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FIRST BALL TEAM IN THIS VICINITY FORMED IN 1859The first baseball match of recordin Orange County that we can findtrace of was played in 1S59 betweenthe Highland nine of New Windsorand the Hudson -River club of New-*burgh. Jc was won- by the latter, and the score was 28 and 23. Weare not sure where this game was*played. None of the participants are living, so far as can be learned.William. H. Kelly, principal at this writing of the Broadway school, Newburgh, and who became one of ■the pitchers on the Hudson Rivers, started with the Newbitrghs, and ihds name appears on the tally sheet of that club in the tie match played with the Hudson Rivers in 1S60. Other members of the Newburghs were Isaac Martin, Thomas Harris, William Xasle, Fred Banks, Hrrani S. j Brewster. Ebencser Adams. George H. Chandler and George George. All but Mr. Kelly have passed on.Of the Hudson River players all : are dead. They were John Miller. E. Gerry Stevens. Stephen King, W. L. Smith, W. C. Miller, Dr. Straw, S. W. Miller, S. R. Reeve, George W. | Powell. jThe Newburghs were the first nine, formed (1S56) in this vicinity in the?- -infancy of the national game. They j were soon followed by the Highlands; j of New Windsor. The membership;tof these clubs was composed of rep- j; reseniative citizens, as distinguished ; from the Mutuals of New York, fox-example, or the Haymakers of Lans-I in go u ran, who in their latter days j became semi-professionalized. Of j modern, baseball Jack Barry, of New- i burgh, son of Michael Barry, became I1 a player of national reputation, and j; was on the Buffalo. Montreal, Wash-j1 ington and Boston nines, it was but -natural that Newburgh should have : developed at least one great profess- ’ • ional baseball player, for this splendid sport was indigenous to the soil. ’ -as it were. Two generations lived | in an atmosphere that was charged •wi“h the electrical enthusiasm of *•*clean amateur baseball that startedon its decline in SPSS'S. when the 1cities began to strengthen their ,1■nines by picking up players from the;1 smaller local clubs, and ceasing So be distinctly representative of the •comm amity. ;■For example: A1. Spaulding, who | ■pitched for Rockford, Illinois, was 1; offered a week to work in a . store in Chicago, it being understood;; that he would play on a team in that city. Such a condition could not last: long. Teams like the Hudson Eiv- •cry. of Newburgh, ib** WalBdlls. of • Middletown, and the Delawares, -of Poll Jervis, disbanded rather than ; report to such tactics to remain in! ’ the race.1r* •
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Middletown Daily Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Sat, Apr 09, 1921
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