Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-08-16
MUFFERS vs.. BUFFERS.
GREATEST GAME OF BALL EVER
SEEN IN ELLSWORTH.
CLOSE GAME WON BY THE MUFFERS-
STAR PLAYING BY BOTH NINES-THE
UMPIRE MOBBED-NO FATALITIES.

victorious after hard-fought contest,
and now claim the championship.
1t is safe to say that it was the greatest
exhibition of base ball ever given in Ellis
worth. The mines were composed of
staid business and professional men of
the city, and it was to see them in their
new role of balltossers that the people OF
Ellswort hold men and matrons, young
men and maideps, and the irrepressible
small boy-wended their way to Wyman
Park last Friday afternoon. The game
was witnessed by about four hundred
people. They came expecting to see
great game of ball-and they did.
The physicians of the city We're invited
guests Each had received a call reading
as follows:
DEAR SIR: Your services are likely to
be needed at Wvman Park tomorrow
from to about dark. The occasion is the
Muffers buffers base ball game.
Being fully aware of your appreciation
of the intrinsic fitness of things, these
players know that to be present at the
game will be ample compensation for SER
vices to be rendered.
You will be expected to furnish,
free, instruments, liniment, bandages,
The inclosed ticket is slight token OF
the high appreciation in which you are
held by the clubs.
Very truly yours,
MUFFERS AND BUFFERS.
Fortunately there was but little need of
their services. There We're no fatalities.
sprained ankle or two, broken and dis
jointed fingers here and there, and other
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age done. Since the game, however,
there has been big demand for iniment
for stiffened joints.
STORY OF THE GAME.
Just prior to the game the clubs posed
before a camera. 1t was suggested that
another picture be taken Immediately
after the game, and they be labeled Be
| fore' and "After.'
The game commenced soon after 2
o'clock. Umpire NJ. Gallert, armed with
policeman's billy and a code of
"Gallert's Rules of Base Ball''-s, volume
of about 500 pages-took his place behind
| the catcher. 1t was whispered abroad
that the umpire did not know the differ
ence between foul ball and turkey
gobbler. But with the powerful as
sistance rendered by his club and re-
volver, his decisions We're quite salts
factory. Walter R. Parker acted as
assistant umpire.
The ball used in the game was said to be
only thirty years old, but it looked Older.
1t was used by advice of physicians pres
ent, who examined one of the cannon
ball affairs in use by ball players OF the
present day and pronounced 1t dan
gerous This wise advice undou btedly
saved several lives.
The Muffers We're captained by Prof. w.
II. Ires ger and the Euff.rs by Editor
Rollins OF THE AMERICAN. The battery
work for { he Muffers was divided between
Smith, Haines, Dresser, CampDell and
Hall, while Foster and Rollins occupied
the points for the buffers. The buffers
had ten men in the field, but it was not
discovered by the Muffers until the game
was half over.
The Muffers We're first al he bat. Dep
uty Sheriff Hooper was the first man to
step to the plate. He managed to nit the
! ball and got to first. He stole second and
third and came home on Campbell safe
hit The Muffers made two more runs in
the first inning and then retired. " hit
ing was he first man to f4ce the pitcher
for the buffers. He reached first on balls
and scored on safe hit by Treat. Treat
went out at third, Friend struck out and
Rollins short hy to Dresser retired
the side.
At he end of The fourth inning the
score stood 13 to 8 in favor of the Muffers
and it began to look as though the game
would be one-sded. In he fifth inning
the buffers got batting streak and the
Muffers got ratified With two men out
Friend, who had been unable to find the
ball Wit h the small bat, came to the plate
wit b board about a foot wide. There
were no knot holes in the board, the ball
could not get by, and Friend reached first
on the hit. This started the ball rolling
The board was too much for the Muffers
and they forgot all about how to play
ball The buffers rolled up twelve runs
before they recovered.
At the end of the sixth inning the score
stood 80 to II, in favor of the Muffers, but
the buffers were playing ball now. In the
seventh inning Friend and his boarc
again got in their work and eleven runs
were scored. The Muffers We're shut out
The Muffers scored another goose-egg
in the eighth inning, and the buffers
making three runs, took the lead for the
first time in the game, the score standing
81 to 30 in their favor.
In the ninth inning the Muffers agair
took the lead with three runs, and, re
inforced by DR.. Lewis Hodgkins, wh'
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