, 1888-05-22
OVER The HILL.
Seyenty-Fi Five Cheyenne People Visit
Laramie.
They View the Sights in the Gem
City.
The Cheyenne Ball Club Badly
Beaten.

occupied two coaches attached to Sunday
mornings west bound flyer. The hour of
starting, 5 o'clock, was quite untimely for
many and a number reached the depot
with a portion of their habilament in
arms, and anxiety depicted on their coun-
tenances.
The travellers were bound for Laramie
to see the ball game between the Red
Stocking nine and the Gem City club.
While en- route the train made but one
stop, hating for a few minutes at Sher-
man, where all viewed the great Cakes
Ames monument and commented upon
the rarity of the atmosphere, which feature
of the elevation a majority aYerred was
quite noticeable. Sherman is quite a vii
lage and will continue to grow, although
offering few attractions to emigrants.
The station is a supply point for ranch
men within a radius of twenty five or
thirty miles. In summer Sherman be-
comes headquarters for many hunters and
pleasure seekers who journey to the
mountains during the season Of heat.
At Sherman is an unfinished enterprise
of the Frewens, the prodigal English
dreamers, who perfumed ranch houses
with hot bed roses while engaged in the
cattle business here several years ago. It
is the frame work of what the projectors
proposed should become the largest beef
packing establishment in the West. Sher-
man was selected as a site for the slaughter
house on account of the altitude. For
reasons well known to all the mammoth
undertaking was suddenly abandoned.
The athletes and their friends reached
Laramie a few minutes after 7 o'clock.
After breakfast the party sailed forth to
view the town. The junketers threw
pebbles in the Laramie river, gazed upon
the frowning walls of the dingY United
States penitentiary, picked up crystal
souvenirs about the glass works, examin-
ed the machinery in the rolling mills, and
inspected the planning mill. All voted the
university a very fine structure, but
scarcely to be compared with the capitol
building. The Touring mill is the most
imposing edifce in the town.
A few sightseers pedestrianated to the
soda works and a number patronized the
livery stables and drove to the springs
and fish hatchery. Nearly every member
of the party familiarized himself with
Laramie to the greatest extent possible
under the circumstances. The visitors
were cordially received and Hospitality en-
tertained.
The less said of the contest on the
diamond the better. 1t was a miserable
exhibition with but few redeeming fea-
lures. Trouble was called at 2:30 o'clock
when fully 1000 people were at the slug
ging grounds: Nut Daughters of this
city acted as umpire. The game result
ed in an ignominous defeat for the Red
Stockings or rather the nine which repre-
sented that organization. At the end of
the second half of the eighth inning the
score stood % to ~ in favor of Laramie
and the contest was declared at an end.
The Cheyenne catcher was handicapped
by a badly bruised finger a greater portion
of the game. A Laramie pitcher retired
early in the struggle with a bloody hand,
but was replaced by an equally competent
twirler.
A return game will be played June 3.
1t is hoped that the Red Stocking nine
will then regain lost laurels.
The average Laramieite may be quite a
modern individual, but he does not know
base ball technically. An enthusiast
seated near THE LEADER reporter wanted
to taste the gore of the umpire for calling
strikes on a Datsman, and offered to wager
that Jimmy didn't hit at it."
A dog fight interrupted the game for a
few minutes. A base runner was dis
playing his ability as a sprinter, the sphere
wa. in motion and all were watching the
game closely when two dogs selected a
spot near the pitcher as a pit and war was
inaugu1ated. The crowd forgot all about
the game and thronged the diamond in an
instant. The owner of one dog was
greatly excited. lie reached for its caudlc
appendage a score of times before discov-
ering that the member had been amputa-
ted and that the animal was forever in
sured against tin cans.
The Cheyenne contingent reached home
in squads Sunday night and Yesterday.
All enjoyed the trip.