Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06
SOMEWHAT ALLEG0RICAL.
This Winning Mania Seems TO be Turning
Many Heads-suggestions Spring From
ahe slaughter of Giants.

This Winning Mania Seems TO be Turning
Many Heads-suggestions Spring From
ahe slaughter of Giants.
The most of us have read and relished Swift's
somewhat allegorical story of little Gulliver in
Brobdingnag-of the lively though diminutive
traveller who could, almost unmolested, walk
up end down upon the prostrate forms OF that
country's stupid though stalwart giants. be-
cause he possessed more concentration Of force
and foresight withal than those men Of NAM
moth stature. A good proportion OF the sew
eral Thousand spectators who richly enjoyed
at least eight and half of the nine innings in
yesterdays baseball game at Recreation Park
must have been strikingiy reminded Of Gulli-
ver's giant-climbing act For the eight and a
half innings aforesaid, the Welch giant OF
Gotham and others from that region, were not
only climbed, but danced upon and pounded
and battered and ratified. Giants, with great
cudgels in their hands, pranced out and, meta
phorically. cried out:
."Who is this shepherd lad with his little
slingf Bring him forth that I may make sport
of him in sight of the assembled armies OF
Philistiai Ahai bring forth this shepherd with
his slingr'
A swarthy and supple lad named Staley ap-
peared in the dual role of Gulliuer and David;
Buck Ewing both as chief Giant and Gotfdth,
with the Welch Giant and others to play as
second and third rate characters among the
army of the slain.
The reader of allegory and history, profane
and sacred. knows the rest, If he but carry out
the simie; or if not shall he not find it written
in the Chronicles of the Sportsf
What game it was to be sure-for eight
innings and half And what a game it was
not for that half Still, the excellence of the
former so outweighed the going to pieces of
the latter that there was many wild
Comancbe yell when even such gigantean
scalp as one with '5 to 81 tied to its foretop
dangIed from the belt of the noble chief of the
tribe of Allegheny. There it goes into another
simil0-lndian warfare-that won't do.)
An entire coterie of Giants retired in rotation
on seven pitched balls once. and then, in the
sixth inning, three more stalwarts went down
together on only five balls pitched by Staley-
one called ball and one strike: Wasn't THAT that
day, even if he hadn't struck out HATFIELD
twicef
OF course, the Allegheny chieftain (there it
goes again. into mixed metaphorD had noble
warriors out upon the plain to sustain him in
his brawny battle. And besides. there was
that supporting army of at least 100 extra um-
pires on the right-feld bleaching boards
But the glory of downing the Giants was
Staleys. Not even that baby in the grand
stand, who, in the fourth inning, was hit by an
awfully hot foul tip and lived to squall. could
divide the honors with the man in the box; any
more than could Mickey Welch, who. with
more or less .Iiteful velocity in the fifth in
ming. sent a red-hot grounder feeling up
Staleys good right arm. without weakening 1t
bit. The woman with the wreath OF more or
less sweet violets in her hat. the bucking Kick
Ewing, the scolding umpire, who drove Dun
lap back from the batter's line-none of these
could detract from Staley's great glory.
Thus it seems to be coming to pass that
Pittsburg has a renewal of the old and compli-
Gated complaint-baseball on the brain; and
thus suggestion or two occurs to one who has
felt touch or two of the contagion:
Better enlarge the diamond. Better put
bleaching boards all around It. The grand
stand won't hold the people. This winning
epidemic seems to be continuous. Already the
privileges adjacent TO Recreation Park COM
mand a premium tor to-day's game. Adjacent
roofs and telegraph poles are all reserved.
Even those with barbed wire collars on them
command premium. The reader can take the
hint or not as he pleases; but, If he doesn't
about s, 900 to 200 others will.