British and Irish Baseball

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Four: Saturday 16 April 1870

There is still no stopping the City of London Club so far this season, as once again today they moved ahead in the first inning and then shut down opponents Marylebone, going on to win it 3-0. The Old Westminsters and Kensington Victoria are giving chase though as both are still just one game worse off after wins today.

The Old Westminsters looked to have let a win slip away late on for the second week in succession when they allowed the Royal Artillery Barracks to score two in the eighth to tie it, but this time they recovered to take the win in ten innings. Kensington meanwhile scored runs in the third, fifth and ninth as they eased past Angel Islington.

In two games at their new home field, Clapham Common are still to score a run let alone a win as they fell to Greenwich today, giving up two runs in the first inning and never recovering.

Scores:
Kensington Victoria 3-0 Angel Islington
Greenwich Meridian 4-0 Clapham Common
City of London Club 3-0 Marylebone Regents
Royal Artillery Barracks 3-4 Old Westminsters (10 innings)

Standings:
City of London Club 4-0
Kensington Victoria 3-1
Old Westminsters 3-1
Greenwich Meridian 2-2
Angel Islington 1-3
Clapham Common 1-3
Marylebone Regents 1-3
Royal Artillery Barracks 1-3

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Five: Saturday 23 April 1870

Although many may be envious of their success, it is difficult not to admire the way the City of London Club manage to produce the important hits at the important times to win games. Today they trailed 2-0 after the first inning against the Old Westminsters, but runs in the second and third tied the game and another in the sixth put the City Club ahead. The Westminsters had chances to draw level, but could not find the hit when they needed to.

Kensington also lost ground in the standings as they went down to the only run of the game in the ninth inning against Clapham Common. Elsewhere there was a comfortable win for Greenwich Meridian over Angel, all five of the Meridian runs coming in the first four innings. There was a dramatic finish in the day's other game, as the Royal Artillery Barracks trailed all the way from the first inning against Marylebone before tying the game in the ninth and winning it in the tenth.

Scores:
Old Westminsters 2-3 City of London Club
Angel Islington 0-5 Greenwich Meridian
Clapham Common 1-0 Kensington Victoria
Marylebone Regents 1-2 Royal Artillery Barracks (10 innings)

Standings:
City of London Club 5-0
Greenwich Meridian 3-2
Kensington Victoria 3-2
Old Westminsters 3-2
Clapham Common 2-3
Royal Artillery Barracks 2-3
Angel Islington 1-4
Marylebone Regents 1-4

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Six: Saturday 30 April 1870

The City of London Club are looking unstoppable again after another victory today. They beat Kensington Victoria despite letting a 2-0 first inning lead slip away, with a run in the fifth putting them back ahead 3-2 and three more in the seventh making it safe. The closest chasers are now the Old Westminsters, who edged out Greenwich in a ten inning game.

A big six-run sixth inning lifted the Royal Artillery Barracks to a comfortable win at Clapham Common, who remarkably still have not scored a run after three games at their new home field. Artillery pitcher Harry Erskine got through the whole game allowing Common just four hits.

In the day's other game, Angel took control against the Marylebone Regents with two in the second and then added on in the third and the sixth for an easy win.

Scores:
Kensington Victoria 2-6 City of London Club
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-0 Clapham Common
Old Westminsters 2-1 Greenwich Meridian (10 innings)
Angel Islington 4-0 Marylebone Regents

Standings:
City of London Club 6-0
Old Westminsters 4-2
Greenwich Meridian 3-3
Kensington Victoria 3-3
Royal Artillery Barracks 3-3
Angel Islington 2-4
Clapham Common 2-4
Marylebone Regents 1-5

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Seven: Saturday 7 May 1870

The increase in run scoring that we hope to see this year did not come about in week seven as everyone struggled to get runs home, although there was no change in outcome for the City of London Club as they became the first team in league history to start with seven successive wins. Although Clapham Common finally scored a run at home at the fourth attempt, they fell to a 3-1 loss when the City Club scored two in the fourteenth inning.

The Old Westminsters continue to give chase, although it took them fifteen innings to edge past Marylebone today. There were also extra innings at Angel Islington, where the home team defeated the Royal Artillery Barracks in eleven when they scored the game's only run.

Kensington pitcher Lyn Duncalf earned a complete game shut-out win over Greenwich, allowing Meridian eight hits and taking the win after Kensington scored four runs in the seventh.

