Two thousand people came together at Exposition Park today to witness the third contest between the Pittsburg and St. Louis Union clubs. The weather was fine and the game full of interesting and exciting incidents. The visitors played a strong game from start to finish, while the Price team spurted along quite gamely. At one time it looked as if the home nine was to be badly whipped. In the eighth inning, after Gleason had had a chance to retire the side, some of the hardest hitting seen about here for some time saved their bacon, and they piled up 6 unearned runs tieing the score. Lucas' men, in the ninth, earned 2 runs and the home club only succeeded in getting 1, losing the game by one run. Daily, the one-handed pitcher, set the audience wild by sending the ball down into deep middle field, making three bases on the hit. In the ninth inning, after one man of the home team was out, Dunlap, the captain of the visitors, sent Werden into right garden and occupied the pitcher's box himself, or it was the general opinion of many spectators the nine from St. Louis would have lost the game, as the Pittsburg boys seemed to have "caught on" to Werden's delivery in great shape.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 28, 1884
Fred Dunlap pitched two and two-thirds innings in his major league career, with an ERA of 6.75 and and ERA+ of 73.
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