1883-12-27 Police Commision

“A meeting of the Police Commissioners was held this morning, at which all three Commissioners were present.”

Hamilton Times.  December 27, 1883. Had three members

The Hamilton Police Commission in the 1880s had three members : the mayor of the city, the Police Magistrate, and the senior judge of the Wentworth County Court.

The Commissioners met monthly on a regular basis, and would, on occasion, have extra meeting should circumstances warrant.

The meeting of the Hamilton Police commission in December 1883 was held on the day after Christmas that year, December 26, 1883:

“There were two applications for cab permits. They were made by William Dryden and Alex. Bain on behalf of their sons, both of whom were underage. The commissioners refused to grant a permit to either, as they can see no reason for making an exception to the provision of the bylaw.”¹

¹  “Police Commissioners : Charges Against  Detective Officers Investigated ”

Hamilton Spectator.   December 27, 1883.

Unusually, the commissioners were faced with accusations of misconduct placed against two members of the force

“The statement that Detective Doyle received $50 from a private individual was investigated. The information  was conveyed to the Commissioners by the Chief of Police, who learned of it through Mr. R.R. Waddell, who was the legal advisor Malcolm, from whom the money, or note, was said to have come. The Chief submitted to the Commissioners a letter he had written to Mr. Waddell, asking that gentleman to formulate a specific charge against Doyle, and Mr. Waddell’s reply, in which he refused to comply with the request, stating that he had no charge to make and that he was not a public prosecutor. Mr. Waddell said that he had given Doyle a note for $50 for certain services to be rendered by the officer, and that he (Waddell), believing it to be a dereliction of duty on the part of any police officer to receive money from those whose cases they are working on, had communicated the fact to the Chief. It was further stated that Detective Doyle had destroyed the note.

“Detective Doyle was heard in reference to the matter. He admitted that he had received from Mr. Malcolm a rough draft of a note for $50. He had at first refused to accept money from Mr. Malcolm, who pressed the note on him. Malcolm wanted him to give information concerning the movements of his wife, who was living apart from him. After receiving the note, he had torn it up.

“The Judge said he thought the affair called for an investigation, and it was decided to defer it until the next meeting, when witnesses will be brought and the whole case gone into.”¹

The second charge had also been placed against a member of the detective force, and it involved an interaction with a newspaper reporter, working for the Hamilton Tribune:

“Charges brought against Detective McKenzie by W.P. Robinson, reporter of the Tribune newspaper, were investigated. The charges were that McKenzie had insulted Mr. Robinson in No. 1 Police Station, and threatened to eject him from the station, and had assaulted him. The Commissioners made a full investigation of the charges. They requested the representatives of the press to withdraw, and discussed the evidence with closed doors. The result of the secret consultation was that the charge of using insulting language was dismissed, and it was decided that the assault charge should be carried to another tribunal.”¹

As there had been a rash of burglaries, some with violence involved in Hamilton recently, the Wentworth County Judge made a statement about the situation, referring specifically to an incident at the toll gate, near the Desjardins canal between the bay and the Dundas marsh:

“The Judge brought to the notice of the Board the great number of burglaries that had recently been committed in and near the city. He referred especially to the recent robbery near the toll gate, and said he thought the police of the city should have taken that matter in hand, as the gate was virtually in the city, and the crime had been committed by ruffians from the city.

“The chief said the police were now working up the case.

Finally, Chief A.D. Stewart brought up a matter which he felt very strongly about:

“Chief Stewart made an appeal to the Commissioners in favor of allowing the police to be armed at night. There are at present over seventy professional thieves and burglars in Hamilton who practiced their nefarious business at night, and usually they were armed. It was not fair to expect a constable to cope with one or two burglars, when he was armed only with his baton and they had revolvers. He averred that Hamilton was the only city in Canada whose police went unarmed at night.

“The Judge thought it was unfair to the force. For their own protection as well as for the better protection of the public, it would be well to allow the men on night duty to carry revolvers. They were discreet men, who knew the use of firearms, and could be trusted.

“The Magistrate did not approve of the carrying of firearms by the police force.

“The Chief was asked to prepare an estimate of the cost of pistols, and submit it at the next meeting.

“The Board then adjourned.”¹

1883-12-26Election Meeting

“A meeting of the electors of No. 3 ward, called by the Labor Political association, was held last evening at Blaisdall’s cottage, on the corner of Locke and Pine. The little room in which it was held was crowded.”

Hamilton Spectator. December 26, 1883.

With Christmas day, 1883 just passed, the attention of many Hamilltonians was directed intensely on matters related to the soon to take place election for Hamilton aldermen and mayor.

Some political events were large scale, others smaller. A smaller event in terms of space to hold ratepayers and candidates was held on December 26, 1883 :

“The meeting was called to order at 8 o’clock sharp, and Mr. Geo. Collis took the chair. He explained the object of the meeting in a few brief remarks, and said the Labor-Political association was composed of wage-workers who were quite independent of party lines, and who were determined to have a voice in civic affairs, and see that legislation was always for the good of the country.”¹

¹ ”The Municipal Battle : Ward Meetings in Nos. 1 and 3 Last Night : The Candidates Air Themselves on the Free Library Question, the Ward Appropriation plan, Street Pavements, Etc.”

Hamilton Spectator     December 26, 1883.

One of the two aldermanic incumbents, Alderman VanAllen was the first speaker. He lauded his own, and council’s successes during the past term, while voicing his decided opposition to a movement to establish a free public library in Hamilton:

“Ald. VanAllen was then called upon to address the electors. He did so dwelling upon the time he had been in the city, and on the fact that in the early days, he had been a working man himself, and for the past fifteen years an employer. He referred at length to the many improvements made in No. 3 ward during the past three years, for which time he had been one of the representatives of No. 3 ward in the city council., and to the fact that he had warmly supported the new bylaws on wood, coal, etc. In expressing himself on the free bylaw, he said he was proud of the fact that he was one of those who helped vote it down. If the bylaw had passed its second reading and had been submitted to the people, it would have entailed  a cost to the city of $700, and that was one of the principal reasons of his opposing it. The statute was such that the people might be called to pay about $8,000 a year to keep it up, and he thought if the bylaw was passed, it would be one of the worst things for Hamilton that had ever happened. He also explained that Mr. F. C. Bruce was not present to address them because of the sickness of one of his children.”¹

The following speech was from prominent lawyer, seeking election to Hamilton council :

 “Mr. J. V. Teetzel was next called upon. He opened with a brilliant, rhetorical effort upon Ald. VanAllen’s speech, and said it was all very well for that gentleman to say he actively supported the new coal, wood and other bylaws, but the chief credit was due to the workingmen of the city, who had promulgated them, and, by their efforts, had carried them into effect. He expressed himself as being in favor of a free public library, public parks, independence of the Northern and Northwestern railway, and public baths. He also said he was opposed to bonuses being given and exemptions from taxation allowed, and thought that money given as a bonus to any industrial monopoly might be better employed in effecting permanent improvements in the city.

The next candidadte to speak needed no introduction to those gathered. George Elias Tuckett was one of Hamilton’s richest and most prominent citizens, having already had a distinguished career as a local municipal legislator :

 “Mr. George E. Tuckett said that if the reforms clamored for so anxiously just now had been wanted before, the people could have got them, for you can only legislate up to the wishes of the people. He expressed himself strongly in favor of progressive local government, and thought it wrong to keep the Crystal palace gates closed at any time, unless perhaps when the fair was going on. He wanted to be able to go in there whenever he chose to do so. He thought  the electors of each ward  should meet frequently and consult as to what was best for the interests of the ward, and tell their representatives in the council what was wanted.  If it wasn’t done, they could turn their man out. It was unfair to hold one meeting a year, and then blame the old representatives high and low for their work. No man could be expected to have sufficient intelligence to legislate capably for the whole ward.”¹

          There was one more speaker before the proceedings were closed, a speaker who experienced some heckling and intense questioning from those assembled, as had most other speakers:

“Mr. Mills made a brief address. The speakers were frequently interrupted by those present, who asked questions as to what they would do in this or that matter, and the chairman was forced several times to call the meeting to order. One man present was greatly trouble over the fact that there was neither sidewalk no water main on the east end of Herkimer street. He said the residents of that portion of the street had petitioned for both these, and because one man objected, the request was refused.

“At the conclusion of the meeting, a vote of thanks was tendered to the chairman, who made a suitable response, and the meeting adjourned.”¹

1885-06-29Gore Fountain Speaks

As the eighteenth anniversary of Confederation approached, a first-term Hamilton aldermen proposed that on July 1, 1885, the Gore Park fountain be turned on and the gates opened allowing everyone access to the park during evenings for the rest of the summer months.

The transformation of the huge unoccupied downtown property, triangular in shape, known as the Gore had happened twenty-five years previously. It had been intended that a complimentary sized and shaped property would be added to the Gore to make sufficient space for a town square.

The Gore had become Gore Park with attractive fountains big and small placed in it. However, the water in the fountain was often, even mainly, not turned on and the park, surrounded by a fence, had it entrance gate only opened to the public on special occasions.

Such a major change being considered, the Spectator felt it appropriate to “interview” the Gore Park Fountain for its views, views which were published in the form of a poem:

 “Dear Spectator ;

As your paper is voted best channel for news,

I have asked your reporter to publish my views.

Your readers have clamored to know of the reason

Why I don’t choose to squirt, when it’s out of season;

I propose to enlighten the public at large

And show them how utterly senseless this charge:

They’ve long-forgotten the ways of the Good Queen Anne days

Urging blame, when I’ve merited nothing but praise.

A fact worth noting of those who should know;

I am not of this age, its inventions and show;

I belong to the times of economy rare,

When pure water was saved with the greatest of care,

When washing was only done one day in seven,

As the waste of the gift might bring vengeance from heaven;

For tho’ free as the air, and with oceans to spare

Then many believed  they must use it with care.

I am not quite at home, as just hinted before,

With the new-fangled actions as seen round the Gore;

Wooden streets, patent sweepers, electric connection

For speaking and lighting; they all throw reflection

On our forefathers’ days, when they toiled and they strained

And tho’ hard was their lot – yet they stoutly maintained

That ‘twere certainly best for the good of the rest

That inventors should hang as of Satan possessed

I must stoutly protest with supreme indignation

Against opening the Gore, and each new innovation

Why should anyone dare to make common the spot

That by lock, fence and custom is not

For mechanics who toil; nor their wives who endure,

Nor their children much needing the air that is pure ?

Tho’ the new alderman’s views I don’t care to abuse,

I will speak for myself – I will squirt when I choose.

So please let me hear of no more agitation

For modern ideas or new desecration;

Let me squirt only once a year, that is all I should try,

Just for Canada’s sake, on the first of July.

But on evenings – oh no; or on hot summer days –

I will stiffen my neck against all such displays;

I’ll economy ply, for the lake might turn dry,

In spouting its water in waste to the sky.”¹

¹ “The Gore Fountain Speaks”

Hamilton Spectator     July 30, 1885.

1883-05-28Ad

With the month of May almost over, the advertisement section in the Spectator of May 28, 1883 had a distinct summer flavor.

From the accompanying portion of that day’s newspaper, looking first at the right column from the top down, the following can be seen:

1.   Ad for D. Dewey, ice dealer. Business was located on George street, between Bay and Caroline streets. The ad claimed that “entire supply harvested this years.”

2.   Ad for a sale of fine silks at Knox, Morgan & Co. store “We keep in stock a full range of Colors and beg to remind City trade of the advantages of buying these goods here.

3.   Ad for W.W. Walton, wholesale and retail dairy, 10 Vine street. Ice was prominently mentioned plus a series of dairy products for sale – ‘Milk, Cream, Butter, Cheese, Buttermilk, and everything in the dairy line. Production of cream was a specialty : ‘Our Cream for Family Use, Ice Cream and for Butter making is separated from the milk as soon as milked, by the very best Danish and German separators and thus given our customers beautiful, thick, fresh Cream immediately after milking.’ And finally, ‘We were the first to introduce the Centrifugal Creaming System in Canada, and one of the first in the world.’

Looking next to the left, top of the columns :

1.   Ad for the third in a series of fund-raising concerts given by the popular 13^th Battalion Band, plus guest vocalists. Money raised to be used to purchase new uniforms for the band. Concert at the Drill Shed on James North. Single admission 25 cents.

2.   Ad for the ‘First Grand Moonlight Excursion to the Beach, Ocean House. The Ocean House and its near neighbor, the New York Roller Rink, on the Hamilton Beach strip, near the Burlington canal were popular destinations for Hamiltonians. A special way to get to them in May, 1883 was via a side-wheel paddle steamer, the Canadian. The schedule for the Moonlight Excursion involved, leaving the James Street Wharf at 7:45 p.m., sharp as the proprietors of the Canadian insisted on keeping rigorously to advertised departure and return times. Both while going to the Beach and while returning, passengers on the Canadian were entertained by the full Independent Band. 20 cents would buy a ticket for the excursion; an extra 15 cents would pay for admission, if desired to the rink where famous trick cyclists, Westbrook & Hacker, were going to give an exhibition of their skills. The Canadian was to return from the Beach, leaving there at 10:30

3.   Ad for the Bay View Pleasure Park, located at the far west end of Hamilton, not far from the Valley Inn. George Midwinter proprietor of  Bay View Pleasure Park, boasted that the roller skating rink at his park was the ‘largest in Ontario.’ The park could readily be reached from Hamilton with departures every half hour by two small passenger steamers, the Shamrock and the Lillie The Bay View Band provided music for the people in the park generally, while the Bay View Quadrille band provided music for dancing.

4.   Small ad for the Lakeside house, on the Beach strip “thoroughly renovated and refurbished. Bar, Bowling alleys and restaurant in connection.

5.   Finally, small ad for the Wellington Street Swimming Baths, on the east side of Wellington, north of King street : ‘now open every day. Water warmed by steam pipes. Ladies’ bath opens June 2^nd.’

1918-10-21Theater Owners Protest

It was not just the churches in Hamilton that were closed by the Hamilton Board of Health, that same piece of legislation also ordered doors of Hamilton’s many theaters shut tight. The Spanish Influenza epidemic was spreading exponentially in mid-October.

In response, Hamilton Medical Health Officer, backed by members of the Hamilton Board of Health, ordered closing of places where the influenza might logically be expected to be spread indiscriminately.

While many other communities, including Toronto, did not go so far as closing movie and vaudeville theaters because of the epidemic, Hamilton’s theaters were ordered to close. Ambrose J. Small, owner of Hamilton’s Grand Opera, was also president of the Canadian Theater Managers’ Association, and in the latter capacity, he wrote the following letter of protest, calling the theater ban in Hamilton unjust and unwise:

 “Editor Herald, - In connection with the temporary embargo which has been placed on the Grand Opera house and the other theaters of the city of Hamilton, I respectfully submit that all citizens in your community should be treated alike and no distinction made as between places of amusement and any other place of business or quarter of the city where the public are wont to congregate or assemble for any purpose whatsoever, as no logic or reason can be found in endeavoring to abate the epidemic in one place if it is to be encouraged in any other. The Grand and the other principal theaters of your city are thoroughly well-ventilated and infinitely less dangerous to the general public than departmental stores, market places, office buildings, elevators and street cars that are jammed to the point of suffocation during rush hours.

“I fully appreciate the sincerity which undoubtedly moved the board of health to take the action in question, but nevertheless feel that they cannot be fully aware of the very serious consequences to the managers of the theaters and those in their employ, and to the members of the various companies booked for engagements at Hamilton in the immediate future. The business has been brought to a complete standstill, all employees are thrown out of work, and the incoming attractions are forced to lay off and lose every dollar expended on salaries to their performers, customs duties on their scenic productions and advertising material that had to be paid before they could enter Canada at all, together with the hundred and one other items of expensive incidental to the transportation and movement of theatrical companies from point to point in the province of Ontario.

“It is, unfortunately, a fact that those employed in the theatrical calling, are not, as a class, saving people, and I can assure you that in the case of theater employees in Hamilton, the loss of income due to your closing order is going to be an exceedingly serious matter in very many cases. I am informed that several have already expressed themselves to the effect that they will be forced to go to other cities in search of work, and the disruption of the local theatrical business that will certainly follow, unless the order is very soon rescinded, will mean a financial loss to both managers and employees which it will be quite possible to estimate.

“I would not press this seemingly selfish point of view if I was not thoroughly convinced that the opinion of the chief officer of the Ontario provincial board of health, Dr. J. W. S. McCullough, who expressed himself as not considering the closing of such places as theaters necessary, is founded upon sound judgment. I respectfully refer you to Dr. McCullough’s published statement in the Toronto Mail and Empire of Tuesday, October 8, in column three on page five, and I also quote you the following from an editorial in the Toronto Daily News of Saturday, Oct. 12 : ‘We do not believe that the range or severity of the influenza epidemic is sufficient to justify the closing of either the schools or other places of public resort. Those who are suffering from the disease are at home. Why compel thousands of young people to expose themselves unnecessarily to infection by remaining in close touch with the patients?’

“If thought desirable by the board of health, the management of the Grand Opera House would be altogether willing, as a matter of more abundant caution, to fumigate the theater under the direction of the board, at such intervals as they might think proper. By keeping the theaters open, well-heated places of amusement are furnished to hundreds of people who otherwise will be forced to spend their time in lodgings and other places where they will be much more liable to contract colds and influenza than they would in the comfortable surroundings of the theater. Those who attend theaters are very rarely face to face, and the danger of infection is by no means as great as in places where large numbers of people are meeting face to face. The long, continued wet weather appears to be over, and with it, we may reasonably expect better health conditions.

“In conclusion, the theatrical season is a very limited one, not more than nine months of the year at most, and the earlier portion of it (September, October and November) are the only months in which the managers of theaters are at least fairly sure of some profit and a reasonable rate of interest on their investments. After that period, the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest to the great detriment of the business in theaters, the three weeks immediately preceding the holidays being invariably the dullest of the entire year; and once the Christmas and New Year festivities are over, it is but a short space of time until the Lenten season is ushered in, and with its advent, the theater is always due another protracted period of depression.

“I sincerely trust that your board of health will see their way clear to rescind the closing order and respectfully submit that in many parts of the United States, where the type of influenza is much more aggravated than in Canada, all theaters have been allowed to remain open, with only this restriction : that the members of the audiences are warned that they must use their pocket handkerchiefs  when sneezing or coughing, under a penalty of ejection from the theater.

                                                Yours very truly,

                                                          AMBROSE J. SMALL,

                                           Canadian Theater Managers’ Association.

Tuesday, October 21, 1885¹

¹“Letters to the Editor : Closing of Theatres”

Herald.    October 23, 1918

1885-06-16oo Circ Wars

In June 1885, the management leaders of the Hamilton Spectator wanted to in no uncertain terms assert the Spectator’s dominance in the City’s newspaper.

Besides the competition between the Spectator and its main rival, the Hamilton Times, there also recently had been a third daily newspaper in Hamilton, the Tribune. Despite investing in the latest equipment for newspaper production and building a substantial office and plant for the paper on James Street North, the Tribune proved to be short-lived. The Spectator purchased the main assets of the Tribune, and in June 1885, the name, Daily Spectator and Tribune was used on the editorial page and on the front page.

Several months earlier, the Spectator had challenged the Times as to which paper had the highest circulation numbers. By June 16, 1885, the Times had not responded, so the challenge was repeated, after being fine-tuned :

The local newspapers of Hamilton in 1885, the Spectator and the Times were keen competitors. Ever out to trump bigger circulation numbers, more copies sold and more advertising revenues being garnered than the Times, the Spectator rolled out a challenge on June 16, 1885.

