Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-26
A BASEBALL REPORT.
Delightful and Interesting Study for
the PhiloIocist

the Philologist.
can conceive of no more delightful study
for the philologist and metapliorist, saws
a writer in the Kansas CITY Times than
a modern account of the great national
game of baseball. Never before have re.
allied the wonderful possibilities of the
English language
You will observe, my friends" I be-
gan, that the points were occupied by
| Whitney and Hackett as our battery, and
that Grasshopper jim filled the pitchers
box. A battery consists of batterer and
a battered. the batter standing between
Why do they put the pitcher in a
box Z? inquired young lady with a bang.
| don't know" | answered, doubtfully,
unless 1t is measure of economy. Pitch
ers come high"
| know said the young woman with
the intellectual curvature of the nose, it
is to keep the opposing players from hurt
| ing him. read in the papers the other
day that when Radbourne stepped out of
the box Captain Rowe hoped on to him
| with both feet
Every likely l replied; but to con-
tlnue. Hornung got base on balls and
| Sutton pasted corker to Bassett, who
threw to second, doubling Hornung up"
'What is a base on balls2' asked a fair
| girl IN white lawn. Il thought they al
ways strapped the bases down."
What did Hornung do after he was
doubled up?" inquired the young woman
with the bang. did it hurt him very
much ?"
II presume not" said the girl with the
intellectual nose. Il saw the other day
that Donnelly let ball go through him,
and yet he went right on playing as coolly
as if nothing had happened
l.n ~
representative of sentiment
Then" went on, not needing the in
corruption, "Wise hit la-la to Meyers aud
went out at first"
whats la-la?' cried the girls in
chorus.
Opinions differ" I replied. when
Rowe made that home run on the Kansas
City grounds heard o. p Dickinson say
it was u la-la, but Z. Z. Wilson observed it
was lii. When authorities cannot agree
| do not profess to be able to decide
Kansas City now came to the bat" 1
continued, land found Stenleyer at once
They got on to him in great shape, and
pounded him all over the field"
% How brutal ~ exclaimed the girls.
g Why didn't he hide in the box? p
THAT doesn't seem to make any differ
ence," 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 tor
him, and siueged 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 Chicagoes 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 Burlington, and were
going to knock the life out of him.
ut must be a terrible thing to be
pitcher" said the fair young thing in
white. Papa told nue. he was not 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 i'm
ing. 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
Il think its very wrong to kick him.
said an amiable girl, speaking for the first
time. a. have no doubt he meant to do
what's right"
The inning closed with three runs for
Kansas City," l went on, and after that
the Bostons had a picnic
"Oh, wasn't that nice n cried the girls
"a hope they invited the umpire"