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AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME
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round Amherst led, and continued to do so until the end of the game, sometimes having three tallies to one for Williams.
After four hours of steady playing, in which twenty-six rounds had been played, with no intermission and with unabated interest on the part of the spectators, the game was decided finished, and Amherst was declared the winner by the score of 66 to 32.
The batting order of the teams was as follows:
| AMHERST TALLIES | WILLIAMS TALLIES | ||
| J, T. Claflin (C.) | 7 | H.S.Anderson (C.) | 2 |
| E. W. Pierce | 5 | H. T. C. Nichols | 2 |
| S. J. Storrs | 7 | R. E. Beecher | 3 |
| P. E. Tower | 7 | J. E. Bush | 4 |
| M. B. Cushman | 4 | J. H. Knox | 4 |
| J. A. Evans | 5 | S. W. Pratt, M | 2 |
| E. W. Fenn | 6 | A. J. Quick | 3 |
| H. D. Hyde, thrower | 4 | B. F. Hastings | 4 |
| J. A. Leach | 5 | J. L. Mitchell | 3 |
| H. C. Roome | 5 | C. E. Simmons | 4 |
| H. Gridley | 5 | G. P. Blagden | 1 |
| T. Tomson | 6 | H. B. Fitch | 0 |
| G. A. Parker | 0 | ||
| L. R. Smith, Umpire. | C. R. Taft, Umpire. | ||
Referee, W. R. Plunkett, President Pittsfield Base Ball Club.
In his interesting book, "Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played," published in 1908 by Brown, Little & Co., Boston, Mr. James d'Wolf Lovett writes: "About
