The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-20

fashion entirely. When a PLAYER catches
Dali ne Is tned by the umpire for in
suIting the intelligence OF the specta-
tors de clasps high one" or "hauls
In fly, or pulls throw down"
1t seems that at this game, according
to the published report, an active
player had wings on his heels" and
tabasco sauce IN his arms" Yet ne was
perfectly tame and traetable when not
IarrupIng scrapers,' or Shaping out
dandy singles" or ''lacing an easy one. I"
or 'sIashlng out a peach" There was
nice appearing young man on one OF
the teams who did not look as if he
would harm a hy, but ne was really
mend lncarnate, for he deliberately and
In cold blood unclaimed cyclone with
his willow and tore out the ground
back of center field"
1t isn't safe to judge by appearances.
One player seemed to jog along 10 first
base when the umpire gave him his
base on balls. But the baseball Shakes
peare denies this malicious charge. He
says that he ''ambled to the bag" This
same man did not steal second base.
He ''pilfered it" Altogether he was a
pretty disreputable fellow, for he also
robbed the visitors of third" His ca
reer of crime was checked, however
for when he tried to ''embezzle the
plate" he was nailed" though To
what is not on record.
the players all had peculiar gsits.
Some of them galloped, some of them
Of
of them scampered, some of them
''piked to second" some OF them
''trotted heat" One man even got
so mixed up in his seasons that, though
it was as hot as Tophet, he ..tobog-
gained to third" But not soul of them
ever walked or ran. One man, evident
~ jealous of the forms of locomotion
possessed by his brothers in deformity,
''kangarooed to second"
A batsnan can do lots of things that
the unsophisticated person would never
dream of. On this day one man, who
had three strikes called on him. ''cut
the plate with three called balls" An
other flied softly" and Denny froze
it sweetly." So in spite of the stabbing
and cutting and slashing, there is some
times rural gentleness. A man who
was excited sent sizzling grounder
rafting through the legs" of somebody,
and another, who was politeness itself,
famed the warm air" One PLAYER
''sent biffer past second" and a rival
popped a mushy one abaft first" Moth
ing happened, though, to the lee soup
pers. Speaking of batsmen none OF
them used a bat. Only buffers" so far
forget themselves as to play baseball
with bat and ball. These men ''wield-
ed the ash and willow handles" and
''toyed with the sphere"
Players never get put out in these
days. The methods of disposing of them
vary. Some are put to sleep, some are
allowed to languish in solitude and
some are tortured TO death. In this
game, so wildly described, one man
''groped vainly for the elusive" and
''played dead on the bench" One was
''coppered at first" and another was
''cinched at the plate" Still another
expired in anguish" at first and an
unoffending but unpopular youth was
''smothered to death at second"
There is a suspicion on the part of
tender-hearted people that football is
rough game. As for baseball, the play
ers only wallop. cut, larrup, haste, hug,
squeeze, nip. freeze, slap, pike, lace,
cinch, slash, biff, punch, pound, scrape,
toboggan, smother, choke and strangle,
At least this is base ball as set down
by the historian