The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17
COPS CLUB THE CLERKS.
13TO O VAS THE SCORE 1T END OF
 FIVE INNINGS.
Sfafsnn Team Beat tn Q

Then the Howe d stetson Foam Beat the GambIe-Desmonds Once Again, 13 to 8 -Latter,s Colors Were Black and Lav-
 ender, Very Funerai--Big Crowd and
 Tin Horns.
 Local dry goods clerks had jolly time at Savin Rock ball grounds yester- day afternoon. It was their mid-sum- iner weekly half-holiday and they made the most of it. Two ball games were provided to make things lively and taken altogether the outing was fine The weather was just right and thousands were present.
 The police team beat the Gamble Desmond nine to the tune of 9 to IS. That was a corker, and rather discour- aging, as another contest was to open immediately after. The second game was between the Gamble-Desmond boys and the Howe & Stetsons. The latter won IS to 8. The first game was too much of walk-over to be inter- esting, but the second contest was scrappy and lively, and there was "a lot doing most of the time.
 There was the usual attendance of the fair sex, roofing like veterans for their respective sides. Howe & Stetson admirers were the more numerous. They had tin-horn orchestra which was beauty and could play any old tune and in any desired key. That brigade wore its eolors, blue and yell low. The Gamble Desmond colors were lavendar and black, funereal symphony, which proved all too true. Nothing more appropriate could have been picked out from the ribbon coun- ter, as the scores show. But never mind,' as the girls said, what till next time!' The police game lasted for five innings and the cops lost about 200 pounds of the superfluous. The second game was of full length and had more good fun in it. MT. Malone was the umpire. He was alive late last night.
 For the first game the start was fair, and 1t began to look like good thing as there were no runs in the first two innings. But something happened in LUG IllIu dIlu lIiS Detil OpCiiCd, oiiiJ 1t rolled all one way. There seemed to be no limit to the tallies of the cops, and they finally called the game from sheer exhaustion.
 On the other scrap the playing was mostly done by two or three chaps who have tossed a ball once in a while lately in somebody's back yard. They were on to the curves of the sport and knew how. One of these fellows was Heubisch left fielder on the Gamble Desmond aggregation. He made the hit of the game in the eighth inning, a three-baser, which brought in two men dead easy. In the fifth, with the bases full, some chap knocked long < fly into deep left field. Somehow Heu- bisch managed to catch it and lined the ball for the home plate, a 200-foot throw, catching Raffile for fair. But the umpire said the runner was safe, which quieted the tin horns and proved generally miserable from the outside view William, center fielder of the Howe & Stetson team, made a one handed stop of line fly that was first rate. He didn't catch it, but he got it back to the plate in time to head off two men. Justison, the shortStop on the defeated team was another player of merit. He hit out four singles The box work of Fitzgerald of the winning nine was very commendable, and Fin nigan. for the other side, knew his bus mess also. The game was full of sport, much more entertaining than the aver age professional affair of present days, and the return matches will be watched for