Scores:
Royal Artillery Barracks 0-1 Angel Islington (11 innings)
City of London Club 3-1 Clapham Common (14 innings)
Greenwich Meridian 0-4 Kensington Victoria
Marylebone Regents 1-2 Old Westminsters (15 innings)

Standings:
City of London Club 7-0
Old Westminsters 5-2
Kensington Victoria 4-3
Angel Islington 3-4
Greenwich Meridian 3-4
Royal Artillery Barracks 3-4
Clapham Common 2-5
Marylebone Regents 1-6

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Eight: Saturday 14 May 1870

The reason the City of London Club keep winning games is that they get the hits when it matters most. Today they got only six hits to Angel's ten, but the City Club got runs home in three of the first four innings to take control of the game. Although Angel got back to within a single run, they could not tie the score and went down to a fifteenth successive loss against the City Club, a run that now reaches back almost three years.

The City Club are already three games better than anyone else this year after the Old Westminsters fell to defeat at the hands of Clapham, Common scoring in the sixth and the ninth to earn the win. Kensington are now tied for second, after inflicting a fifth successive loss on Marylebone. A two-run sixth inning was crucial to their 6-4 success.

Greenwich have now lost three in a row after a narrow defeat to the Royal Artillery Barracks, the Artillery scoring the game's only run in the tenth inning.

Scores:
Angel Islington 2-3 City of London Club
Kensington Victoria 6-4 Marylebone Regents
Greenwich Meridian 0-1 Royal Artillery Barracks (10 innings)
Clapham Common 2-0 Old Westminsters

Standings:
City of London Club 8-0
Kensington Victoria 5-3
Old Westminsters 5-4
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-4
Angel Islington 3-5
Clapham Common 3-5
Greenwich Meridian 3-5
Marylebone Regents 1-7

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Nine: Saturday 21 May 1870

For once, the City of London Club were not the big talking point in week nine. Yes, the champions won again, 5-0 against Greenwich, to extend their winning start to the season to nine games. Pitcher Gilbert Attwell even earned a complete game shut-out, allowing Meridian only nine hits. But he was upstaged by the achievement of Clapham's Michael Barlow in the game against Marylebone.

Common won the game 4-0, scoring one in the first and three more in the fifth. Barlow was the star however, retiring all twenty-seven Regents hitters that he faced, even though he had to endure a delay of more than an hour for rain in the third inning. Barlow's perfect performance gave the spectators at Clapham something to cheer in what has been a characteristically poor start to the season for the team.

The day's other winners were Kensington Victoria and Angel Islington. Kensington remain second in the standings after recovering from a three-run first inning from the Royal Artillery Barracks. Victoria scored four in the third to take the lead and two more in the fifth to make the game safe. Angel shut out the Old Westminsters 2-0, scoring single runs in the fourth and the sixth for the win.

Scores:
Old Westminsters 0-2 Angel Islington
Marylebone Regents 0-4 Clapham Common * Perfect Game *
City of London Club 5-0 Greenwich Meridian
Royal Artillery Barracks 3-6 Kensington Victoria

Standings:
City of London Club 9-0
Kensington Victoria 6-3
Old Westminsters 5-4
Angel Islington 4-5
Clapham Common 4-5
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-5
Greenwich Meridian 3-6
Marylebone Regents 1-8

Pitching Statistics for Michael Barlow (Clapham Common)

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Ten: Saturday 28 May 1870

Sadly for those who hoped to see a close championship race this year, there is just no stopping the City of London Club and there is not likely to be as long as Gilbert Attwell is pitching, or so it seems. Attwell achieved his second complete game shut-out in a row today as the City Club set a new league record of ten successive victories, scoring two in the second and one more in the sixth to beat the Royal Artillery 3-0.

Kensington Victoria are doing their best to give chase, winning their fourth successive game by defeating the Old Westminsters in eleven innings. Victoria let a 2-0 lead get away in the eighth inning but recovered for the win. Elsewhere, Angel scored runs in the seventh and eighth to defeat Clapham Common 2-0 while most of the action was in the first inning at Marylebone. Visiting Greenwich Meridian scored three to open the game before the Regents replied with two, Greenwich adding another in the eighth to seal the win and leave the Regents on a seven game losing streak.

