Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-07-12
THE GAY-LO-RIOTUS FOURTH.

DE~I bsINS
between Mexico's club and a nine of
this city. The Mexicans arrived on
the Denver express which was three
hours late, putting them in here about
sunrise. After being fed and intro
duced to the boys, they retired to don
their uniforms-they spread ON con-
siderable styA-and marched down
the street with a lashy red bat at
their head to dazzle the Vandalians,
who had never before seen such a
pretty stick. But our boys don't
quail at the uniforms nor quake at
the CORY colored stick; but when it
vas WHISPERED among them that the
Captain of the Mexicans had brought
along a prospective brother-in-law to
umpire the game according to the
rules-when not antagonized by the
necessities Of the Mexicans, the mer-
curry of their hopes descended several
degrees. Things passed off SWIM
mingly, however, to the middle of the
9TH inning when the MeXicans took
the bat, and Bob Vincil having made
first base, was twice put out Gas he
afterwards acknowledged i'll repeat
ed attempts to steal second. But the
umpire decided otherwise, and from
that time on it YVES spiritlese con
test, our boys feeling it useless to at
tempt to beat nine men and an UNI
pire. The feeling towards him was
=, r{o,-,. ,,ol.eo1 ,rI,- Ln Isnl
that he could not see whether Vincil
was out or not and by the rules must
decide in favor of the runner but he
afterwards reversed this rule in the
case of Blackburn, ofthe Fandalians,
whom he wrongfully ruled out at
second. He eXhit tied moderate fair
ness. however. never openly betray-
ing his bias till a vandalism batted Il
ball to the extreme left field and was
about to make home on it when he
called out lost ball" Los ball
doesn't stop a base-runner,' said our
Captain. Il know it, he coOlly re
piled, laughing, thus admitting that
he had tried to trick us out of Il score.
On another occasion he called foul
on lis when the ball had jumped out
side the foul line after crossing the
diamond, and he insisted upon it till
our Captain proposed to read the
rules on that point then he gave it
up without referring to the rules,
showing that he knew right, from the
first. Still, our boys curbed their
temper, and the game passed off
pleasantly, excepting 4 little badger
ing Of their Captain, who was not
treated with the courtesy he would
have been had not our boys been
previously warned that he IA Il saw
age '.kicker." Il bluff bull-dozer who
would claimI everything, concede
nothing, stand in the way Of base
runners. run over bascmen, and re-
quired tall cursing from long
tan. Bob behaved reasonably WELL
however. and at the close of the game
each club gave three cheers for the
other and the umpire. The o
stood n to Is in favor of the Next
cans.-Nandalia Leader.
dying efforts Of the Vandalia
''Follower,"l In answer to the
above brilliant 60 efiusion of insinua-
tons, we will say but little. We
don't like to kick a dead dog, and tie
Leader is now dead.
Thc above article was exhaustive.
and then again We have received Il
private note from their Captain telling
us that the club docs not indorse the
ABOVE, DuT as TINS arucIe has been
presented to the many thousand read
ers Of the Leader we feel bound to
make Il few remarks ut least to clear
our ''brothcr-in-law.' Now Bro.
Ladd YOU say We tired to dazzle your
nine &c, &c, now If you think we
came down to play Il lot of county
hruisers you are mistaken. If you
think we came down to Nandalia to
Il lot Of comanchc Indians
ont OF a game YOU are mistaken. We
came to your town to play a sOciable
game OF ball. (Thcre was no chal-
lcnge given by either nine VIZ came
down 10 play as gentlemen,
and with gentlemen and we were not
disappointed, for we found the Wanda
Iia nine as Il nine To he composed of
he ''whitcst' boys We eve met. We
lid not go expecting to make any
pnc quail" and rs Captain | say that
[ expected my boys to get beat, we
la,l just been beaten 30 to l., and ut
his time we had Il weaker nine and
hc boys had been up all night. As
nine We felt very weak. Talk
tbout hull-do2ing their nine, you
rs well talk of the sparrow fight
ng the eagle. The majority of their
line were great stout married men,
md the boys | had were scarcely IS
he most OF them. 1t is evident that
We were likely to 90 away from home
II this weak condition and try to
knock down a game" You say you
lcld us in the real till the 9Th inning
alen your nine got demoralized. Now
the idea of great, big, strapping
men getting dcmoralized overs social
Of ball by some small boys,
eallv we don't think the average Van
Italian can thus easily be discour-
i9ed, now you think because you
TODD - to II in the 4th inning that
on had the game solid. Let me tell
Il point about a game. When
on go away from home with a nine
f boys, who have not had any sleep
lr SO hours and who are naturally
from ineXperience and when
hey have to play a nine of over grown
who do all their work in the
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