Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-06-15
THE SCORE TIED AT NINE
AND THE UMPIRE CALLED
THE GAME.
salisbury's First Bout with Ashr .
Vile Closed win the sixth Inn.
Ing. Although Dark Was Hardly
In sigh.

Vile Closed win the Sixth Inn
Ing. Although Dark Was Hardly Y
In sigh.
Asheville might have had another scalp
at her belt had it not been for Umpire
Roy Will iams' calling of the game yes
terday at the end of the sixth inning,
ION account of darkness" As it was,
the score book sho US that Salisbury
and Asheville tied on a score of nine to
nine.
The game was late starting. The Wis
itors came in on the 4 o'clock train aud
then had to get into their playing
clothes, SO that it was about 5:25 when
play began. There was rot the
usual large attendance inside the
fence, and at the beginning the
tree seat crowd was warned
to keep good distance away by the
Big trespass notices the club had put ur.
but break was made as the game pro-
gressed and the usual grass plat seats
were soon taken
Asheville batted first for nothing, Old
ham and McClung dying before reaching
first, Stanley took base on balls and
Lanier struck out. FLOYD opened the
ball by making first on Captain Lewis
tumble OF a grasscutter. and was the
lone scorer. Malone died at second from
Lewis to Stanley. GRAY went out be-
tween Stanley and McClung, and Rags
dale couldn't hit the ball at all.
Stephens started the second with hit
to center, followed by Young who drove
the ball out into center and he and
Stephens came in on Graham's error.
Williams and Fletcher went out in order
and Lewis got a double. Oldham hit
what looked like one or two more runs
but Graham got under the ball and COB
bled 1t, whercupon Geo. Stephens NUT
tered hard luck" Salisbury walked up
two in her halt. The features of the in
ming were Williams striking out three
and Graham's right field triple.
McClung and Lanicr increased Ashc-
ville's score in the third. Stanley WIS
put out at home and got hard fall try
ing to climb over the catcher. For the
visitors Gray and Ragsdalc scored, the
latter doing the work with home run
over the left fence before Terrence and
Urv famed out
The fourth was blank al around |
Malont's out was on a pretty stop OF ii
liner by Lewis. The home bows put on |
their batting clothes in the fifth and hit |
Rngsdale right aud left. the tcs, five |
men to bat getting hits, LAM douh-
ling. The score was rails d five ana Sal |
isburv must have become alari,h. Arm
field and Gray came home for thr visitors
1t was in this inning that Rag dale ran
off first before Williams got III the box
after ioul. The big pitcher thrcw wild
over first, who got the bali and
put it to third, then it went back to
Williams who went over to first AID |
Ragsdale was out. Lewis got a good !
put out OF Graham.
In the sixth Stanley, Lanicr and |
Stephens went out in order before reach
ing first. Two were made by Salisbury,
making tic. Gray made the third out
by running against Oldham's right and
Stanley put him out at second. Here
mpire Williams called the game on ac-
count of darkness, although it was not
7 o'clock. Then there was kick, sure
The Ashevile PLAYERS kicked
and those who paid kicked. and Roy
caught it hard on every hand To be
sure it was cloudy but no darker than
It had been an hour before. Tie Ashc-
vile team knew nothing about the call
ng OF the game until after the thing was
lone, and the decision would not be
changed.
A Guy" team was made up by some
,f those who saw the piece of game, and
IN exhibition game was given, with a
guarantee to play II innings. Joe Stu
Ter was in the box and Jno. Nj. Camp
'ell caught, developing into fine lett
handed player. Lawrence McLoud bat
ed and Ed. McInturn' DR.. c. ]. Oliveros
md Ernest Hollingsworth covered the
,ases. There were some 10 6elders.
\iter one run had been made Umpir,
Sen ones and Will Patterson called the
game on account of darkness.
Then the crowd came home, and as if
II mockery of the stoppagc of the game
he sun, his face red with laughing, came
'ut and looked down with wink as the
rowd rode in. The score:
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