and 10
minutes
OTHER GAMES SATURDAY. f4j
At Philadelphia i
Athletic .......... 2 i 3 . . OF k-n
Base hits, Allegheny, Is; Athletic 10; errors,
Allegheny, Athletic, 8; pitchers, Neagle and
Matthews; umpire, Kelly.
At Detroit
Detroit. .:......... 0 2 o l-A|
Pitchers, Jones and Ward; umpire, Decker.
At Cleveland:
ciSveIsnd cciado, 49,. .... 9 3 56--ss|
p Pitchers, RadbOurne and Sawyer; umpire,
At Chicago:
Chicago. ......... 0 0 0 o o / 1-2|
Philadelphia. o o 200 0 4
Base hits, Chicago ~ Philadelphia s. errors,
Chicago; 4; Philadelphia, 3; pitchers Goldsmith
and Coleman; umpire, Lane
At Buffalo;
Buhalo...."...... 0 o O-7
Boston. ............ 0 0 0 0 o o. 8
Base hits Buffalo, .; Boston Il; errors, Buffalo
!; Boston, o; pitchers, CALVIN and Burlington;
umpire ufiong.
At Brooklyn; .*.---. 55
RHtSTssUIts. sTSGGlsR ;..... 3 9 ! ! e.
Game stopped by ain at the end of the
At Trenton, rain skqpped the game at the
end of the third inning, when the score
stood Trenton, 4; Harrisburg, /.
At Columbus-Cincinnati, 8; Colum-
bus, 8.
At New York-Metropolitan Z; Balti
more, D. Game called on account of rain at |
the end of the fourth inning. Pitchers,
Lynch and Henderson.
THE INTERSTATE RECORD.
The record for the Interstate champion
ship, up to and including Saturday, still |
leaves the Merritt in the lead, for, although |
the club has disbanded its games will not be |
thrown out. Harrisburg Is second, Anthra-
cite third, Trenton fourth, Brooklyn fifth |
and Active sixth, while the Quickstep nobly
brings up the rear. With the exception of
the Anthracite each club has won at least
one game from each of the other clubs of
the Association, the Anthracite having
failed to defeat the Merritt.
The following is the official Interstate
record up to and including Saturdays |
games;