Clipping:Stalling for darkness 2
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| Date | Saturday, October 17, 1868 |
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| Text | [Cincinnati vs. Keystone 9/28/1868] [a card from “Fair Play” of Philadelphia] I am an admirer of the national sport. A well contested and fairly played game is to me a treat that I would go a great length to indulge in. On September 28th I witnessed a game between the Keystone Club, of this city, and the Cincinnati Club, of Cincinnati. The game up to the ending of the ninth innings, when the Cincinnatians went to the bat with six to tie and seven to win, was one full of excitement and interest, being very sharply played. The sun was about setting, but the Keystones were on the alert to put one, two and three out in succession, and exerted themselves to do so. The Cincinnati boys batted well, and had scored three runs with three men on base, the Keystones still playing their best. At this juncture one of the Cincinnatians went to the bat and made a home run, bringing home the three men then on their bases, thus winning the game. Then commenced a disgraceful scene, one calculated to destroy all interest in the game among gentlemen. The Cincinnatians, whose gentlemanly deportment through the entire game was the subject of remark, still kept up the game by batting well, but the Keystone intentionally lost several chances to put out the strikers, and this, I am satisfied, every fair minded gentleman on the ground at that time will substantiate. All within my hearing expressed their mortification at such scurvy treatment by our boys. The strangers still kept at the bat, determined to do justice and play fair, when to the surprise and disgust of every disinterested person on the ground, the umpire called the game on the eighth innings, which act gave the game to the Keystones. Strange, nevertheless, but painfully true as facts are to wrong doers, this same umpire [Theodore Bomeisler] who has, by the by, a false reputation for competency, in the game with the Keystone and Olympic, of Washington, and Athletic and Mutual, recently played here, made the two latter clubs play the game out when they were each in the same plight as the Keystones, and attempted the very same trick that he approved of in the Keystones. This is an impartial statement from a Philadelphian who is imbued with a natural desire to see his own clubs win, but only when ‘tis fairly done. By inserting this you will oblige a large number of readers of your excellent and reliable sporting journal, and those who like to see the game of base ball countenanced by gentlemen. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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