Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21
Base Ball.


Base Ball.
The fourth game of the DOver-Mil-
ford series was played at Dover last
Friday, and was q very exciting one
indeed.
Dover led of in the first inning, but
in the second neither club scored. In
the third and fourth Dover run her
score up to six, and Milford still was
shut oui. In the fifth aud sixth both
clubs failed TO score, and as Milford
took the field for the seventh excite
ment ran high. and Milford sympa-
thizers began to feel nervous. O'DOn-
nell opened up the path to victory and
Cross, Montgomery and Morrell fol-
lowed each with run. In the eighth
Montgomery got left on second, but
the other three got around again, leav-
ing the score Milford Z, Dover 8. In
the ninth inniDg Dover made one
more run tying the score, and thus 1t
stood through three whole innings,
but in the next (1Sth) Milford scored
two runs and a victory, which consid-
ering the advantage held by Dover
in the earlier stages of the game, was
almost miraculous. The score by in
nings was;
Milford, OOOOO4S OOOO2 20
Dover, 100000 OO-7
Two base hits-MOntgOmery, Nor
rell, Kelley. Earned runs Rigby,
Kelley. Double plays-KnOOr, Mont
gOmery, O'Donnell. Struck Out-By
SprOgell, 6; by HOdsOn, 6. Time OF
game-S,22. Umpire-Scott, of Sea-
ford.
On Monday afternoon Milford and
Camden met on the Milford grounds
for their third game. 1t was very hot,
but there was a good audience on the
ground, and the grand stand was well
filled. Milford won by score of six
to five.
The game announced between the
business men for the benefit of the
Jamestown fund, took place on Tues
day afternoon last in the presence of
an audience composed largely of ladies,
and added S6O4O to the fund. The
game was called at Two O'clOck-im-
mediately after the players in brand
new suits and led by band of music,
marched upon the field. North Mil
ford won the tOss,and sent the South
side TO the bat. Their battery, Mr..
Frank Richards, of Draper, Davis &
Co., and Mr.. H. L. HynsOn, of the
Meas and AdVe14iSer, worked like old
stagers, and the South side saw the
inning close with only one run. The
battery for South Milford, Mr.. John
Ratclfff, the builder, and Mr.. Bivens
Donovan proprietor of the South Mil
ford livery, failed to play their posi-
tiOns as skillfully as their opponents,
and ten runs were made on them
mainly by passed balls-befOre the
side was out. The second inning was
blank for the South side, aud when
the North side came TO the bat they
faced new battery in Edward Pierce,
catcher, and TheO. TOwnsend,p pitcher.
They closed with one run. The third
inning was blank for the South side,
and added four runs to the North sides
score. The fourth opened up lively
for both sides, and from then on the
runs were numerous, until at the close
of the ninth inning the score stood SO
to 81 in favor OF the North Milford
players. The men vino covered them
selves with glory for North Milford
are Frank Richards, who has a sore
jaw; H. L. HynsOn ,strInghalted; VIM.
II. Watson, broke up generally; w. B.
Pratt, Justus LOwery aud John WEIGH,
wind hurt by running; George Hyn-
son; finger on right hand dislOcated;
Mark H. Davis, Robert Hazard and
Frank Reedy, stiff arms from throw
ing. No serious accident befel the
South side players; but that none may
feel that they have been slighted, we
give the names Jos. E. Holland,
Geo. H. Hall, w. V. Supple, John Rat
cliff, Robert c. Hall. Edward Pierce,
H. L. Paige, George F. Pierce, Thee.
Townsend and B. Donovan. The
score by innings is as follows:
North Side, 10 l 46O75 8 x-36
| Coufh Side K n 8 4 Al
Passed balls-Rickards 2; DOnavan,
all; Pierce, 8. Earned runs-O. Time
of game, 245. Umpire-AlOnzO Nor
ris.
Both mines were photographed in
their uniforms.
THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL.
Dover suffered defeat in a sixteen
inning game last Wednesday at the
hands of the Milford nine. This was
the fifth game of the DOver-MilfOrd
series, and one of the prettiest games
ever played in Delaware, and was
almost without errors. When play
was called by Umpire Richards, Dover
went TO the bat but failed to score.
This was the same with both mines
until the third inning, when Dover
scored one run. Milford continued to
draw goose eggs until the sixth in
nings, when Rigby succeeded in secur'
ing q run and tied the game; but
Dover in the next innings made one
more run and shut the Milford team
out. The excitement was at fever
heat,and the eighth inning at its close
saw the score tied again by Milford
From this on it was = battle of the
pitchers,an neither nine scored unit
the ending of the sixteenth inning
VIXEN Rigby made the winning rur
for Milford by hard drive to center
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