The Newtown bee., 1902-08-22
BASEBALL ENTHUSIASM.
VIEWPOINTS AND LIME ROCKS.

The Newtown ball team went to Lime Rock. last Saturday, to play the Lime Rocks, and in we'll played and very interesting game were fairly de- feated by the score of four to three. The feature of the game was the put ting out by fly catches of the entire three men in the first inning, by J.. Lynch, center fielder of the NewtOwns. Nichols and Haugh were the battery for the home team and put up good ball. The Lime Rocks won the game in the fourth inning by punching their hits, but in no other innning in the game were they able to score. New town scored in the first, sixth and seventh innings, one run in each, not sufficient to win the game. A very large crowd was present at the game. The Newtown boys and management were we'll pleased with their treatment in Lime Rock and hope. both teams will be able to come together again next year.
 On Saturday of this week the New towns are booked to play the St JO- seph's of Bridgeport, who have at the present time a very strong team, and a warm game may therefore be looked for. The game will be called at the Fair grounds at p. m., if the day is not stormy.
 The regular season closed on Satur- day, August 9, and therefore all games now arranged are special games and season tickets are no longer in use.
 Clear-cut pictures, a brillia mt light formed by acetylene gas and pleasing running description of the scenes gave an evening of instruction and delight to an audience of good size that gathered on Wednesday evening in the Congregational church. Miss BaSSett Wooster of Washington, D. O., the lecturer, carried her audience easily from room to room of the old Mt Yer non mansion and through the splendid porticoeS and up the magnificent stair ways of ;the National Library. Such evenings are an education to all. If one has not visited the places, after spots among his own property in tell ing what he knows about, if one has visited these hauntS of the tourist, he finds much delight in going again over the familiar walks and ways. It must be a source of great satisfaction to every true American to know that Mt Vernon is now so we'll cared for, and that it will forever be the shrine to- ward which patriotic feet will turn. Many of the states have each a room in the mansion, and in this room are gathered the Washingtonia which the citizens of that state are willing to supply. The bed on which Washing ton died, his trusty sword, the suit of clothes he wore at his inauguration, the cream-colored coach in which he rode as one of the wealthiest Americans of his day, the sago palm that actually stood in the Mt Vernon conservatory when Washington was living,-all these become at once objects of absorb ing interest to one who feels proud to style himself citizen of no mean country. By-and-by we shall be so sell fish or provincial, which because of what we can do and achieve, that we shall feel it is hardly worth while to take voyage beyond the main to see what can interest, for the world will have nothing better than can be found within the domains of Uncle Sam. We certainly appreciate Miss Wooster as a cicerone, and assure her that some places will always stand out brighter in our memory because of her visit here.