The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-06-13

each 5. Double play-Pollard and Smith
Base hits-Westminster s; Wilmington 4.
Two-base hits-Nicholas, Miller; Pollard.
Three base hit-Nicholas. Left on bases
Westminster Z; Wilmington 6. Struck out-on
Driscoll 8; on Meaney /. Bases on bails-by
Driscoll 2; by Meaney l; Time OF game
hour and so minutes. Umpire-Crouse.
GAME To-DAY--sATURDAY.
The Pastimes of Baltimore will play the
Westminsters on the ball grounds here this
Saturday. afternoon. The Pastime is the
best amateur club in Baltimore, and were to
have played the Baltimores last Tuesday, but
for some reason the game did not take place.
GAMES NEXT WEEK.
On Wednesday and Thursday of next week
the Harrisburg. Pa, club will be here to con-
test with the Westminsters. The Harrisburg
club is professional one, and will soon enter
the Eastern League. Sweitzer, brother OF
one of the pitchers on the Westminster nine,
is pitcher on the Harrisburg club, and Mitch
ell, who played a game or two with our club
last season, is first baseman. These games
will be as close and interesting as the game
with the Wilmingtons.
BASE BALL NOTES.
Mr.. w. w. Power resigned as Manager OF
the Westminster club on Monday, and left on
Wednesday to assume his duties at the Della
ware Water Gap House. Mr.. j. j. Baum
gartner has been chosen as his successor.
NJ. John H Cunningham has been elected
Treasurer to succeed Mr.. Hugo +, Fiddis,
resigned.
The scrub game last Saturday was very nm.
interesting as to ball playing, but abounded
in ludicrous errors.
DriscoIl pitched for the Frederick Unions
in game with the Blue Stockings of Adams
town. at the latter place, last Saturday. The
game resulted in favor of Frederick by score
of 80 to 4. Driseoll struck out 20 of the Blue
Stockings, and could have struck out more,
but several of them asked him to pitch straight
balls, so they could hit him.
Nicholas led in batting with the Whining
tons on Tuesday last. He went to the bat
five times and made four hits, with total OF
eight He and Driscoll have done some
heavy work with the bat in the last two games,
and It is nip and tuck with these and Miller
as to first place.
The Westminsters might be called heavy
batters, though most of them are small:
Greer, who catches everything above ground
within thirty or forty yards of him, seems I'M
fortunate at the bat. His long balls are gen.
orally fouls, though he made good drive In
Tuesdays game.
Zecker at short is daisy, and Sweitzer in
DSSS'
If Bankard were as good at the bat as he is
in the field, he would rank very high as ball
player. Anders and Zepp are doing well for
new players. These three are the left handed
batters.
CIabaugh, at first, and Miller, at second,
hold their positions we'll, and both are sure
batters.
The Wilmingtons played splendid game
on Tuesday, but could not do anything with
Driscoll's curves. They only made four
hits, and eight struck out. Only one of the
Westminster nine famed the breeze for three
strikes, and he wasn't happy.
Umpire Grouse made a wrong decision
against the Wilmingtons, but it did not help
the Westminsters. In his decisions he IS I'M
partial but, like other human beings, is liable
10 make mistakes. he gives great satlsfac-
ton as an umpire.
On Tuesday night Mr.. Hopes, the tonsorial
artist, with his voice and guitar, serenaded
the WestMipsteES at the Cltg Hotel in honor
of their victory over the Wilmingtons. Some
of the ball players and others joined in. A
tall individual leaning against pillar of the
hotel sang base; another about the same height
sang bear tone; the lef-felder sang terrible
and the short-stop "horribIe.'' Another, with
set of false teeth, sang fdlsetto. 1t was
good baaoL
The Frederick Unions and the East Patrick
Street (Frederick) club played game on
Wednesday iH thqt place in the presence OF
600 persons, and grea+ iptsFesE E4s, mani
tested in the contest, uriseoll pitched f9r
the former, and Zecker and AndeFs played in
the field. Sweitzer and Nicholas formed the
battery for the latter club, which won by a
score of to 4, ten innings. About eighteen
or twenty on each side struck out, and the
Westminster players did most of the work.