Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
LAWs-T.
Merchants Do the Business-13; Lawyers
Adopt the Golden Rule-5.

| Adopt the Golden Rule-5.
| do unto Others as We would be done by.
The merchants did the doing, and the
lawyers were "done by" them, 10 to s..
All this happened before a large, apprecia-
tive and sunshiny crowd, who saw enough
OF fun, science and ignorance to keep them
patient until the last lone legal light was
extinguished in the ninth inning.
1t was great game-errorless, the scorer
says, which is SO near to Dame Truth
that she resents the familiarity. The
weather looked threatening, but Umpire
Boyd stepped onto the diamond and
ordered the sun to shine at $50 O'Clock,
and the weather was perfect for the rest of
the day
The merchants were first at bat, and the
lawyers took the field. For three innings
the lawyers played away out of sight in
the fieecy clouds, far above the heads of
the spectators. In their half of the first
inning they were visible for few mo-
ments, and when they resumed their posi-
tion away up in the blue sky, the scorer
had jotted down four slashing base hits
and four runs to the credit of the first four
lawyers who came to the bat. Meanwhile
the goose was laying an egg every inning
under the merchants bench. Then mer-
chant Pitcher burlington gave his trousers
SO vicious tug that the goose flew cack-
ling to the lawyers bench and could not
be coaxed or driven therefrom for the re-
mainder of the game
The lawyers were very visible in
deed, then. They were on the ground
once more but not particularly in
the game Things had been altogether
too rosy for them for those delightful
three innings, and Umpire Boyd took
matters into his own hands and began to
roast them to turn. He took up his posi-
ton behind the pitcher, and after few
Of his decisions on balls and strikes were
rendered, the odor of sizzling human flesh
could be readily dot cited all over the field.
Joe Williamson groaned awfully all the
time, and Aiken felt like his name and
showed it.
We don't mean to say that Byron
was unfair. Roasting is a fine art
and If the game had been IS innings long,
undoubtedly the merchants would have
been in the same soft, juicy, succulent
condition in which Byron lett the lawyers
at the end Of the ninth. The closing of
the game lost to us the exhibition of the
other half Of his art.
But 1t was really and truly al
good game that the merchants put
up, and they won the game on its |
merits. And the lawyers were brilliant, |
too, by spurts. Fred Beane and Joe Will |
hanson made double play in the third
that elected thunders of applause. Fred s |
ardor was aroused, and he sought to con-
tinue the good work in the fourth. He
made a beautiful slide to second and his
whiskers rested on the bag before he was
touched with the ball, but puff of wind
blew them off just as Byron turned to
look, and Fred was promptly and firmly
declared out.
Individual comment is unnecessary
horizontal praise is better. Every
body and everything came in for a
share of the glory, even the ball, which
sometimes dexterously eluded the COM
bned efforts of many mixed-up fielders.
The grand stand play of Judge Andrews
was excellent, and Orvillc Bakers team
work was of the first order
In the near future the lawyers will
the Golden Rule and challenge
the merchants again, and another contest
of even greater brilliancy than the first
will result.
1t is understood, more over, that they
have already challenged the doctors. The
score