Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-07-13

success which the JOURNAL believes
will grow out of his investment.
The hotel enterprises on hand look
like new era for Frostburg.
A Great Game.
Monday large bulletin in front of
the postoffice announced a game for
Tuesday at the Driving Park between
Redgrave's team and Hitchins' club,
the former being mostly downtown
Consolidation coal company folks the
latter uptown sports, including Will
liam Prorimo Sullivan and Hon. John
eX-Jessups Cut Director Chambers,
master of ceremonies and all-round
preserver of the unlties. Everything
admission to grounds and grand stand
seats. were to be free, and everybody
was invited to attend. Indeed, the
bulletin read like new itaiciSed edi-
ton of "Baxter's Call to the Uncon-
verted," so all-embracing were its APP
peals for n cosmopolitan audience.
The teams chartered James Aspin-
al's "Americus' and went over in
four-in-hand style, finding a response
to the invitation which later grew to
a crowd of considerable magnitude.
Edward Donohue umpited the game
with manifest satisfaction. There
was not kick from the time DR..
John Arophene Pfeiffer made the first
run and retired on his laurels until
the crowd left under the mistaken i'm
preston that the game was over.
The up town club won the toss and
introduced the fun.
The first tragic incident occurred,
however, when Joe Havoc Hitchins
broke in one strike one of Pfeffer's
centrifugal curves and his own bran
new, inexperienced bat. This per-
formance occasioned foul and two
grounders, but nobody reached for the
grounders. There was a laugh at Joe,
but he took up u willow, worn with
service and gray with age, and made
a hit which electrified his friends and
brought confusion to his enemies.
The second tragedy of the great
game occurred when a hotel man IN
the second half of the 18th inning took
the bat with the intention OF making
home run the first time ball leaned
his way. The ball came. 1t landed
too far inward. In fact, it landed in
his bread basket, and for few
moments it was feared by people who
owe him for livery hire that the pallor
which overspread his features indi-
Gated he would never again be able to
digest anything made of saleratus.
Happily, these apprehensions proved
groundless. After four distinct respi-
| atoms he resumed the bat and made
the on y run for his side in that inning.
In the second half of the 18th inning
A. Very Korrect DICKENS made the
only home run.
~ O'uiiViHtC iuily All me OCCuF-
rences of this remarkable game would
extend this report beyond proper base
ball limits.
At the beginning of the 9th inning
the score stood.
| HitChInS. Observation-Disclosures. 3l
| heuSra'e. .'................. ............D
The Hitchins team did not score.
In the second half, with three men
on bases, Sullivan dropped fly, two
scored, and there was swinging of
hats, the crowd meanwhile leaving the
ground under the impression that the
score was 3l-3O. But to those who
kept careful count the result sums up
this way:
| HltchlnS. ................3 81
hedSraVe. ............. 81
Charles Frick, of Baltimore, whose
stick is inclined to play with curves
before he hits 'em, caught two long
flies, and Howard Hitchins astonished
himself at gathering in one that at
first looked like speck in mid-sky.
1t is said the game must be played
over.
Later-Many have held quite siren
uously to the contention that the score
was
Hitchlns.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81
Redgrave. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 80
But an agreement has been reached
to complete the game by starting at
the point where Lammert last came
in, making the tie. Two men are out
and j. Havoc Hitchins is at the bat.
If the score remains tied the 10th
inning will follow, and when the game
has been finally determined, a new
game will Immediately ensue--one day
next week, provided all get well in
time.