The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-09-26
POLICE ArBaLL.
A Local Crowd Suffers for the BENEFIT
of the ChnrIeston Sufferers.

OF the CAari eston SuHerors.
If any Of the Charleston sufferers had
seen the game of ball that was played for
their benefit. yesterday afternoon, on the
Grand street grounds, they would have
suffered no longer unless it was from an
excess of mirth. The contestants were
members OF the Jersey City, and the New
ark police forces, and, with the assistance
of the Pennsylvania railroad, in the shape
of Mr.. Coian, one of it's employees, whe
umpired the game, the Newark men s'got
there" to the tune of eleven to six.
Tne game opened with the Jersey City
men at tho bat, and handsome Rickerich
stepped to the plate and said he wanted q
low ball. He got it, and the sphere scared
high in the air and landed plump in the
hands If Mr.. Adams, who had charge of
base No. for the Newarks. Detective
Pierson got in daisy clipper, and as Mr..
Collins couldn't stop it the little detective
reached first base. Mr.. McNa eAia
pitched one more ball and then tried to
play the Stovey act on Mr.. Pierson, bat it
wouldn't work. and for some reason the
ball scared high above the head of 25e-
pound Burger, who held down the base.
Mr.. Pierson started for home and had
ball got back into the diamond. He wisely
stepped there and waited until Cooper had
famed the air three times, and
Helmer had popped nice little fly
over Mr.. Collins head. Then he
went for the home plate Mr.
Collins was nervouss and instead of return
ing the ball to its original, McNamenia, he
threw it at Allison, the catcher, and Heb
ner stole second. He died there, how
ever, for MoGrath couldn't hit the ball. It
was the Newarks turn then, and Captain
Allison stepped MP to the plate and al
lowed Parks to throw three balls at him.
He struck at all of them yiciously, but
each time the ball evaded him, and so he
gave it up. Burger then tried it, and, al
though he threw his $50 pounds into the
stroke, the ball only rolled as far as first
base, and the little detective who protected
that bag collared his man on the journey.
Adams, who was next on base, hit the ball,
and if he had been Lurnam he could have
got three-quarters of the way home but
he wasn't, and SO he stopped at one quar-
ter. Mr.. Collins then struck out, and
that ended the first inning, with the score
l to 0, in favor of the Jersey City men.
By the time the second inning had CON-
menced Coran had gotten down to work,
ami as q consequence Parke, Mcdonald
and Morris struck out. A bag pipe friend
got in some fine work. Purcell made
run. Dick Lewis waited till he got the
ball where he wanted it. It caught him
square in the ribs and sent him to first
base. The three men who followed him
failed to do their duty, however, and Lewis
was left on the base. The second inning
thus ended with score of one to one, and
the bag pipe and fish horn struck up. At
the end of the third inning the score was
the same. In the fourth inning the Jersey
Citys failed to make run on account of
the umpire; but the Newarks piled up five
to their credit.
In the fifth inning the Newarks made
two more runs. In the sixth the Jersey
Citys made two and the Newarks one. In
the seventh the Jersey Citys made three
and the Newarks two. The Jersey Citys
played their half of the eighth, and the
game ended with a score of il to 6. The
following is the result in detail as near as
it was possible to keep it: