Clipping:Scoring a baseball game on ice; the scorer calls out the batters; the blackboard at Reach's
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| Date | Sunday, February 4, 1872 |
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| Text | [relating the hardship of scoring a game on ice:] Base hits required an amount of physical suffering to record, and looked upon paper like the distorted skeleton of a diseased herring; and fielding errors and base assistance was like pulling teeth to the unfortunate holders of pencil and paper. The order of striker was called out with a frightful verbal phantasmagoria, and some of the noted ones were re-christened by the scorer’s bad cold as Back, Backgeary, Prad, Balone, while Hicks Hayhurst and McBride were “vocal impossibilities,” as our capable and usually courteous musical critic would express it. A day or two since, while enjoying a long six after our sumptuous noonday repast, we were clasped by the hand of one of our gushing “sources of information,” and the intelligence was gently broken to us that a match on ice would take place on Wednesday afternoon. With the vivid memory of the vicissitudes..in our mind, we shook our hand and replied “No! You don’t!” That source of information tore himself sorrowfully and despondingly away, when we were remorse-stricken at Reach’s where we saw that familiar old blackboard hauled up from the large and well-assorted stock of base ball material, with the announcement thereon. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch February 4, 1872 a bell is rung to clear the playing area [Athletic vs. picked nine on ice 1/31/1872] The bell was rung...and the ice cleared for the game to commence. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch February 4, 1872 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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