The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-15
Why the Seattle Baseball
Team Is Not in 1t.
TOLD sy AN ADMIRER IN VERSE
4 Coed story On .Cyslsns" Parrott-
stanton ON Good Behsvior-Note
About the Players.


Think they're In Il.
OF their plays they freely talk:
They're not in r..
Lou Camp thinks himself just right;
Pender p,sys third ont Of sight;
thinner hits it out to right;
Hes not in It.
Whitley always knocks fly;
Hes not in IL:
Or 1t firss he's sure 70 die;
Never in IL.
Mack can't watch the second base:
"Kid's' done his share to win third place:
Ftix's curves are out Of place:
He's not in 1t.
Paddy tries the bah to 6nd;
Hes not in Il:
II France had not his arm 10 bind
He'd be In it;
Quin at second, Bob ct third,
I George Bright had never erred,
II the other clubs had never stirred,
We might be in 1t
SIN It's hard 10 realize
We're not in It:
Could We blind the umpire's eyes
We might be in it.
smith will make some home rams yet,
Tommy wins his dollar bet:
II Stanton steals another game
Wen hre him. and get there just the same
Then we'll be in It
At the Church of the Beloved Disciple.
New York, Sunday or two ago, Rev.
George +. Degen, of Arkansas, q high
church Episcopal minister, but . great
baseball enthusiast, delivered q serman on
outdoor sports. more particularly baseball.
His text was taken from III. Samuel, il IA
And Abner said to Joab, let the young
men now arise and play before u.s." Mr..
Degen drew attention to the singular
analogy that lies between the game of base
ball and the game of life. "In each case"
he said, there is race to run, and it is to
be made by stages and beset by difficulties
at every point The goal for which we
battle our way through life is heaven.
Sometimes it happens that when q man
takes his stand st the bat he strikes out.
But man does not give up. By-and-by he
makes manly effort, and perhaps he
makes home run. It is not always the
poor players who are struck out, either in
baseball or IN life. Failure Is no sign that
man has nothing in him. It is only
question Of perseverance in the face of dis
couragement
THE man who makes great hit only to
have the ball drop into the hands of
fielder is very like the man who in actual
life astonishes everybody with his success,
only to come down to the ground and drop
out Of public notice altogether. Ii is not
the balls that fiy highest that are sure to
be the best. A brilliant beginning does not
always insure victorious ending.
.In all disputed or doubtful points the
umpire is the sole and dnal judge. His
opinion settles it. 1t is emphatically so in
the other game which We call life. There
is one who judges all our acts, and with
him it rests TO decide. He watches over
our struggles as we try to reach the
heavenly goal. He makes no mistake. If
he says we are out not only is his SEN
tence irrevocable, but just. Happy may he
be who, after many trials and struggles.
with aching limbs and clothing disrobed
with the mire of earth, makes final effort
with outstfetched arms to touch the cross
the sign of his salyation-and who hears
the blessed word of the divine umpire
SAFE"
Some funny stories are told about ICY
clone" Parrot, the rather erratic Portland
pitcher who was suspended by ex-Manager
Harris and afterward reinstated by the
Webfoot association. On one of his trips to
Spokane some of the bunch-grassers learned
that he was to pitch against them on the
following day. and concluded to put up
Job on him. Parrot was inveigled to the
ball grounds, and was induced to see If he
couldn't throw q ball twice as far as any
member of the Spokane team. Cyclone"
was pleased at this recognition of mis- abil-
ity, and for two hours threw with might
and main. His arm petered out finally,
and at the suggestion of Spokane player
he plunged it up to his shoulder in a barrel
of cold water to take out the soreness! The
next day he could scarcely throw to the
plate, and Barnes men batted him out of
the..box.
Manager Leonard, of the Omahas, has
organized the following team of the West
ern Association players to take to this
coast the coming winter: Messett, first;
Hanrahan, second; White, third; Walsh,
short; Kearns, right; Treadway, center;
McGsone, left. and pitchers Fagin and
McNabb, and catchers Newman and Moran.
The leading clubs in the different leagues
are: Players, Boston; National. Brook
lyn; Association, Louisville; Western,
Kansas City; Atlantic, New Haven. New
York-Pennsylvania. Oiean; California.
Sacramento; Northwest Pacific. Spokane
Breckenridge. Portland'ss new first-base-
man, is q valuable acquisition to the Web
foot club. He holds down first bag salts
factorily and bats tout of sight, At least
he did yesterday.
Judging from Stanton's excellent umpir-
ing in the last two games, he must have
been playing solitaire of late and Quit
cumming with the Portland men.
There was not player on the diamond
yesterday that the crowd would have
been more pleased to see make the first
home run than old man Whitley.
Rhue. of the Portlands, has been re-
leased for inability 70 hit the ball. He is
one of the best center feeders in the country
and an excellent base runner.
Ward, McCabe, Hoffman and Lew. re.
leased players from the Northwest League.
and ex-Manager Harris. of the Portlands.
are in San Francisco.
Britain, who has lately been released by
tacoma. has been signed by the Stocktcns.
He is a fine infielder and very fair hitter.
If the balance OF Rockweli's new men
can play bali es well as Katz, the Seattle
team will finish at humming rate.
ssThe Prince aud the Pauper."
"a bundle of beauty and genius is how
Mark Twain describes Elsie Leslie, who
has already achieved fame as Little Lord
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