Evening journal., 1897-09-28
CRAZY OVER BASEBALL
All Wilmington Sporting Cir
cles are Aroused,
OVER THIS YEABs CHAMPIONSHIP
NEARLY SIXTY THOUSAND PER
SONS CROWDED INTO THE
GROUNDS AT BALTIMORE-NOPS
FRIENDS ARE MAD.

HllENDD -AlAH MAIL
Nothing since the Corbett- -Fitzsim-
mons fight has so stirred Wilmington
sporting circles as has the fight now
finishing for the baseball championship
OF 1897.
Hundreds of men, young and younger,
were aroused to a high tension yester-
day in hearing THAI Boston's club was
defeating the three-times champion
Baltimores on their home grounds.
There were crowds around the news
paper offices and telephones were be-
sieged.
And yet the race has only waXed in
teresting. Boston has three and Bal
timore four more games TO play. The
Bostons have not won the pennant,
and If the Orioles play ball from now
on they may yet win out. Boston is
buS one game ahead, and n slip-up Of
one game in Brooklyn will put them
behind the Orioles il the champions
win from Washington. Kennedy. Of
Brooklyn, has been saved for the Bos-
tons, and Dunn is quite effective
against them. Brooklyn is even talk
ing Of taking three.
TALK ABOUT HARD TIMES.
The three greatest games of baseball,
which have just been played in Balti-
more, were attended by 56,417 persons
who paid admission.
Both clubs coined money on the con-
tests The visiting club gets 90 per
cent. of the general gate admission,
while the home club gets the other so
per cent. and all seats and privileges.
AS the general admission in Balti-
more Is % cents, the Boston Club took
away from there in the nelghborhood
of $1,000 for the three games. Besides
this the home club had about 5000 per-
sons each day in the grand stand and
1900 to 1000 reserved seats each day,
aggregating $4,000 to $4,000. The bar
privilege and other things were also
valuable.
The Baltimore Club got about $4,000
in Boston on the last visit, but general
admission there is so cents, and the re-
ceipts are divided on that basis.
BOSTON BAND PLAYED MARY
LAND"
At the close of yesterdays game the
scene on the Baltimore grounds beg
cared description. The band was play
ing THE Blow Nearly Killed Father
when the crowd gave three hearty
cheers for Boston and its club and root
ers. The tune switched off to MARY
land, My Maryland" and the crowds
from far and near cheered again and
again in recognition Of the fact that the
Massachusetts boys had captured Mary
land for the day. Then the band play
ed Dixie" and the Northerners ant
Southerners tried to outdo each othei
with cheering
The Boston players had been hauleJ
up into the stand by their admirers
from home, who embraced them in ;
delirium OF happiness From this place
where they overlooked the shouting
Baltlmoreans on the ground below
they threw out dozens OF little bags fill
ed with beans, as If 10 get rid of bal
last and sail higher still into the cloud
of victory.
STRANGE TREATMENT OF NOPS.
The Baltimore Sun says: Had Cor
bett or NOps or Amole or Pond starte,
in and pitched the game through ther
Is every reason to believe any one o
them could have won his game. Cor
heti had to retire on account of an ac
cident to his hand. That was. @
course, unavoidable, and somebody ha
TO relieve him. But why Nops was re
leved was an enigma. Jerry was jus
beginning tOwarm tohiswork, and seem
ed in prime form, when he was retired
Three runs wer madein the second in
ming. it is true, but two Of these result
ed directly from Stencils muff of Bel
gems fly. With proper support NoI
would have pitched an effective gam
II his work in the short time he was /
was any criterion.