Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-08
BILL NYE TRIES TO UMPIRE.
lie Keeps Score on Two Shingles at a
Western Game.

lie Keeps Score on Two Shingles at n
Western Game.
A short time ago was called upon
by committee of physicians and sur.
geons of Minneapolis. led by DIR. Hunt
er. of that city, with request that l
would umpire game of baseball to be
played on the ensuing day between the
Allopaths and Homoopaths of M nne-
apolis for the championship of the
northwest the proceeds TO 60 to the
Homeopathic Hospital.
told DIR. Hunter that an ALL wise
Providence had not seen fit to endow
me with great deal of baseball
wisdom. but that l was passionately
fond of the game. recognizing. as l
did. that it denoted a wonderful de-
gree of progress and gradual leading
up from bean-bag and two-old-cat
towards the earnestness, the throb and
thrill and such things as that of the
true athlete.
of the game, he thought. and he would
/ got OOukllu, III buo OpcI
House. to do the active part of the
umpiring. leaving me mostly TO sit
under the shade of a large sun
umbrella, outside the orbit of hot balls
and engaged in thought He said that
great many people had noticed in
me the faculty of being able to assume
n thinkful air while really engaged IN
something else. He said people liked
that in any body, and especially in an
umpire.
At $3.50 the rival clubs arrived in
separate ambulances and chose up for
Gins" The Allopaths got the bat.
Each club had separate pail out OF
which they drank when in need of any.
thing in that line The Homeopaths
took theirs at a third dilution every
twenty minutes out of graduate.
and the Allopaths drank out of large
tin dipper until relieved.
presume the different players
would not care to have me use their
names here and SO | will substitute
fictitious names.
Tho Allopaths wore a uniform con-
sisting of different kinds of clothes,
but very becoming indeed. A few
baseball uniforms scattered through
! the two clubs gave life and piquancv
TO tho game and make it more difficult
( for the umpire to tell which side was
/ In.
DIR. Gray wore drab small clothes, q
light high hat with wide black band,
and long. ashes of-rOses mohair buster,
held in place by means of Il string.
! DR.. Windymei wore blue flannel
sailors suit, with inflamed revers OF
same.
DIR. Pendergast wore a low-neck and
short-sleevc knit lingerie, with check
cred pantaloons and wad of tulle at
! The throat. He wore a tarpaulin hat
and no ornaments.
DIR. Blocker wore q pair of all-wool
trousers. with wedge OF shrimp pink
satin set in the back between his sus-
pender buttons; white, open back shirt.
/ pn-stripe suspenders, and Alpine hat.
DIR. Early wore street costume,
with freman's hat and varialoid neck
] tie.
! DR.. Panghorn wore a Prince Albert
coat, knickerbockers and fOre-and- aft
steamer hat of small blue and white
plaid. with squirrel-skin ear-tabs tied
roguishly over the top. He wore
no ornaments at the beginning of the
game, but at the third inning appeared
/ In stellated, comminuted confusion
Just east of the parotid gland.
| DIR. Pemberthy wore tennis suit
with silk hat and crocheted slippers.
( lie made a very fine appearances on the
beautiful green ball ground, but gen.
orally persisted before he reache d
second. In batting Dr. Pembertay al
most always struck ut the ball after the
catcher had it in his pocket. and he
always erred in diagnosing the general
direction of the ball, and his treatment
of it was visionary and theoretical in
he extreme. l had to reprimand him
three times for these things publicly.
DR.. Mclean was dressed in loose
fitting suit of pajama, with high-top
rubber wading boots, which DIR. Hunt
tr filled partially full of rain water by
means of stomach pump which he
found in the ambulance. This water.
Using and falling with wild rushing
noise while DIR. Mclean was making
bis bases, reminded me of the gentle
squeak made by the third stomach of
grass-fed horse as he goes joyously'
bfield
III WOlO ~ paw VI SPOCb"
cular pantaloons and percale shirt
with his suspenders draped about his
waist. He also wore his own whiskers,
and threw with great accuracy. Woe
TO the man who got off his base if DIR.
Lennigan had the ball. for he never
failed to raise q two-quart blister on
that man, such rs would make old
Canthardes just fairly hate himself to
death. told DIR. Lannigan that it was
not absolutely necessary, according to
the rulings of the land commissioner,
that player off his base could only
be put out by the actual production of
proud flesh and laudable pus, but he
couldn't seem to understand it and SO
he created good deal of ill-feeling.
though at heart good man and very
successful physician.
The game was called at 3 o'clock,
and with two large shingles to keep
tally on. ] told the boys to sail in.
DR.. Mills, of the Allopaths. went
a. II II. w.,.I,r L..