Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-08
NOW THEY ARE JOLLY
Inc JOINS Defeat the Little Billles In a
Great Game Of Ball.
PERSONNEL or The GREAT TEAMS.
""er'cs Had Hard Time, Hut tho
Vmpires Were Prepared to Stand
by Their Decisions

Was mighty contest. The world shook.
fhe stars quivcrcd, the armament trem-
Died. and thousands of threats yelled
10 mad excitement "a the wondrous game
between the Richmond Lsilputians pro-
dressed. Ever and anon the very face OF
Mother Earth swaycd back and forth
beneath the pressure. while clouds OF
hust rolled heavenward as the dwarfs
flushed on in their mad conflict.
Yes. the fat men Of our town have met
npon The baseball diamond and demon
ftrated TO humanity in general that they
Are people OF great weight In this com
munity, and that avoirdupols Will surely
tell.
The whole town was out to see the
PigmieS play. In the packed grand stand
Bat Governor and Mrs. OFerrall. along
@ith hundreds Of other smiling souls,
while on the bieacherics there whooped
Ind yelled a vast throng Of enthusiastic
citizens. Fully 1900 people sitting on the
unsympathetic seats Of West-End fark
saw the Manikins do battle with ball and
bat. while several hundred enterprisihs
hoboS watched the microscopic individu'
mis- from the fences, and from other eleVa-
lions.
BIGGEST GAME ON RECORD.
The game was worth seeing-in fact
81 was worth going a thousand miles 10
sec-and all the respondent. melancholy
individuals in Christendom should nave
been made to witness IL. Never mas IL
been cqualled. for speaking in the most
literal sense Of the word, II was the big
fest game that ever took place in the
Union.
Grcat-nay. wild-was the excitement.
when. amid the muscular strains of music
emanating fIom the ''brasses' OF the
Christoforo Colombo Band, the two dwarf
teams entered the grounds in long
line Of gaily-decoratcd carriages AT the
head Of the gorgeous and ponderous
yageant, and I'm carriage driven four
!u-hand. rode Tom-Thumb Cullingworth'
our midget postmaster, and Mr. nay
fever Thornton. the manager OF the
Infinitesimal mines. The latter wore n
six hat. a dress suit, and freckles on
his phySlognOmy. T6m-Thumb Cuiling-
worth wore Il smile Following in the
trail Of these magnates. like Jackais
creeping In the wake OF lions. came me
teams-not only the teams Of horses. but
also the teams of tiny fairies. who. ere
The sun set were TO forever immQrtaiZe
themselves in the history Of America.
WHO THE LITTLE BILLIES WERE.
The Little Billles" were dressed in
llue--a blue that Tlvalled the Italian
skles and put to blush the azure Of the
Ncapoltan Bay Behold, on the right
W. see that dainty elf Preston Belvin,
with bloomer trousers and an Eton jacket
that looked all the prettier when con-
trasted with the gilded whiskers on his
face. And who sits near him? Is that
Napoleon BOnaparte. the little Corporal
md the Emperor Of France and Italy?
No. that is not Napoleon iBOnaparte. my
child. IL il Taylor Stratton-J. Taylor
Stratton-the great and only j. Taylor
Stratton. See his noble brow. his mas
sive eye, and eagle face as he scans the
horizon.
But bark let all heads be uncovered |
and all knees be Bonded We see before |
us a grim-visared Roman. with a sena-
tOrial frOWB upon his great forehead. and |
n small. skinned baseball diamond on |
the apex of his Uranium. Mark how the |
zephyrs toy with AIS knickerbockers and |
how he has Tcelei his Jib-mainsail this |
Who is that? Methinks It's |
Julius Caesar. Nay. nay. ii IS not julius
Caesar 1t is Dick Taylor-Mayor Dick
Taylor-whO has led the lcgions Of the |
"tln-bucket brigade" over the banks OF
1oaming Glllie's creek TO the very summit |
Of our city Hall.
l. that a great round. blue pill i see? |
No. that is r. II. NJ Harrison. Like |
worlds revolving through space Tank"
Hughes. le petit Shirley Carter. little |
James Hiberu.a Mckinney. der kleiner |
Wilhelm RucRer Manikin H. NJ Bancroft. |
and w. I. Seymour (alias HOp-over-my |
thumb rounded up in the procession Of
"Little Billes."
THE JOHNS WHO ARE JOLLY.
But bark, again the earth rumbles. |
No, IL is only a few more carriages COM |
Ing. and in them / see mountains Of |
flaming red What is that thing that |
hath a gubernaHrial smile |
upon its face and lC0keth as IL it were |
destined not only for the Governors chair.
but for many a seat in the Senate. See.
II winketh an eye at his EXcellency
Charles T. OFerrall, and seemeth TO
ray. I'm be there myself soon" That.
my little one. is Colonel John :. Harwood.
And who, pray tell me, is that Lord
High Executioner-that Pooh-Bah, who
murmureth continually: Thirty days.
mir. ana ten dollars and COSTS" Is it not
the shah Of Persia? No. child: no. that
Is "Thirtydazc" jonathan Crutchheld who
never had an equal and ne'er will have
one
But look again, see more fairies. more
oherubs. Who are those tiny Amores?
An, that is cupid Jonathan Mountcastle.
and his companion is O. Soothing Syrup |
Owens, another microscopic druggist. |
Next follow wee r. T.. Craig. cute little !
{. c. Walker. and little spider o. a. |
Hawkins.
THE UMPIRE WAS ARMED.
Behold. ! see a cowboy mingling with |
the fairies, No. little one. that is Or. |
r. Fuller Gaskins. He is the umpire. |
lie carries "a sabre and a pistol 10 pro- |
teci himself. and wears trousers OF bed |
ticking and sweater. because these |
garments are becoming TO his peculiar |
style Of beauty. Observe and you VIII |
note that he is the only fat man in the |
crowd. The Gfke policeman who ac-
doc" is Dick Sales. He goes |
with HIM TO offer constabulary protec-
tiOn.
When the contest was commenced the |
Little BillieS took the bat. and the Jolly |
Johns were escorted to their respective
positions by the Christoforo Colombo
musicians. Pres Belvin inserted himself |
in the liver pad. while Fairy Bancroft
cid into the pitchers box. In vain did |
the descendant Of the historian struggle
O. wrap IL round the necks" of the willy |
cry nor his giddy movements puzzled the
batsmen. and they knocked him to
while Gild-Edged Beivin
himself away behind the pan.
Ere The game ended another battery went
IN. Midget Seymour and Napoleon j..
Stratt5n tried their hand, the former
twir.ing ana the latter trying TO catch.
As last despairing effort Shirley Car,
Ter. most agile spider. tried TO manipu-
late the horschidc. with Tank" Hughes
rs the cistcrn for his curves TO alght in.
They did much better. but came too late
10 avert the Waterloo.
THEIR BATTERY WAS GREAT.
Tricky Hawkins tossed the steed COM
pleNion Tor the Johns. and Supreme Court
Judge Chaflemngne Duncan caught him.
This battery WAS invinciblc. and Duncan
uamil'ariy called "Dunkey') astounded
everybody with his wondrous base-run,
biis on third base Thirtydaze j.
trutehicd was the cynOsure Of al eyes.
hnd his conscientious avoidance Of the
bali contributed IN no small way 10 the
ueieat Of his opponents
Inc Johns had walk-over. and they
walked H. "A-pleniy" was written in
finish.
once the players attempted 10 mob
Umpire Gaskns. who protected himself