Clipping:Northerners playing Southern winter ball
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| Date | Saturday, March 17, 1883 |
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| Text | [Bill] Phillips has been having a great time in Florida this winter, playing with the Orange county club. During the winter the Orange county team visited Jacksonville to play a game with that nine. The first game created great excitement in Jacksonville, which was then crowded with visitors from the North, and so confident were the citizens that a nine from away back in the country could not down the Jacksonville pets that bets at long odds were freely offered and as freely gobbled by the Orange county boy.s the game was called and Orange county had a walk over, much to the discomfiture and a lightening of the purses of the Jacksonvillians. Another game was made up and the Orange county team, thinking they had a soft thing again, were not very strict in keeping themselves in good trim; but they took in all the bets they could get on themselves. It was thought they would have the same team to play against, and in fact saw the same players land from the boat; but when they reached the grounds and prepared for play, what was their surprise to see Flint and Quest step out of a buggy and get ready for action. Phillips knew what was coming, but he could not refrain from taking a hearty laugh to see his old-time friends of the League drop in so mysteriously. The game resulted in a walk-over for the Jacksonville's, and the Orange county boys went home with a flea in their ears, and a good share of their previous winnings in the pockets of their contestants. |
| Source | Cleveland Leader |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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