The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-09

season between the New York and
Washington clubs. I confess to an I'M
perfect knowledge of the national
game, and, wishing to learn something
of it, l resolved to- read reports of
games this season, and, as far as posi-
BILE, witness a few games for my in
struction, and later, my amusement. l
began my reading with this report of
the second game between the Giants
and the Senators, which, l have
learned, are the technical titles of the
two great organizations emanating
from the metropolis and the capital
/ read that "Doheny was removed
from the slab by Irwin during the sew
enth inning" and I would like to know
if that means that Mr.. Doheny was
dead and Mr. Irwin was friend of the
deceased who had come to remove the
body. Again, find that Charley Far
rell clapped his hand over his bread re-
ceptacle," and I am at a loss to know
whether Mr.. Farrell had brought his
lunch basket with him to the game, or
what is meant. A little further along
in the report find that LAS Doheny
had larboard paddle he was Meme
sis for Brown, Joyce and Abbey" and
again, | fail to grasp the necessities in
a game of ball, played in dry place,
on a dry day, Of a larboard paddle; and
why was he a Nemesis? Wasn't Mem
esis lady? Is Mr. Doheny ladylike
person? The report continues: They
We're deuces for Dpheny, whose south
side wing brushed them out in the rirst
| inning Has the game changed to po-
ker? If not. why "deuces?" And has
Mr.. Doheny developed into an angel
with south side wing and north
side wing? And has he wings on the
| east and west sides? In the next para
graph is this: I'm fact, these Senate
| rial left-handed swatters couldn't nirt
| with Doheny." Doheny must be a lady
or how could they fiirt with him? And
| what is left handed swatter?
| Continuing, the report says: Joyce
was the only one Of the three who saw
| the first cushion until German began to
! twirl." Is there a cushion in baseball
/ game, and Is 1t to sit on? And what
was the matter with German that he
should begin to twil? Was he inebria-
| ted or just dizzy? Then, l observe, in
a play between Gleason and McJames,
| that "the twirler Of the anarchistic
| frizzes tarred over the grounding"
| Possibly those who understand this un-
derstand it, but why don't they let us,
who do not understand it, have a base
ball glossary? Immediately following
this read that: "Serappy executed a
| st. Vitus dandle over Georges lawn
mower" What do they use a lawn
mower for? To cut the grass on the
ball field? And why should they exc
cute a St Vitus dandle over 1t? What
is st. Vitus dardle? Again, I find
reference to eating, though this time it
is not bread, but pudding. The report
says: Big Mike Herman presented
| McJames with a plate of tapioca,
which he and Ed Cartwright demol-
ished between them" Why did they
eat the tapioca pudding? Were they so
hungry after their violent exercise?
Immediately after serving the tapioca
pudding, l read that Frank Con-
naughton, the Titan blonde, plunked
on McJanes for two stings, a clean
double 'twixt Jimmy Rodgers and the
second divan. and Gleason and Davis
scored" I can readily understand
what scoring is, and now I see that the
the divan there referred to, but what is
it to PUNK on McJames and what
stung him twice? In the next para
graph read of "the obsequies of Da-
Wis. with Cartwright as undertaken"
Was Mr.. Davis killed? Again I find a
reference to Mr.. Doheny's wings, this
time it being: "Doheny's sinister wing
developed such an attack of rattles as
to fly wild" and / wish to inquire If a
reference to the south wing as a sinis-
ter wing is now an evidence of section
al prejudice? Neither did I ever hear
of wings having rattles. I thought rat
ties were in the tail.
Going on deeper into the game I no.
tice that "the Senators We're stalSed to
three horse collars in the third Do
they wear horse collars in the game?
If So why do they wear them, and how
could the Senators be staked to them?
Soon after this l read of "the south
winged Nemesis compelling Joyce and
Abbey to take three swipes at General
Humidity, who was registered at eigh-
ty-eight degrees down on the Dia-
mond." In the name of the shades of
the athletes of ancient Greece and
Rome, what does that mean? Why did
they take three swipes at General HUI
nudity? If General Humidity means
the hot weather, why didn't they take a
dozen swipes at it? Why didn't they
swipe it off the face of the earth?
Three swipes, indeed! In the fourth
inning the report says: kid Gleason
strung Jimmy McJameS to the tune of
three strings, a clean push-down to-
ward Charley Abbey" Is Mr.. Nc
James a musical instrument that Mr..
Gleason could thus string him? A
clean push-down l fancy is one that is
not soiled. That's easy enough. In the
fifth inning notice that 'Al Setback
became a deadhead for the third time, y
from which 1 imagine that Mr.. Sell
bach must have influence with some
body. However, d little further on l
notice that he "pendulumed to third. .
Does MIR. Setback run like clock?
go on to the seventh inning. Here I
find that Joyce waited Doheny' s
pleasure, and by Tim Hurst's leave
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