Daily Republican., 1883-07-05
BASE BALL.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMEROUS
GAMES AT HOME AND
ABROAD YESTERDAY,

ADou" 1,oVo pcoplt WlIucbScu GHt5
game yesterday afternoon between the
Quickstep and Trenton clubs, at Quick
step Park, and from the action of The
audience, the old time feeling in refer
ence to the home team has returned.
They played an almost faultless game
and vanquished their opponents by a
score of 8 to 2. Cuslck played an ex-
cellent game behind the bat, with only
one passed ball. Dorr, having been
reinstated, fully redeemed himself, and
pitched great game, striking no less
than seven men out, while only five
hits were made off him. Snyder play
ed well at first, but made bad error IN
the fourth inning. Pyle played at short,
Parker at second and Smiley at third.
Parker made a splendid double play
in the eighth inning which was loudly
applauded, Benners, Albert and Waitt
took excellent care Of the out field, the
former distinguishing himself in one
hand fly catch at right field, Watt and
Albert also caught several difficult ffys
and Snyder caught difficult running
foul fly, Albert, Benners and Waitt led
at the bat, while Dorr got in safe hit
and scored. The visitors played good
game bu were unable to bpt Dorr sue
cessfully, but nine men reaching first
base, and only two scored. The game
throughout was interesting and the
audience were well pleased. The score
follows:
Trenton, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o.
Quickstep,2 0 0 0 81 20 O-8
Runs earned-Quickstep 2: passed
balls -Cusick ], Lynch 2; double plays
-t!uicks ep 2, Trenton / struck out
lluickstep 3, Trenton I, wild pitches
Harkins l; errors-Quickstep 3; Trenton
&, umpire-McCafferty; time of game
one hour and thirty minutes.
In the morning the Quickstep played
a splendid exhibition game with the
strong Merritt team on the Athletic
grounds in Philadelphia, in the pres
ence Of an audience of 244 persons
Pyle and Kimber were the pitchers and
were unusually effective, only three
tase hits being made off the former and
two off the latter. The fielding on both
sides was good. The score was
Quickstep, l 0 0 0 0 0 Of
Merritt, 0 0 21 0 OF
Two-base hit-Warner. Total base
hits-Merritt 5; Quickstep, @ First
base on errows-Merritt, 5 Quickstep,
3. Left on bases-Merritt, 4 Quick
step, 4. Struck out-Merritt, 9;Quick-
step, g. Passed balls-Cusick, /. Time
Il hour, 30 minutes. Umpire-John
Ryan.
An amateur match took place in the
between the re-organized Our
Boys and the Young America of Phil
fror inf
bus owing to the heavy slugging Of
Our Boys the game was prolonged
until nearly 10 o'clock. Ocheltree
pitched very effective. The score is as
follows:
Young America OO113 2-1f
Onr Boys "a 20S 3 Ox-22
Passed balls-Aiken, 3, Clark, 4;
wild pitches-Ocheltree, 4, Dunn, 3,
DandO, l struck out-Our Boys, /,
Young America 8: earned runs-Our
Boys, 8, Young America, 3.
A game was played in Richardson's
woods between mines composed of Off
GERS and privates of A Company, D. v.
NJ, American Rifles, in w..lch the lat
ter defeated the former in fve innings.
Jfficers II l . 7 0EN
Privates 4 3 8 OFT
The Metropolitans We're defeated by
;he Ottawas by score of 13 to 70.
Gardner, of the Merritt club, recently
got into difficulty and has left for parts
unknown. Barber, of the Quicksteps,
,laved in his stead on Tuesday, but
will not play regular as he says he is
going to retire from the ball field.
The Washington Fire Company de-
ea ed a nine from NIiller'~ Senate yes-
erday by score of 8 to i.
An exciting game of ball took place
Vt the West Yard yesterday between
he Lime Kiln club and the Chestertown
line, composed of players in the EN-
10y of the Railroad Company. Nc
lure and Shields comprised the
battery for the Lime Kiln club while
iarnal and Corey did effective work
N the other side. At the conclusion of
he game the winning were presented
With a large cake and both clubs par
ook of a bounteous supply of ice cream,
etc, The game occupied two
lours and was umpired by A. d.
)Neal. The score was as follows:
'hestertown 1901 3 0 "a
lime Kiln 1011O 1Ol-5
The Sluggers base ball club put the
Jun Flowers to flight yesterday morning
y the following score;
un Flowers 00O2 262 1 3-14
luggers 81 l l 3 6 4-2i
GAMES BLAYED ELSEWHERE :
At misunderstanding game, Met
opolitan, 9: Columbus, /. Afternoon
anne, Metropolitan, 3 ; Columbus, ..
At Detroit-The game between the
Buffalo and Detroit Clubs were post
oned on account of rain.
At New York-Morning game be-
ween the New York and Boston
.eague mines score, New York, 10;
los on, I. Afternoon, between the
lew York and Providence mines. Score,
lew York, Providence, o.
At Brook yn- Harrisburg, 6 ; Brook
yn, 3.
At Chicago Morning game, Cleve-
hcago, : Cleveland, /.
At misunderstanding game, Gin
rnati, T. I; Baltimore, ). Afternoon
lme, Baltimore, Cincinnati, I.
At Louisville Morning game,
clipse, .; Athletics, .. Afternoon
lme, Athletics, II Eclipse, 9.
AT delphia-Morning game
8; Providence, II. After
BON gane-Philadelphia, $; Boston,
. Yale, "a J Harvard, 9.
AT Camden-Merritt, 10 Natsnal, OF
'ashington, 2.
AtThurlow-Burlington. At Houston,
At Chester-afternoon- Burlington,
Ross, ..
The following games were played on
lesday:
AT New York--Philadelphia, s; New
,rk, II.
At Reading-Active, I; Harrisburg,6.
At Standardization, s; Merritt, 2.
At Brookly Brooklyn, .; Yale, !.
At Providence Providence, ; Bos-
n, 0.
At nati--Cincinnati, u Metro
Titan, |.
AT Columbus-COlumbus 81 Balti--