The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-07-24
Something for the Admirers Of
Base Ball.
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POMEROF.
From the Lacrosse Democrsll
as A BASE BALLLaTi


bushes. Then lock into those optic and
tell us tales Of sympathy. And look al
that Mount Tom on our right cheek bone.
Baseball! That is the row.. .!.,
II came about thus. Secondary deploy.
ment Is too thrdsome for the system. Tho
doctor said we needed exercise Doctor
knows He told us to Join Baseball, we
joined. Bought book Of instructions, and
for FIVE days studied it wisely if not to well.
Then we bought sugar scoop cap, red
belt, green shirt, yellow trousers, pump
kin colorca shoes. paper collar and purple
neck re, anil, with lot of other delegates,
moved gently to the ground
There were two mines. These mines wore
antagonists. The ball is a pretty little drop
of sottness. the size of goose-egg, and
FIVE degrees harder than brick. The two
mines play against each other. 1t is quiet
game, much like chess. cnly little more
chnse than chess. b..
There was,an umpire. His position il q
bard one. He sits on a box and yells
fowl" His duty is severe.
took the bat. 1t is murderous plsy-
thing, descended from Pocahontas to tbs
head Of join Smith. The man in front of
me was pitcher. He was nice pitcher,
hut he sent the balls hot The man be-
hind me was catcher. He caught it tool
The umpire said ''plsy" 1t is the most
radical play know of, this baseball Saw
ing cord.wood is moonlight ranbles beside
base ball So the pitchers sent ball to-
ward me- 1t looked pretty coming, so I
| let it come. Then he sent another. / hit
II with the club, and hove it gently upward.
Then I started to walk to the frst base.--
The ball lit in the pitcher, or bis hands.
and somebody said ne caught fly. Alas,
poor fyl walked leisurely toward the
base. Another man took the bat. turned
to see how he was making it, and mule
kicked me on the cheek. The lnan said it
was the bal. 1t felt like mule, and | TO.
posed On the grass. The ball went on! :;
Pretty soon there were two more flies,
and three of US few out. Then the other
nine came in, and us nine went out. This
dignity in the LETT field, hot ball, as they
called l., cana skvrocketing toward me-
NY captain yelled, "Tske il"
7 fastened gently forward to where the
ball was aiming to descend. I have good
eve to measure distances, and saw at O
glance whore the llttl> rrolte was to light.
I put up NY hands How sweety the ball
descended. Everybody ed fell some
thing warm in my eyel ''Mufin'' yelled
ninety feIlers ''Mufin" be d-dl It's
cannon baIl!" For three days I've had
two pounds Of raw beef on that eye, and
yet it painethI H..
Then | wanted to g. home, but my gentle
captain said nay: So mayed and stay
ed. Pretty soon it was my strike. Brick
to bstl'' yelled the umpire. vent. but
not all serene as was my want. The pitch
er sent in one hip high. | missed it,. He
sent in another neck high. 1t struck me
in the gulIet Fowl, yelled the umpire.
He sent in the ball again, This time Itnok
it square and sent it down the right field,
throug" parlor wirdow--a kerosene lamp,
and rip up against the head of an infant
who was quietly taking its-nap in his or
its mothers arms. Then [ slung the bat
and meandered forth to the first base. /
heard high words and looked. When I
slung the bat I had with it broken the jaw
of the umpire and was fined ten cents,
The game went ep. [ liked it. 1t is go
much fun to run from base to base just in
time to be put out, or to chase ball three
fourths of mile down hill while all the
spectators yell ''muhinI ''go it!'' home
rum" go round againl' or ''go round q
dozen times' Base ball is sweet httle
game. When it came my turn to bat again,
| noticed every body moved back about ten
rods! The new umpire retreated twelve
rods. He was timid The pitcher sent'em
in hot Hot balls in time Of war are good.
But don't like EN- too hot for fun. After
while got fair clip at it, and you bet
it went, cutting the daisies down the right
field. A fat man and his dog sat in the
shade of an oak enjoying the game. The
ball broke one leg of the dog and landed
like runaway engine in the corporosity OF
the fat man. He was taken home to die.
Then went on double.quiok to the
field, and tried to stop hot bail. 1t came
toward me from the bat at the rate o. nine
miles minute. put up my hands, the
ball went swectly singing on its way with all
the skin from my palms with 1t.
More raw beef! B..
That was an eventful chap who first in"
vented base ball. It's such fun. I've play
ed 1--WE games, and this is the glowing result:
One bunged eye, badly bunged One bro
Ninetcen lame backs. A sore jaw. One
thumb dislocated. Three sprained ancles,
five swcned legs. re
One cislncated shoulder, from trying to
, throw ball a thousand yards.
Two hands raw trying to stop hot balls.
A lump the size Of a hornet's nest on my
left hip, well back
A nose sNeetly iammed, and five uniforms
J spoiled from rolling in the dirt at the bases.
, | have played two weeks, and don't think
| like the game. There is not square-inch
on, in or under me but aches. ! sloer
nights dreaming OF hot balls, 'fys, fouls
amt descending 'tsky rockets. | never
. worked so hard since Ruth stole wheat, and
/. never was SO lame since the burning ui
. Luther.
! But l am proud of my proficiency in the
) game It's fine .exercisea little easier
i than being fun through a threshing ma
, chine, and not much either. Its nice
I game for poet or an orstor--twill max,
one sore beyond all accounts yo
I've looked over tho scorers book, ant
. find that 10 two weeks I've broken sever
! bats. made one tally, broken one umpire
e law broken ten windows in adjoining hou
i SEES, killed baby, broke the leg of dog
/ and mortally injured the bread basket of ,
/ SPECTATOR, knocked FIVE other players out o
!, time BY singing my bat, and knocked thu
i waterfall from O school martn, who wa
4 starding twenty rods from the field, o quie
q looker-oh.
q I've used up fifteen bottles Of srnica lini
:, ment five bottles Of lotions, half ray
= beef. and am SO full of pain chat 1t seems a
y If my boneFwere but broken bats, and IN
legs the limbs OF dead horse-aIestnut, in
. stead Of the once elegant trotters Of
Ie Bawhnely thine,
le BRICK" POMEROY.
At P.S. All ladies in favor Of "anivera
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