Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-01
BASE BAL IN FNcl AND.
Londen Punch Chooses TO wax Mildly ss
tirical over Our National tame.

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tirical over Our National Game.
Here is what London huch has to
say about base ball: Wonder how
"All-Amcrica' aud Chicago" like
playing their great national game in
fog on a mud-swamp9 What lot of
left-handers! Fnc-built fellows,
though, and uatty dress. Look at that
broad-shouldcred chap in spotless-
Baugl By Jove what a downerl He's
not spotlrss now, either; plastered
with Surrv slime from neck TO ankle.
Doesn't seem TO half like it, What are
they up TOP Look 10 me like n lot OF
tjpSy fellows in fog. Somebody
sprawling every half minute. Find il
difficult to follow the game, and as to
the oriug do they score at ALL
Br-r-rl 10 is coldl All outP Why, !
hardly knew they were in. Scorer
Nothing2 And after all that scamper-
ing and stumbling. Rum game thisl
All, that's good spank FIRST fair
hit I've seen, But what a skyerl
Caught? Why, Of course, dropped in.
TO fields hands MS easily rs an egg
into a cup. What are they doing nowp
Ali there's swipe! Run, sir. rum
Why, he never stirs! Foul hitP Ont
hang il all! What with misses aud
fouls, and skycrs, and siumbes aud
other mysterious movements | can't
understand, they don't seem 20 score
at ALI ID may be all very scientific.
but we "doul get no forradcr" Yes.
they do catch we'll, certainly, and
they throw straight, only nothing
seems To come of it,.
Pitcher throws as If ne were pelting
frogs in pool As to catcher, he
looks "a cross between Falsta0, a fencer
aud Thames diver. Game resembles
IL glorhed-and more dangerous
FOUNDERS. only nobody has made u
"rouuder' yet, as far as ] can see.
Br-r-r! it's cold;yes. and slow distinct
ly slow. Without the prolonged charm
Of cricket, or the swift, short excite
meut of football, but with all the tedium
of.tho Que and all tho mud tumbliug Of
the other.
WhatP All overP Why, they've
done nothing yet OH interval of ten
minutes, chP To take breath and talk
to the prince, ! suppose. Hope H. X,
II. enjoys il inside the pavilion. /
don't outside
Out agaiuP Wen, let's hope they'll
make it little more lively this time,
Don't look as spik-and-span as they
did at first Too much Oval mud
about them. Why arc they always
umbliug over those India rubber hot
water cush,ons-ohl bases are thoyP -
and dirlyng themselves SO dreadfullyP
Part OF the gamoP Humphl Probably,
but hardly explanatory. HoOrayl
First genuine cheer of the afternoon.
Good hll, that; what, at cricket, we
should call a "swipe to the boundary
for-how many, four TO six. is ilP Ehl
WhatP Game altogether only five TO
twop Oh! dash IL all, that's too draggy.
Worse than section at the Wic6ets.
Humph! SLOW again. Aud. by Jove,
half the spectators have 'mizzlod, "
like the rain. Think shall do like
wise, for 'm cold ms ice, can't see any
thing bat muddlo aud mist, and don't
feel TO care much for seeing anything
more. Eh2 Games at an eudp Well,
well-uud who's wOnp Don't know
Neither do nor care. Smart fell
lows, quick as cats, and straight
as catapuIls. Should think they'd
make splendid "hclds,' rafting
"throws Ia and supcrb catches at
cricket But their skill all seems
chucked away at this game More
scientific than cricket Boshl Like
liz TO be nopular in this couutry"
Walkcr Fancy grown-up FOUNDERS,
with few hits and scarcely any score,
supelscjng willow and stump-l Don't
understand this gamcP Wen, no, /
dare say not, aud up to- now, somehow,
/ don seem to want 10.