The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-07-29
A BASEBALL REPORT!
A Delightful and Instructive Study for the
phiioIogist.

] can conceive of no more delightful
study for the philologist and metaphor
ist, says writer in tho Kansas City
Times, than modern account of the
great national game of baseball. Never
before have | realized the wondrouS pos
sibilitics of the English language.
You will observe, my friends, / be-
gan, ''that the points were occupied by
| Whitney and Hackett us our battery,
| and that GrasshOpper Jim filled the
pitchers box. A battery consists of bat
terer and a battered, the batter standing
between"
why do they put the pitcher in a
boxP" inquired the young lady with
bang.
Il don't know" | answered, doubt
fully, ''unless it is measure of economy.
Pitchers come high"
Il know" said the young woman
| with intellectual curvature of the nose.
''it is to keep the opposing players from
hurting him. | read in the paper the
other day that when Redbourne stepped
out of the box Capt. Rowe hopped on to
him with both feet
''Very likely" replied; but to con-
tinue. Hornung got a base on balls and
Sutton passed a corker to Bassett, who
threw to second, doubling Hornung up"
What is a base on ballS?" asked Il
fair girl in white lawn. Il thought they
always strapped the bases down"
.What did Hornung do after he was
doubled upP" inquired the young woman
with the bang. .'Did it hurt him very
much?"
Il presume not" said the girl with
the intellectual nose. Il saw the other
day that Donnelly let a ball 90 through
him, and yet he went right on playing
as coolly as if nothing had happened"
Dear me. it's all so strange" said
the representative of sentiment
"Then," went on not needing the
interruption, "Wise hit Il la Ia to Meyers
and went out at first"
whats la lap" cried the girls in
chorus.
Opinions differ" l replied "When
| Rowe made that home run on the Kan
sas City grounds heard o. p. Dickinson
say it was a la la, but E. E. Wilson OBJ
| served that it was lii. When authori-
ties can not agree do not profess to be
able to decide.
kansas City now came to the bat, "
l continued, land found Stemmyer at
once. They got on to him in great
shape. and pounded him all over the
field"
"How brutalr' exclaimed the girls.
"Why didn't he hide in the boX?'
THAT doesen't seem to make any
difference" said the intellectual girl.
Didn't you see how they Knocked
Clarkson out of the box, the other day.
in New York? Why, the papers say
they Just went for him and sluggcd him
right and left"
Yes" said the girl with the bang,
"my brother told me that when the
Chicagos were in Washington MIR.
Crane tried to pitch and made the
Chicagos mad, and every one of them
hit him, and they actually laid him out
cold in the fifth inning"
! True" said the sentimental girl,
George was telling me some time ago
that the Kansas City boys were just lay
ing, as he called it, for Burlington, and
were going TO knock the life out of him. :"
ut must be terrible thing to be q
pitcher" said the fair young thing IN
white. Papa told me he was not going
to any more ball matches. because he
was tired of seeing our pitchers ham,
mered."
..lf you will give me your attention.
| ladies, L said 4 little severely, I'VE Will
proceed with the last half of the first in
nIng. The boys were on their muscle,
and welded the willow with fine effect
After two runs had been scored Lille
was called out on strikes and kicked
vigorously at the umpire"
What is the umpire?" inquired the
sentimental girl.
''Oh, know that" replied the fair
one in white; ''he's the little man who
does all the talking and whom the boys
| call rats.
81 think it very wrong to kick him, "
said an amiable girl, speaking for the
first time. Il have no doubt he meant
to do what's right"
1.-The inning closed with three runs
for Kansas City" went on, "and after
that the Bostons had a picnic"
''Oh, wasn't that nicer cried the
girls; Il hope they invited the umpire. y