In that day’s Spectator, on the editorial page, the Spectator laid out, in detail, the complete nature of their message to the Times:

“The matter of newspaper circulation concerns you. The greater the circulation of the newspapers in which you advertise, the greater the return for the money invested in advertising.

“The following proposition was first printed in the Spectator of Wednesday, August 6. It has appeared in the Spectator every day since. The Times has not dared to accept it, or any part of it.

“The Times and Spectator to nominate each a prominent advertiser; then to nominate a third. The committee to examine into the circulation of both papers.

“The Spectator agrees to put up money as follows;

1.   A hundred dollars that the circulation of the Spectator is not less than that of the Times.

2.   A hundred dollars that the circulation of the Spectator exceeds that of the Times.

3.   A hundred dollars that the Spectator’s circulation exceeds that of the Times by one thousand copies daily.

4.   A hundred dollars that the Spectator’s circulation exceeds the Times’ circulation by two thousand daily.

5.   A hundred dollars that the Spectator’s circulation exceeds that of the Times by three thousand daily, and

6.   A hundred dollars that the circulation of the Spectator is double that of the Times.

“The Times to put up an equal amount of money, and the loser’s money to be paid over to any charity indicated by the winner. The circulation of both papers, as found by the investigating committee, to be published in both papers, first under the editorial head, in brevier type, on the day following that on which the committee makes report.

‘NO DEADHEADS

“No free papers to be included in the count.

“The Times has not dared to submit to the test, and

“MARK THIS :

“The Times WILL NOT, in future, DARE NOT submit to the test.”¹

¹ “To Advertisers : The Spectator’s Circulation is Double That of the Times ”

Hamilton Spectator     June 16, 1885.

1885-07-01Holiday Baseball

Full evidence of the grip that baseball had on Hamiltonians in 1885 was the schedule of the Canadian Baseball League. Hamilton was the only city in the league to have two franchises, the Clippers and the Primroses. On the national holiday, the Primroses played the Clippers at the Dundurn ball grounds in the morning. In the afternoon, the Clippers played an exhibition game against the Cass from Detroit also at the Dundurn yard, while the Primroses had to quickly travel to Guelph to play an afternoon game with that city’s Maple Leafs team. There was also an afternoon game involving the Torontos playing in London against the Londons.

          In 1885, the local newspapers were generally only a pages long, with only one page reserved for Hamilton local news items. As evidence of the interest of Hamilton residents on the baseball news of the day, the Spectator on July 2, 1885 devoted nearly have of that one page to sporting news, mostly baseball.

Following is that coverage as regards baseball in full, including full box scores.

         

                   THE CLIPPER-PRIMROSE MATCH

“This match created much interest among the admirers of the game. The fact that the Woods brothers were to be the battery for the Primroses led many to suppose that the Clippers were to be beaten, and almost everybody thought it quite possible that that result might be attained. There were five thousand spectators, and the Primroses had the sympathy of the crowd. People who had refused to applaud the Wood brothers cheered them vociferously yesterday. It was evident that the crowd wanted to see the Primroses win. Little Richardson, too, when he stepped to the front was received with applause. The game was a good one. There was little choice between the batteries. Both catchers caught well – Moore perfectly. Pete Wood pitched out more men than Chamberlain did, but eight hits were made off Wood, but two off Chamberlain. This fact is partially accounted for by the relative batting strength of the teams. As it was right there that the Clippers had the advantage; they out-batted the Primroses by a very heavy majority. And the Primroses assisted the Clippers’ batting by making errors rather too profusely. The very newest of the men in either team did not show to good advantage. Except Richardson and he is hardly a new man in Hamilton. He was the only man of the team who got to third base. It might be mentioned that only two reached second base, and only four arrived safely at first. The game was characterized by good sharp play, and it was quite evident that both teams played to win. Everybody was thoroughly satisfied that they had seen a capital game, and all Hamilton people are prepared to state, openly, that there two particularly clever ball teams in this neighborhood. Crowfoot umpired and did it well.  The scorer has this to say:

Clippers    A.B.    R.  B.H.  T.B.  P.O. 

