The record-union., 1897-10-04
LEAKY BASEBALL PLAYERS.
THE OLD-TIMERS wALLOPED
BY PEERLESS KIDS.
1t Wasn't Gilt Edge Ba11-P1aying,
but 1t Helped the Cause
of Charity.

TO nany to know that it also covers
some errors in a baseball game.
Charity is said also to be sweet, and
1t is only charity to suppose that its
hidden Saccharine qualities disguised
the bitter taste of defeat which the Old
Leakers got from the Peerless aggre-
cation of kids" who met them al
Snowflake Park yesterday afternoon.
Fourteen to nine, with the ancients new
er in sight, tells the whole story.
Mulleney's Old Leakers well deserved
their name yesterday. The first squall
which struck the old ship sprung all
the tim bers, and the leakage COM
menced early. Nor was there any
stopping it. Squalls came often, and
the leaking was continuous. The ball
would filter through the fingers and slip
between the legs of the ancients with
all the ease manifested by small boy
while kicking a dead dog.
Still it was for charity, and charity
is sweet 1t was for charity that
Shields, who did the pitching for the
Leakers, swatted the ball against the
rear fence and galloped around the
chalked line for a home run; and it was
for charity, and not for grand stand ef-
feet, that Mcdonald, the old-liner,
caught a fly with his left eye and af-
terward submitted to having three
stitches taken up in the vicinity of his
favorite optic to even things up.
Only a week ago Mulleney's Old Tubs
met the galavanting youths of the
Peerless variety, and didn't do a thing
but wipe them off the diamond to the
tune of 13 to 3. But "Oh. What a
difference!" There was no crowd to
speak of week ago, while yesterday
nearly 1000 people turned out, and the
Peerless youths took sweet revenge
while the old ones took sweet charity.
The proceeds of the game go to the
Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Sisters
Hospital and the Foundlings' Home and
Will probably reach close on $500. The
cash receipts at the gate were: From
10-cent tickets, 81 20; from 25-cent
tickets, SS3 20; reserved seats. 81 10:
score cards. S12 20; total, S102 50.
There were taken at the gate $50 tick
cts sold about town, mounting to
$l63 70. making S266 c. Many more
tickets may have been sold by the COM
mittees that were not presented a the
gate.
So, If the Old Leakers chance to feel
sore at the treatment they received. the
fact that poor unfortunates will enjoy
the harvest will be salve for their
wounds.
There was nothing wanting to add
to the enjoyment of the occasion-ex-
cept a good game of ball. A brass band
was on the bleachers, and before the
ha
Conquering Hero Comes" but after the
battle was over and the Old Leakers
We're doctoring sprung joints, the tune
changed, and When Johnnie Comes
Marching Home" rent the atmosphere.
and this was followed by The Day I
Played Baseball
And the umpires Jared well. They
were Thomas L. Enright and V. S.
McClatchey, and they were deserving.
True, the crowd time and again yelled,
Kill theni' but as nobody took the
initiative a prospective tragedy did not
materialfze, and the umpires feel char
liable to the dear people because they
still live.
Once in a while-and certainly no Of
tener-the pride of a star aggregation
of ban-tossers fared up, and there was
playing of the kind sufficient to make
the small boy Cthe greatest OF all base
ball connoisseurs) yell with delight, but
when the game was half over the small
boy contingent became discouraged, and
when threatened with dire disaster by
Umpire En1ight they resolved to
march out in a body unless there was
less leaking. Unfortunately their
Il oh
The Old Leakers' rooters were out in
force armed with all manner OF hsh-
horns and similar roofing instruments,
but they were never used. There was
never a chance for their legitimate use,
and the ancients' rooters forgot to root
for charity.
In the first inning the kids spoiled the
prospect. They spun off four runs.
Sheehan, who stopped where the short
stop sets up his tent, walked to the ini-
+ial bag because Shields couldn't get
the bah over the plate. Then Orman,
the heavy hitter, who when the Gilt
Edges were youthful, held down center
field for them. came up and swatted
hot one against Shields shin, which
glanced off to Fong Duffee at second
base. who didn't want to spoil the fun'
So he let il roll on. Sheehan, In the
meantime. had ambled on to the third
bolster.
Then Storrer stepped to the front and
strung out a hot one between short and
-Sacond away out where Haviland
s+o.,d and plucked roses in the center
Garden. and when matters were
s+ra7shtened out Sheehan and Orman
had stepped on the home platter ana
Storrer stopped at third, because he
vas tired. Then Dougherty who was
back-stop for the ancients, let ball
sim bv fanother leak), and Storrer trot-
ted in.
Next Just hit out to somebody, and
was retired at first Will Hilbert got
down to the initial bag in some manner
unknown. and Brown flew out to Duftee
who had spat on his left hand as II ne
meant business. In another instant
somebody blundered, and Hilbert came
IN.
But the Old Leakers also struck Tor
their spurs in their half of the inning,
and Mcdonald waited until the balls
had been called, and then walked. He
stole second a moment later Dough-
erty viciously struck the air three
times, and Mcdonald went on to third.
Shields hit one into the unexplored