Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
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Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
Baseball -- Periodicals
DATE. |CLUBS. |CITIES. |PITCHERS. |Score.
-------+-------------------+---------+--------------+-------
Dec. 10|Chicago vs. America|Auckland |Baldwin, Crane| 22-13
" 15|America vs. Chicago|Sydney |Healy, Tener | 5-4
" 17| " " " | " |Healy, Baldwin| 7-5
" 18| " " " | " |Healy, Tener | 6-3
" 22|Chicago vs. America|Melbourne|Tener, Crane | 5-3
" 24|America vs. Chicago| " |Healy, Ryan | 10-13
" 26| " " " |Adelaide |Healy, Tener | 19-14
" 27|Chicago vs. America| " |Baldwin, Healy| 12-9
" 28| " " " | " |Ryan, Simpson | 11-4
Dec. 29|America vs. Chicago|Ballarat |Healy, Baldwin| 11-7
Jan. 1 |Chicago vs. America|Melbourne|Tener, Healy | 14-7
" 1 | " " " | " |Baldwin, Crane| 9-4
" 5 | " " " | " |Baldwin, Crane| 5-0
" 26 |America vs. Chicago|Colombo |Crane, Baldwin| 3-3
After leaving Australia the tourists called at Colombo, Ceylon, and from
thence went to Cairo, and while in that city visited the Pyramids, and
they managed to get off a game on the sands in front of the Pyramid Cheops
on Feb. 9. Their first game in Europe was played at Naples on Feb. 19, and
from there they went to Rome, Florence and Nice, the teams reaching Paris
on March 3. The record of their games in Europe is as follows:
DATE. |CLUBS. |CITIES. |PITCHERS. |Score.
-------+-------------------+--------+---------------+-------
Feb. 9|America vs. Chicago|Ghiz eh |Healy, Tener | 9-1
" 19| " " " |Naples |Healy, Baldwin | 8-2
" 23|Chicago vs. America|Rome |Tener, Crane | 3-2
" 25|America vs. Chicago|Florence|Healy, Baldwin | 7-4
March 3| |Paris
In commenting on the physique of the American ball players, the editor of
the Melbourne _Argus_ says:
"Right worthy of welcome did those visitors appear-stalwarts every man,
lumps of muscle showing beneath their tight fitting jersey garments, and a
springiness in every movement which denoted grand animal vigor and the
perfection of condition. We could not pick eighteen such men from the
ranks of all our cricketers, and it is doubtful if we could beat them by a
draft from the foot ballers. If base ball has anything to do with building
up such physique we ought to encourage it, for it must evidently be above
and beyond all other exercises in one at least of the essentials of true
athletics."
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