The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-07-30
Result of the Ball Game Last
Sunday Between the Mar
ried Men and Bachelors.
THE SCORE WAS ID TO 4.
50 Single Blessedness Is One
Thing and Playing Base
Ball Is Another.

Last week we could say, OF ali the
noisy, brave talking people of the
U. p. the bachelors who were to
take part in Sundays baseball con
test with the benedicts at the Bar
aga ball park took the bakery. +"
But now! Why, we have only sight
ed two bachelors since the game and
these two candidly told the reporter
that they had inserted matrimonial
ads" in several papers and hoped
!, to be doubled up at the earliest
possible moment.
- The game opened last Sunday af-
ternoon with the benedicts at bat.
Chas. Darcy led off and banged the
first ball pitched. He hit it right
on the seam and it started straight
back for Montgomery, who just
missed stopping it by tholghtfully
getting out of the way; next in its
course was Umpire Feore and just
why the swift liner didn't hit him is
still a mystery; then the second
baseman heroically attempted to
check its home run course, but he
too, had just time enough to wink
and duck his head, and then wonder
ed if Gunner MALTA was shooting
cannon balls across the diamond
The high board fence surrounding
the grounds finally rounded the ball
up and somebody carried it back to
the pitcher. Then came Armstrong.
He took pity on the fielders, how
ever, and hunted a slow grounder
down third and short pasture and
got first. When Joe Gingras came
up he spat on his hands, drummed
on the home plate two or three times
with the bat and picked out the first
ball thrown for three bases, scoring
Armstrong. Ted Davenport, the
next batter up, swung the bat
around his head a couple of times,
hit the horsehide square on the nose
and when they found the ball Ted
was roosting on base No. =. Larry
Gallagher hit the sphere for a base.
Tom Murphy and O'Sullivan also
got there later in the inning.
In the bachelors half Rubillard
sent II sky-scraping fly right in
Devenport's hands and went to the
bench. Next Montgomery was mean
enough to knock the ball over right
pasture fence, so Cochran couldn'
get it. Shaver hammered three
frightful gashes in the atmosphere
and sat down. Ganson came up
with blood in his eye to knock the
ball into the next county; he made
three desperate attempts, each time
cutting a beautiful circle in the air,
and the umpire unkindly called him
out. Wilbur Sharpe bored a hot
liner into O'Sullivan at short, who,
unfortunately, is not accustomed to
handling warm numbers, " and
dropped it. At this stage of the
inning the umpire stated three men
were out, so the Benedicts went at
their opponents again. Each sue
ceeding inning was repetition OF
the first-the benedicts drew num-
bers, the bachelors drew goose eggs.
Features of the game were: Tom
Murphy's brilliant work in centre,
retiring FIVE men on catches of diff
ficult flies; Devenport's work at
second who, by the way, has the
distinction of being the only player
to make home run. st. Arnold as
twirler and Gingras as catcher, ac-
quilted themselves admirably. AS
hitter and base-runner Cochran
has few equals. Gallagher also
played in his old-time form. Darcy S
work at first is needless OF mention
as he has always been considered
the crack man in that position in
the U. p. Armstrong and O'Sul-
Ivan at third and short, respectively,
gathered in a number of difficult
grounders very nicely.
Itwould be well to state that al
the end of the first half of the first
inning Umpire Feore was released
and Ed. Real substituted, who dur.
ing the balance of the game did good
work as umpire.
The bachelors put up very good