The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-15
IT WAS FOR CHARITY.
Over 5000 People Witness the Annual
Contest at the Oval - Picturesque
Scene With a Perfect Setting +.
Proceeds Will Figure $4,000
And Upwards.

peanuts, fans, cushions, lemonade. Lit.
tie boys, bursting with Importance, ran
back and forth with beer (ginRer) for
the thirsty warriors, who tipped the
bottles up to their mouths, draining
their contents down their threats with
childlike abandon. The commissariat
department, where stalwart men strug-
gled with corks and cases of ale (al-
ways gfnger), with wash-tubs of lem
onade (yellow-there was no pink. with
barrels of peanuts and cocoanuts bv
the score, was at the left as YOU went
in.
These necessities of life at hall
game We're artistically vended bv an
efficient, hilarious crew of LAWYERS and
doctors, who tripped up and down and
back and forth, reaching over and m
der with sweet alacrity and maxine.
change with seraphic grace and the
arithmetic of a Mulberry Bend pedIer
Butter wouldn't melt in their months
SO lnnocently engaging We're they as
they hawked their wares through tha
tiers of amused people 1t was Here
ye'are, cigars right off the Ice. or
best cigars, never been smoked be-
lore or, Amy other ladv mr.
gentleman in the crowd have
cigar? etc. Charles A. Merril1
smiled soft, insinuating shirt-sleeved
smile upon his prospective victims
VINO Were numerous, and Henry r
Harris proved himself one of the dead
nest of the privilege men in the ease
with which he palmed off his waras
upon the unoffending patron of tho
game. BY scheme known to bar fond
efs' who excite the thirst they wish RI
sratity by displaying salt fish on their
counters, the peanuts were passed first.
atterWard the beverages. Virtue was
It's own reward and the people drank
accordingly.
A little episode that occurred he
tween Henry F. Harris and John Peril,
MInroe was appreciated by those who
watched it. Mr.. Munroe was sitting in
the first row of orchestra chairs ~,
the 1inder path, and Mr.. Harris was
standing in one of the aisIes of the
grandstand, 40 feet from Mr.. Munroa
ana a considerable height above him
Mr.. Munroe bought a cigar of Mr.
Harris, and rising from his chair
caught the harmless, necessary tbino,
IN his hand as the confidential LAWYER
OF the Worcester Woman's Club neatly
served 1t to him over the heads of the
intervening spectators. But how to get
the tax on the cigar back TO the genial
vender?
III give you another quarter If Won
catch this said Mr.. Munroe. as no
squared himself for the curve and
powied the little silver coin into the
vicinity of Mr.. Harris, who captured II
A second coin was tossed as prettilv
and as prettily caught and then Mr.
Munroe sat down to enjoy smoke Mr.
Harris pocketed his spoils of office ana
turned to fresh fields and pastures
green. while the crowd that had uad
its attention called from the big game
to the little game, laughed and an
plauded.
That audience of well-dressed. we'll
to-do citizens and citizenesses followed
the game with an avidity and intelJi
gence that spoke volumes for their
bringing up. Completely at their ease
and unchilled by the conventions that
appertain to Mechanics or Memorial
hall. they peeled off their gloves. put
their feet up on the back of the seat
in front of them and proceeded to IN
Joy themselves in robust fashion
Cheers and hand clapping greeted the
successful base hit, and home run
was the signal for certain unbalanced
individuals to hop up and down first
on one foot, then on the other way-
ing hat stick, peanut bag or umbrol-
la. whatever happened to be in their
hand at the moment, frantically in the
air. Puncturing the deep attention
with which the entire audience fol-
lowed the performance on the green
stage before them, would come nov
and again a wild whoop of surprise,
impatience, astonishment, or approve.
up by yell Of excitement.
and furore of enthusiastic apprec,a-
ton. when the great audience screamed
and shouted its applause to the is
slouchy figures careering over the field.
-Four or five physicians grouped near
the front of the grandstand contributed
no little to the gayety of the afternoon.