The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-10-07
THF, PRESS.
About Base Ball.


She WAS voune: she was fair and she wanted
10 know all about base ball. lie was hard hit,
far gone and communicative. The result OF
this compatibility of disposition can be easily
he guessed at, but can never be comprehended.
II filled the grand stand so full of questions
and answers land groans and swear words that
they rolled out into the field and annoyed the
players. Hanlon says that he found one ques-
ton way out in the centre-feld, and it was
81 think Wood and Knight are just too sweet
for anything. Don't you?" That was what
caused him to muff that fly on Wednesday.
Here is whas ratified past Free Press report
or between and 40 p. m. Wednesday, when
he leaped FROM the back side OF the stand,
crawled to the gate, and then tainted from
'utter' exhaustion. He went to Recre-
alton mark at $50 o'clock that afternoon,
hale, hearty young man, without false tooth
in his head. Now he is prematurely old and
Wrinkled; there is a boulder showing through
his hair, and no food has passed his toothless
laws since he escaped that horrible death.
Nausea continues undated.
"What are they going TO do new?'
They are going TO play"
"Ohl are they? I'm so glad. Where are
those Boston fellows going?"
''Out into the field The Detroits go to
bat"
"Do they? Then they'll win, won't they?"
THAT makes no difference. Each nine goes
70 the bat niue times"
"Do they? That's nice. Who's that fat
man with the red cap? Don't he look conf
cal?'
That's Higham, the umpire"
"Where does he play?"
"He doesn't play at all. He umpires the
game, calls strikes, dead balls and other
things"
''What is a dead ball?"
'.O"e that hi's tho halter or umpire.
els it dead when it hits the bat?"
"No."
THAT'S Wood at the bat. Amt he sweet?"
81 think Honck is the prettiest."
81 don't That horrd moustachel what
makes Wood strike the plate with his bat?
Does he do that to let the pitcher know he is
ready?"
81 don't know"
ASK that gentleman behind you. want to
know awfully bad"
.He wouldn't know, either"
ooh, dearl | wish I knew. Why don't
Whitney do as the umpire tells him? The UNI
pire told him to pitch low ball, and there he
is pitching them way up high. Can't he be
s.No. He can pitch them where he has
mind to-
ii think he's real mean, anyway" (Just at
this moment Wood was thrown out at first
basel
ibid Wood make base hit?"
ono, he is out"
"Why, how did that happen?"
BARNES fielded the ball to Morrill, before
Wood reached the base"
docs that put a man out?"
eyes"
"How funnyl I'll remember that. If the
man gets to the base before the ball does he is
out"
''No, mol It's the other way"
"Therel Hanlon is out"
ono, he isn't. He got there ahead of the
ball"
sis that an error?"
''No, il is a base hit"
ooh, Tn so glad. How much does base
hit count?"
"If he gets home it will be run"
"Who is that catching?"
"Charlie Sny der"
What makes everybody joke ABOUT Charlie
Snyder"
81 don't know
"Oh, dearl wish you'd go and find out
want to know awfully bad"
Because" said the reporter, turning around
in his seat, "a Chicago reporter wrote up the
chatter of couple OF silly Chicago girls who
were annoying everybody on the grand stand
with the silly eush about Charlie Snyder"
And she never tumbled.
"Was it awfully funny?"
Every funny to read, but dreadful to listen
to-.
.'Did you hear it?"
"No. 1t isn't necessary to go to Chicago to
hear the chatter of silly girls. There's plenty
of them in Detroit"
That's funny, who are they?"
Excuse me, 1 don't wish to be personal in
my remarks"
That's the way with you reporters. You
never tell anything that anybody wants to
know real bad. / wish L was a reporter. Then
could go to all the theatres and balls and sup
pers and excursions and ciIcuses and picnics
and never pay cent, and have nothing to do
but to write little. 1t must be delightfully."-
glorious"
II was no use. The reporter had thoughtless-
ly turned the torrent upon himself, and its
flood was resistless. He leaped.