Evening journal., 1902-08-29

Boston, Of the National League, jour I
neyed to this city yesterday and suffered |
defeat at the hands Of the Wilmington
a. A. Such q game never before was wit
messed on local diamond and the 5000
people present went wild. In the begin |
ming Of the game Boston played in list
less manner, evidently thinking It had an
easy thing. and such seemed TO be the
case for the bean eaters made two runs
on two errors in the fourth inning In the
fifth, another run was scored and in their
half Of the ninth inning. they scored an
other.
in the meantime Wilmington A. A. had
been unable to connect safely with Ma
arSy's bendcrs and had not scored a run.
The crowd Of spectators thought the
final score would be to In favor OF the
visitors and many were heard TO say the
home team was not doing 50 bad when IL
held a league team down TO four runs.
The game was not over, however. and
when the Wilmington A. A. men came up
IN the last half of the ninth inning, they
looked determined ana the spectators
thought there would be something doing.
Barton hit for base and Aubrey went
out on high fly and Barton could not
advance Deal came TO bat and landed for
n two bagger sending Barton to third
hope of scoring one run and preventing a
shut out. Nobody dared hope for vic
tory. Hartley, who came up next, hit to
right field and Barton and Deal scored
That started the fun and the shouts Of
the rOoters could be neard almost TO the
Court House. Tate hit a hot liner to
Moran, who fumbled it and Tate landed
safely, sending Hartley TO second. Rus
sell flied out to right field and Hartley
/ went TO third on the throw in. Kuhn hit
a hot one TO Malarky who fumbled IL and
/ then threw wild ONiel hit TO right scOr-
| ing Hartley and sending Kuhn to third
The excitement had now reached the
/ highest pitch. Two men were out, the
score tie, and man on third. The people
I'm the stand We're dancing and shouting
and throwing hats and cushions and UNI
| brellas In the air. Some of them have
not found their hats yet and most OF
them don't care Blough mighty Blough,
the steady old south paw who did such
wonderful pitching for the A. A. during
the game. came to bat. deafening
shout for him TO hit the bah went up and
Doc" swung his bat In an innocent man
ner. Malarky, the ever smiling, good
looking Malarly, who said after the home
team had scored the third run, Il have
them lust where ] want them," poised to
deliver the ball. IL came in and before
any one except Blough realized what had
happened, the sphere sailed over the sec
ond basemans head and dropped safely.
Jimmie" Kuhn came home like
streak OF lightning and scored the win
ming run.
The scene after that beggars descrip-
tion. Bedlam broke loose and people
shouted themselves hoarse. A rush was
made for the A. A. players and they re-
ceived the handshalSing Of their life. 1t
was a great game and every man played
as he never played before. Blough
pitched n good steady game and never
f.rt I,I4N IA IaNN n
little disconnected by the continual root
ing Of the small boys along the lines.
They had not expected the local men to
take on a batting streak and It surprised
them. In speaking OF the game their
manager, Mr.. Buckenberg, said:
Il certainly am sore over our defeat
and have no excuse to offer. We were
fairly beaten, and the finish surprised
me. II was wholly unlocked for, as l
looked for a shut out. The players too,
feel the defeat keenly. / do not know
what they will say about Il up in Boston.
You know Il Is hard proposition for
big league team to be beaten by an in
dependent team. The fans and the news
papers at the Hub win say that we came
down here and laid down or were out for
trip.
you have great team here. and it
has some very promising youngsters.
Wilmington, / think, is the greatest ball
town OF its size have struck in my ca
reer. II is simply immense Your people
turn out well, and / think there would
have been larger crowd had the weather
not been so threatening"
Captain Tenney. the famous first base
man Of the bean eaters. said: "That was
a hot finish, and It certainly startled me-,
didn't look for a defeat, but we We're
licked and that settles It. Your team
here is a fast one, and the ball was swat
ted some in that ninth inning. Whining
hn "A all nf
Boston all hollow. lt was a gre;lt crowd.
and the way Il yelled was interesting i
haven't seen such a turnout in many a
day." ". s,l.s,e,lt