The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-23
BASEBALL REPORT.
A Pathological Society Finds New
and WOndrOus Beauties I'm the
English Language.

Kansas City TIMES: / can conceive
OF no more delightful study for the
philologist and metaphorist than a
modern acc unit OF the great national
game OF baseball. Never before have
/ realized the wondrous possibilities
OF the English language.
"You will observe, my friends" /
began, that the points were occupied
by Whitney and Hackett as our bat.
terry, and that Grasshopper Jim filed
the pitchers box. A battery consists
Of batterer and battered, the bat
ter standing between"
"Why do they put the pitcher in q
box ?" inquired the young lady with a
bang.
81 don't know" l answered, doubt
fully, "unlts So it is measure OF econ
omy, Pitchers come high"
81 know" said the young woman
with intellectual curvature OF the
nose; at is TO keep the opposing
players from hurting him. | read in
the paper the other day when Rad
bourne stepped out OF the box Capt,
Rowe hoped on to him with both
feet"
"Very likely" replied; "but to
continue. Hornung got base on
balls and Sutton pasted a corker to
Bassett, who threw to second, doubling
Hornung up"
what is base on bals1" asked a
fair girl in white lawn. ~ thought
they always strapped the bases down."
what did Hornung do after he was
doubled up2" inquired the young
woman with the bang "Did it hurt
him very much2'
Il presume not" said the girl with
the intellectual nose. ~ saw the
Other day that Donnelly let ball 20
through him, aud yet he went right
on playing rs coolly as il nothing had
happened"
Dear me; it is all so strange" said
the representative of sentiment.
"Then," l went on, not needing the
interruption, "Wise hit a la la to Mey.
ers and went ont at first"
whats la LAP" cried the girls in
chorus.
"opinions differ, l replied. "When
Rowe made that home run on the
Kansas City grounds / heard D. p.
Dickinson say IL was la la, but +. L.
Wilson observed that II was a III.
When authorities cannot agree don't
profess to be able to decide"
kansas City now came TO the bat"
l continued, land found Stemmyer at
once. They got onto him in great
shape and pounded him all over the
field"
"How brutalp exclaimed the girls.
why didn't he hide in the boxP"
THAT doesn't seem TO make any
difference" said the intellectual girl.
Didn't you see how they Knocked
Clarkson out OF his box the other day
in New York; Why, the papers saw
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
Chicagos were in Washington Mr..
Crane tried 10 pitch, and mase the
Chioagos mad, aud every one Of them
hit him, aud they actually laid him
out co d in the fifth inning"
True" said the sentimental girl.
George was telling me some time ago
that the Kansas City boys we're Just
laying, as he called it, for Bufiinton,
and were going to knock the life out
OF him."
at must be terrible thing TO be a
pitcher, said the fair young thing in
white "Pspa told me he wasn't going
10 any more ball matches, because he
was tired of seeing our pitcher ham.
mered."
"lf You will give me your attention.
ladies, said a little severely, ave
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
snd kicked vigorously at the umpire"
What is the umpire p inquired the
sentimental girl.
"Oh, | know that, replied the fair
one in white; hes the little man who
does all the talking and whom the
boys cali 'rAss' y
81 think it's very wrong 10 kick
him, taid an amiable girl, speaking
for e first time 81 have no doubt
he meant to do what's right
The inning closed with three runs
for kensss CITY," went on, "and ai-
ter that the Bostons had a picnic"
20, wasn't that njce,n cried the
girls u hope they invited the um-
pire"