The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-08-09
Triumphant Demonstration
Of Muscular Development
by Stalwart Reporters.
Good Ball, But Never for a Minute
Were Policemen Found in it,
AS the Story is Told Today.
PEN IS MI0HTIER THAN THE CLUB
1000 Persons Attend All Kinds Of Games Played
by Reporters and PoIIcemea Of this City IN
Aid Of Poor chIIdren's Outing fnnd.

An affair took place on the Dexter street
grounds Saturday afternoon for the bene-
fit OF the poor chiidren's excursion fund
that was attended by somewhat over 1000
people, who cheered, hooted and howIed at
eighteen wonderfully arrayed old and
young men who performed new tricks.
Since then the spectators have been won
dering what game they saw. II was ad-
vertised as baseball; but ball playing re-
quires work, and In this exhibition there
were policemen.
The opponents of the wearers of the blue
In whatever this was were nine pencil
pushers who from constant kicking in the
grandstand had come to believe that they
knew something about the National game,
but whose actual demonstration Of 1t
easily satisfied the spectators that their
knowledge OF the fine points was contained
in small lump OF swelling in the region
OF their brains. During this exhibition of
alleged baseball there was combination
Of all games played in this country.
The players knew all things, and played
! golf, tennis, football and how to kill time
on the Fairlawn beat. However, two mines
exhibited, and thereby hangs tale of woe.
Previous to the game the noble handlers
of the locusts made parade, and as they
marched up Main street to martial strains
their countenance bespoke the savage Joy
they anticipated having with the poor
pencil pushers, and how they would rub it
into them for all the call downs they had
received from the unfortunate collectors Of
! items.
| These offences became SO frequent that
he was reprimanded by the captain and
sent to right deld with the loss of two
weeks pay. Reynolds on third and Flynn
on second did everything but play ball.
Sweet, Rockford and Slocum in the out
| field played ''go find the bean bag" with
| the tremendous drives of the nimble- footed
carriers of notepads. At no stage were
| the ambulance handlers In the game, and
| it was owing to the generosity of Aver,
who let up in the fourth inning, that they
were able to make decent showing.
Hostilities were opened at $3.50 o'clock,
and from that time to nearly 6 o'clock
there was the grandest exhibition OF lofty
tumbling and barefaced muffing of balls
ever seen on the grounds. Black and
Bontems were delegated to officiate in the
prominent positions Of pitcher and
catcher for the bluecoats, and to their
credit be 1t said they tried in an honest
manner to immitate McCanerty and Bue-
low. They failed, however, and the
pencil pushers Just feasted OH Bontems'
limitation curves, and sent them seeking
pasturelands in various parts of the field.
Charlie Hill, at short, was the star perfor-
mer and succeeded in letting about every
ground ball 60 through him.
For the Reporters, Aver served up the
pebble and the "Colonel" did the rest.
johnson was on first, and his contortions
put the audience In mind of Beaumont.
Quigley ut third handled everything that
came his way In clean manner. Rowe Ut
short and Scott at second got mixed up In
several hair raising plays, with the result
that Murray and Manning were compelled
to come to their assistance by rescuing the
ball from the weeds in the extreme end OF
the field.
Winston got . dead scoop on Q ball In
the right garden that was labeled for three
bases. Murray also surprised himself and
everybody else by opening his hands and
allowing q long drive to settle therein.
Manning played well In the shade and had
q perfect fielding record.
The game ended In q misunderstanding
as the "coppsrs" had the umpire and crowd
with them and somebody doctored the
score board In the left field, thereby Civ
| ing the impression that the 'has beens'
had won the game. The score: