National Republican., 1883-09-05
BASE BALL.
Another Game Between One Armed and
Ono Legged NInes-The Former WipS.


one armed and the one legged teams was con-
tested on the Athletic park grounds yester-
day afternoon in tho presence of about five
hundred spectators. Many Of the latter were
ladies, and although the attendance did not
meet the anticipation of tho managers, there
was no lack of enthusiasm and fun. Before
the game was called, friends of each nine
were active in the grounds and on the grand
stand extolling the merits of their cham
pions and the fact that the "sinRlo hnned "
players were the victors in the first game,
scgved to strengthen their stock to marked
e1hent The friends of the "One finned "
players were very hopeful, however, and sub
scluent events proved that their confidence
had not been misplaced
"Our follows learned something at the last
game" they would say to speculative in
quirers, land If you have ducats to risk, pre-
pare to risk them now on the men who pro-
pose, TO-. get away with the enemy single
handed"
Prof ]. w. Swank was selected umpire,
time was called at 4:5o clock, and the game
began with the one-urmed Troans at the bat.
The mines were composed of the same players
who struggled for first honors the other day,
and the first striker was Mai. Remsberg, who
batted left handel, and welded tho ash with
as great power as though he had mover left IN
arm on n battlefield His first lunge at the
sheepskin caused Private McCarty, the cork
legged catcher for the rival nine, to vince
and look scared
McCarty had sacrificed his underpinning
on the battlefield at Gettysburg, but he
didn't care to risk the rest of his anatomy to
tho uncertain swinging of Remsborg's bat.
| Taking a safe distance he laid low for the
| next ball, but Rcmsborg slugged it savagely
| for once into center field, aud Capt Hervey,
who guarded that section, dropped his
crutches and made funny break to capture
It, As ne hoped along after tho ball, and as
| Remsberg sped around tho bases, there was
wild and loud cheering and applause The
game thus opened, was followed by many
similar scenes, tho one armed men retiring at
| the end of tho first inning with four runs.
| Their opponents went out in one, two, three
order in the first inning. They batted
bravely, but could not reach first base. Their
opponents felded splendidly.
In the second inning the one armed men
| scored four more runs, and the friends of the
men on wooden pins began to grow apprehen-
sive, when the jovial Richmond pitcher of
the one legged men, stepped to tho plate and
observed, "You can depend on me, boys; l
was with Grant" and he pounded three
| baser way over into left field, where O'Con-
nor was lying down asleep.
This hit set all the old vcts astir. The
fielders flung what few arms they had wildly
about their heads, and their rivals stamped
around and cast aside their crutches, and
hoped, skipped, and danced about with
amazing agility. The ending Of tho second
| inning showed q score of six runs for the
one legged team, they leading by two.
Tho tie run was made by Maj.
Reeves This player had to drop his
crutches and rest the stump of one leg on a
chair when he went to the bat, and the hust-
ling he did when running the bases would
have done honor to the first man in from the
proverbisl retreat from the battle of Bull Run.
| Ia yn1 xuit oh
that, though several offered to run for him,
he scorned their assistance. The one legged
men proved all good runners, and IL was hard
to tell the superiority OF either the cork log
or crutch. The crutches were handily used
frequently in stopping balls, but in other re
spects they were inconvenient to the fielders
In the third inning the one armed mer
got the lead again, but their opponents recov
cred lost ground and passed them a long way
when their half of the third was over.
In the fourth and last inning, however
the one armed fellows piled up eleven NOR
runs and gotjtheir opponents SO ratified that
although they had darkness in their favor
they failed to make that advantage tell. Th
umpire, too, was slightly mixed. II didn'
sec It," he responded to kick made agains
one of his decisions, and to another said
"Well the man ought to be out if he isn't
Amid pleasant confusion the game thu
closed, Mai Reeves declaring that the dia
hOuu hoiu Wouiu ooo hih hoiO'
family" he added, pointing to hi
wifo and daughter near by, "hav
played their last game of ball. Our uniform
henceforth will be transformed into bathing
suits" Charley Hastings was not 30 despon
dent, nor was Maj. Remsberg. No 80 one
was the game ended and their defeat oftic iall.
announced than they called their ono arme'
nine together and arranged for game to b
played with q one legged team in Baltimor
next week. The full nine will go along
The score of yesterdays game by innings
as follows:
on, Armed d.................. 4 IL
One II gged. .................. U 10 -
Tho Argo Literary club, of Washington, l
c. has organized q base ball club to play tn
Eureka Base Ball club, of Baltimore, Md, o
Tuesday, Sept. IL, at Druid Hill park, Bait
more, Nd, at 3 o'clock p m.
There was game of base ball at Alexan
dria yesterday between the Waverlys {
; Washington, and the Alexandrians. Gam
was called ut the end of the fifth inning o
account of darkness. The score was then {
8. The Alexandrians start on western tou
! on Thursday.
The Independent nine, of East Washing
ton, will play the Leessurg, Va. nine thi
afternoon on the Lincoln park grounds.
Pipes and Castings for the Water Work
The following bids were opened at moo
, yesterday for furnishing and delivering 6s
! feet of 75-inch pipe, 6,7OO feet of 4s-inch pip
LOGO feet of 12-inch pipe $3.50 feet of Sine
pipe, 420 feet of 6-inch pipe, aggregating abor
1000 tons of nine castings which will be II