The Lone Star Baseball Club of Catskill

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Catskill, Greene, New York

The Catskill Recorder June 4, 1875, Page 3

....The Lone Stars made their first appearance on the ball field this season on Monday, in a match with the Stars of New York. The two clubs had met twice before this, and the Lone Stars were victors both time, by scores of 25 to 20 and 19 to 9. On Monday the home club were minus teh services of Day, Deming, H. Wilcox, Smith and Burns, and were obliged to call upon men who had not played for several seasons. The whole nine showed the want of practice. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, the Lone Stars managed to make it quite "warm" for their city friends, and at the close of the 9th inning teh score stood 21 each. This necessitated the playing of another inning. (By the way, this is the first ten-inning game ever played in Catskill, we believe.) The New Yorkers made one run and blanked their opponents in the 10th inning, thus winning a poorly-played but exciting game. The clubs will probably meet again during the season when the Catskill nine promise to make a better showing. We append the full score of Monday's game:

(References-B, good hits; P.O., number of opponents put out; A, assisted to put out)

Star	B	PO	A	Lone Star	B	PO	A
Sheehan, 2nd b	1	4	1	Layman, 2nd b	2	6	0
Sullivan, l f	2	3	1	Russ, r f	3	1	0
Leavy, c	3	2	5	Cornwall, 3rd b	3	2	4
Ling, p	4	0	0	E. Wilcox, p	3	2	1
Raun, c f	2	0	0	E. Beach, 1st b	2	0	1
Kavanagh, ss	2	2	2	F.L. Smith, l f	4	2	0
Clinch, 3rd b	1	4	4	Cargill, c f	1	0	0
Nolan, r f	4	2	0	N. Beach, ss	2	3	4
Nugent, 1st b	0	13	1	Gay, c	4	5	1
	19	30	14		23	30	11

Runs Each Inning:

Lone Star	1	6	4	0	1	0	6	0	3	0	21
Star	2	4	4	4	0	2	1	3	1	1	22

Runs Earned- Lone Star, 3; Star, 3. Errors- Lone Star, 20; Star, 14 Umpire- Mr. Gregory, of the Stars.

The Catskill Reporter November 5th, 1875, Page 3

.... The Lone Star Base-Ball Club of this village played 14 matches during the season of 1875, winning 11 and losing 3, as follows:

May 31	Lone Star	21 Runs	Star of New York (10 inn.)	22 Runs
June 25	Lone Star	30 Runs	Lone Star of Matteawan	26 Runs
July 5	Lone Star	9 Runs	Mutual of Elizabeth, N.J.	5 Runs
July 8	Lone Star	17 Runs	Active of Wap. Falls	7 Runs
July 15	Lone Star	18 Runs	Empire of Matteawan	5 Runs
July 19	Lone Star	17 Runs	Volunteer of Po'keepsie	16 Runs
July 29	Lone Star	13 Runs	Ulster of Sangerties	0 Runs
July 31	Lone Star	24 Runs	Haymaker of Hudson	2 Runs
August 11	Lone Star	6 Runs	Star of Syracuse (10 inn.)	7 Runs
August 14	Lone Star	12 Runs	Athletic of Utica	11 Runs
August 20	Lone Star	25 Runs	Volunteer of Po'keepsie	18 Runs
August 23	Lone Star	3 Runs	Flyaway of New York	19 Runs
August 28	Lone Star	25 Runs	Fair Play of Stottville	14 Runs
September 6	Lone Star	6 Runs	Lone Star of Matteawan	4 Runs
		226 Runs		156 Runs

But 20 runs of the 156 were earned off Wilcox's pitching. The battling and fielding scores of the players are as annexed:

	Times at bat	Base-hits	Average
Chas. O. Day	63	28	.444
H. Wilcox	70	28	.400
A. Cornwall	75	27	.360
E.K. Wilcox	74	24	.324
E. Beach	74	23	.311
F.P. Smith	65	17	.277
H. Burns	37	10	.270
Ira Gay	72	19	.264
F. Layman	42	11	.262
Ned Beach	72	15	.208
R. Beach	14	3	.214
F.L. Smith	7	4	.571
O.F. Humphrey	4	2	.500
John P. Russ	7	3	.429
W. Cornell	8	2	.250
J. Cargill	5	1	.200

	Games	Put out	Assist.	Errors
Day, 1st and 2d b	11	132	6	14
H. Wilcox, l f	13	15	4	7
Cornwall, 3d b	14	26	34	19
E.K. Wilcox, p	14	9	26	19
E. Beach, 2d and 1st b	13	59	42	26
F.P. Smith, r f	12	7	4	11
Burns, c f	7	4	2	3
Gay, c	14	72	20	44
Layman, cf and 2d b	8	12	10	6
Ned Beach, ss	14	17	39	25
F. L. Smith, l f	1	2	0	1
Humphrey, o f	1	3	0	2
Russ, r f	1	1	0	1
Cornell, c f	1	1	0	2
Cargill, r f	1	0	0	2

Of the original nine of 1865 Day, Cornwall, and Ned Beach play at present. In no season since the first has the club lost more matches than it has won.