New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-22
THE MAYOR WILL BE UMPIRE.
CAN HE CONTROL THE ALDERMEN OF
MOUNT VERNON AND YONKERS?

HE WILL. PROBABLY VETO SOME OF THEIR REso-
LurIoSs WHEN OFFERED ON THE DIAMOND
COLONEL STRONG WILL RIDE TO THE
SCENE OF THE FRAY BEHIND LAW
son n FuILERs sIX-IN-HAND.
Mavor Strong who has promised TO umpire the
baseball game between the teams OF Yonkers and
Mount Vernon at the latter place on Labor Day,
will make the trip there In splendid fashion, for he
is going TO ride up behind the famous six-inhand Of
Lawson n. Fuller. the well-krown whip and 'patri-
arch OF Washington Heights" Mr. Fuller told all
about IL yesterday. as follows;
!, Yes sir Mayor Strong has Just promised me
that he will take the drive to Mount Vernon on
Labor Day behind my six-in-hand. ] am to meet
him at Observation-Disclosures and Eighth
ave at OsO a. m. He will have his with him,
and is to invite two others. We shall drive around
to and across the new vladuct. and thence through
st. Nicholas Place thence to the Boulevard and up
the Boulevard to Onc-hundred-and eighty -frst-st..
thence across Washington Bridge and up Burnside
to Mount Vernon. The trip TO Mount Vernon
will take about hour and a half, so that We shall
arrive there about noon.
I'VE shall make a squirt where the road Is good.
but | do not expect to make threeminute clip.
! tell YOU We shall have "A splendid time. and | bet
YOU the Mayor will say he never had 50 fine a ride
In all his life
The six-in-hand will be made UP OF Dexter and
Cricket. Wilkes and Dexter p. and Flora and La
mar nearly the same team with which Mr. Fuller
made his mile In three minutes early in June.
The contestants In the game which the Mayor
Will umpire are to be members OF the city govern
ment of yonkera one side and the representa-
lives Of the municipality Of Mount Vernon on the
other The Mayors AMI Aldermen Of the two cities
VIII be arraycd against each other and In baseball
clothes ana the nearest ncEhbor Of both places viii
be represented AT the umplre's post
As the Mayor said Yesterday. IN answer 20 a
question, that he would act M the umpire In this
remarkable game. the breeze blew delightfully."-
cool through the windows of the city Han the trees
were at the groencEt. the sun shone brightly and all
did not shrink from the prospect of his dang erous
task. nor hesitate TO risk an enterprise from which
he might not return. He had agreed To try con-
tfol the Aldermen or two other cities, although he
could not always marago those of his own.
when the fonkcrE Aldermen send MP "A resolution
That Their hatsman has reached the first base he
VIII not hesitate to veto IT, and n the Mount Vernon
common Council should desire to adjourn ON the
ground that "a,l are out he may continue the
session further
Tho yonkerS and Mount vernon Aldermen have
not he"n noted Tor hmiabilit>. ana the discussions
~ their meetings have sometimes been dan gerous
IN" furniture, The possibility OF u heated argtI.
n"nt win nrtr And baseball clubs has Impressed
lte"lf upon the Mayors friends. and they look with
arbtcr OF disputed points In any contest IN which
10 much feeling may he exhibited, The Mayor has
however, not yet weakened" and at last reports
whh prepared 10 lace the worst lie denied how
over mat suit OF aimoi or OF padded clothing was
III course or construction for his use on Labor Day