The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-09-26

out what he meant by calling fellow Al
anastitious player, because it was one Q
my rules never to allow any one person t
, get off more slang than I did myself, an
Stubs fusilades we're simply mortifying t
the flesh. "Well, said he "an anastitiou
player is a player who wears very loos
belt. and when he goes to bat says to d
pitcher: Gimme high ball! wants it n
higha' dan de shoulda' an no lower dan d
belt, an wants it dead over de pan, ar
you bet yo' life knows wen it comes dere
And then when the umpire calls Il strike o.
him, he bitches his belt up to his arm-pits
and turns around to him and says: " A,
wat you given us? Dat wuz way below d
belt.' Why" continued Stub, "youse fel
lows must be way benin de times neve
to hear Of a moss-agate pitcher; I though
ev'rybody knew about dem. Wy I'll tell you
agate pitcher is pitcher who we,
he gets de run from ev'ry club in de coun
try, goes into some little town where de;
got club, an goes up to de managa' an
strikes him an sez: Say, Ihears you got,
nine in de town-my names Gufin, Pm
twirler; .mebbe you'se read about me.
pitched dat game agin de Chicagoes whert
dey got shut out wild two hits, an dem WI,
both dead scratches. Now I'll tell you va
I'll do wild you: I'll play wild your nine fol
four bundled month an bundled nov
down fur advance money WELL thu
| ,1,a TO To ,%nk
for our club but don't like to pay SO much
money as that. Don't you think that you
could come down little?' Well, he drop:
a hun 'ded de fust jump, and then de mana.
ga takes him of to one side an sez: Nov
looky here, you aint working or doing
anything now, don't you think that you
could afford to play with US for, say, about
five dollas week and your board?' Well,
he says, 1 guess I can, but don't let on " at
I'm gitten.' And then when he goes in
de fust game an gets lined out for twenty
five bases in two innins, he trows down de
ball an walks up to de manage an seq: Its
no ust, de nine won't support me.''
But to return to the gang at the fish
store. 1 had to report that Hornhlo. our
first baseman, could not go with us on &C.
count of his old mans perverted views on
| all recreations that took Lemuel away from
the dry goods counter-old Hornblo being
part of the leaven of the earth who con-
scientiously save small towns from vista
tions of wrath by declaiming against the
sins OF oyster eating, procrastination, etc.
We i,1ight miss Hornblo at the stick, but
then VIZ, more than made up this loss by the
addition OF the Two professionals, Bunion
and Magnify, whom we we're going to run
in on the unsophiss;;ca .Gladiators-not
to mention Monaghan, the hard hitter OF
the Ohio League, and We has 'e'n as
good as shut out already.
Monaghan says: 'Put Billie in de bog,
nm let Tug Wilson do de ketchen' an
We won't need no fielders; an dat shindy-
andy pitcher puts de ball over de plate al
ready hit. He's de biggest pudden in de
business" We arranged the nine with Ma
gihty for second, Bunion to guard
third bag, and Monaghan to take care of
centre garden; all we wanted was first
baseman. Billie Saunders says: What's
the matter with sending out and getting
big Humpy Hodgson from Crawfshville?
He playeda great first the other day, and
got home-run and three-bagger of the
Frogtown pitcher; he's seven footer, anil
knock the ball clean out of Rome if he ever
lites onto it. We telephoned out and
he promised to be on hand, so as far as the
nine was concerned we had jim Lollah.
The next thing to be done was to hunt up
the railroad tickets and take his chances of
getting it back from the manager of the
Gladiators at Rome. We had guarantee
of expenses, SO that it was next to impossi-
BILE for any one to lose cent, but idle CAPT.
tai to the amount of twenty eight plunkers
was not floating around as promiscuously
as before Deacon Scooper's bank went un- |
der with the preachers salary and mis-
aboard. Public confidence had |
received such shock when the Deacon left !
for Canada that now even innocent, indus
trious ball players were looked upon with |
caution, and had to get around aud do
some tall hustling for the paltry sesterces to
buy the tickets to Rome.
1t was no use to tackle Zinsheimer; he
was dead sore over the last game, and had
said that he was done with US. Well, it was
kind of rough on him, but it wasn't our
fault; he had simply been too fly for him
self. 1t happened this way: Our ground
rent had been overdue for some ten games,
and We had frequently promised to settle,
but had applied our money on the last pay
ments on the uniforms instead, trusting to
further leniency on the rent. Well, We had
advertised big game, and the crowd was
beginning to assemble in the high trees con-
tiguous, when the owner of the grounds
sent base servitof out with orders to nail
The gate shut unless the amount due was
and in hand paid, and pros
poets were good for an ignoble collapse,
when Jaky Zinsheimer's eagle eye detected
= golden opportunity, and he waltzed in
With the proposition to put up "halluf"
he money if we would let him 60 in the
oox-ofice and sell the tickets till he made
himself solid" tried to get him to put
Up the whole amount, but he wouldn't put
cent more into it. He says !" l leaf it to
you yourseilnf if vasent lesberal wit you.
make you q fair business offer, bnt, gen.
lemen, cant gift you the earth cause
lon't own it, tho I'd willingly oblige you
f it was mine" Jim Saunders said that
le'd go in the other half On the same terms,
Ind it began to look as though the country
vas going to be saved after all, when Zinzy