Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-06-29
BASEBALL.
Disputed Origin of the Game and an
Unfinished Inning Abroad.

Disputed Origin of the Game and an
Unfinished Inning Abroad.
! Real baseball Is over sixty-one
wears old But the origin or the ma
tionol game" is more In dispute than
the etymology of the term ran" Inc
! veteran journalist Henry Chadwick,
| popularly known as the rather OF
/ hoscbau." who is English born, CON
| tends that baseball, while an Ameri-
con snort. had its origin In the game
nlayed by the English schoolboy called
"rounders" THE basic principle OF
| both games" Mr. Chadwick argues ls
tho use of n bat, n ball and bases.
But II Is n short bat and SOFT paii'
and the player on hitting the bail en-
deayors TO make circuit-a rouhd-oi
| all the bases-in our vocabulary,
| home run. As clincher Mr.. Chau-
wick SAYS that when debating the
question with Albert q. Spaldihg
there entered the room n deVotee Vi
snort. Andrew Peck, whose name, cou-
, nled with that of his partner, Snyder,
was known to most American boys Oh
twenty years ago In connection Win
. popular style of Ice skates.
"When did you begin to play Oase-
ball?o inquired Mr.. Spalding' -.
"In the latter part of the fortles'
: replIed Mr.. Peck; "about 1871 or loto'
: "yyhat was the game called then
o "yyhv 'rounders,' said Mr. Peek
4 Rut TO this day Mr.. Spalding' PROUD
vonl,ee IN the core, Is unconvinceu'
Undoubtedly the foreign taint Ill oasc-
hall bothered him not little TOT
y time Int lie disposed Of it to his satis'
Ii roction in the spring of 1889 when nc
:, visited Liverpool after Il tour Vi 'nc
" british colonies with the Chicago ahu
- All American baseball teams. through
- out the "trip English subjects had Gnu
10 oil him with the antccedent OF 'h'
American national game, so he lssue'
IA challenge to the champion rounde'
IL cruh NJ Great Britain, which was
nromptlv accepted. BY the terms o.
III tho agreement the British champlon
- were to play Il one inning lounue
81 match two innings make full game
,-Ith a foam of eleven men plcke'
Is from the American "baseballers,
nc Tho Enrlishmen called them, ana the
10 there WAS to be five inning game
l,s baseball.
No As feeder" pitcher) for his eleven
VI Mr. Spaldlng was given leather Gov
ue cred sphere about the size OF a goi
hill and rather soft The rounder bats
man faced him with miniature crlcf
pt bat-a cross between potato masl
ar or and a penholder \ high ball wa
or ''fouled," as the Yankees called H. D'
IFS the referee declared 1t fair MT an
rul 40 tho halter made circuit of the for
the boundary posts before the ball wa
10 recovered he scored four runs. IL
no next batsman repeated the trick, al
ger there was total of eight runs 10 u
no credit of the Englishmen. Then fee
est or" Spalding resorted to low Dalis cio'
ar n the batsmans body, and only thr'
ON more runs were made before the ele
der on British champions were put OUT al
len tho inning was over. These last rul
IN resulted from the failure of an Anne
IL. can TO hit one Of the champions WI
zed the ball, as the rules permit.
In In their half of the inning the IA
TO KEGS were inclined ut first 10 Try
The zine out" the ball, and the resu
ous. we're disastrous. But soon they Z
my the hang of batting with one ma
one and scored eight runs before the elk
any en- men were retired. This left TN
not three runs behind.
lere The baseball game was an entlr'
different story. Three Engllshn
Der, struck out, and then the Amerlca
this went to bat. Thirty-fve men cross
)ers. the plate, and still the side had
this been retired. Because of physical
and baustion both teams were content u
It to the match be declared off. mus
Ip O first inning in the baseball game '
man never finished, yet the score STOOD
the TO 0 in favor of the Americans'-HeI
day, | Roach Needham in Success.