Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-08-08
"'TWAS FAMOUS VICTORY"
FROSTBURG DEFEATS CUMBERLAND
Again and the Fact is Put Where
an Umpire Cannot Rub it Out.

Again and the Fact is Put Where
an Umpire Cannot Rub it Out.
From Cumberland we hear q cry
eve have not lost the games tie.
We've heard them boast and groan before,
And now we hear them groan once more
Strong and loud to plying heaven,
AS they try to change their 6 to Z.
If the former games of base ball
played on the Association grounds at
Cumberland have been witnessed by
larger audiences, none have been more
enthusiastic than the contest between
Frostburg and Cumberland on Sat
urday, Aug. LIST.
The "Queen City" boys had been
used up SO badly by our club the Tues
day before that they secured new
twirler Of the sphere to "wind them up
Flanagan" and puzzle our boys, but it
was no use, for when the Frostburg
boys went to the bat in the first inning
and pounded the new pitcher for three
runs the fact was evident to every one
that Cumberland was again doomed to
defeat at the hands of the Frostburg
sluggers.
Manlove and Utter were the battery
Cumberland wEile O'Brien and Quinn
held the points for Frostburg. Man
love, the new pitcher, did some fine
batting and good base running, but
his pitching can not be said to be quite
as effective as Flanagan, the immortal
winder. Utter caught a very fair
game but made two very costly errors.
O'Brien's arm was very sore and he
could not pitch as effectively as usual,
but Notwithstanding this he pitched
good game, striking out nine men and
allowing but three singles and one
three Dagger off his delivery. Quinn
caught a great game, allowing only
two balls to pass him; caught several
difficult foul tips and threw beautifully
to the different bases.
The game throughout was very holly
contested and closely played. The
Frostburg boys felt quite tlmid when
they stepped to the bat in the first
inning, as nearly all Cumberland had
tried to brighten them by vivid de-
scriptions of the new pitchers power,
but this feeling took wings as Stewart,
Holt and O'Brien came in over the
home-plate before three men were re-
tired. Cumberland was blanked in the
first, but scored in the second, fourth,
seventh, eighth and ninth innings. In
the sixth Utter attempted to make
third after two men were out; Manlove,
who was on third, started home Utter
was put out on third as Manlove
crossed the home plate. This was the
run over which the dispute arose. The
umpire did not know how to decide,
and so it was not recorded. About
two hours after the game was over,
when our boys We're at home, and the
score to in favor of Frostburg was
publicly announced, and every person
thought the game ended, the umpire
decided that Cumberland was entitled
to the run. Every disinterested person,
both in Cumberland and Frostburg,
laughed at the desperate strait which
prompted this last resort. No one but
few baseball officials of Cumberland
heard the umpire say he would reserve
his decision when he should have an
nounced it publicly, and should have
ordered the clubs to play on until one
Of them was without doubt in the lead
but, instead, nothing was said that the
score be recorded, and when the ninth
inning was finished, "game" was call
ed. An umpire dare not call "game'
when there is doubt about which clut
leads, unless rain or darkness inter
feres, and as there was no such pre-
vention, when the ninth inning wa
finished and game was called will
Frostburg seven and Cumberland six
no matter how many runs were il
doubt this finished the game beyon,
dispute, giving it clearly, fairly ant
justly to the Frostburg team.
In the seventh inning, after two mel
were out, our boys scored three runs
This is where they pounded Manlov
lively. Stewart took his base on balls
Holt followed with a two-bagger
Kelly hit for the same distance bring
ing in Stewart and Holt; Quinn fol
lowed with a two-baser that brough
Kelley home; Quinn reached thir
when O'Brien hit and then he wen
home, reaching there before O'Brie
was thrown out at first, and yet hi
score was not allowed.
In the eighth and ninth CHAMBERLAIN
scored one each.
Cumberland folded pretty we'll bu
failed to hit O'Brien when it woul
have brought in several scores. i