The Elbert County tribune., 1900-07-05
Correspondent
Attends Ball Game.
FoNDIs P. o., July 2, 1900.
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On Saturday last, not un-
usual practice on our pat, we
took an outing, and attended the
return match game between the
Elbert and Fondis clubs. We
thought, in fact, our Fondis bows
coming from the country cross
roads post Office of that name
might be rather unsophisticaled,
and in need of the oversight
sometimes provided for the other
sex upon similar occasions. Be
that as it may, we concluded to
chaperon the Fondis club and we
only regret that we had not
thought of the matter sooner and
added coaching, al1o, to the list
of our official duties.
Arriving in Ebert the first call
for the exercise of our preroga-
tive was in the case of Tom
Harper, the captain of the visit
ing nine, whom we caught in the
very giddy and undignifed act of
executing clog dance on one of
Lhe main streets of Elbert coun-
ty's metropolis and right in front
of the post Office. OF course we
promptly checked this coltish
gambol of Toms and apologized
to the postmaster and to the
proprietors Of the commercial
emporium, whose front walk was
thus desecrated.
For some unknown cause,
though probably spite. on Har-
per's part, we failed to be notified
by the Elbert combination when
the dinner gong sounded, and
therefore had no opportunity of
samplng the very excellent menu
provided for the Fondis boys and
of which they all speak in the
most complimentary terms. Nei-
ther have we the name of the
hostess of that entertainment-a
thought suddenly intrudes itself
upon us, and will not down, that
this dinner may have had some
thing to do with the outcome of
of the afternoons game.
Time was called promptly at
the appointed hour, with the
Elbert club at the bat. And right
hore occurred series of foot
races around the diamond, not
laid down, at least in the program
of the Fondis aggregation. The
postmaster seemingly had the idea
that he was running u country
delivery mail wagon, that each
sand bag was personal or local
mail box, that he must make the
whole without break and upon
an expedited star route time card.
Nothing short of instantaneous
photography could have separated
his legs as he whirled around the
diamond. A child, at least we
were so informed, built somewhat
upon the plan of the "fat boy" in
Dickens Pickwick Papers, sprint
ed, hither and yon, losing himself
among the sand bags but coming
down the home stretch like
double e-headed freight on down
grade, and with like effect
among the three clustering on
lockers. Allen Carnahan's Ohe
butcher) long unmentionables
fairly created vacuum in the
atmosphere, and he used the bat
like cleaver. A player, we
understood his name to be Cstnip,
had evidently all the tonic prop
critics of that well-known herb
and like the feline of his first syl-
liable, seemed always to light on
his feet. Mr.. Sam Taggart, we
think the clubs third baseman,
was conspicuous by his absence,
for which we are told Mrs. Tag
gart's apron strings were respon-
sible. Having caught a glimpse
of the lady, though her identity
was at the time unknown to us,
at the depot that morning, your
correspondent is not at all sur
prised at the county surveyors
detection There are, we are
pleased to believe, stronger mag
nets than those of compass, tran
sit, thcodolite, or even that Of the
dia nond. His place was taken
we understand, by new player
named Joe, Smith was most prob
ably his surname,) though we did