Baseball Internationals in Ireland – America v Canada 1917

Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Game 1		Venue: Dublin
27.10.1917	America	6	Canada	10
	Game 2		Venue: Belfast
31.10.1917	Canada	5	America	5

Box-Score 31 October 1917

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Extra	Total
Canada	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	5
America	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	5

Teams 31 October 1917

Position	America	Canada
Pitcher	Stanley	Doyle
Catcher	Vannais	Langdon
First Base	Chapin	Latimer
Second Base	Leo	Reid
Third Base	Green	Edmundsen
Centre Field	Coued	Biglard
Right Field	Van Dyne	Johnson
Left Field	McLeod	Loskey
Short Stop	Humphreys	Maddock

Report

Two International Baseball matches between America and Canada were played in Dublin and Belfast in late October 1917.

In the first encounter Canada won by 10 runs to 6, and the return match, in Belfast, finished 5-5.

Doyle for Canada, and Stanley for America were the Pitchers, who were described as excellent.

America went 2-0 up in the first innings, but Canada added one in the second, and levelled the match in the third. America took the lead again in the fourth with a well-obtained run, but Canada retook the lead in the fifth by adding two runs. There was no score from then until the ninth innings, when America obtained two. It looked like America was going to win when Canada’s first batter failed, but they managed to equalise in the end. One Extra inning failed to separate the sides, and it finished five runs each.

References

Newspapers

[1] Anon. (1917) “Baseball Match in Belfast: America v. Canada”. The Belfast News-Letter. Thursday, November 1, 1917. pg. 3.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Frank Kingston and Richard Mulcahy

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