Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-05-28
The Gladstone Base Ball Nine
Usherell Into Oblivion.
Brilliant Ball.
A Falling Derrick Seriously In
jures Il Russian From
South Dakota.
Uncle Sam Gives the Settlers of
Stlltsman and Foster Counties
Extra Mails.
The Scoop of the PreInlers.

1Uo Oall OaELle TUESDAY AFTERNOON Oe.
tween the Premiers Of the Gladstone and
the Thompson house coterle, attracted a
critical audience. The players
on both sides wore de-
termlned, professional expressions on
their faces, besides miscellaneous
assortment of uniforms on their persons,
and tried to do or die. The gladlators
came into the arena for business. Harry
Helm only needed one suspender to keep
his pants up, and so let the other hang
in negligence at his side. Pitcher Top.
lift had a rubber band around his right
arm to hold his muscle down. and Supt.
McCabe who proved the best sprinter
and could get away from foul tin
quicker than any of them, wore pair OF
esthetic suntlower colored shoes that
harmonized we'll with the hue of his
Italian whiskers, and were pointed like
the cut thereof. Charlie Klaus brought
out for the occasion, from his trophies of
conquest elsewhere, a belt with pair OF
silver anchors on it. 1t was not the
anchors that held Charlie down in run.
ming bases, however. He did not know
what it was. Charlie also got ball on
bis little finger, which is now IN the dry
dock for repairs. Mike Lynch of the
Giadstone's looked fierce and desperately
broke several bats in his anxiety tC
pound the adversary. That was all however
that Mike did do in pounding the enemy
Lord Byron Milliard of the Thompson's
who is something of q poet himself, wore
pair OF old gold, ham canvass pants
and made brilliant patch of color in
the shifting scenery, which ever way he
drifted. H. B. Wood wanted to kill some.
body the boys SAID. for the undertaking
job, as several Of Woody's balls acquired
q death like velocity, and one which took
player in the stomach seemed destined
for short time to fulfill it's fatal mission
The game had several hoodoos attached
to it, besides the players. One was the
determined design OF four year old
sport to sit on one Of the base bags and
watch the game. The kid was forcibly
elected three times before he thoroughly
understood the rules. Sam Wildere
laugh stopped all of his balls. The bird
cage he wore added to his beauty but
not efficiency. Pierce Blewett caught q
beautiful fly and bowed gracefully to
the applause that followed, but was un-
able to get an encore during the remain.
der of the game, although he made
fnghtful struggles to do 60. McPhee
looked better than he played, in his navy
blue tights. Harry Crossley pitched q
dizzy curve as change man, but Harry
Reinheimer's six ounce gloves were too
soft to hold it. Taylor, Briggs and
Buck Of the Thompsons we're useful, but
entirely unnecessary adjuncts to defeat
the hotel boarders, who were walloped
to the score of % to-, after which the
spectators began to lose interest and 20
home. Michael Lynch says he is willing to
make affidavit that the umpire, Gus
Lleber, was fixed by McCabe.
Several ladies' remarked that one rea-
son for the success of the Thompson
house chewers, was the good board they
got. The other boys we're too weak
from lack Of sustenance to stand up to
the rack, they said.
The rumor that Charlie Klaus knocked
a ball through a window IN Dan Hughes
honse and that Dan is mad, is mistake.
Charlie never hit ball.
If it had not been for McPhee the
game would have been going yet, it
is said. He put out eight men-he says.
The game, however, was worth
the price Of admission, and everybody
seemed pleased to think that jamestown
ball talent had the nerve to give an ex-
hibitiOn game.