Clipping:An injury in pre-game warmup
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| Date | Sunday, August 8, 1869 |
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| Text | On Saturday, 31st ult., just previous to the opening of a game between the Washington Club, of Waterbury, and the Yale College Club, Deming, the well-known left-fielder of the latter club, met with a serious accident. The boys were indulging in some preliminary practice in a field where mowers were at work. A ball was thrown up, and Deming ran for it, when, getting into the edge of the standing grass, he struck one foot against a scythe-snath, which had very thoughtlessly been left there. The snath turned, bringing the sharp blade against the calf of his left leg, inflicting a ghastly cut, laying open muscles, tendons, chords, severing two arteries, and the point of the blade penetrating almost into the knee joint. Notwithstanding the terrible wound, Deming secured the ball, rose to his feet, and hobbled a short distance, when he began to realize the extent of his injuries and sank to the ground, simply asking if any doctor was on the field. A physician soon arrived, and Deming’s wound was bound up. It is to be hoped the injury will not prove permanent. |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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