The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28
a Mighty Crowd.

The crowd was a mighty one, despite
the threatening weather OF the morn
ing. 1t poured through the gates in
the early afternoon until every seat in
the bleachers was taken, and it spread
around the field like a swarm of ants
Small boys perched on the fence like
sparroWs on a telegraph wire Even
the windows of university hall were
crowded, and the trees outside the
fence fairly bloomed with spectators.
Including the money taken in at the
gate. just $51050 was raised by the
game, all of which goes to the family
of Letter-carrier Skidmore, who lies so
seriously i'll at Holy Cross hospital.
over by third base stood wall tent,
and within were many kegs of cool,
sparkling lager. Thither players and
rooters and spectators resorted in
streams all through the game to drink
a cup to the success of their favorlte
team City councilmen were present
by the handful, and policemen and
firemen until you couldn't rest. And
everybody rooted valiantly for one
team or the other. Chief Hilton made
so much noise that the other fellows
wanted him put under arrest or e]ected
bodily Councilman Callister got so
excited when the city hall crowd took
the lead in the seventh that he had to
be restrained by main force from going
on the field and taking part. jim
Adams waltzed around the diamond
like a 6-year-old when Barlow made
that long homerun in the seventh, and
yelled himself so hoarSe that frequent
visits to the beer-tent were necessary
before he could speak above a whis-
per. When the game began to go
against the fire and police aggrega-
ton, Rome Gillespie lost his head, and
they had to set him chasing small boys
or he'd have arrested the whole city
hall team and locked them up.
Wilson Was Wild.
Howard Wilson started in to pitch
for the CITY team. In two innings he
allowed but three hits and struck out
six men. but bases on balls and errors
allowed the firemen and policemen TO
score eight runs, and he was replaced
by Gowan. Charlie Wood pitched most
of the game for the city guardians.
Mike Earl relieved MN Tor one lnhlns
and Cahoon for one, the disastrous
seventh. when the city hall crowd
made eight runs and won the game.
Little Billy Swan caught the entire
game for the city team, and Joe Bar
low. veteran Joe" who played base
hall when many of the opposing team
were in swaddling clothes, caught for
the fire-ighters and hobo-chasers.
Ouife as il to the manner born looked
the fire-police team in the field. They
had borrowed baseball trousers from
the Salt Lake team ard wore firemen's
shirts and natty caps donated by
Browning. Their opponents wore L.
d. s. college suits, except City Treas
urer Dick Morris, who looked very
swell in shirt sleeves and blue serge,
and Bod Siddoway, who had filched a
coffee-colored uniform from some
where.
The game began with the fire-police
team at the bat, but they were not very
successful in connecting with Howard
Wilson's curves and they got but one
run. Smith started things merrily for
the city by hitting a long one far into
the tennis court. a small brown dog
got after the ball and when Ed Davies
had captured the animal and separated
it from the bali Smith was on third. He
was caught at the plate, however by
quick work by Cahoon. One run was
all the team coull roll up. The second
time at the bat firemen and policemen
rolled in seven runs, with the assist
ance of numerous errors and other
things, while the city team got but one.
Double In the Third.
The third was marked by double
play by Siddoway and Ed Sloan and
Smith. Ed was so puffed up with pride
at the applause he got that he decided
his reputation was made so after that