Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-14
THE GREAT GAME.
The Fats Kick and the Leans do Iikewi
While the Crowd Yells Itself Hoarse.

The Fats Kick and the Leans do Likewise
While the Crowd Yells Itself Hoarse.
Yesterday morning the street cars bore
evidences of great baseball game that was
to take place in the afternoon at the West
Wichita fair grounds. The comic pictures
in the show window of Mr. J. p. Aliens drag
store exhibiting the situation at different
stages of the game were always drawing out
broad smiles and comic remarks from a de-
lighted crowd. The very air seemed to indi-
! cate that something powerful funny was
going to happen. The phenomena were not
deceiving in the least. The opinion
Of some pessimists who declared that the fats
and leans would never step into the field with
the intention of wiping the ground up with
each other proved false, and about 1 o'clock
carriages and vehicles and even John Fishers
cart drawn by his pony were seen going in
the direction of the battle field. They passed
hundreds of pedestrians going the same direc-
ton just as hard but not so fast, and just as
anxious to see the fun and yell with a ven
geance.
At 2:15 the game was called. The
white sash, soon to be made otherwise. how
ever, distinguished the fats, and the red sash
was one of the distinguishing features of the
leans
The following are the players: Fats
Frank Dale, NJ. Myers, j. p Allen, w. p
Carey D. NJ. Dale, W. F. Green, B. W. Aid
rich, Geo Harris and A. Walden Leans
L. F. Sickner, c. Clark, Frank Oliver, Frank
Hazen, G. F. Corbett, B. Dobson, Mark Oil
yer, E. B. Stanley and R. B. Lawrence.
Rev. J. d. Hewitt served as umpire.
An immense crowd was present. The car
riages and people would encroach upon the
territory belonging to The diamond, and the
patience of the players and the dutiful UNI
pire were sometimes taxed to its utmost
while waiting and beseeching the eager to
stand back and get out of the way" At
times operations were suspended and the
cry to give the boys chance was the alb
sorbing issue.
Luck took of its hat to the leans in the
toss and they knocked the first paint Off the
bat They went to bat with kick that the
fats were acting unfair by running in pro-
fessionals, and the jumbos were kicking,
slow but hard all the same, about playing
the Chicago team rather than the Wichita
leans
The battery for the fats was Myers catcher
and Frank Dale pitcher. Sickner led out
with a sky scraper and won first base with
ease much to the discontinue of Dave Dale
whose face got red over the question, having
jumped at least two inches high after the
ball when it passed at least ten feet above |
him and cut the grass for some rods in the
wrong direction for Dave after its return to
the ground. This sort of thing was kept up
until the leans made three before they were
compelled to lay down the bat.
The fats grabbed the bat with the requisite
amount of confidence. Frank Dale opened
up with good strike and won first base and
in due time was shaking hands with his
breatheren at the home plate This was
good enough a. far as it went but it went no |
farther 1T that inning. Myers, Allen and |
Cary threw the fats on their bsc4 the first /
time and surrendered the bat to the leans i
The leans came in with winning lock and |
scrapsr that missed Aliens shins at the ex-
penSe Of some time in slow pursuit.
Stanly followed successfully until Aldrich /
rolled him out on second base. The second /
tune the fats were by tae force of circun-
stances called ~ the bat They showed signs
Of fatigue, and wore q look that was sugges-
tive that all was not wei them Harris /
reaching his third strike started for his base /
He succeeded in getting between the base !,
and the bali ami then OF course was safe. /
An attempt was made TO send the ball 1
through him in order to reach first baseman.
but flesh wouni alone was the result
The following Is the sore by inning:
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Fats , = L 9-2j
LEAFS o o.