Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-16
OUTCURVES AND INSHOOTS.
How They Puzzled the Bloomin'
Britishers.
ENGLISH cRlcKeTeRs AMAZED.
One Son OF Albion Thought an OUT
Drop Was Coming Straight
For His Blawstcd


tCopyrigh 1889 by James Gordon Bcnieit.l
BRIsToL, March 15.- New York Herald
Cablc-Specal to The BEE. Tho Chicago
and the All Americas played ball to-day
upon one of the most beautiful cricket ovals
in England, that of the Gloucester County
Cricket club in this city, of which DIR. A. g.
Grace is the president, and his brother, M.
h. M. Grace, the secretary The teams left
London for Bristol this morning in special
saloon car, and thoroughly enjoyed the de.
lightful trip of three hours through this most
picturesque district of England. On the ar
rival of the teams in Bristol they were met
at the station by committee of four COM
posing the Duke of Beaufort, DR.. Grace and
Messrs. h, Clarence and Henry Beloe, Of tho
Gloucester County Cricket club. They were
driven to the Grand hotel in four horse
drags, and sat down to an elaborate luncheon
in the hotel banquet hall. Anson was seated
or the left of the Duke of Beaufort, and
Spalding on his right. Among.those present
were DIR. Grace, his brother Mr. Lorin A.
Lathrop. the American consul NJ. Al Lamson,
president of the Bristol chamber of COM
merce, and other well known residents of
Worcestershire. The toasts drank were
'thc queen," "the president of the United
States,n and "the American base ball
teamS.n To the latter toast Mr. Spalding
replied happily, and in the course of his re-
marks gave a humorous description of the
parties tribulatons through Italy, France
and Egypt, where foreign tongues wero
spoken and caused no end OF trouble. Three
cheers were given by the boys for their hosts
before adjourning, and then came the pleas
ant drive to the grounds The day was clear
but cold, and the boys fingers We're very
stuff Accordingly, the game was not n brill
liant one, but the crowd was appreciativs
and applauded all the plays literally. The
duke of Beaufort and the ladies watched the
game from the press bench inside the en-
closure. Baldwin and Tenor were both suf-
fering with severe colds, and Anson put
Ryan in the box. Hanlou, to even things,
pitched Brown, and let the All America boys
change about. But seven innings were
played, in order that the prominent cricket
ers present might be given chance to test
the delivery of an American base ball
pitcher, The Chicago piled up the runs from
the very start, without any trouble
the break in the All America in and out
fields proving fatal, while Brown in addition
was hit freely and hard at the close of the
game. The Chicago team kept in position,
and DR.. Grace and other prominent cricketers
tried their hands at batting Ryan and Crane.
The latter did his prettlest and amazed the
crIcketers with his spead and his drops
shoots and raises, but what mazed the
cricketers most was the out drop, DR..
Grace thought the ball was coming for his
nose and stepped back only to see it sud-
denly turn and drop.to the ground several
feet to the side of the plate. The pitching
was a revelation to the cricketers, and
greatly amused and interested the crowd.
The team returned to London at seven.
Spalding, Anson and Hanlon remained,
however, till midnight to dine with DR..
Grace. The farewell London game takes
place tomorrow at the Leyten grounds.
Following is "A detailed summary Of the
game at Bristol on March Is:
Chicago, 10: All America g.
Earned runs-Chicago 3, All America l.
First base on errors-Chicago 4, All Amer
lea 3.
Left on bases-Chicago 4. All America 3.
Total base hits-Chcago II, IAN America 4.
Two base hits-Healy l, DAILY /.
Three base hits-NoEe.
Home runs-None.
First base on balls-Of Brown 4, off Ryan 9.
Stolen bases-Ryan, Pellit, Pfeffer (2),
rener, Baldwin, DAILY (3), Hanlon, Fogarty
and Healy.
Hit by pitched ball-Healy Hanlon, Tener
and Baldwin.
First base on illegal delivery-None.
Struck out BY Brown l, by Ryan l.
Double plays--Ryan and Pfcfer.
Passed bails-Anson |, Earle l.
Wild pitches-None.
Chicago ..........l & 9 9 a In