Clipping:A game on ice broken up by competition from outside skaters for the pond
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| Date | Monday, February 24, 1862 |
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| Text | The match, as announced, came off the day after the carnival on the Nassau pond, the club kindly allowing the ball players the use of their pond, promising to keep the ice field clear during the contest. The game was called at about two-o'clock—an hour later than intended, owing to the non-arrival of some of the players. A game of four innings was played, the playing at this juncture being interrupted and stopped by the interference of three or four of the members who wishing to bring themselves into notice, and not possessing the ability to do so as superior skaters, they very rudely skated arm in arm with the females accompanying them through the field, between the bases, and even before the bat. This placed the ball players in a very awkward position, each fearing he was intruding upon the club, and disconcerted them very much in their playing, they being afraid to bat the ball and skate swiftly to the bases, lest they might come in contact with the ladies who were so rude as to interrupt them, and finally this being the case the game was closed at the end of the fourth inning... |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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