The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10
PASSING OF
MOULIN ROUGE
The Hoi Polloi Celebrate
a Victory on the
Diamond.
Gorgeous Colors and Gaudy
Raiment That Caused the
Owl to Blink.
Gay BOhemians in Brilliant Garb
Play Baseball Before a Select
Audience.

Maybe when you get right down to the
technique of the national game there has
been better basel ball played in this city than
was put up by the Moulin Rouge and the
Hoi PalloI teams al Sixtee nth and Folsom
streets yesterday afternoon, but when you
come TO quantity-vell, that's another
story. From the time Harry Dimond
lifted the cover off the gamc about lunch
time until daylight and the ninth inning
finished neck and neck there were spilled
out enough base-hits, runs, assists and
other old things, as yet unclassifed, 10
keep the National League in business half
a season.
The Moulin Rouges and the Hoi Pollois
are not sure enough baseball aggregations.
That is they occasionally slip off their
uniforms long enough TO run banks or be
capitalists or artists-anything just TO
vary the monotony OF being base ball
players all the tIme-and all of them are
Jolly good fellows and mem bers OF the
Bohemian Club.
1t wasn't intended to have the affair
public. Only those who were on terms of
unusual intimacy with the owl received
the tip that the trouble was pending, and
society was represented by Just a select
few. Mrs. L. X. OImond and Mrs. Edwin
r. Stevens sat on the scorers bench and
occasionally changed the y-bell Just to
show they knew what il was there for, and
Colonel George W. Grannis, Henry K.
Field, Arthur Moore, Colonel Robert
Fletcher and Donald de V. Graham took
turns in trying TO explain to an English
guest the manner in which the brilliantly
attired young men on the catacornered
square were endeavoring 10 settle their
differences.
The b!eache-s were more largely patron
iZed. a big policeman had been stationed
at the gate 10 keep out The unlimited and
that m ade ii seem more natural and home
like to the youngsters. After piling over
a l2-foot fence they felt a. liberty to make
whatever criticisms of the plays and the
players they considered appropriate
They deemed many unkind things appro-
pirate.
The players suits were just too sweet
for anything. Talk about Solomon in all
his glory and Joseph with his many-col-
ored coat-why, they would both have
been ruled off The field yesterday for ado
ing som Der touch TO the festive scene
Harry Smiths blue stockings were easily
the features OF the game, but had they
been wanting J. d. Mex e's red ones or
S. A. Cloman's dinkey cap would have
been worth the price of admission. There
was no price of admission, but they
wouId have been worth it, anyway.
That luck waits not upon the gaudy is
an axiom well known 10 the small bows
who perched upon the bleachers and if
was demonstrated to a finish in yester-
days discussion. The only round trims
made during the game were negotta ted by
Vanderlynn Stow, who had no suit at all
(no baseball suit, of course) aud by John
Sutton. who wore old pair of brown
mole skin football breechcs which looked
like abbreviated overalls. Sutton's home
run hit was what jimmie Fiannigan
enthusiastically dubbed "lalapaloozer.
and Jimmie is learned in such matters.
1t was in the critical part of the last
inning that Sutton caught the ball on the
nose, and sent it gayIy into the unex-
plored region in the southern part of the
park. 1t was Slows rounder that proved
that only misfortune loves a shining
mark. Vanderlynn had not come out 10
play ball. but when he was told that the
Hoi Pollois were man short he, like
true patriot, shucked his coat right there
pened to look like black hat in a tulip-
bed, and that is why luck was with him.
HIS home run occurred about the six n
inning. BY determined effort he batted
the ball nearly seven feet and starred
manfully for first Edwin Stevens, who
is comedian at the Tiyoii when he is not
pitching for the Hol Polioi, gracefully
fumb bled the bali, and thre " it where first
base would have bsen had the diamond
be en- laid out different. Vanderlynn Stow
kept running. Ten the ball became
Gelirlous. 1t ran amuck about the dia-
mond, and finally found the only avail
able opening in the grand staud, and there
it modestly retired until Mr.. Slow was
through his itenirary.
The game? Ii stood 13 to Is, with the
Hoi Pollois to the ood, when the Moulin
Rouge came to the bat in the seventh
inning. Then w. B. Hopkins brought in
five runs By the best play of the alter
noon. Hopkins was the Moulin Rouge