The evening world., 1889-10-25
The GROOMS FETEO.
A Notable Gathering Of BROOKLYN
Cranks to Honor Them.
Every Ball. TOsser Had a Chance at
the Home Plate.
A Roman Em~peror's Job Not So Great
as Darby O'Brien's.

What a great thing it is to be a baseball-player
particularly one whose team has won the cham
pionship.
And the next best thing to being a ball-tosser
Is to be q "~ro9ter y for such a successful nine.
At least, such are the convictions to-day OF all
those who attended last evenings banquet to the
Brooklyn baseball nine, the team which so
grandly won the championship of the American
Association for 1889.
Two hundred and fifty ball-players. baseball
cranks. rooters and admirers of Brooklyn's con-
quering heroes surrounded the snowy-llnened
Bleaching boards. upon which lots of the good
things Of this life kept continually appearing
and vanishing, Gnd it is probable that $50 loyal
baseball hearts~ere as near absolute happiness
as ever happens to mortais.
What a proud night Tor the Bridegrooms!
There they were, being feted, petted, Landed
to the skies by the business and official high
canonicals of one of the greatest cities of the
world.
1t may have been all well enough to be a Roman
Emperor. That was probably a fairly good job,
as jobs went then; but, you know, q Roman
Emperor. no matter how much he emperored,
couldn't so out and captain a championship
winning baseball team.
Nor could lie sweep grandly into a great BAN
quet-hall. filed to the brim with baseball clanks.
all hurrahing their admiration, as did Capt.
''Durhy - OBI, en- last evening.
Darby looked Ms II he ielt sorry for that poor
emperor as he, Emperor of Brooklyn baseball
dom, bowed his stately MISUNDERSTANDING of the
magnificent ovation tcnCered him and his fell, "
doughty knights % the bat.
les. and at Darby's side walked Manager Nc
Gunuigle, the man whose counsel had much TO
do with bringing about layt evenings great
tribute to the Brooklyn Club in, particular and,
incidentally, to every baseball club ln.the .coun.
Try, for every disciple of baseball feels himself
hOuurcd by the honorS heaped upon the Bride
groomS.
f,t,phrI.a N mn thar sturdy ylPtnI1nuA IanlnnR
who clrcled around the diamond-the banquet
hall-to the home plate. a table set in the, CEN
cease until it was time to start the hdut SauteIne
OH its travels.
ge,t baseball crGnks of the city. There was HIS
Royal HIghness jerks. ensconced on the throne
Iddaway. Envoy Extrsordinary to Crankdom;
Police Commi?Hioner Bell, 9ia!or-denera OF the
have trruCd ont tor manya day.
Aud the team! How did y play!
Tommy Burns sized up u ball right away, ana
sent 1t to centre III Il hurry.
Il WA a Sauterne bail.
IL must have done his heart good, for he COM
munlcated with Pinkney, and Pink, too, sent a
Liner to centre.
And the Whole nine followed suit.
The way FoutG clutched his mauleys on any
chance cntree that tell his way did one good to
see, And as Tor smith, he covered short field in
hub Collins nabbad everything that came near
lnE. Clark, at back-stop, caught II Pommery
See high ball. and grlpped 1t as II lie never III
hut the mo6st brilliant fielding work was, per.
haps, done bv Corkhll. The way he chased the
hurs d'puvrcs around centre tielu was mastery,
simply mastery.
But he acknowledged, after the game, that he
had never seen hors d'nuvrcs so say and wary.
Nisncr was change catcher with Clark and he,
too, showed up III iine form.
Terry may honestly be said to have. pitched
tie same of his lite, and as for Caruthers, hi
curves were very effective and his arm bent II
perfect form.
:" Mickey Hughes swept down all opposition,
and Lovott. too, had speed and fine command.
There never was such fielding seen in Brook
lyn before.
The number of neatipick-ups, of difficult file
and shCrbet hits, heavily weighted with. Ions
tIcncl names, too, as they were. was quite re-
marEable.
N0tnng could keep the crowd quiet.
II was about the most demoEstratlve gather
ing that many of the o!d-tlmeIs Of sixty oil
seventy years ago, like genial Bob Ferguson
who somebody said last night was u hundred
years old-had ever seem.
But they didn't rattle - Bob " for q cent. .
lie was the umpire. and CALAMITY and smll
inRiy DID he endure the good-natured suying O
the CrOwl.
from his place in the grand stand Commits
fiOnCr Bel, presumed on his. POSITION as Major
General 30 Tar as To talk to the players and tn,
audience in a way that made everybody roR
with merrIment. His stories were 90 good. ,
Dls~trlct-AttornCy ltidgway rocked the cradl
OF baseball - very interestingly indeed.
Henry Chadwick, the ancient historian OF tn
Brooklyn EugiP, tod now they used to play base
ball when the century was very young, indeed
with square balls" and railroad ties.