The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-19
baltimore American)


Yes. said the chap in the big panama,
IL was great game and a great catch,
ana the KID deserves a heap of credit,
ago and he sighed deeply.
There was a warn back of that sigh and
] knew II. so / murmured. What are YOU
going to have2' and whistled.
lie slipped in silence for a few moments
and then relieved himself of the follow
ing:
In the autumn of 1888 the Chicago club
and picked team known as the ALI
America. accompanied by newspaper
correspondents and others, left Chicago,
oct - tor San Francisco, Honolulu,
Auckland Sydney. Melbourne and other
Ceylon. the pyramids of Egypt, Brindisi,
Naples, Rome. Florence, Paris, London,
Bristol Manchester. Liverpool, Birming
nam. Glasgow. Belfast. Dublin, Queens
town. New York Philadelphia and Chi
CaPo, arriving on April 20. ] was at that
time connected with the then leading
Chicago daily. and II was my good for
tune to be sent on this tour. l never
knew why ! was selected, and indeed,
to this day my selection has remained
mystery. The trip lasted just six months
and marked an epoch in the history OF
baseball being the means of our national
game becoming known throughout almost
he entire world SO faborably was the
game received in many foreign lands that
il was adopted as a prime favOrite. and
has continued TO grow in popularity.
''Fifty-three games were played-fifty-
reported. but there was a fitty-fourth
game-thc most interesting of all from my
viewDoint-the details OF which did not
enter into any of our dispatches.
This contest took place on the burning
sands of Egypt. within the shadow OF
the great pyramid-the mauSOleum OF
Cheops which towers $50 feet in the air,
and the side OF whose base is $50 feet
lvng-and the teams were composed OF
newspaper and sporting men who had
accompanied the professional clubs on
their globe-trotting tour.
"Our pitcher had lots Of steam and. all
in all. was pretty fair for an amateur,
out at times he was ferOciouSly wild.
and during those periods we congratu-
lated ourselves upon the handy length OF
the backstOp. Our catcher told us De
fore the game that he had been accus-
toned 10 catching years ago, and he had
been selected upon that statement. He
time-sav in the days of the knlcker-
booker club in lS45-but he was tearutny
out of practice. He tried hard enough,
but-yOu understand.
Between his muffmg proclivities and
the pitchers periodical wildness. the OPP
posing team was leading us by safe
margin Of three runs. we went To the
bat in the ninth inning with resolVe-to-
do-Or-die feeling predominant in our
hearts and BIZ dint OF base on balls.
three clean hits and an evil assortment
/ of errors. VIC scored four runs, and AT
the close OF the inning the score stood
y ia Il in our favor. We took he field
in & iubilant mood and our highest am
! bition at that moment was 20 keep the
other side from scoring our pitcher
started off well by striking out NUMBER
one. The second man was hit This
seemed 70 rattle him and he passed the
I third man 90 first on bad ones. NUMBER
four met the first ball pitched and sent
a Nv To short left, which was neatly
ficided by the scribe covering that posi-
sion The fifth batter up also went down
10 first on bad ones and the bases we're