The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-29
OLD TIME GAMES
WITH CAIRO CLUB
Rivalry Between Paducah and
Egyptian City Dates Back.
In 1870 the Cairo Club Defeated Pa
ducsh By . Score Of 40
to 10.
soRAPPY TINES THOSE DAYS


Cairo baseball clubs has extended bach
many years, and some of the Older
inhabitants can we'll remember the
exciting times ut many Of the games
when they played baseball without
gloves.
One Of the older Paducah organiza.
tions was the "Quicksteps, while
Cairo's crack organization was the
"Deltss" and Cairo paper of octo-
Der 2, 1870, gives the following 40
count of a game between the two hos
tile clubs as follows:
THE first nine Of the Delta base
ball club covered themselves all over
with glory in a match game with the
Quickstep club of PsducAh yesterday.
They achieved a viotory Of most brill
liant character. The Quicksteps had
triumphed over all competitors. in
cluaing the somewhat famous Fall
Cityes OF Louisville, and the River
sides Of Evansville, until they met the
Deltas, who got away with them"
in q score OF 40 TO IS. Mace the Delta
pitcher. and Ssup, the catcher, dis
played skill and endurance eminently
deserving Of mention. Broderick, as
fret basemap, has few equals any
where, in fact the whole nine played
in manner that elected the admira-
ton OF every body.
1.-THE Psducah catcher was splendid
and the whole nine were uniformly
good players. There was not an in
difterept player among them, and bet
ter they are as fine q set of fellows as
can DO mustered out anywhere. Ssup,
OF the Deita's, made two home runs,
the only home runs that were made.
We would be glad TO give the boys on
both sides the credit they deserve but
our limited space will not permit IL.
The game was witnesses by some four
or five hundred persons and was pro-
nounoed by every body the finest game
ever played in Cairo.
Time OF game, two hours and ten
minutes; umpire John Friganza,
Mound City; Scorers. VIM. Greif, for
Quicksteps and Il. H. Falls for Del
ts's. ,
How il was done: The Paducah
Herald referring to the recent game
of base ball In this city, says he is
only doing the Quicksteps justice
when he says that it was the umpire
and not the superior playing of the
Delta's that encompassed their defeat.
When we remark that the umpire came
down from Mound City in company
with the Quicksteps and was suggest
ed by them as proper person to act
in that capacity the assertion Of the
Herald becomes highly improbable.
When we further remark that the Del
tas beat the Quicksteps by score Of
40 to IS the HerAld's assertion be-
comes absurd.
1.-The president Of the Quioksteps
will not charge their defeat to any
such cause. The, were beaten because
the Delta's had their full first nine
on the ground, and not six Of the nine.
a. was the case at Psducah. We wit
messed the whole game and while in
two instances we should not have de-
cided rs the umpire did, we shall not
pretend to say that his decisions were
not correct One of these decisions
ruled q Delta and the other Quick
step. When the Deltas returned from
Paducah with score Of only six runs
against them, they acknowledged
themselves beaten by superior play
ing. They charged no unfairness to
the umpire although . Paducah man.
On the contrary, one and all Of them
declared him q gentleman, incapable
of psrtiality. As the Quicksteps re-
turned home with score Of 80 runs
against them under the decisions Of
IN umpire Of their own choosing. we
can scarcely think that any Of them
authorized the statement in the Her
aid that they we're beaten by the um
pirs and not by the DeltA's. How