 A.  E. Rainey, 3b    4     0      0        0       4     4  1

Andrus, ss                4    1      2        2        1     2  0

Moore, c.                  3     1     1        1         8    1  0

Chamberlain, p.        4     0     0        0         0   9   2

Crogan, lf.                 4     1     1        2         3   0   0                             Stapleton, lb.             4     1     2        2       13   0   0

McGra, 2b.                3     0     0        0          1  2   0

Wilson, rf.                  3     0     0        0          1  2   0

Hoyt, cf.                     4     0     1        1          1  0   0

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Totals                       83     4     3        9        27 18  3

Primroses            A.B.    R.  B.H.  T.B.  P.O. 

 Bierbau,2b              4    0      0        0       1      0  0

Richardson, ss         4    0      1        1        2     0  0

Wilson, lf.                  4     0     0        0        1    0  0

P. Wood, p.               3     0     0        0         1  11  7

J. Wood, cf.               4     1     1        2         3    0  0                             

Jones, 1b, lf.              4     0     0        0         2   0   1   

Kirkland, 3b.               3    0    0        0           2   0   1                 

F. Wood, c.                2     0     0        0          1  2   0

Hoyt, cf.                     4     0     1        1         10  0   0

Barnfather, rf.            3     0     1        0           0  0   0

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Totals                       29     0     2        3        24 13  13

Clippers ………… 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 *      4

Primroses ………… 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0      4

Runs Earned – None

First base on errors – Clippers 8, Primroses 1

First base on called balls – Clippers 4, Primroses 1

First base on Fielder’s choice – Clippers 1, Primroses 0

Reached first base – Clippers, 17, Primroses 4

Total called balls – On Chamberlain, 58, on Wood 83

Struck out – Clippers 8, Chamberlain, Crogan 2, Wilson 2, Hoyt 2; Primroses7, Bierbau, Wilson, 3, j. Wood, Kirkland, F. Wood.

Total strikes called – Off Chamberlain, 47; off P.Wood 42.

Left on base – Clippers 9, Primroses 3

Two base bit – Crogan

Double play – J. Wood to Richardson

Passed balls – Moore, 0, F. Wood, 1

Wild pitches – Chamberlain 1, P. Wood 1

Umpire – Crowfoot, Toronto.

Time of game – One hour and 35 minutes.

Attendance – 5,000

                   THE CLIPPER-CAS GAME

          “The Clippers have had their revenge. A little while ago, they sent a crippled team to Detroit without a catcher, and the Cass club played the Detroit league team and several other big teams against them, and crushed the poor Clippers 12 to 1. Yesterday, the Cass club sent one or two Cass men, the big slugger of the crack Indianapolis league team, and a lot of professional players over here to repeat the performance. But they didn’t. Rooney, a new man, pitched for the Clippers. He is a fat, good-natured sort of fellow, does his work easily and, does not seem, from the reporters’ box to be much of a pitcher. But, all the same, he makes them pound wind in an eminently satisfactory manner, and the hits made off him by the aggregation of sluggers opposed to him were few and far between. It must be that he deceived the reporter. He certainly deceived a large number of heavy batters. The Cass men were overmatched – the Clippers had a catcher – and the Clippers pulled away ahead of them. The seven foot slugger from Indianapolis finally knocked the ball away over the trees and back of the right field crowd. It had been agreed before the game that two bags only should be made of a hit in that crowd; but the tall fellow ran home. Then there were some expostulations. Finally, the Clippers grew generous and gave him the home run. Another man followed with another ball in the same direction, and made three bags. Then there was more expostulation ; but the umpire said that as the rule had been broken, it must stay broken. These performances and some errors judiciously placed by the Clippers, shot the Cass people up to 6 runs, but they staid there – just two behind the Clippers. The game on the whole was not a very brilliant display of ball; but the crow was invigorating. The attendance was probably the largest ever seen at a ball game in Hamilton. Listen to the score:

 Clippers    A.B.    R.  B.H.  T.B.  P.O. 

 A.  E. Rainey, 3b    5     2      3        3       2     2  0

Andrus, ss                4    0      1        1        1     2  7

Moore, c.                  4     2     3        3       11    5  1

Crogan, lf.                 4     0     0        0         1   0   0

Stapleton, 1b             3     0     2        3         8   0   1  

McGra, 2b.                4     1     2        2         3   4   1

Myers,cf.                   4     1     1        1          1  0   0

Rooney, p.                3     0     2        3          0 11   7

Hoyt, cf.                     4     2     1        1          0  0   1

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Totals                       36     8    15       17        27 24  12

Cass            A.B.    R.  B.H.  T.B.  P.O. 

 Buckenberger,2b     1    0      0        0       4      3   1

 Poorman, lf.& p.       4    0      0        0        1     3   3

Walker, c.                  3     0     0        0        6    6   5

Thompson, 1b.          4     2     4        9        9    2    1

Rouseau, 3b.             4     2     1        1        2    0   0                             

Robinson, ss.              4    2     1        3         0   0   0   

Lawrence.p & lf.          4    0    0        0          1   2   2                 

Leadley, cf.                 4    0     0        0          1  2   0

Williams, rf.                 3     0     0        0          0  0  0

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Totals                       30     6     6       13        24 16  15

Clippers ………… 2 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 *         8

Primroses ……     0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2      6

Runs Earned – Clippers 0, Cass 1

First base on errors – Clippers 3, Cass 7

First base on called balls – Clippers 2, Cass 5

First base on Fielder’s choice – Clippers 2, Cass 1

Reached first base – Clippers, 20, Cass 14

Total called balls – On Rooney, 39, on Lawrence 22, on Poorman 40

Struck out – Clippers 5, Crogan, Stapleton. McGra, Myers, Hoyt; Cass 11, Buckenburger, Poorman, Rousseau 2, Robinson 2, Leadley 3, Williams, Lawrence.

Total strikes called – Off Rooney, 49; off Lawrence11, off Poorman 20.

Left on base – Clippers 6, Cass 2

Two bas

Two base hits – Stapleton, Rooney.

Three base hit – Robinson.

Home run - Thompson

Double play – Andrus to Stapleton, Poorman to Thompson to Walker

Passed balls – Moore, 0,  Walker, 2

Wild pitches – Rooney 2, Lawrence 1, Poorman 2

Umpire – Crowfoot, Toronto.

Time of game – One hour and 50 minutes.

                   MAPLE LEAFS v. PRIMROSES

          “Guelph, July 1 – The game here today between the Maple Leafs and the Primroses resulted in favor of the Leafs, much to the surprise of Guelph. The Primroses were strengthened, while The Maple Leafs had to put in the veteran Billy Smith to pitch. It was the first professional game he pitched since the old professional Maple Leafs and Tecumsehs were rival on the ball field. He received and ovation from the spectators as he stepped into the box. The Primroses presented Young and O’Neil as their battery as the Wood brothers, who played in the morning game against the Clippers, were not on the field this afternoon. Barnfather relieved O’Neil after the first inning, and caught the rest of the game. Both side batted freely. The following is the score by innings :

Maple Leafs ………… 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 0  2       8

Primroses ……            3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0        5

                   NOTES

“Poor old London!

“Yesterday was London’s Knight off.

“Richardson has forgotten how to run.

“Stapleton was struck four times by the ball while at bat yesterday.

“The Maple Leafs have some idea of joining the Canadian league.

“Two games and a long ride to Guelph was too much for the Primroses yesterday.

“The blue suits of the Primroses were better filled yesterday morning than ever before.

“News comes of a terrible accident at Guelph. The Maple Leafs have won a game.

“The Torontos are the most fatigued men in the league today. Nineteen times around the bases – Phew!

“Were they really men – ball playing men paid for playing ball – that let another lot of fellows make nineteen runs yesterday?”¹

¹“The World of Sport : Items of Interest to the Noble Fraternity : How It Was Observed By Hamilton People : Notable Ball Games ”

Hamilton Spectator     July 02, 1885.