The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-09
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE"



There were NO general "doings" here. Every
body did it on their own hook. A goodly mum.
Der, provided with baskets, cooked fowl, cakes,
lemons. ice and sugar. formed family and private
pic.nics, and repaired to the leafy bowers where
were tho cool breezes of pure country air; others
joined larger parties, where ''nics" were promis-
cuously picked" to coin phrase; others re-
NAMED at home and romped with their babies,
or read the last novel, or iounged about in that
listless, dissatisfied way, peculiar to very lazy
people.
Early in the morning flags were seen fluttering
here and there, and green boughs sprung up
from the sidewalks in front of saloon doors, or
| cafes. That's an aristocratic word and we mean
to stick oit.)
At a later hour young couples from the ''roo.
raj deestrix" ought to have been seen promenading
the streets, hand in hand, in conding, affection.
ate, timid manner, showing in the boys and girls
SO coupled, great distrust of the public and i'm.
plicit confidence in each other, practically show
ing their faith in the proverb "that in union
there is strength" only we didn't see them.
About o'clock promiscuous crowd OF a
thousand, more or less, gathered in the vicinity
of Madison and Walker streets, some to buy
tickets for the excursion train on the new rail.
road to Streator, and others to see their friends
off. A little shoe shop on the corner was i'm.
provised as ticket Office, and slow back"
passenger car, and about dozen of coal cars con.
stituted the train, upon which between two and
three hundred took passage for the new coal city,
the train leaving, amid loud cheering and many
expressions of good wishes from the lockers on.
AT 10 o'clock Denhard's brass band organized
procession and marched from the engine house,
on Columbus, to La Sale street, and thence to
Hoes Grove, in South Ottawa. The procession
consisted of few fremen in uniform. But
large crowd of people accompanied the procession
on the sidewalks, and very soon q large crowd
were on the picnic grounds. Here the declara-
ton was read in German German music played,
and German toasts drank lin beer,) and every.
thing was satisfactory to everybody.
At two o'clock tide of people began to pour
westward, towards the Fair Grounds, where
there was
MATCH GAME OF BASE BALL.
The "Eckfords," Chicago club of some repu.
tation there, some weeks ago challenged the
shabbonas, of Ottawa, to play here on the 4th
Our boys, with fear and trembling, accepted,
never expecting to more than merely amuse their
city neighbors couple of thousand people
came and witnessed the game. Henry Nash,
OF our city, was chosen umpire, and Lee Hamalle,
of the Eckfords, Chicago, and R. Moore, of ct.
tawa, scorers. and A. H. Thorne unabreNa-hoaer
for the scorers and 'our reporter"
The Eckfords nine were: w. Mccarthy, c.;
M. Costello, Sd b.; w. Stewart +. f.. j. Burk, 9.
e.; J. Mahony, p; G. Tenny, !. f.; John Rentz,
I'd b.; E. Sanders, c. f.; J. A'He.n, LIST b.
The Shabbonas were: Thos. MacKinlay, e. f.;
Geo. Sherwood, c.; G. P. Anderson, s. S.; G. G. |
Newkirk, p; E. MacKinlay, I'd b.; Philo P.
Lindley, r. f.; Joe. Flick, !. f.; Will Bryant, 3D.
b.; AL. Sapp, 1stb.
The Shabbonas won the choice OF position, and
sent the Eckfords to bat. McCarty played away
on one of Newkirk's spinning balls, and sent it
out t. Ed. MacKinlay, who threw it as straight
as a bee line to Sapp, the first baseman, before
the doomed Chicago man knew what allied him.
Sapp, with his accustomed way of doing things,
froze to the ball. and Mr.. Mccarthy was out on
the 1st base
Costello came to grief nearly in the same way,
and Stewart tipped ball into Sher wood g hands
on foul. Thus the Chicago lads were "white-
washed in half the time it took to write this
The Shabbonas came in and made ten points be-
fore getting out, and being mad about it they
another dose of whitewash to the
Eckfords. They played with more care on this,
their third inning, and only allowed the Shabbs
to score one. Then the latter ran six. Here
the Ecks. got big mad on and scored nlue
making some good plays; but the Shabbs offset
this with run of eleven, and were SO ungener-
ous as to skalsomine" the Ecks. again then they
made fourteen. The Chicago club, totally de.
got but one more Then the vlctors |
piled up five more to their already large score
Six innings had been played and the poor Eek.
fords manifesting strong anxiety to Ego home
and see ma" were let off The score Is as fol.
lows six. innings:
Innings ........... 2 3 5 6
Eckfords .............. 0 | o 0 Ill !
...........l0 / 6 II IA 5-47
The Ecl,iords were entertained at the Clifton
in fine style by their captors, and sent home in
dilapiated condition on Tuesday morning.
The Shabbona club is composed OF fine young
men, who have had but little practice, but are
made Of the best material, and with little more
experience would be more than match tor any