The morning call., 1893-07-24
PRISMATIC BASEBALL.
Railway Ticket Agents Were Punch
ing the Ball.

The six innings of gorgeous and pris-
matte baseball between two mines OF rail-
way ticket agents at Laundry Farm yes
terday simply defy all description. While
it is tolerably safe to say that it was a
game Of baseball. to 90 further than that
and attempt to give the details would leave
IA doubt . the mind Of the re- adler &sssto
whether it really was a game OF ball or
just basket picnic with variations.
The mines were divided up into the
"Muntgomery streets" and the Market
the game was called on account OF fatigue,
sort of epidemic of that tired feeling"
having started to prevail.
The score stood 50 10 % in favor of the
Montgomery Streets. 1t was the presence
of ''tha; tired feeling" more than anything
else that kept 1t down to that low notcn.
for each side might ms we'll have made at
least 200 or 300 runs during the progress OF
those six innings if the players had exeTted
a little energy on the base lines.
Before the game pools sold 8 to l IN
favor of Market street. and General Agent
j. S. Mccall OF the Erie wept great bucket
fuls of salty tears over the loss OF 81
after the game was over.
The umpires were Jack Ingles and Billy
Wicker. Neither were killed. In fact
there was only one real unpirasaDtness in
the game when Umpire Wicker declared
Gordan ont on called balls, and was chal-
leuged to fight q duel on the strength Of
it. The duel will come off in the near
future, but has in nothing common with
the game.
The Market Streets had only four differ
ent pitchers during the game, the mum Der
being necessarily limited because the re-
naming five players were not able TO
throw ball far enough for the batter to
reach it until the second bounce.
There was refreshment tent adjacent
TO the hOme-plate, where all the players
were wont to assemble at close Intervals
to settle the disputes that would OCCASION
ally arise. There they had the purest of
spring water on tap in a key. and IL proved
a great factor in settling the DISPUTES.
Some people were unkind enough to say
that they believed il was not spring water
at all. 1t turned out later that some PEG.
pie were about right. 1t leaked out through
the faucet and had foam Oh it.
a feature OF the game was slide OF
an5teen ieet made by Henry foung, atthe
emu OF which he rose up to ind that he
still lacked about two more slides OF reach
ing the base he was after
ne started 10 slide too soon after he
lett the other base, il seems.
darty burke also distinguished himself
on silae by making the mistake of sliding
on MS oack. and in this way he wore con-
Phil Gordan never got 10 first base ami
never stopped bali, hut his suit was
sumner. SO the ladies thought he was
really the cutest player on the ground.
Tom Kyle's pitching for the Montgom-
cry Streets was trf- too speedy for
| Catcher Lemon, and Lemon was ali hut
squeezed between the ball and the back
stop on several occasions.
There was one great double play-Clark
to Morris to Mclaughlin; all three are
wondering yet how they did it,
| Speers made circus catch in right field
| and spent the rest Of his time filing up
gopher-holes so the bali wouldn't get lost.
The poor fielding OF Messrs. Burke aud
| Lane was also feature of the game.
Kit Carson played every position on the
diamond at different stages Of the game,
and wanted 10 try his hand at umpiring,
but was called off
The Market Streets made away with the
| official sc0rr after the game. The runs b.
innings were as follows:
| Mon,gomerys IL Q I'd!
| MARKETS. ....lO U U l 14-2.