The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-04-20
TBE CHAMPIONS AT GAINESVILLE
The 0cala Champions Wipe the Earth
with the Central Oity's Pet Club"


with the Central Oity's Pet Club"
Last Friday the Ocala champion
base ball club went to Gainesville to
play return game with the Oak
Halls, of the Central City.
Some twenty-five of our people ac-
companied the champions.
The impression prevailed among
some of the Gainesville people that
if Kurtz and Harlan had only been
absent the result would never have
been thirty to eight in favor of Ocala.
But barring out these crack players,
our boys out played their Gainesville
rivals so badly they were mot in it,
1t was intimated when our ball
tossers left that there was plenty of
money in Gainesville to say the Oak
Halls would win the game, so our
sports drew on their bank accounts
and were ready for all corners, but
strange to say, at the sight of our
team their courage wilted, and the
only bet made on the result of the
game was IS, which one of Ocala's
audacious sports put up after the fifth
inning, that Gainesville would not
score three more runs, and he took the
money.
There was some fine playing on the
part of the Oeala's. Fred u Nilllam's
batting was particularly good, play
ing with the fence and landing two
spheroids clear over it, which elected
intense enthusiasm. Some of his
catching was equally fine.
Mr.. Williams all around playing
was among the best made by any
local player seen SO far this season.
While our friends of the Central
City did not relish the alapathic base
ball medicine administered to them
by the Ocala school, yet their inter-
course was kindly, and good fellowship
prevailed-the Gainesville crowd hug
ging the delusive hope to their breast
that when Kurtz and Harlan take
their leave, which will be this week,
they will come to the Brick City and
even up compliments.
S. E. Rowe, the manager of the
Ocala team, took great interest in his
boys, and they all voted him a tru mp.
The news of the victory in Ocala
was received with great rejoicing, and
the boys decorated in fine style.
While in Gainesville the boys took
creature comforts at the Brown House.
This reporter took Jake Israel around
to the Suns reporter and placed the
slanderous story about Jakie's 'defam-
ing the good name of the base ball
players of that city and giiylng them
as hobos, where it belonged, and in
consequence The wrath that they
talked about wrecking on Jakie's in
offending head has been stayed.
The trip home on freight train,
while prolonged, lasting from sp. m.
to q. M, was divested of its tedious.
ness by singing, cracking jokes and
happy hits of the jovial party, among
the shining lights were John r. Mar
tin, Jake Israel and Judge Marshall.
The latter can gise you the most
learned and interesting disquisition on
"hash" in all its phrases of internal
and external effects on the human
system that has ever been conceived
by a base ball tourist.
We may have something to say
later on about Jake Israel's lecture on
matrimony.
All in all it was great day for base
ball diversions.
In returning from Gainesville to
Rochelle the boys in imagination
wetted their parched throats frequent
" with the thought how grateful Mr.
John DeWey's keg of iced rain water
would be, for Mr.. ID. had assured us in
going up that he would have one. on
tap for us on our return, but when the
train arrived John had betaken HIM
self to the bosom of his family y and
In happy domestic dreams had forgot
ten all about how he kept his promise
to our ears and broke it to our throats.
But to partially make up for our shat
tered hopes Will Edwards set up the
soda water, which proved a splendid
substitute. Mr.. Dewey should not
trife with the affections of his Ocala
friends.