Scores:
Royal Artillery Barracks 0-3 City of London Club
Angel Islington 2-0 Clapham Common
Greenwich Meridian 4-2 Marylebone Regents
Kensington Victoria 3-2 Old Westminsters (11 innings)

Standings:
City of London Club 10-0
Kensington Victoria 7-3
Angel Islington 5-5
Old Westminsters 5-5
Clapham Common 4-6
Greenwich Meridian 4-6
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-6
Marylebone Regents 1-9

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Eleven: Saturday 4 June 1870

Kensington Victoria continue to cling on to the coat tails of the City of London Club in the standings after both teams won 3-0 today. The City Club struggled to put away the last-placed Marylebone Regents with the game close at 1-0 until a two-run eighth made it safe. Kensington scored one in the fifth and two more in the sixth to get past Angel Islington, pitcher Lyn Duncalf allowing just five hits in a complete game performance.

Elsewhere, there was a big comeback at Greenwich as visitors Clapham Common trailed 5-0 after six innings only to score two in the seventh and three more in the eighth to level it. After both teams struggled to score in extra innings, it was Common who snatched the win with a run in the fourteenth. The day's other game between the Old Westminsters and Royal Artillery Barracks was postponed because of the state of the field and will be made up by playing two in one day in September.

Scores:
Marylebone Regents 0-3 City of London Club
Clapham Common 6-5 Greenwich Meridian (14 innings)
Angel Islington 0-3 Kensington Victoria
Old Westminsters v Royal Artillery Barracks postponed

Standings:
City of London Club 11-0
Kensington Victoria 8-3
Old Westminsters 5-5
Angel Islington 5-6
Clapham Common 5-6
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-6
Greenwich Meridian 4-7
Marylebone Regents 1-10

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Twelve: Saturday 11 June 1870

On the evidence of today's game, the rest of the Metropolitan League may just as well start planning for next year. The City of London Club remain unbeaten and today set a new league record for runs in a game, putting up thirteen in beating the Old Westminsters. The City Club scored in seven of the nine innings, including three in each of the third, eighth and ninth. Their twenty-one hits were also a new league record for a nine-inning game, as were the seven runs which scored thanks to the bat of third baseman Oliver Gander. Right fielder Archibald Farleigh also became just the second man to record five hits in a nine-inning contest.

The City Club also extended their advantage in the standings after Kensington gave up three first inning runs in losing to Clapham Common, Victoria only able to respond with one in the ninth when it was already too late.

Elsewhere, the Marylebone Regents avoided tying the league record for consecutive losses when they rallied for two runs in the ninth inning to overcome the Royal Artillery 3-2. The win for the Regents means that the Artillery remain holders of that unwanted record. There was a marathon game at Angel Islington in the day's other action, with nobody able to score until the sixteenth inning when visitors Greenwich put up two. Angel could only reply with one of their own and fell to a narrow loss.

Scores:
Kensington Victoria 1-3 Clapham Common
Greenwich Meridian 2-1 Angel Islington (16 innings)
Royal Artillery Barracks 2-3 Marylebone Regents
City of London Club 13-3 Old Westminsters

Standings:
City of London Club 12-0
Kensington Victoria 8-4
Clapham Common 6-6
Old Westminsters 5-6
Angel Islington 5-7
Greenwich Meridian 5-7
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-7
Marylebone Regents 2-10

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Thirteen: Saturday 18 June 1870

The rest of the league is just being embarrassed by the City of London Club at the moment. Today the champions took on second-placed Kensington and handed them a record 13-1 defeat, the largest margin the league has ever seen and tying the City Club's record run total set just last week. A seven-run eighth inning was the highlight, while the only bad news was that third baseman Oliver Gander suffered a broken finger during the game and may have to miss several weeks' play.

Clapham Common have moved into third place with their 3-1 victory over the Royal Artillery Barracks, all the runs coming in the first inning of the game. The Old Westminsters scored five in the first themselves on the way to a 6-1 success over Greenwich, while the Marylebone Regents have now won two in a row after pitcher Jeremiah Megginson earned his first complete game shut-out. He allowed Angel Islington just three hits while the Regents scored in the fourth and the ninth to win it 2-0.

Scores:
Marylebone Regents 2-0 Angel Islington
City of London Club 13-1 Kensington Victoria
Greenwich Meridian 1-6 Old Westminsters
Clapham Common 3-1 Royal Artillery Barracks

Standings:
City of London Club 13-0
Kensington Victoria 8-5
Clapham Common 7-6
Old Westminsters 6-6
Angel Islington 5-8
Greenwich Meridian 5-8
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-8
Marylebone Regents 3-10

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Fourteen: Saturday 25 June 1870

The City of London Club are now almost halfway to a perfect season, after a four-run first inning led them to a 4-1 victory over Clapham Common today. Kensington Victoria remain in second place, after they recovered from last week's heavy defeat by earning a 6-1 success at Greenwich. It was close until the eighth inning, but a run there and three more in the ninth made it comfortable.

