New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-20
AT BAB,S CLAMBAKE.
A HARMONIOUS FEAST AT NORRIS PARK.
CHE eurrKNBuRG sRAssEArERs BEAT THE MON


MOUTH ooITs-JoHN KELLys CURVES
PAPA NELSON'S NEW PAsTIME.
little more of Babs sauce and there wouldn't
have been any report Of the clambake In TINS
co,,,mn TODAY. To Morris Park Oh a special
train at . u. m. Baseball from 5 to 5. An AMI
mated discussion of the bake from to 80.
Gee. whiz! You make dis mule run away From
6 30 to 7 innocent amusements TO aid digestion.
AT ? the return home: no. not home; to the
Office. TO grind out half column. No man not
heathen would voluntarily grind at anything alter
me of Bab's bakes. The civilized man, IKE
the uncivilizcd python, would seek the seciusion
of O roof garden, hang himself on mruo an"
drowsily contemplate. Every man at
bake transforms himself into "areah.u",
pnd there never was Gargantua 'naU
wrote I'D one of Bab's best. But matters VI
historic interest must be recorded, ana tne sha'e
must forget the pleasures OF dlgesuoh " nun"
down to Il numerous and beautiful posteii'S "'o
Incidents of happy day, OF least thaV hins'
wpt not of. q feast of sheepshead chickens, trlpe
tby the yard, Holsters, hard ana sou cIa'nS'
potatoes and watermelons, and now OIL c"c
stuff that cheers and inebrates. lt was "se
ferethsueht that tackled on TO each badge OF ao-
mission a coupon emitting the, folder to one pint
nf the flow" Mayor Grant gave his coupon ~
John Kelly. and other Tammany Dig ihJu"'
Welded up theirs TO the friends oil tneir "o0on.
r. C.. McIewee declared TO win win MS aA.
the bets went. Every person present e@'e
one corner of his coupon and Papa" Nelson tne
other. and all punched hole IN the cehofe ior
VillepiGue. ps....
But let lis chronicle things in their order frs''
the balloame. IL was only an lhhoce"o CIV
harmless pastime that occurred Oh .he S'Vp"s
l.wn in front of the grandstand, which was haii-
b,ssed every good play and appauded the pao ONES
The tvveves or thirteens ptted against each other
,,oro tho farfarned worlds champions, the Mon
,,or,b Colts and the Guttenburg Grasseaters.
Tho umpire was the revivifed remains OIL nie
distinguished Paasch Skinum, 1reho oi 1ie
aG,t,enburg Grasseaters, who was saved IRON ii''
cneration by the timely interference OF the pafe'
which was announced at the moment when
4be Monmouth Colts were on the polnt oil homi-
F! eide. The battery the side OF the Colts was
John Kelly, in the box, and Circular Joe penlho
fire mask Kelly's curves sometimes WiapPeu
oround the iudces' stand The Grasscaters were
unabe to get within four yards OF thenl' puo
Circufar took them in with neatness and dispatch,
- i.b ,ba rioht sort yf umpire the team would
have been ose-egged. Burke and Bryan were
tbe hattorv for the Grasseaters. Jack Jsyner
,.as o nimbIc second baseman, and he never failed
20 foil ON rbe ball lie was nobly supported by
Sionor TaGliapietra, assistant second-basem man
Mike Kelly, in right field and T. Esterprook,
assistant shOrtstOp. These and Umpire raasch
6kinum really won the game for the "rassc"ero'
The score at the announcement OF the BAKE was
80 to 81 in their favor, with three men on oaSee
Cor tho Cots There was some little disturbance
at one time over the discovery that the Orasss-
eaters were carrying the bases around In tneI
nockets but Mr. Paasoh Sl<inun declded uhAe
under the revised rules the action was right anu
proper At another time Kellys CURVES pccsn"
so tortuOus that committee OF the UrasS'"'ci'
waited on him and induced him to put them In
easier In the kindness of his big heart he coh-
sented to twist less earnestly, and this enabled
,be Grasnaters TO make a decent showing.
:. ON the side of the Colts brilliant work was
done by Dave Johnson at third, Frank clarke
st second, and Henry Stedeker in night ieio
Stedelxer muffed Orly seventeen lilies. Elshteen
Az. Mt in his direction The bat and Dali escaped
serious injury The umpire announced lnot ior
publication) that in the next game he would sue
with the Colts as he admired their great play Id
the face of fearful odds.
About $50 persons partOoE OF the 1cast ana
flow. and all looked ten years younger afterwaro'
Bah was in great shape, and his health was drunk
1000 times. Nelson ditto. John A MOTIFS
praced one Of the tables, Aimed lIennen Morris
Grant fourth, Townsend Percy fifth Each
was surrounded by a group of friends and guests
Al some of the other tables were Major D. y.
lorley. Mr. and Mrs. Fanshawe, Mr.. and Mrs
Daniel Wordcn, Mrs. Crosby, Mrs. McVickar,
Mr.. Bayncs, Mr. IIavemcycr, Moses Taylor Camp
bell, Mr.. Beekman, Mr. Story, John {. furmadl,
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Smith, George Palmer, Samuel
+. Rork John Kelly, Sgnor Tdgapietra, F. T.
Clarke, Wyndham Walden, NJ I. Donovan, A.
Daniels. A. j. Joyner, W. Kane, David johnson,
Michael Kenna, Joseph Vendg, +. c. McLewee,
Hank Ehret, Henry Stede<er, David Gideon, l. >.
THOMPSON, Matte Corbett, Orlando Jones, Super
intendent German and G. F. Sanders.
The tables were set in the betting pavilion in
the free field. The service, personally snperin-
tended by Mr. Villepque, was prompt and eff
fcient. the fish, flesh and fowl coming from the
bake steaming hot. Each appealed SO
strongly to the guests that tie next was regarded
as more than man could desire. The watermelon
march was enlivening, vociferous applause greet
ing the long procession of darkeys. each bear
ne a Georgia rattlcsIake' his shoulder.
Bah was voted immense and unqualified
success. lie thinks of going 10 Europe &c
Introduce the clambake, as he understands it
All who read this announcement will wish they
were in the old country.
strike of the walters was at one time lur
lnnent. They wanted SO. for the afternoons
work. but they did not arrive at this con
clusion till half of their work was done. they
decided 70 strike some other day.
After the cigars came some harmless amuse
ments in one OF which Ia new field for him
Papa" Nelson distinguished himself aud saddenet
his opponents. lie thinks now that he has founC
a better thing than Peralta
RACING FIVE DAYS THIS WEEK.