The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

IHE latest base Dali uUnoSfapn uSeu IN auVef-
Using games represents the members of the club
reclining, cum d~ignitate, in open landaus, while
spirited horses draw them gaily to the scene of
their triumphs. The many-storied business
houses along the way are duly labeled as dealing
in baseball goods, a huge billboard announces a
game to-day" and in the center of a fine square
is reared a statue of a player. The Indian
a~politan who c~ontempiates all these things
marvels only that the 25-cent express wagon
and the cow-bell have, in some unaccountable
manner, been omitted, without which
no game in this city can be a sue
cess. The scoffer will be inclined to
regard the bill as egotistical, especially
since it incorporates a pretentious statue of some
typical player. But why notl Did not Athens
have in her public streets a bronze Discobolusl
And did not Rome receive from her sculptors
innumerable gladiators in stone9 Americas
olympiad is found in the diamond field, and the
plaudits of her fair citizens come from the
grand stand. What better were the Isthurian
games than the League gamesl Who ever heard
of an Athenian knocking the ball over the left
field fence2 And where does history relate that
any Roman made a home runl Imperial Caesar
never made a three-base hit in his life.
True, the Roman umpire was mistress
of the world for a time, but who
ever heard of a nine who hunted
leather all over Campus Martius9 Let the rec
ord be produced, and let us examine the figures
for the season of A. D. 70. Why are not the bat
ting and fielding records of that year published
Why, unless the people of that a%ntiquated village
fear comparison. Let us then assume what
credit remains to us, and let us put up a monu-
ment or two to the banana-fingere hero of to-
day. One as he appears about to hist it over
the lett-feld fence; one as pitcher, a third as
catcher, while a copy of the figure that sur
mounts the Vendome column will make a fair
presentment of the humble, retiring umpire.
ONE fruitful cause of the miscarriage Of jus
tice is the manner in which the dockets Of our
courts are crowded with cases of little moment
Take the case of Feigenspau VS.. Morrow, on
trial in the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The
plaintiff, Christian Feigenspau, alleges that
Judge William II. Morrow, the defendant, IL
beled him in declaring that he (Morrow) once
saw a dead rat floating about in one of Feigens-
spau's watts of beer; and further, that Feigenspau
had admitted that he intended selling
the contents of that vat to coun-
try customers. Morrow also publicly charged
that while in the brewery he saw the men
there employed wash their feet in the water, af-
forwards used in brewing beer. This man, Feig-
enspau, imagines that he has been injured, and
has the temerity to come into court and demand
$10,0 00 damages. He should be non-suited at
once. Who cares if a rat did drown in the beerl
What is one rat to that much beerl And who is
so over-fastidious as to ask that beer be thrown
out simply because an unfortunate rat has lost
his life in it, Brewers can not be expected to in
sure the lives of rats. And what if the men EN-