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SYRACUSE & NIAGARA COMBINE FOR 27 RUNS & 47 HITS
GAME GOES 11 INNINGS; FIVE PLAYERS finish WITH 4+ HITS

BUFFALO, NY, June 26 (1859) – After Utica’s Archie Stewart compiled an unprecedented seven hits in a game at Niagara just eight days ago, spectators at the Greater New York Sporting Grounds were treated to more spectacular offensive achievement on Sunday afternoon when Syracuse & Niagara played a contest in which the two teams combined to put 27 runs and 47 hits on the scoreboards over eleven innings:

The two starting pitchers in the game, William Cox (SYR) & Ray Smith (NIA), allowed 27 of the 47 hits, with Smith allowing those dozen hits in just 3.2 innings of work. His relief man, Bernard Schmidt, did much better, allowing just seven hits over 6.2 innings.

With the game 11-11 going into extra innings, Syracuse came to bat after a scoreless tenth and tallied five runs thanks in no small part to four Niagara fielding miscues, bringing the score to its final of 16-11 and Niagara’s total amount of errors to eleven on the day.

The two teams combined for an N.B.B.O. record in the game, with five players finishing the game with four or more hits: John Edmonson (3B) & Ralph Schwartz (C) completed the trick for Syracuse, while Joe Bentley (2B), Tony Littleton (CF), & James Shea (1B) did the same for Niagara.

In particular, Shea and Edmonson were the standout performers. Shea had five hits – his afternoon as follows:

• BOT 2: Single to LF off W. Cox
• BOT 3: Groundout to 2B
• BOT 6: Single past SS off W. Cox
• BOT 7: 2-Run Double to RF off W. Cox
• BOT 8: 1-Run Single b/w 1B & 2B off C. McTear
• BOT 10: Single b/w 3B & SS off C. McTear
• TOTAL: 5/6, 2B, 2 R, 3 RBI, 6 TB

As great as Shea’s day was, he was outdone by Edmonson’s work with the bat:

• TOP 1: Single past SS off R. Smith
• TOP 3: Leadoff Infield Single off R. Smith
• TOP 4: 2-Run Double to CF off R. Smith
• TOP 5: Infield Single off B. Schmidt
• TOP 6: Leadoff Single b/w 3B & SS off B. Schmidt
• TOP 9: Flyout to CF
• TOP 11: Single to LF off B. Schmidt
• TOTAL: 6/7, 2B, 4 R, 2 RBI, 7 TB

Unfortunately, Niagara lost just as they did against Utica in Stewart’s historic performance eight days ago. Still, the people of Buffalo were treated to an extremely memorable game of base ball for the second occurrence in barely over a week’s time.