The day's other two games went to extra innings, with the Marylebone Regents earning their third successive win when they tied their game against the Old Westminsters at 1-1 in the fifth before winning it in ten innings. The game between Angel Islington and the Royal Artillery Barracks was scoreless until the eleventh, when a two-run home run won it for Angel.

Scores:
Clapham Common 1-4 City of London Club
Kensington Victoria 6-1 Greenwich Meridian
Old Westminsters 1-2 Marylebone Regents (10 innings)
Angel Islington 2-0 Royal Artillery Barracks (11 innings)

Standings:
City of London Club 14-0
Kensington Victoria 9-5
Clapham Common 7-7
Old Westminsters 6-7
Angel Islington 6-8
Greenwich Meridian 5-9
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-9
Marylebone Regents 4-10

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Fifteen: Saturday 2 July 1870
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The season is now at the half-way point and the City of London Club are amazingly still undefeated after a comfortable victory over Angel Islington today. A three-run fourth inning put the game beyond Angel. In other seasons, the record of ten wins and five losses which Kensington have at the half-way stage would have put them in real championship contention. Not this year though, although Victoria did win again today as a three-run fifth inning broke a 2-2 tie and set up a 7-2 victory over Marylebone.
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Elsewhere today, two runs in the fifth put the Old Westminsters on their way to a win at Clapham, although they had to hold on when Common got a run back in the eighth. Finally, there was only one run in it at Greenwich where the Royal Artillery Barracks got a man home in the second to earn the victory. Artillery pitcher Harry Erskine got through the whole game and allowed Greenwich only five hits.
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Scores:
City of London Club 6-1 Angel Islington
Old Westminsters 2-1 Clapham Common
Royal Artillery Barracks 1-0 Greenwich Meridian
Marylebone Regents 2-7 Kensington Victoria
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Standings:
City of London Club 15-0
Kensington Victoria 10-5
Old Westminsters 7-7
Clapham Common 7-8
Angel Islington 6-9
Royal Artillery Barracks 5-9
Greenwich Meridian 5-10
Marylebone Regents 4-11

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Sixteen: Saturday 9 July 1870

The run is finally over! In the sixteenth week of the season, the City of London Club have at last lost a game in 1870 and of all the teams to beat them, it was the team who had lost seventeen successive games against the City Club stretching back to the 1867 season. Angel Islington fell behind in the second inning but tied it in the fifth and won it with a run in the eleventh, showing the rest of the league that it is possible to overcome the City Club after all.

With the champions losing for the first time, Kensington Victoria closed the gap at the top of the standings to four games after a two run fifth inning earned them another win over the Marylebone Regents, while there was only one run in it as Clapham Common earned the narrowest of victories over the Old Westminsters.

There was a very dramatic finish to the game at the Royal Artillery Barracks, as the visitors Greenwich Meridian took a 1-0 lead in the first inning and held it all the way until the ninth. With two men out, the Artillery had runners at second and third and the crucial base hit brought both home to win the game 2-1.

Scores:
Angel Islington 2-1 City of London Club (11 innings)
Kensington Victoria 3-1 Marylebone Regents
Clapham Common 1-0 Old Westminsters
Greenwich Meridian 1-2 Royal Artillery Barracks

Standings:
City of London Club 15-1
Kensington Victoria 11-5
Clapham Common 8-8
Old Westminsters 7-8
Angel Islington 7-9
Royal Artillery Barracks 6-9
Greenwich Meridian 5-11
Marylebone Regents 4-12

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Seventeen: Saturday 16 July 1870

The City of London Club got back on track today after last week's loss, breaking a 1-1 tie in the fourth inning at Clapham Common and then adding another run in the eighth to make sure of the win. Kensington Victoria remain in fine form behind the City Club in the standings though, beating a struggling Greenwich team with two runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth. Kensington face the City Club next week and if they are to hold on to any hope of catching the champions, they surely have to win that game.

Greenwich's defeat at Kensington, their fifth loss in a row, means that the Marylebone Regents have now caught them at the bottom of the standings after the Regents won 5-1 at the Old Westminsters, a four run seventh inning the key to their victory despite the Westminsters' Caleb Dean setting a record by earning fourteen strikeouts in a nine-inning game. In the day's other game, the Royal Artillery Barracks scored in each of the first three innings at Angel Islington but were then left holding on when Angel pulled it back to only a 3-2 game in the ninth.

