Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-07
THE LEANS" VICTORIOUS
The "Fats' Are Defeated in Hot
Iy Contested Game.
GREAT GAME A BIG SUCCESS
The FATS Were Way in the Lead the First
Part Of the Game, But the Leans"
Steadily Gained and Won Out
BY the Score Of Z 10 10.

YOU missed the sight of h alf your
life time. Just imagine Lawyer
Westenhaver hurting his legal curves
over the plate in front of U. S. g.
pitzer, who oft times tri5d to head
the legal shots bv making a home run
argument; but alas he failed to con-
meet. Judge Gerhardt ruled him out
every time after he had A.ade three
motions, with the bat
The game started out with rush
The City Band played Hail Hail,
the Gangs All Here, - Umpire Ger
hardt, attired liz the costume OF the
unspeakable Turk and heavily armed
with swords pistols, called time
Twlrlsr Westenhaver left the sphere
hy over the home plate at Charlie
Pitzer, who although he..i is an old ball
PLAYER Of days gone by, was put out.
Abraham Horsfsll next stepped up
TO the plate, made a grand stand run
around the bases and scorad. That In
sdictment of the U. S. VS. Grant
pitzer is true bill. He was the first
man TO fan the wind. Fatty Van
Horn made out and retired the side.
The leans then tired their hand at the
bat. Lindsay made out Keedy scored,
Woods made out and Noll, although
ne handled the bat with much
Grace, shared the same fate of his
friend Woods.
80 moi MT bA ~ ls.
game the readers will have TO call on
scorers Lovett and Buxton Skinny
Scorer Buxton was wide awake in
looking after the interest of the leans
He went on the diamond and raised
so many arguments with the umpire
that Fat Scorer Lovett had to remove
him several times by physical force
Behind the ba Tor the leans was
Lawyer Noll, urging the partner
skinny on and upholding him in
all the Inns 'and "onts" of the heat
ed argument.
Then there was LAWYER mike"
ION the flst-tall. 81 ~ t1d vtnl1ue
whole procession of smiles. 1t was
predicted that he would take to the /
Woods before the end of the game.
but he held on 10 that first base like 4
grim death
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
. Ward Blackstone Lindsay held on to
second base in very Fiery manner,
bat he was 100 bow-leged for that
position. He couldn't have stopped a
balloon fiat had rolled down in
front of him
Lawyer Nadenbousch presided over
third base with great pomp and d
dignity. He had n glove on each
hand, but he did Nade-a- bousch-el
basket to stop the hAlls that rolled
his way.
Fd was balf of the game 10 C.
Charles Keedy hold down short.
One ball rolled down TO Postmaster
Clohan in right field. That one ball
ne smiled at for about five minutes
and then failed in an attempt TO pick
it up
South paw Emmert i'll center field
mad all he could tend to to back up
LAWYER Lindsay But How (h)ard
he did try to sight some OF those
ground rollers Howard is better at
sighting high balls "(Scotch) than
he is at sighting ground rollers
Cashier Rutledge took in all the
balls in left field just like he pulls in
dollars over the bank counter.
As for the flats they started out
like professional ball players aud soon
had the betting all on their side, but
fine betters were not aware that Lean
Twirler Westenhayer had some
pretzel curves up his sleeves.
Twirler TO stall fell all over him !
self in trying to strike out the |
s'leans''. He did good work in the
oox. Mr.. HorsfaN dyes every day at
the Kilbourn Mills, but he came very
near making has last die" III run
ming for tne home plate Fat and
Lean Pnyslcia rs Castleman ana
Andrews almost finished the job
@0n the first was Johu Timmcns. the
Continental! Hofel cafe manag r.
You can tell ne is used to high
ballsl' by the manner in which he
gobbled IN all that came his way.
On the second Van Horn proved a
regular bushel basket for all balls that
came his way. The leans could
offer no other explanation for 1t than
that one look at him was enough to
stop a whole procession of balls
Tom Pearson on third knitted his
brows as the balls came his way.
playing ball is not half as easy as
knitting socks, he WAS heard to re-
.mark.
III. :. g. Pitzer gave a game leg as
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