Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-03
In PANT0MlME
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A BASE BALL GAME
TOLD By A NAN
Vho Could Not Talk But Who Had Languages
They We're Gestures and Just as tx
presavs as Much Of the
Current Slang.

They called him "Slug 81" up stairs
In the composing room, says the San
Francisco Chronicle, but IL made no dlI-
ference to him. He never heard them.
de was deaf and dumb.
He came downstairs yesterday alter
ooOn and appeared before the man who
ndoesn sports. The galley boy-knOwn
10 people who know nothing about
printing Offices as "the devil'-was
with him. Unto the man who does
sports be made sundry signs and mo-
hons
eHe wants to know" said the galley
boy, ''if you can't send i'm TO the base
BAH game In Oakland, an I'm to go
along. Well come back an tell you
about It."
Slug 81 nodded in acquiescence, and
after certain plans and specifications,
contracts and indentures we're drawn up
the dicker was made.
'Ie can't talk with his mouth, eX-
planned the galley boy, shut he have
languages that is out o sight"
Late in the evening the two returned
from Oakland and entered the sporting
mans domain. The printer tOoka chair,
and, leaning far back, breathed eight
times like a tngboat pushing in an Aus
tralisn steamer Then be shook his
head.
sThem's one OF his languages, OBJ
served the galley boy. "He says IL was
q good game and didn't make him
tired"
The memorandum being. made, the
printer stood erect, pointed toward the
south, drew an imaginary circle In the
air, pointed at it and shook his head
again. Then he swung one arm at his
side with the measured regularity OF
pendulum.
(which mean" said the galley boy,
''that San Jose wasn't much in it at any
time"
Slug 81 assumed the air of a batsman,
swung himself and pointed toward the
bay.
'Them things mean" the galley boy
observed, that the hittin' was bully.
Sc MIN mop his forehead? He means
the felders was kept a-sweatin'."
The printer unwOund an imaginary
rag from his finger and held up his hand
twice. Once more he shook his head.
Then he pointed toward high heaven.
"Them's some more languages" the
galley boy remarked. "He mean the
first two innin's wuSn't worth the wrap
PIN o. your finger, exceptin' fer Pete
Sweeney's jump fer ball mile high"
The sporting man made a note of it
and the deaf and dumb man proceeded.
He made q wild sweep with his arm.
Then he assumed the attitude Of a man
pitching a ball and pointing over TO the
left dropped both hands. He pointed
directly behind him and TO the left once
more, held up three fingers, swept
round with his arm again, and leaped
into the air.
"Ain't them perfect languages?" in
quired the galley boy, admiringly. He
say the first man to bat in the third,
which his name was McGuckin, hit safe
and that the next, Everett, was e run
lut from the pitcher. An then that
bright was Q run out from second, but
le plays sent McGuckin TO third.
hen DOOley hit an be come in. Amt
- plsinT Them's the San JoseS. Look
al him?"
Slug 21 clapped his hands together
four times and drew magic circle in
the air.
''No more runs for four innin's
more, the galley-bOy translated. Slug
81 held up hand and pointed at the
one finger he held up on the other
hand.
The first man went out on first in
the eighth, " the boy murmured. The
printer held up another finger.
$50 did the mex"
Then slug 81 knocked the last copy
of the Congressional Record, ''The Gov
eminent and Pacific Railroads, f" Good
wins Turf Guide" and the clipper
Almanac" from a neighboring desk and
looked with a smile on the work he had
done.
Everett made hit after Harper an
McGuickin was out at first, announced
the boy. The printer pointed toward
the ocean, shut his fist and with the
Their hand held up three fingers. THE
d baseman Of San Francisco made
throw" was the way the boy saw it.
hen the printer wound himself into
Tot, clspped both hands together
/ smiled.
"Ebrlght made hit an scored Ever
ett, )" said the galley boy. ''That's all
the runs they made"
The deaf and dumb man now pointed
down toward Montgomery street to in
dicate that be was going to talk about
San Francisco. He shook hands with
himself Eve times.
(Which language means, said the boy,
"that San Francisco makes five runs
and wins the game. Particulars came
later.