Clipping:A 'point' of the game:
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| Date | Sunday, June 8, 1862 |
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| Text | [a picked nine of Philadelphians vs. a picked nine of Newark players, in Newark 6/2/1862] In the third inning the Newarkers taught their visitors one of the “points” they had come to get posted up in, it was as follows. Johnson was on the third base and Loughery was the striker, Loughery struck a foul tip which went out of the reach of the catcher; in returning the ball to the pitcher, Osborne thought [sic] it rolled to short-stop who threw it to the third base man, but in such a way as to miss him; whereupon some one called to Johnson to run home, and, forgetting that the ball had not been in the hands of the pitcher, he did so–the consequence being that the ball was promptly forwarded to the pitcher, and by him to the third base man again, thereby putting Johnson hors de combat and giving the Philadelphians a capital illustration of a fine “point” in the game which they themselves had learned from their old opponents, the Gothams. A noticeable feature of the incident was the action of McKeever, the umpire, who, forgetting that he was not a player, instinctively called Johnson to go back. It put us in mind of the time when Mat O’Brien while acting as umpire, asked for judgment on a play on the home base, forgetting he was umpire. New York Sunday Mercury June 8, 1862 [see also Enterprise vs. Gotham 8/20/1861] |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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