The evening world., 1889-06-13
WARD A HERO.
Senior FOgaTt's Quakers
Bow to Buck EWing's
Champions.
It was A REC.YOT CONTEST.
Keeie and BuiflntOn Pitched With
Great Effectiveness.
JIM INJURIES NARROW ESCAPE.
ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING WORLD

ST. GEORGE GROUNDS, STATEN ISLAND, June
la.-Just before the time set for Q meeting of
the CHANTS this morning Manager Mutrie met
with an accident that according to several eye
witnesses came near ending Jim's existence.
Since making their home here the players have
i'll the morning time not devoted TO practice
been in the habit OF fishing for the willy eel,
which on warm days obligingly bites at hooked
worms and other tempting morceaux. James
Mutrie, ESQ.,. Is a great fisherman. There is no
doubt on that point, for Jim has himself
faid so time and time again, and fire.
quertly his New Bedford fish stories have
kept the players in q state Of excited
wakefulness long after they should have
been in bed; but Jim has never tished for cells
at Staten Island until this morning, when, with
a bluefsh hook and a shark line, he arrived at
q pier where Buck Ewing and Brown were pull
ing in tho snaky fish as fast a. they could
handle the lines. jim looked at the basketful
Of trophies, and with 4 Bcornful glance asked:
lis that all :" and then telling the boys to
watch him, the great James proceeded to coil
on his bait. He canght two cells IN two hours.
and then his eye caught sight of rock situated
about six feet from 8 boAt-house hoat twenty or
thirty yards further down the shore. You
people don't pick the right places, - said Mutrie.
That's my lay" And borne on by his graceful
strides. Jim at length arrived upon the feat
opposite the rock.
MUTRIE MEETS A GAY DEoEIvER.
Besides being q fisherman, Jim ia o jumper,
and, with his gear in hand, he jumped for the
rock and landed s~quArely on its top. But when
Jim struck the rock he struck another gay de-
ceiver, that IL, he struck moss, and very wet
moss at that. The usual thing happened. The
New York manager took water, and 10 much 20
that q brand-new Spring suit bore about as much
resemblance to its former self Us q muskrat to
q st. Charles spaniel. But Jim didn't pay any
attention to his clothes Just then, for though
only in three feet of water, the mighty Usher
man ina gined he was drowning. and, with
water-mufied cries for help. struck wildly out
for shore. He reached 1t, for neither Ewing nor
Brown psid the slightest attention to the acct
dent, calmly continued pulling in the cells, and
Jim. with words Of wrath. stalked angrily dry
clothesward.
interviewed on the subject. Manager Mutrie
refused to talk, but he wore q Winter suit and
appeared very much ratified.
PROSPECTS OF A BITTER CONTEST.
To-day il was the Philadelphia Club which
faced the Giants. and from the standing OF the
former Club. the yearly tough fl Ihts they give
the Giants and the kind Of ball the latter have
been playing for two days past, it was judged
that to-day's contest would be a bitter one. For
some unaccountable reason the Phillles have
lately disposed Of their king-pin infielder.
Irwin. and in his place Mailman has been sub
stitutcd. Ward, a new man to Gotham. played
second base.
1t is the general oninion that the team has
been weakened by the change, but the ball they
have been playing is Of the rennant-winning
order. Bufinton wnS in the tox TOR the visitors.
and their Italian captain and centre fielder.
Mr.. Fogarty, had so much confidence in the big
pitcl er's drop ball that he claimed the game be-
fore il was bagun.
When play was called 9, 600 people were en-
10Y nG the comfortable sea breeze which blew in
upon the stand and bleacheriCs. The Giants
took the field with Keefo and Ewing as their
battery. The batting order: