The Washington times., 1901-08-06
BUREAUITES WIN AT DUSK.
Government Printing Omce Nine
Loses by Darkness.

Once again the elongated and Inflated
"Slivers" Ashley. who does the laborious
box work for Uncle Sans typographical
artists, sauntered into the box TO serve
up bcndors to the nine of the Bureau OF
Engraving and Printing, Had it not been
for a series of costly errors of his team
mates he would have succeeded. Not
withstanding the fact that the type
settlers lost. they were hotly on the trail
of their opponents, and 1t was generally
conceded that had the contest lasted ten
minutes longer the black ink handlers
would have equalized matters with the
men who dabble in the green. With the
score standing to in favor of the men
from southwest and two men had been
retired on their side, the game was called
by the Indicator handler on account of
darkness, which was greeted with wild
howls of derision by the fans who had
waxed enthusiastic over the game.
The certificate makers were the first to
WELD the stick, and they produced, by
their efforts in that line, one trip around
the four-bag circuit. The type handlers,
who were not to be outdone. were not
satisfied with one, so they doubled it and
retired to the diamond feeling that they
had done a good business for one inning.
Both sides had a large goose egg chalked
up to their credit In the second, but the
greenback makers got one In the third to
keep the thing from becoming monoto-
nous. Their opponents had no such luck,
but they evenod up in the fourth, when
one of their tribe rushed into camp with
the run that set them one ahead of the
board.
happenings, and incidentally some very
wild ball throwing. which resulted disas-
trously for the printers. This Is how it
came about With a Bureauite on the
statt fa1 h~ag her ia
intention of sacrificing his chances of
swatting the leather out of the bounds
in order to advance the runner another
peg on his journey He chose as the
means to do this to bunt the sphere and
fly to the premier sack. Several of the
typesetters rushed for the horsehide and
the worthy that got his digits upon 1t
threw IL wild to first to cut off the run
ner at that station. But there was moth
ing doing in that line for the leather, be-
ing on a through trip, did not stop at
such a way station but proceeded to its
destination in right field. There 1t was
not captured until the batter had dashed
home, preceded very thoughtfully by the
other Bureauite. They added another to
their total during the remainder OF the
inning and retired TO the tall grass with
two runs to the good.
One-two-three WAS the order of things in
the sixth for both sides. The Fourteenth
Street men also failed to score in their
half of the seventh, but their rivals who
We're intent upon tying the score. moved
up one notch. They were now only one
to the bad, and they began to play heady
ball when they saw darkness was hover
ing over the grounds The Southwest
contingent moved about very leisurely
just at this time. for they saw what
was in store for inem- Two of the bat
ters who came up found their retirement
was almost instantaneous. for the North
Capital Street men wanted to get an
other swat at the horse-hide. and were
playing. fast ball. The third man ap-
peared at the plate. and one ball was
served up to him. which he did not make
any pretonce to hit. and the umpire,
whose sight was failing him, called the
game.
The printers who had worked so hard
In order to get that last crack at the
leather, did not relish being thus cheated
out of it. They retired from the field
feeling very much cast down over the fact
that their splendid eleventh hour chances
of turning defeat into victory had been
nipped in the bud. Consequently. they
silently packed up and piodded their
weary homeward way in anything but a
pleasant mood. Score by innings:
Bureau .......... / o 0 %
Printers ....... 0 0 IL