The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-09-02
The CIOnIng Leacue Game.

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inning in favor of Bel Air, in the third and
final game of the series with Delta, Umpire
| Warmsley, OF Baltimore, who wac officiating
for both clubs, awarded the game to the Bel
Air team on Saturday, by score Of 9 to 0,
| upon Delta's refusal to continue the game.
This act gave to the Bel Air club the cham
pionship of the Hartford County Base Ball
League, and the Schapiro silver cup. Although
to many persons this windup and result of the
| series between these two clubs may seem
somewhat unsatisfactory, still the knowing
ones who were present at the game and saw
how the visitors acted, are almost to man in
favor of Bel Air keeping what was rishtfully
awarded them by the umpire. The idea Of
club like the Delta, after having secured the
services of several Baltimore players at con-
siderable expense, coming all the way TO Bel
Air on a special train, loaded with rooters,
and after having the players keyed up to the
very highest notch in training, leaving the
| grounds on the mere pretext that the umpire
had called perhaps one or two bad balls or
strikes on their players, caused the many hun
dreds of interested persons who had gathered
on the grounds from all parts of the county to
| leave in disgust. 1t was at the suggestion of
| Manager Williams, of the Delta club, that
| Baltimore umpire was secured for this final
game, and Mr. Warmsley, who is profes-
sional ball player, being skilled in all points
| of the game, was the man secured, knowing
| that to the best of his knowledge and ability
he would be impartial. The main trouble was
| in the fact that there too many acting-m man
ayers around who were untiring in their eff
| forts to govern the whole situation for their
respective teams, thus giving the proper Of
fcers very little opportunity to exercise the
discretion that was aeeded.
Both teams had secured the services OF semi
professional players from Baltimore city, and
thus strongly REINFORCED, the game If played,
would surely have been most exciting con-
| test. The manager Of the Bel Air team had
secured five in the Monumental city, who
were as follows: Weber, catch; Stub. Brown,
pitch; Hill, tirst-base; Settler, short stop, and
| Rutland, third-base. The other positions be-
| ing filled by Richardson, second-base; Carroll,
| centre field; Reckord, left-feld, and Rouse,
right-iield. The Delta manager had also Sc
cured the following Baltimoreans Brooks,
catch; Mitchell, pitch; johnson, second base,
and Orem, centre-feld; while Gibson, OF
Havre de Grace, played short-stop. Arthur
Jones, K. Jones' Williams and Dodson filled
the other positions.
The game opened very auspiciously for both
sides. After Arthur Jones had struckout, K.
Jones sent little fly over over third-base,
which Ruhlsnd gracefully muffed. Brooks
aud Gibson followed with hits through Rich
ardson. With three men on bases, Williams,
| forced K. Jones at the plate, but Mitchell fol-
lowed with the only hit Of the inning by a
safe drive to right-centre, scoring Brooks and
Gibson, but was rundown himself between
first aud second. For Bel Air, Rouse sent a
little fly to second base, while Hill and Settler
made their bases on safe hits and were in turn
sent home on three-bagger to deep left-tield
by Weber, who In turn scored on a pretty hit
by Brown. Richardson and Rutland struck
out in this inning score-Bel Air, 3; Delta, 2
In the second inning, johnson, Orem and
Dodson were put out, as Brown was getting
down to the good work he is known to be
capable Of, and the hearts of the Delta con
tingent began to weaken preceptibly. After
the Bel Air half of the inning was over, the
men going out in one, two, three order, thu
manager OF the Delta club refused to allow
his players to take their turn at the bat, AS h,
claimed the umpire was unfair in calling BALL
and strikes and refused to continue the gam,
unless another man for the position was Sc
cured. Several gentlemen were proposed b,
both sides, but it was quite evident that
capable man could not he secured from gu
among the many present who would suit boil
sides, and it was just to avert this troubl
that Il neutral man was gotten here. After
space OF about an hour, during which tim
nearly one hundred persons were all talking
at the same time on the diamond trying T.
+ amicably settle the difficulty, while the spec
| tators hopefully waited in their seats, it wa
found that Delta still refused TO continue wit
s Mr.. Rarmsey as umpire, and that both team
could not agree on capable man to take hi