Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-27
A TIE OR NOT?
Bankers and Lawyers Somewhat
Mixed and Will Play Again,

The Bankers and the LAWYERS met
on the Driving park diamond, yester
day afternoon. and played between
eight and nine innings of the great
game called baseball. and the score 10
either tie of IA TO IA or IA to * in
favor of the Bankers-it cannot he
definitely stated which at the hour of
going to press. Anyway, they are to
play it out at some future date. though
the Bankers believe they are winners
just the same. and though they do
not pretend to know as much about
law as they do baseball. they think any
fair minded jury would sustain them
with a verdict III their favor.
AS near as can be made out. the
Lawyers got hungry before the game
was over and wished to quit and with
the score IA to Is in their favor at the;
end of the fifth they called their men
in and gave three lusty cheers for the.
Bankers, congratulated each other on
we'll earned victory. and We're about
to start for home. when the Bankers
put forth strenuous objections, saving
they were not after cheers. but runs.
Finding that the Bankers were in
clined to insist that the game be for
feited if they did not play it out, they
played two no,e innings without either
side scoring, frequently making obiec-
tons to further play on account of
hunger. They played part of the
eighth and the Bankers got two runs
and were consequently in the lead by
Il single score, and it was here that
the Lawyers decided that they would
play no more ball for all the money
the Bankers ever saw and that's all
there was to it.
They said they had wanted to stop
Before, but had continued just to be
accommodating. but they would do so
no more--rules or no rules The Bank
ers agreed to call il tie, although
they thought there was no good reason
for doing so, and the teams will meet
another day.
So you see how it is. 1t would seem
that it is a case for the higher court,
and the question must rest. If five in
nings is not Il game eight is not, say
the lawyers. That would seem reason
able to any jury. On the other hand
the Bankers say that if they We're ahead
and the Lawyers refuse to play. the
game ought to he theirs, on all legal
grounds. ON the Lawyers side again
they have the technical ground of say
ing that if a nme-innings game is not
a game nothing else will answer before
any authority in the country. In view
of these complications, another game
will be played. but the Bankers want
it understood that if the Lawyers are
going to get hungry before the game is
overover they better bring their lunch
along and have it served between in
nings.
The game? Oh yes. that was rath-
err interesting and was full of all kinds
of playing-good. bad and Indifferent,
mostly the last two. The score was
close all the way through, one side
leading a few runs and the other catch
ing up in their half-something of
seesaw. Some of the players played for
dead life. and sweat and worried and
rejOiced at successes achieved and wept
over opportunities lost; others took it
philosophically and appeared to think
that the victory would be for the side
that was foreOrdained to win. One of
these was Thompson of the Lawyers.
who enjoyed a grandstand seat in SEN
ter field and watched the game much
more unconcernedly then some of the
ladies in the grandstand-regular Stole
fashion.
Then there was those who would be
glad to see their side win, but who
would enjoy seeing others have the vic
tory. if it was not for them. All types
of enthusiasts, but lovers Of baseball
above everything else.
1t would be useless to endeavor to
tell how all the plays went, as often
the quickness of the plays deceived
the eye and the scorer could not keep
up with the procession. Suffice it to say
there was something doing all the time,
and if you want to see the whole show
you had better plan to be on the spot
when the next game takes place.
Here's the score to the end of the
fifth, when the scorer left, with the rest
Of the people, believing the game was
over: