The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26
A Baseball Report.
Kansas City Times.

drous possibilities of the English Ian
guage.
"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 a batterer. the latter
standing between"
"Why do they put the pitcher in a
box?" inquired the young lady with
a bang.
81 don't know" I ansW cred Doubt
fully, "unless it is measure of econ.
omy. Pitchers come high"
II KNOW" said young woman
with intellectual curvature of the
nose. sit is to keep the opposing
players from hurting him. l read in
the paper the other day that when
Radbourne stepped out of the box
Capt. Rowe hoped into him with
both feet"
Every likely" 1 replied, "but to
continue, Hornung got a base on balls
and Sutton pasted a corker to Basset.
who threw to second, doubling Hor-
nung up"
"What is a base on balls ?" asked a
fair girl in white lawn, II thought
they always strapped the bases
down."
"What did Hornung do after he
was doubled up ?" inquired the young
woman with bang. did it hurt
him very much ?'
Il presume not, said the girl with
the intellectual nose. 81 saw the
other day that Donnelly let ball 90
through him, and yet he went right
on playing as if nothing had hap
pened."
"Dear me, it's all so strange" said
the representative of sentiment.
"Then," l went on, not needing
the interruption, "Wise hit a la la to
Meyers and went out at first"
"What is a la la ?" cried the girls
in chorus.
"Opinions differ" 1 replied, "when
Rowe made that home run on the
Kansas City grounds, heard 0. P.
Dickinson say it was la la, but E.
E. Wilton observed that Il was lii,
When authorities cannot agree, |
don't profess to he 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"
GLOW brutal" exclaimed the
girls, "why didn't he get in the
box ?"
"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
say they just went for him and slug
ged 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 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, rs he called it, for Buff
fington, and were going to knock the
life out of him"
at must be terrible thing TO be
pitcher" said fair young thing in
white. Papa told me he wasn't
going to any more ball matches, be-
cause he was tired seeing our pitcher
hammered"
eff you will give me your atten-
ton, ladies'" | said little severely,
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 made Lille WAS called out on
strikes and kicked vigorously at the
umpire"
"What is the umpire ?" asked the
Sppt mental uirl
"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 it's very wrong to kick
him." said an amiable girl, speaking
for the first time, II have no doubt
he meant 70 do what's right"
1.-THE inning closed with three runs
for Kansas City" l went on, "and
after that the BOstons had picnic"
"Oh. wasn't that NICE" cried the
girls, II hope they INVITED the UNI
pre-"