Scores:
Royal Artillery Barracks 3-2 Angel Islington
City of London Club 3-1 Clapham Common
Greenwich Meridian 0-5 Kensington Victoria
Marylebone Regents 5-1 Old Westminsters

Standings:
City of London Club 16-1
Kensington Victoria 12-5
Clapham Common 8-9
Old Westminsters 7-9
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-9
Angel Islington 7-10
Greenwich Meridian 5-12
Marylebone Regents 5-12

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Eighteen: Saturday 23 July 1870

It was said that today's game was one that Kensington had to win to have any chance of staying in contention for the championship and Victoria did just that, sending the City of London Club to a second defeat of the season and indeed a second in three games. The City Club actually took an early lead but Kensington tied it in the fifth inning, edged ahead in the seventh and added another run in the ninth for good measure. The City Club are still strong favourites to win another title, but Kensington are now only three games worse off in the standings and have won five in succession.

Those two teams are the only two who can boast more wins than losses at this stage, but Clapham Common at least have the same number in each column after an extra innings win over the Royal Artillery Barracks. The game was scoreless until the ninth inning when the Artillery looked to have won it by scoring two, but Common replied with two of their own. The winning run for Common finally came home in the fourteenth.

There was plenty of excitement in the day's other two games, with the improving Marylebone Regents prevailing over Angel Islington in a game which saw the lead change hands several times. Angel had scored two in the fourth to edge ahead 3-2, but the Regents tied it in the fifth and then scored three in the sixth to earn the win.

Marylebone's win means that Greenwich Meridian, who have lost six successive games, are now alone in last place after they suffered perhaps an even more dramatic loss to the Old Westminsters. Greenwich trailed 4-0 after three innings and 4-2 after seven, but in the eighth they scored three runs to take the lead. That was not enough however, as with two men already out in the ninth but runners at every base, the Westminsters found the vital hit to score two and eventually earn a 6-5 win.

Scores:
Kensington Victoria 3-1 City of London Club
Royal Artillery Barracks 2-3 Clapham Common (14 innings)
Old Westminsters 6-5 Greenwich Meridian
Angel Islington 3-6 Marylebone Regents

Standings:
City of London Club 16-2
Kensington Victoria 13-5
Clapham Common 9-9
Old Westminsters 8-9
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-10
Angel Islington 7-11
Marylebone Regents 6-12
Greenwich Meridian 5-13

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Nineteen: Saturday 30 July 1870

After their crucial win over the City of London Club last week, Kensington faltered today and lost more ground at the top of the standings. Victoria gave up three first inning runs to Clapham Common and could not recover, missing chances to tie the game and finally falling to a 4-2 defeat. The City Club took advantage with a comfortable win over the Old Westminsters, scoring one in the first, two in the second and three in the fourth on their way to victory.

Elsewhere the Marylebone Regents continued their recent improvement, a vital sixth inning run breaking a 2-2 tie at the Royal Artillery Barracks. That leaves Greenwich Meridian falling adrift at the bottom of the standings after they lost for the seventh consecutive week. Meridian had tied their game at Angel Islington at 1-1 in the sixth but Angel found the winning run in the eighth to condemn Greenwich to another loss in what is proving a surprisingly poor season.

Scores:
Old Westminsters 1-6 City of London Club
Angel Islington 2-1 Greenwich Meridian
Clapham Common 4-2 Kensington Victoria
Marylebone Regents 3-2 Royal Artillery Barracks

Standings:
City of London Club 17-2
Kensington Victoria 13-6
Clapham Common 10-9
Old Westminsters 8-10
Angel Islington 8-11
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-11
Marylebone Regents 7-12
Greenwich Meridian 5-14

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Twenty: Saturday 6 August 1870

There is little to stand between the City of London Club and a fifth championship in succession now after another win today and a disappointing defeat for second placed Kensington. The City Club trailed early in their game at Marylebone, but tied it in the fifth and won it with two runs in the eighth. At the same time Kensington were falling to a 5-0 loss at Angel Islington, trailing from the second inning onwards and rarely looking like putting a run on the board.

Greenwich Meridian have now lost eight successive games after they were edged out by Clapham Common. Common led 2-0 after two innings only for Greenwich to tie it with runs in the fourth and fifth, but Clapham pitcher Michael Barlow won it with his bat after scoring the first home run of his career later in the fifth inning.

There was also a win for the Old Westminsters, who overcame an early deficit to beat the Royal Artillery Barracks 4-1, a two run eighth inning making them safe in what was for the main part a very close game.

