The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-01
POOR PILOTS.
HOW One Man Accounts for tlc Vfg-
ilantss Defeats.

HOW one NAN IOf tkaC tlS~
ilantss Defeats.
This is what a special correspondent of the
Boston Globe wrote about the races on the
Clyde:--
"The Vigilant, h~umbugged with bad pilot
age as she has been since she arrived in the
Clyde, did not quite understand what "a
patch of blue big enough to patch a sailors
trousers meant and lost her chance, leav-
ing the Britannia TO go off with a Tying
lead and wind. Why the Captain OF the
Vigilant did not find out where a proper
pilot was to be got nobody knows.
81 was talking to Captain Archibald wright
this morning about the bad pilotage OF the
Vigilant in the Clyde, and he saudi
think l could nave divided the prizes with
the Britannia" I said had no doubt OF 1t,
for l had never seen such laundering in my
life as on board Of the Vigilant. She seemed
to be sailed every way but the right one.
Her sails were hanging over instead OF pelng
set. INT her crew were running aooug ner
decks like cattle with a dog at their heels IN
stead of standing by their ropes and attend
ing to them. make no apology for writing
plain about the mistakes committed by the
Vigilant, and on inquiry you VIII ma no
one here who will dare to contradict me"
Diamond Chips.
Teams representing the Canal street and
the Twenty-tnird street offices of the Adams
Express Company had a spirited game on
Sunday at Greenv1lle. TIE teams were
evenly matched, and the result was in doubt
until the last man was out. street
won by one run. The score was:-Canal
street, IA; T~wenty-third street, IL. The VIC
tors give all the glory to their mascot.
The Y. NJ. C. A. League seems to v
hoen NOT a hawliuU S1lcceSS.
The Hobokens want another hack at the
Jersey Citys, and declare they will balance
accounts.
New York has made a big gain On the Bos-
tons. Baltimore leads New York by a very
few points.
York, 4: Boston, B.. Philadelphia, ID;
Brooklyn, 6. Baltimore, IL; Washington,
3. Chicago. s: st. Louis, L. Cleveland, II:
Louisville 10 first game. Louisville, II;
Cleveland, 4 Second game. Plttsburg, IL;
Cincinnati, 10.
This is the way an Antwerp paper de-
scribed a game of BASEBALL
Fully 15.Ooo people We're at Pawnee Bills
show Yesterday to witness we sup
posed was to be a game of football. but it
was not football. They only tossed the ball
from one to another, and one man, who held
a stick in his hands, tried to hit the ball
when it CHANGED to come his way. He failed
TO do so In altnoSG every INSTANCES. /" neA
they did succeed in hitting the ball they
would run, but for what reason we don't
known, as they usually ran only a short dis
lance and then went over ana sat down.
One poor fellow, whom everyone tried to
abuse, stood behind the man with the stick
and kept jumping out of the way of the ball.
Every time that he did SO he would shout
something in English. That game will not
become popular mere. Where could we find
men foolish enough to let a lot more throw
balls at them and endanger their lives?
Another paper, La Metropole, said in
French and Flemish that the game at
Pawnee Bills camp was a disappointing ex
hibition, as owing to the dangerous char
acter of the sport only nine men on a side
could be found with enough courage to par
ticipate in it.