The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-07-06
FIELD CLUB
WINS OUT
A Great Game Was That Played
Last Saturday.
Slaughter of the Innocents-K Knick-
ers sWin-Brooksides Lose Great
Times in the Baseball World with
Games Galore.

For the hrSt time this season the ball
team of the Morristown Field Club
had the opportunity, Saturday, of
showing what it could do at the great
American game when up against one
of the crack mines of the Amateur
League The team took advantage
of the opportunity and covered itself
with glory.
The opposing team was the Knicker-
booker Athletic Club of Bayonne,
which came to town in high fettle,
and with the idea that of all walk
overs this would be the easiest in the
history of the club. The K. A. @.
can not exactly be blamed for this
feeling for they were fresh from their
conquest of the Morris Plains "Medi-
cos. and thought the world was
theirs. individuals have even had
this feeling and then foundlthemselvas
buried beneath an avalanche of adj
verse circumstances. So it was with
the Knickerbockers, their great ad
versity being the M. F. c., if any
one should inquire.
From start to finish it was beau
tiful game, all save that nightmare of
a seventh inning when Disosway Of
the K. A. G. lost his nerve and began
pitching skyscrapers and grounders
galore and ad lib. Up to that time
the game stood 3-2 in favor of the
home team and it had every appear
ance of going to the finish at the same
gait 1t had been a rapid, fierce
struggle from the start and was any
0he's game up to the fatal seventh.
But, think of it, With two men out,
no one on bases and not the hardest
hitter in the world at the bat, the
pitcher suddenly went all to pieces
and allowed eight safe hits and two
bases ON balls which resulted in seven
runs for tour side. F."
Disoscway said after the game that
he was sick that inning. That is
quite likely. Most anyone would be.
Ten men to bat and seven runs is
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Young Henry Cochran, just from
Princeton, was the chief artillery
piece for the NJ F. @. He has the mo-
tions of man pitching hay but he
got there in great shape with the ball.
Only nine hits and three runs were
made off his delivery which shows
it is not always style that wins.
A remarkable thing about his pitch
ing is that just before the ball game
he played and won two swift games
of tennis Then without any rest he
donned his ball suit and went into the
box and won out.
There were many features of inter
est III the game. Donnellywas the Field
Club man to bat At the second ball
thrown to him he smashed liner out
into left field 1t went into the woods
and was lost while he romped home.
The next score for Morristown was
also home run. Howell batted the
ball over the fence and liesurely made
the round of the cushions. Safe hits
were made by all M. F. O. batters
save Cochran. Some Of them made
two hits and Todd made three.
AS to the visitors, they put up an
excellent game but not quite good
enough. Their first run was homer
and their second and third runs were
made ON errors. Their all around
work was first-class. Every man on
the team new his business and played
for keeps.
The batting order was as follows.