Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-23
A BASE BALL REPORT.
New and Wondrous Beauties in the
English Language.
Fron "a Kansas Cftu Tfmea.

From the Kansas CITY Times.
can. conceive of no more delightful
| study for the philologist and metaphorist than
modern account of the great national game
Of base ball. Never before have realized the
wondrous possibilities of the English lam
guage, "You will observe, my friends" be-
gan, THAT the points were occupied by Whit
| ney and Hackett as our battery, and that
! Grasshopper Jim filled the pitchers box. A
battery consists OF batterer and battered,
the batter standing between"
'Why do they put the pitcher in box?" in
wi II d don't Know ! answered ms Sdoubtfully,
unless IT IS measure of economy. Pitchers
| come high"
Il know" said the young woman with in
tellectual curvature of the nose; lit is to keep
the opposing players from hurting him. /
read in the paper the other day that when
Radbourne stepped out of the box Capt, Rowe
hoped onto him with both feet"
VERY likely" replied; but to continue.
HornunS got base on balls and sutton pasted
corker to Bassett, who threw TO second,
doubling HOrnung up"
what is base on balls" ASKED fair girl
in white lawn. 81 thought they always
strapped the bases down"
What did Hornung do after he was doubled
up" inquired the young woman with the
bang. did 1t hurt him very much?"
II presume not" said the girl with the in
telectual nose. II saw the other day that
Donneily let ball go through him. and yet he
had happened"
Dear me, it's all so strange" said the rep
resentaIive of sentiment.
"Tnen," went on, not needing the inter-
ruption, Wise hit la la to Meyers and went
out at first"
WHATS la la?" cried the girls in chorus.
"Opinions differ" replied, when Rowe
made that home run on the Kansas City
grounds, heard o. p. Dickinson say it was a
la Ia, but Il. K. Wilson observed that it was a
Ill. When authorities cannot agree L don't
profess to be able to decide"
"kansas City now came to the bat" | con-
tlnued, land found Stemmyer at once. They
got onto him In great shape and pounded him
all over the field"
"HOw brutal" exclaimed the girls. sWhy
didn't he hide in The boX?'
That doesn't seem to make any difference"
SAID the Intellectual girl. Didn't you see
how they knocked Clarkson ont Of his box the
other day in New York; Why, the papers
say they just went for him and slugged him
right and left"
YES" said the girl with the bang, "my
brother told me that when the Chicagoes were
in Washington Mr.. 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 laying, as he called it, for
Bum9gton, and were going to knock the life
out of him."
at must be a terrible thing to be a pitcher"
said the fair young thing in white. Papa
tofd me ne wasn't going to any more ball
matches. because he was tired of seeing our
pitchers hammered"
IF you will give me your attention, ladies'"
said little severely, 1--WE will proceed with
the last half Of the first inning. 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 senti-
mental 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 rate
IL think it's very wrong to kick him, :" said
an amiabe girl. speaking for the 6rst time.
81 have no doubt he meant to do what's
right"
1.-The inning closed with three runs for Kan
sas City" went on, land after that the Bos-
tons had picnic"
"Oh, wasn't that nice !" cried the girls. 81
hope they invited the umpire"