Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-17
EVERYBODY HAPPY.
A Successful Double Play at the New
Bail Park.
The Panthers Administer o Drubblng to the
Statesmen, and Leroy's Goose Hangs
High Up In the ARA Great Feat.

The double barrelled exhibition with which
the new baseball park on Jennings avenue was
opened yesterday afternoon was success in all
its features and about 1900 people had the pleas
ure of witnessing two phenomenal sights-the
Fort Worth ball team a Winning , game ana
The Dali game was quite interesting all
through, and except in the sixth and seventh
fielding on both sides, the playing. was good.
Wehrle pitched great game for Fort WORTH
In the first five innings not man got to first
base except in one case when Rourke, the new
third baseman, let hot grounder get out OF his
fingers. In the sixth inning, though,
the Statesmen got onto his willy curves with
ball out for doubles and singles as fast as it
could be put over the plate. The Fort Worths
felded rather loosely in this inning also. which
with which they finished the game. Rourke
on third base put up very nice
game His fielding is good and Sl,,. at
but. Judging from his work yesterday. he is a
trife off in throwing. He has proved great
Improvement on the third bag. though: Rode 2o
and the error charged against him was hard to
avoid.
hits were all the Panthers could get OF him, and
the latter were defeated on score of to l:
Yesterday the boys got back at the kid and
pounded the ball all over the field, as the four
teen hits marked in the score attests.
The score was even enough during the first six
innings to make the game interesting. Fort
Worth had to Austin's 0 at the end OF the fifth
inning, when the Statesmen turned in and
knocked out five runs putting them in the lead,
aud the heart of the Fort Worthite fell down into
his boots but Fogarty's men went in again and
yanked out five for themselves, going far in the
The most interesting feature OF the afternoon
to a great many of the spectators was the bal
loon ascension. 1t was during the sixth inning
that the immense bag was filed with hot air and
made ready to start. The game was called and
the crowd deserted the grand stand 20 gather
round the air ship. All at once the daring bal
loonist, Professor Leroy, shouted, Let go!''
Up shot the balloon, then the parachute
attached to the bottom Of 1t, and lastly the
aeronaut, clinging to nothing but slender
trapeze on which he performed as he rose higher
and higher in the air. The afternoon was calm
one with scarcely 8 ripple of breeze, and the
awful sight rose almost straight up toward
the sky though the tendency was somewhat in
an easterly direction. The balloon was bright,
new one and was plainly visible to thousands of
expectant watchers il the Spring Palace
grounds. When little east from di-
rectly over the Spring Palace and and
at an altitude of about l5n0
feet the balloonist was seen to reach out Tor the
string with which he separated the parachute
from the balloon. and an instant later he made
the thrilling drop. He came about 100 feet with
awful velocity before the parachute caught the
wind, and then he came sailing gracefully and
lightly to the ground, slighting just east from
the Spring Palace, unhurt,
Following is the score of the ball game: