The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-19
BASEBALL SEASON OPENED.
GOOD WEATHER FAY0RED RIG LEAGUE CLUBS YESTERD1Y.

GOOD WE4IHER bAHOHEO BIO | LEAGUE CLUBS YESTERDAY. | More Than Fourteen Thousand People | Were at the Game Between Philadelphia
 and BaItimOre-Twenty Thousand Saw
 the New York and Brooklyn Game Chicago Defeats St. Louis Before Thou
 sands of Spectators.
 At Baltimore-The champions to-day | looked like sure winners until the ninth inning, when the Philadelphias ham, mered Esper for six base hits, two of which were doubles, scored five runs | and won the game. Esper was injured
 in the third by batted ball, but kept at his post. Lack of condition and loss of speed permitted the Philadelphias to | touch up his delivery in the last in
 ming. The Baltimores secured a com manding lead in the fourth inning by l tallying five runs off of six hits for a total of ten bases, and an error. With the exception of this inning Taylor pitched magnificently. It was an ideal day for baseball Attendance 14,327
 The score:
 Baltimore 70 0 0 O. 6
 Philadelphia o 0 0 o 0 2 5-7
 ts-Baltimore g, Philadelphia 16.
 Errors-Baltimore 1, Philadelphia 2.
 Batteres-Esper and Robinson; Taylor
 and Clements.
 At Cincinnati-Beautiful weather fa-
 vored the opening of the League season
 to-day. The largest crowd in the his-
 tory of the game for an opening day saw Cleveland go down before Ewing's
 men. Over 13,000 people were present and enthusiasm was at fever heat. Mayor Caldwell opened the season with a speech and tossed the ball to Umpire Emslie The game was marred by sev- eral bad errors on both sides. Dwyer pitched a masterly game to the sixth inning, allowing but one hit in that time. In that inning his arm let down and he retired In favor of Parrott. The score:
 Cincinnati ..1 0 4 0 %-10 Cleveland al 0 o O. 8
 Hits-Cincinnat IS, Cleveland IS. Err rors-Cincinnati 3, Cleveland 4. Bat teries-Dwyer, Parrott and Merritt; Sul- livan and zimmer.
 At New Yorl1-Twenty thousand peo- pie saw the opening League champion ship game at the Polo grounds The weather was perfect and the crowd en- thusiastic. Mayor Strong threw the first ball into the field from the upper tier and the season was officially de- clared open. The Brooklyns were in far better condition than the New Works o, o eli pa They hit Rusie hard and often, while Kennedy held the New Yorks well within control. Rusie was struck on the for ehead by liner in the second inning, but would not leave the game. Umpire Lynch strictly enforced the rule against kick ing and as a result the game was not in any way marred by rowdy behavior. The Brooklyns took a lead of two runs in the first inning and were never head ed. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning on account of dark ness. The score:
 New York ......0 o 0 2- Brooklyn .......2 0 1-7
 Hlts-New York z, Brooklyn 19. Errors New York 2, Brooklyn 2. Batteries Rusie and Farrell; Kennedy and Grim.
 At Louisville-The biggest crowd ever assembled on the Louisville grounds saw the opening game of the season here this afternoon. The weather was fine and the game ended in favor of the home team. The first ball over the plate was pitched by Mayor Tyler, for merly crack amateur. Killen, for Pittsburg, could not hold the Louisvilles down, and In the seventh inning was replaced by Hart. During Killen's oc- cupancy of the box he gave ten men bases. Sugart knocked one of the long l est hits ever made on the grounds and | made a. home run. The bases at the | time were empty. Fred Pfeffer played | first for Louisville and was given an | ovation. Attendance 5000. The score: | Louisville ...1 0 6 2 O-11 Pittsburg ....O 0 0 0 o 0 O.
 Hits-Louisville 8, Pittsburg 8. Err 2, Pittsburg 5. Bat teries-Inks and Welch; Killem Hart and Kinslow.
 At St. Louis-The Chicagos easily out played the local team in the opening game to-day, though the loss of the game was largely due to Breitenstein's wildness. Griffith was speedy and de- ceptive. Anson's men batted hard ran bases recklessly and fielded cleanly The local team seemed to have stage fright. wilmot, Stewart and Ryan made home runs. Attendance 12,2OO The score:
 St. Louis. 70 0 1 1 0 0 8 2-7 Chicago .....1 0 2 0 o 3-1O
 Hits-st. Louis 9, Chicago il, Errors
 e. T o,,ie 9 Chicapo E. Ratteries- and Peitz and Cooley; Gr1f- ith and Kittredge.