The evening world., 1888-08-15

lem "-Anson and Mutrte Both taet va1u.
able Points on the Game-Gsn. sherman
There to Sec the Fun.
III anything was needed to complete the low
felt by Arson and his colts at winning yes
terday's ball game, or if the Giants felt the
need of any popular demonstration of the
admiration felt for them, all that was sup
piled last night ut Wallack's Theatre by that
prince of comedians and baseball cranks,
DeWolf Hopper, admirably aided and Sec
onded by the charming company of Col. Nc
Caull.
AS has already been stated in these col
umns, Hopper and company went to the Polo
yesterday to see the Giants win a ball game.
They saw the game, but it was Chicago who
won, and Hopper and company were voted
Jonahs by Mutrle and company.
But n club. no matter how superior, must
lose sometimes, and the great regret felt at
yesterdays defeat was in a large measure due
to the fact that ii occurred ona gala day, and
before those charming maidens who. night
after night, delight the eyes and charm the
ears of the 'stay-in the city on-account-of-
business" husbands and other theatre going
folks.
But those thirty-six sweet songsters en-
joyed the game just the same, and applauded
each play whether good or bad, and admired
those open-air ballet costumes which clothed
the athletic limbs of the merry ball-tossers
to their hearts content.
Last evening, however, hosts and guests
changed roles and clothes, too, for the enter
tanned OF the afternoon changed gowns for
tights, and the entertainers wore trousers,
boiled shirts and the other parapbernalia
which go to make up mans conventional
costume. Col. McCaull, IN behalf of his
company, had placed the four proscenium
boxes and as many seats as were necessary at
the disposal of the two great ball clubs.
g tha lNrn~ re 1nrn. sc aanl
filed into their places shortly before the cur
tain was raised. n burst of applause rang
forth from every part Of the playhouse.
1t was to be a baseball performance, and II
was, for the most part, lovers of the national
game who made up the audience.
All the merchants, bankers and stock
brokers who day after day yell themselves
turned themselves loose to see McCaull and
Hopper do honor to their admiration. So il
was that the audience earlier than
usual, in order to do greeting to the guests Of
the evening.
The different members of both clubs took
their seats quietly. and with modest BOWS
recognized the welcome offered them.
The Chicagos occupied the lower boxes on
the right of the stage and the New Workers
were opposite to them. President John P.
Day and Manager James Mutrie had seats in
the body of the house, while Capt. Adrian
Arson, scorning all resting places, stood
throughout the evening in the back of the
theatre.
Well, the curtain rose at last, and of course
every one a~pplauded.
line sung, each step taken on the stage was
clapped, and as for De Wolf Hopper-why,
the dear fellow couldn't show his handsome
teeth but what he was cheered to the echo.
The first act went through in comparative
quiet, but a storm of laughter shook the
house when Duke Segismund read the score
OF the DAYS game as a remedy for indiges-
ton, and the yells were deafening when the
comedian asked in a beseeching tone
is Lynch going to umpire tomorrow? ?"
But all that was as nothing to roars that
came during the two last acts. Every one
had heard that something was going to hap
pen, but few knew just what it was.
Every one was on the qui oiue, and Gen.
Sherman, who was present, expectantly
leaned forward in his chair until it seemed AZ
though he was going to imprint one of those
famous kisses on the lips of the pretty girl
who sat directly in front of him. =.
The fun came when Sigismund and
table. Hopper began the tumult by singing
in his own inimitable and unapproachable
manner the song called The Dotlet on the
/" The piece, or rather the rendering, sent
the boys into fits, and though that proud
boy George looked rather conscious when
the poker verse was being sung, he laughed
as heartily as the others.
At the conclusion of the 'steenth verse an
enormous ball made of maroon and white
towcrs-the Giants colors-but bearing the
initials of the Chicago Baseball Club, was
handed to the comedian. who immediately
declared that he was too ratified" to sing
any more, but that with the kind permission
of the audience he would recite O few verses
for the benefit of the evenings guests.
Texas lo%ng-horns couldn't have made more
noise than those humans present in the thea
tire, and the bowling continued throughout
the entire recitation, breaking out into indie
scribable loudness at the end of each verse.
The piece was entitled Casey ut the Bat"
and if Hopper ever did credit to anything in
his life he did to those verses.
The Chicagos fairly went wild, the New
Yorks nearly tainted with laughter, and John
Ward. who occupied O balcony box with his
wife and some friends, came near tumbling
down to the stage.
A scene of the widest enthusiasm followed
and Hopper finally had to ask the audience
that as an encore they would come and
: hear him yell at the Polo tomorrow"
The last act was marked by a professional
in which marched emblems laudatory 10 the
New Yorks and Chicago and little Fred De
Angels. dressed in maroon and white, did
the part of mascot.
: There were no grinds cracked on either
y nine, and once when Hopper's love of home
r talent provoked a verse prophesying that the
, pennant would land in New York he apollo
gized to the Chicagos.
r OF course the boys admired the girls and
the girls the boys and when the end came
every one went away happy to hilariousness,
!, and all voted the evening q success, unmarried
in any way.