View source for Clipping:Catcher Charlie Mills takes a foul tip to the eye

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=9/18/1870
|Title=catcher Charlie Mills takes a foul tip to the eye
|Text=<p>[Athletic vs. Mutual 9/15/1870] In the beginning of the second inning, an accident occurred to that general favorite, Charlie Mills–the ball tipping off McBride’s bat, and inflicting a fearful smash upon Charlie’s eye, which it completely closed in a very few seconds.  The game was delayed for a few minutes to see whether he could resume his position or not; but although he came up to the mark very pluckily, he found it was impossible to continue, the sun shining full in his good eye, and entirely preventing him from seeing the ball.  He therefore retired, and Billy McMahon was put in to make up the nine.  A consultation was held among the Mutes, the result of which was that Hatfield took Charlie’s position behind the bat, while Eggler played short stop, and McMahon centre field. ... When Billy McMahon muffed the first two balls that came to him, a general feeling of disappointment prevailed, as it was evident that what would otherwise have been a close and exciting contest, would now be a regular jug-handled affair, without interest to anyone except those who had invested in Athletic stock, as being a test of the merits of the respective teams.  When, therefore, Charlie Mills came up to the scratch, at the end of the third inning, he was greeted with the heartiest applause.  He had had his eye lanced and bathed with hot water until the swelling had considerably decreased, and he brought a large tin can of hot water along with him, in which he dipped a cloth at intervals, when a foul hit was made, so that he might be enabled to keep the swelling down.  So long as the sun shone out warm and brilliantly, he was all right; but, as the afternoon advanced, and the air began to feel chilly, the bruised eye began going up again, and if the game had lasted a few minutes longer, he would have been compelled again to retire.</p>
|Source=New York Dispatch
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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