Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-30
THE CITY VICTORIOUS.

THE CITY VICTORIOUS.
Government Defeated in the Base
Bali Game Yesterday-Mayor Sar-
gent Makes n Timely Hit Which
sends in Three Runs-Other Feat
ures of tho Game. ..
The battle is over, the victory won and
the base ball talk which has for some time
past been floating in and out through the
corridors of the city hall. The contending
factions in the base ball talk have been the
representatives of the town and city gov
ernments, and in order to ascertain which
of the two governments was the champion
the scene of action was transferred from
the massive building on Church street,
where the gay and festive board of alder
men are wont to investigate the doings of
the board of public works, to the green
and grassy sward of the Howard avenue
base ball grounds. The two competing
mines, or rather tens, for each team played
with two short stops, were selected and
Monday, June 20, was decided upon as the
day of the eventful contest. w
In accordance with the arrangements
previously made twenty brave and trusty
opponents of the national game under the
guidance of City Clerk Eddie Downes
representing the city forces and Registrar
James Carr marshalling the forces of the
town HE'D themselves to the grounds yes
terday afternoon prepared to do battle
royal with the ball and bat. The batting
order and positions of the city men were
as follows: Assistant City Clerk Martin
and Alderman Doughlan 2b, Fireman
o Neiil c, Representative David Callahan
1b, Shea 8. g.. Cunningham 3b, Mayor
Sargent, Suffer and Weirweiss C. f., Kelly
and Martin right short stop, Alderman
Lowe l. f.. Parsons and Councilman Nc
Donald T. f., and Miller p.
The town forces batted and folded in
the following order: McHugh C ,Brethauer
p, Snigg 3b, Mcfarland 1b, Carney 2b,
Forbes l. f., Grosrk 8. s., Kennedy C. f.,
Ulman right short stop and Neal right
field.
The day was all that any one could wish
for and fully 1000 persons were assembled
at the grounds when the game commenced.
Nearly all the officials and politicians of
the city and town were on hand to "root"
for their respective teams, while a fair
sprinkling Of ladies were also noticed in
the grand stand. Conspicuous among the
occupants of the grand stand were Coroner
Mix and Medical Examiner White. who
were on hand in their official capacity to
pronounce upon the cause of death in the
event of any of the contestants being
killed, and by rendering quick verdict
not delay the game any longer than
WAS absolutely necessary. The genial as
sistant city clerk was also on hand
in all his glory, and when not
| actively engaged in playing made a most
| faithful custodian of the bats and water
pail. Alderman John Lowe played short
left field, while from his breast blazed
forth his recently acquired Second regi-
ment medal. Mayor Sargent, too, .'the
| noblest Roman of them al, )" covered both
himself and centerield with glory, arrayed
| in suit of matchless white flannel, a white
straw hat and brown kid gloves. He was
a most imposing feature of the game, pic
turesque to the extreme, and when by
his timely batting in the first in
ming with three men on bases he
sent all three across the plate and
scored few minutes later himself, he was
| more than ever dear to the hearts of his
constituents, and had another city election
been held about that time would have
| had more than walk over for the may
orally. Another feature of the game was
| the loving lock step INDUCED in by Alder
men Lowe and Cunningham at the COM
mencement of the fourth inning. This
little episode met with great merriment on
the part of the spectators, and although
many were the questions asked as to the
cause thereof, no one seemingly
cared to assig any reason, and
Mr.. Cunningham walking nonchalantly
into the field under cover of Alderman
Lowe turned to the audience and calling
back "I'm all right, don't yer care" the
game proceeded as before. Another point
of interest was the appearance of Sergeant
Mcbride in charge of the police ambulance
carefully secreted in among the bleachers
ready at moments notice to remove the
dead or injured from the scene of battle
Happily his services were not required
and the genial sergeant was enabled te
view all the surprisingly difficult plays
of the game from his exalted
position without let or hindrance
base was also an important factor il
achieving the victory for the city nine
He played the bag like veteran, and il
imitation of the only ''Doc" Kennedy hi
never used a glove during the entire game
He batted also strongly, but created con
siderable merriment by striking out in one
inning and striking so savagely at the las
ball as to lose his equilibrium and fall ig
ANONYMOUSLY to the ground. Down wen
Dave, but only for a second, for he was
soon on his feet, as happy and smiling a.
l
necktie, hoping thereby to prove {
mascot to his team, but although
played we'll and batted the ball out Of
sight. He forgot to touch first base, anc
luck being against his side, failed to win
The umpires were Frank Kelly for thu
town and John Kerrigan for the city, ani
while their work was not more than glori
ously brilliant, the players and spectators
seemed satisfied and everything passed of
smoothly. Once the crowd did get onto
Kelly, butronly for few minutes, anc
ton was extended to him to slide, but HI
failed to see the necessity therefor and re-
NAMED through the game.
The game itself was probably one of the
most exciting games recently played or
the local grounds and abounded in bril-
liant plays and ludicrous situations. The
spectators went there for fun and they
had it to the full. There was some differ
ence of opinion existing on the grounds
scorers as to the correct score of tho game
but in the end the opinion of the scorers
prevailed and the game will go down te
posterity with the following score:
city ::::::::: 8 81 81!
| The other features of the game moi
specially mentioned above were the heauy
batting of Lowe, Weirweiss, Callahan
Sargent, O'Neill, McHugh, Miller, Nc
Partland, and the generally excellent field
ing of both teams, neither side being
credited with more than seventy-fve
errors each.
| TO TRY IT AGAIN.
Arrangements were consummated last
evening whereby the city and town off
Gals will again contend for the supremacy
in base ball at no very distant date. The
fever has also spread among the occupants
of the hall and game between the coun-
cilmen and aldermen is already practi-
cally assured fact.
Terrible Death of a Child.
CHESTER, Conn.,, June 29.-Carrie Kel-