The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-08-10
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1t Puzzled the MasOntowners and They
Failed to Get the Pigs in the Pen

1t Puzzled the Mas0ntOwners and They
Failed to Get the Pigs in the Pen
The game of base ball here Thurs
day between the Masontown, Pa,
and Morgantown teams was witness
ed by about 500 people, half of whom
went wild with excitement while the
other half went entirely daft. The
visitors arrived at the wharf on the
Steamer Leni Leota at 1:30 D. m.
and were accompanied by $50 root
ers. +" The Mingo brass band head
ed the procession to the soup tureen
and the game was called at 2:30
O'Clock. Masontown went to bat
first and secured runs and Nor
gantown followed with a goose egg.
In the second both teams failed to
connect with the home plate. In the
third the visitors fell onto Hayes
delivery and kept chasing each other
around the diamond until they had
jumped onto the home bag times.
AT this juncture our boys concluded
that it was time to play ball and the
battery was changed, Tom Pastorius
going into the box and Hickman be-
hind the bat, when the change was
made the visitors had a man on sec.
ond and third but they never got
home Morgantown then came to
bat and the way they whirled the will
low around their heads and brought
1t square up against the nose of the
calf skin made the crowd howl itself
hoarse with joy, after trotting around
the diamond 6 times the visitors
came to bat and the 4th inning
placed another egg along side the
one in the nest, the home team then
scored twice making the score s to
s. In the 9th both teams failed to
tally and the visitors changed their
pitcher. In the 9th the visitors got
another egg and the home team
scored once, the same thing happen
ed in the 18th, and in the Sth neither
made connection with home plate.
The 9th inning was without doubt
the most exciting ever witnessed on
the grounds here. The visitors went
to bat and had two men out and two
on bases when fly was knocked to
left field and fell within three feet of
Lewellen who could not find it in the
grass until after the two men on
bases and the batter had scored.
then two more men got on bases and
a ball was knocked to short, who threw
1t to Hayes on first, Hayes fumbled
1T and could not get hold of it till
the same old thing was repeated of
everybody walking home, The next
man was put out and the side retired
after getting six runs and making
the score IA to 10 in favor of Mason
town. Right here the Masontown
sports went daft and began to flash
the long green and cry for bets, and
they got 'em too. The Morgantown
sports knew thing or two and ev-
cry bet was taken, then the trouble
commenced. The first man to bat
slammed it against the sphere and
sailed to second, the next made
hit and so did everybody else until
the score stood IA to ID when Pas
torius sent the pigskin to the cattle
pen and the 18th man got home and
the puzzle was solved. The game
was over by the ruler, but Morgan
towner had bet a Masontowner that
Morgantown would beat by two
scores and the teams decided to play
on, but it was not for long for there
were two men on bases and Harry
Fleming knocked the ball over the
railroad track and they both went
home.
There was only 1 hit made off of
Pastorius, the men getting their bas-
es by errors in the field, and his
pitching was surprise to every one
as this is the second game be has
ever been in the box. He is the best
short stop we ever had but promises
to be better in the box. The scores
in the 9th by the visitors were either
Intentionally allowed for the purpose
Of drawing bets, or else were made
by outrageous errors, probably the
former.