The record-union., 1894-04-09
TEE STAGE AND ITS SUPPORTERS.
Good Ball and Plenty of Fun at Snow
fake Park Yesterday.
The Actors Defeat the Stage Hands In
Holly Contested Battle for
Supremacy.

Great ball was played at Snowflake
Park yesterday afternoon by the MEM
bers of the Clunie Opera-house stock
company and the stage hands.
The teams were as follows: Stock COM
pany-Cooley, catcher; Bacon, pitcher;
Pettitt, lst base; Armstrong, I'd base;
McCurdy, Sd base; Wallace, short stop:
Higgins, right field; Brewer, left field;
Gedge, center field. Stage hands-Visher,
catcher; Taylor, pitcher; Parsons, 1st
base; Harris, I'd base; Smith, Sd base;
Caldwell, short stop; Parker, right field;
Duran, left field; Corbett, center field.
About 500 people were present, mostly
friends of one or the other Of the oppos-
ing mines, and applauded or guyed the
players as occasion served, the criticisms
being as general thing not only pertin-
ent but impairment and mirth- provok
ing.
1t was evident from the first innings
that the actors had a decided advantage
from long practice in cultivatng their
wind, and the way they sprinted around
the bases made an excellent exhibition of
stage lightning. Their opponents were
much more easily ''scene" as they shifted
their positions during the game.
Jas. Ward and Andrew WaldrOn were
expected 10 act as umpires. but declined
to serve in that capacity. Mr.. Ward
stated in declining that he was not strictly
fitted by education or habits for the post
of umpire, Shaun the Post being his
strong point. He was therefore unani-
mously elected Empire of the beer bar
REL" with Major" Wells as his assistant.
Waldron also declined with thanks,
saying that he was not we'll up in the
latest Creedmoor rules and would not
know whether they made a bullseye or
an inner ring; besides he had long ago
given up running after the Ball" He
was therefore appointed censor, with
strict instructions to see that neither side
made more than four home runs in one
inning, and carried out his instructions
faithfully.
/ Rollo Bryant was chosen as umpire,
and weary time he had OF it. Both
sides criticised his decisions and each ac-
cused him Of favoring the other, while
the spectators ''joshed'' him with the
strictest impartiality. When the game
was ended he looked as if he was glad to
find himself alive. While all was fun,
however, and criticisms and jokes were
unsparing, the best of good feeling pre-
vailed.
AS matter of fact, many good plays
were made on both sides and some ex-
cellent batting done. When Armstrong
squared himself for the bat, the specta-
tors and tielders wondered whether the
ball would drop this side of Brighton or
not and if he struck it fairly it generally
started we'll on the road.
The best plays Of the match were
double play by Higgins, which dis
played a level head and put out two men,
and two fly catches by Pettitt, who re-
tired the second and third men in sue
cession in the last innings.
The stage hands did some good play
ing, but were overmatched. Bacon, who
pitched a good game, Higgins and Arm
strong having evidently been there be-
fore.
There were half dozen scorers, whose
tallies did not agree. The one who
claimed to be official declared the score
to stand % to l3, and the others all the
way from that to 25 to 24. The van
quished challenged the victors for an
other game, and they were also chal-
lenged by the Ushers and the Union
Printers nine, so there will probably be
more games in the near future.