The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-26
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE benefit game Letween the Bostons and
Buffaios nettel tach member of the Bo;tons
$50.
HAMILTON. Canada had over 100 regularly
organize ba.,eball club; during the past
season.
OVER $1,000 reople have attended the
ffty-two baseball games Played i'll Boston
during the past season.
CALVIN AMI BrOuthers. of the Buffaloes,
have received offers of $500 each for the
season from Pratts new Pittsburg club.
SINCE the organization of the League in
1876 the Chicago club ha won the champion
ship four years, Boston three and Providence
ore.
THERE is still some prosr eft of a Southern
league. Memphis Mobile. Columbus Ca,
Montgomery and Savannah are =" in for the
arrangement.
THE ay of the prominent pitche in the
American club is as follows: Keefe 81, 500;
Matthews. 50 900: Fra ley, 81. 500 Weaver,
Sl,1OJ; White, 81 800: Henderson, 81, 800;
Mullane, 81, 400; MtGinnis, 200.
THE series between the Athletics, American
champions, and the League champion team
from Boston for the clamp )nship of the
United States has been won by the Bostons
by default. the Athletics forfeiting the
games and disbanding their team. The
Athletics also lose the city champ nship, as
the Philadelphia team have defeated them in
five games out of the nine played
THE Cincinnati tam had a marvellous es-
cape at the Beckel house, in Dayton, Ohio,
recently. About , o'clock the entire nine
dressed in uniform in a room on the third
floor of the hotel and left in n body for the
elevator Ths boy in charge carelessly LEI
too many of them crowd into the car
White Reilly, McPhee, Fulmer, Sommer,
Jones, Corkhill and Mr. Frank Wright, of
the NelcS journal. got safely into the eleva-
tor. Carpenter hesitated, remarking that the
thing might break One of the bows said,
"Crowd in, Hick, You might as we die now
as any other time, and Hick di step through.
In a moment after before the boy in charge
could get the door c.osal, the car shot down
like a meteor and landed on the cellar floor
almost before any one realized the danger.
The shock was terrific. Every particle of glass
in the elevator was broken out The utmost
confusion prevailed a momentlater. Carpen-
TER and Fulmer made dash at the
door at the same time, and both stuck fast
They say Reilly yelled, Let me out at this
floor" that Jones shouted, Slide, slide y
that White muttered something about a
"down shoot" Fulmer gasped " Reserved,
by gosh, and McPhee call ed for Judgment
John Corkhills six hairs stood straight or
ends, and, like PanquO's CHEST would not
down. ice Sommer called time and
tried to crawl out at the top. Seriously,
though, it was a marvel to every body thai no
one of the nine men in the elevator was
seriously hurt. Carpenter was cut in the
left index finger by some broken glass, which,
with the reception of general jolting up,
was the extent of the injury done to the men,
The worst sufferer was the elevator boy, who
was considerably bruised and cut about the
face. Powers came up in time to see the car
shoot down, with his fellow players inside,
and he was the most scared of all. A winter
faced set of meh were never seen than the
champions as they crawled out of the hole
into the cellar. In spite Of all they went
straight to the grounds aud played asplendid
game Of ball, beating the Dayton club u to
0.-SpOrttng Life.