Scores:
Kensington Victoria 0-5 Angel Islington
Greenwich Meridian 2-3 Clapham Common
City of London Club 3-1 Marylebone Regents
Royal Artillery Barracks 1-4 Old Westminsters

Standings:
City of London Club 18-2
Kensington Victoria 13-7
Clapham Common 11-9
Old Westminsters 9-10
Angel Islington 9-11
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-12
Marylebone Regents 7-13
Greenwich Meridian 5-15

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Twenty-One: Saturday 13 August 1870

This year's championship could yet be decided before August is over after a day when much of the scoring was done in the early innings. The City of London Club earned another win, this time at the Royal Artillery Barracks, after scoring three in the first inning and going on to win by that margin.

There were big wins for the Old Westminsters and Angel Islington, who both earned 9-0 successes. The Westminsters scored five of their runs in the second inning on the way to victory at Kensington, with their pitcher Caleb Dean having a wonderful day. He shut out Victoria allowing just two hits in the whole game and added three runs with one swing of his bat as he recorded a home run in the fifth inning.

Angel started even better in their game by scoring six in the first inning against Clapham, aided by a number of mistakes from Common fielders. In the day's other game, Greenwich avoided tying the league record for consecutive defeats when they stopped their losing run at eight by overcoming Marylebone in a twelve inning game.

Scores:
Clapham Common 0-9 Angel Islington
Marylebone Regents 2-3 Greenwich Meridian (12 innings)
Old Westminsters 9-0 Kensington Victoria
City of London Club 4-1 Royal Artillery Barracks

Standings:
City of London Club 19-2
Kensington Victoria 13-8
Clapham Common 11-10
Old Westminsters 10-10
Angel Islington 10-11
Royal Artillery Barracks 7-13
Marylebone Regents 7-14
Greenwich Meridian 6-15

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Twenty-Two: Saturday 20 August 1870

It won't make any difference in the long run, but the City of London Club will have to wait at least until the first week in September to secure the championship after falling to a rare defeat today. Greenwich have now won two successive games after coming from behind to win, tying the game at 1-1 in the seventh inning and taking it with two runs in the ninth.

The City Club maintained their lead in the standings though as Kensington lost for a fourth week in succession, letting slip an early lead and falling 3-1 to the Royal Artillery Barracks, a two-run seventh inning winning it for the Artillery. For the first time since the league began, pitcher Lyn Duncalf was missing for Kensington which means there are only four men left to appear in every round of games in the Metropolitan League.

Angel are showing good form of late and enjoyed another big win today, two runs in each of the seventh and eighth innings helping them to overcome the Old Westminsters 5-0. In the day's other game, all the scoring happened in the first two innings as the Marylebone Regents recovered from trailing 1-0 and then 2-1 to defeat Clapham thanks to two runs of their own in the second.

Scores:
Greenwich Meridian 3-1 City of London Club
Clapham Common 2-3 Marylebone Regents
Angel Islington 5-0 Old Westminsters
Kensington Victoria 1-3 Royal Artillery Barracks

Standings:
City of London Club 19-3
Kensington Victoria 13-9
Angel Islington 11-11
Clapham Common 11-11
Old Westminsters 10-11
Royal Artillery Barracks 8-13
Marylebone Regents 8-14
Greenwich Meridian 7-15

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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Twenty-Three: Saturday 27 August 1870

The championship could be won next week for the City of London Club after a big victory today at Angel Islington. Angel actually led after one inning but the City Club turned it around with two in the second and then kept adding to the lead, going on to take it 9-1.

Kensington Victoria ended their recent poor run by overcoming Marylebone, one run in the first putting them ahead and three more in the eighth making it safe. Clapham Common are now alone in third place after a comeback win over the Old Westminsters. Three runs in the second put the Westminsters in charge but Clapham tied it in the fifth and won it with a two-run sixth inning.

Meanwhile, Greenwich have now caught Marylebone at the foot of the standings after recording a third successive win. Runs in the first, fourth and eighth innings were enough to defeat the Royal Artillery Barracks.

Scores:
City of London Club 9-1 Angel Islington
Old Westminsters 3-5 Clapham Common
Royal Artillery Barracks 0-3 Greenwich Meridian
Marylebone Regents 0-4 Kensington Victoria

Standings:
City of London Club 20-3
Kensington Victoria 14-9
Clapham Common 12-11
Angel Islington 11-12
Old Westminsters 10-12
Royal Artillery Barracks 8-14
Greenwich Meridian 8-15
Marylebone Regents 8-15