The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-14
THE GRAYS WIN At LAST.
Twas a Battle Between Giants, but
They Got There.
GRAYS WALKED ALL OVER THEM
A Club Found That Doesn't Even Know
the Points of the Diamond-Gate Re-
ceipts Not Large but Audience Got
Wildly Enthusiastic,


played on Deacon Jones's 10-acre lot.
and the deacon's henyard.
Several balls were lost In the henyard,
AZ the deacon stood guard with shot
gun and dared "them city chap,' to
core into his henyard. This, tof course,
increased the general excit ,ment The
game occupied six iunings. The other
three usually played were called off, AS
eytral members OF tho LIMERICK team
were callei away. The catcher had to 20
fishing, end the pitcher had promised TO
help out Preserved Plum with his milk
ing. As said before the game was ex-
citing. All LIMERICK was there. and
they went wild each time the Grays came
to the bat and 81 ruck out.
The umpire was dead falure-there
were six OF him, and he WAS successiveiy
subsidiz ID aud deposited over stone
wall. The Providence ball players went
In for business. and for time IL looked
as IL they had the game their own way,
but the Neversweats took ON a sudden
brace, hitched up their pants. spit on
their hands and played ball. In running
bases the Grnys seemed TO have the ad-
vantage. as the Neversweats forgot just
where the bases were and conseq uently
lost their way around the diamond. But
when it came TO batting, the Providence
boys weren't in 1t with the Limerocks.
Jared Perkins the biz center fielder.
was right on To Fitz1erald's curves, and
wore out balls faster than the treasury
OF the team could supply them. Fitz-
gerald got tired and said he wouldn Z
play, but after special Inducements were
made TO him he retracted and finish ed
out the six innings. A feature OF the
game was the ten minute wait In the
hfth inning while the two teams aud the
audience hunted IN the graveyard for the
lost ball. w hen at last the spheroi d I"
was discovered and snatched from its
hiding place little Swartwood was miss
ing. After N dilllgent search he WAS
found asleep leaning against tomb
stone. He came back aud found his
way through the hay o centsr field
where it was found that the grass was SO
long that Swarty couldn't see home. He
said that was ali right. lie didn't care
to see home. He hadn't seel it for b
lonx that he couldn't stand the shock II
suddenly findin2 that position of tue
diamond. Erlel made great catcl OUT
In right felu. They said afterwards he
wasn't willing to divide, but that was u
libel.
Perkins opened the game with home
run caused Dy Sgarty getting lost Ia the
grass. AT this the thirteen spectators.
including The two reporters, tlree boys
aud a sick dog. ''howled with enthusi-
asm" aud when the umpire next dared
to call a strike on Obadiah Hutchins, he
was at once suspended, and after ten
min utes discussion another was selecte
Pr.vid nee came to the bat. Swart-
wood toucked up the sphere for two
bases. Friel followed with single.
Campion won reputation ior life and
iour beers by batting out IA nome run.
AT this point The dog nad it and opera
lioLs ceased while Manager Buruham
aud the reporters tried to iesuscitate
the poor animal. One reporter started
Oh an obituary, but the dog fooled him
10y incons lderately coning TO life again.
The game pro, ,eedeI, but still the sym =
pathy OF tie crowd was Wi the dog.
tie was good dog-at sometime before
the ar.
The next three men struck out. They
said that they hadn't got over the dog
yet
LIMERICK wasn't In it this time, an d
+. Brown aud Jimmie Doolittle struck
out. Fitzgerald was beginning to get "A
little conceited and gave Tucker his base
on balls Tucker asked for tim while
he took his shoes OF, to run bases better
and the audience breathlessiy watched.
Dink Bolts next welded the hickory
Chat means the baO and succeeded in
xoing out on a pop fly TO Friel, who hap
pened TO be looking That way aud caught
IL.
Trouble with the umpire became SO ire
Quent now that no one noticed that im-
portaut person.
Hornung now stepped up to the bat.
He meant business he said. He smashed
at the first ball and BY some accident or
other missed it, Same luck with the
next. Hornung got mad and said he
wouldn't play anyway. While he was
talking the pitcher gave him his base on
balls and Hornung was happy once more.
With the flush OF victory on his brow
n l.. ~.t.tA tnl bad
with naughty mieu into the box.
4he umpire tainted AID HornunR
swore by all that was unholy that 1T was
q put up Job. He left his base and was
tagged out by the Reuben on first who
had held the ball. The umpire recov-
cred consciousness and was thrown out
of the grounds into the deacon's hen
yard for the fowls to feed on. Then
with grin that showed his bicuspids
clear to bis palette, Doolittle arose and
calmly asked for a chew. 1t WAS base
subterfuoe and Hornung knew 1t. He
offered to lick that pi, cner, but Swarty
talked him out of it, explaining that the
Grays couldn't afford ~ lose H0rnuol's
services in the midst OF an important
game like that.
Hornung was out Campion at the bat
In the second inning. The first two balls
Campion ignored-he had the umpire
dead. The next he pounded clear over
the 1nnelQer'S neads Into the duck poud
After asking Petit what was the proper
thing to do in such cases, he ran around
the bases and when he crossed the home
plate his hat was bursted.:
After Campion came the deluge He
showed the boys what the usual manner
of playing ball was. Ana tuen how they
balted that ball. Twas all they wanted,
just some one to show them the outline
Of the game-a sort of pressing the
button and they would 10 the rest
Why they ran around bases till
they got con. pletely tired out, aud
when the sixth INNING came AROUND
the scorer book looked like a & inese
laundry bill tnat had several request,
Tor pay ment on It, Nobody pretended To
keep score or anything else. Manager
Burnham tried to keep the gate r, ceipts.
13 cents, a broken cigar, u pair OF sus-
penders and plug OF tobacco, but those
escaped him In the intense Joy aud ex-
element Of winning game from the ia.
vincible Neversweats.
At the end the score stood 81 to 0 In
favor of the Providence team. The dog
recovered aud will in The future be ,he
team 3 mascot. Your correspondent spared
tie time from his duties at the grocery