The Lamar register., 1902-07-30


witness cne OF the most weird and won
derful exhibitions that has ever been
passed off on the public for base ball.
The Fats in charge of Capt. A. +. Bent
and the Leans under management OF
Capt. A. N. Parrish, played the entire al
ternoon and with the aid of Umpire
Weed, succeeded near sundown in fin-
ishing the fifth inning and making
game OF 1t.
The two captains spit on board and
tossed up for first chance at the bat and
the Leans won. Otto Franz was first
man up and after Pitcher Setchel had
missed his bat three times in succession,
he sat down. Captain Parrish then got
a base on balls and on continuous errors
made fine run home with the first
score. In doing this he broke the draw
string of his-well never mind, he sue
ceeded in hiding the accident from the
the ambulance corps, and the Red Gross
ladies' were saved very embarrassing
job. Irwin and Myers were called out
by the umpire, and the Fats came in.
Judge Doughty, who distinguished
himself both behind and at the bat,
couldn't run buses any better than he
did for judge the last time and was put
out quickly. Setchel made n good hit
and must have thought he was playing
"puss in corner" as he chased all the
the outfielders around the lot, but owing
to errors finally landed safe at home. He
was quickly followed by Novels and
Bent who had their eyes on the Jug OF
4tonic" on the home plate. Saylor struck
out and Manville and Markham made
hits and were brought in by fine home
run drive by Williams, who succeeded
by a desperate dash in reaching first base
ahead of the ball. Mayor Strain bruised
the unoffendng atmosphere three times,
and was so overcome by the exertion
that VIC. Gould with the ambulance
corps made quick rush to save his life.
1t was only the rapid and effective work
of the tender nurses OF the Red Cross 80
ciety, who were out in full force, that
prevented a vacancy in the mayors Of
flee.
In the second inning the Leans did
little better IA Huddleston and Silver
started out with runs, but Hillyer, John
ston and Curry ended hope by going
out The latter was put out by Capt
Bent ON trick he learned from the fam
GUS A Anson years ago. The Fats dupli-
Gated their batting work Of the previous
inning with the addition that Saylor also
made run. All through this inning it
was noticed that Curry, who was study
ing about how he was put out, was get
ting wild and when the ambulance start
ed in that direction he became frantic
and made dash for the river to drown
himself. The ambulance corps headed
him off, however, and once more the Red
Cross ladies' saved a life at great peril to
themselves too, for in his frenzy he prov
ed very dangerous. The Leans very
heartlessly put l.. F. Adams in his place
and went on with the game without
break. The rest Of the game was but a
repetition OF the first two innings with
the exception OF the last inning when
the Leans put In Blurton, Bannister and
Mclean and succeeded in making few
runs. The Fats also put in Conwell and
Garvin who fattened their error column
perceptibly. The ambulance and Red
Cross had one more job on A. E. Bent,
but the latter when informed that he
had batted in run, nobly said II die
happy" and arose and finished the game.
The score table below tells the "tail:"