The herald., 1897-06-06
But Just q Trifle Too One
Sided
CITY HALL vs.. COURT HOUSE
THE BALL GAME AT ATHLETIC
~ PARK
Won by the Boys on the Hill by a
Decided Score Of "a to 0-Excit-
ing Incidents

Maybe the city hall boys can't play
baseball as we'll as some other people,
but they can try as hard as any team
on the face of the earth, and that ought
to count for something, especially when
the game is in as worthy cause as that
of yesterday, when the courthouse and
city hall teams played for the benefit Of
the unemployed at Athletic park There
was only a small attendance, but in the
language of the press agent, what they
lacked in numbers they made up in en-
thusiasm. 1t was great exhibition, and
the several hundred people who bought
tickets and failed to attend missed the
opportunity of a life time.
The free list was suspended, and ev>
erybody paid his 25 cents to get in. when
he was promptly held up by the peanut
and popcorn man, the genial SheriH
Burr, whose familiarity with the busi-
ness was strongly suggestive of early
training in the lemonade and candy de-
partment of the old-fa shioned circus.
But 1t all went, and if any of the specta-
tors were seduced into eating more pat
ent popcorn than was good for them.
they should remember that it was in
good cause, and not lay it up against
the honest rancher from Fernando.
Roe King of Bohemia sent down two
large demijohns of lemonade to sustain
his pets in the struggle, and even loaned
them his big st. Bernard. elaborately
decorated with the city hall colors, for
mascot, but all without avail, for the
sad fact must be chronicled that the
young men from the big building on the
hill who draw their sustenance from the
county treasury put it on" the boys
who wax fat at the municipal crib by
the decisive score of 81 to 9, with the
last half of the ninth to spare.
They probably could have made some
more but the thing got monotonous, and
they just sawed off," as 1t were, and let
1t go at that. The county push" far
outnumbered the municipal contingent
and this may have had some effect on
the outcome, though it is a trif1e' diff
cult to see where this comes in. The
city hall boys were undoubtedly weak
ened by the absence of their captain.
Carl McStay. though it must be con-
fessed that they were outplayed.
Promptly at 2:30 o'clock Capt. Will
Knippenberg, the umpire, looking like
a spring poem in a gorgeous checked
suit, called the game, and the young
gentlemen ambled gracefully across the
bicycle track and took their places OH
their respective benches. The court
house boys were uniformed in white
canvas overalls, with a red stripe down
the side. and caps to match. The city
hall team was similarly attired, with
the exception of blue stripes, which were
singularly appropriate, as that was the
prevailing tint on their side when the
contest was over. At the start the teams
lined up as follows: City Hall-Mallard,
second base; Goucher, pitcher; Beebe,
third base; Frank Dominguez, left field;
Chapman, right field; Durham, catcher
and captain; Walter Webb, center field;
Ferd Gottschalk, first base; Bell, short
stop; Parsons, Bryant and Todd sub
stitutes. Courthouse-Sweet, catcher,
Robinson third base; Thomas, pitcher:
Youngworth, shortstop and captain;
Little, first base; Phelps, second base;
Young, center field; Hood, left field;
vickery. right field; Hamilton and An
tones, substitutes.
AS the fraternal editor would say, the
affair started out under the most favor