The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-04-28

didn't hang right, and such a hat!
Big red velvet roses and moire grOs-
grain satin edge ribbon of a dingy
black color, and aigrettes of frightful
color neither Nile green nor shrimp
pink" IN. B. 1 hope any feminine
readers who detect discrepancies in the
foregoing description of the young
lady's costume will kindly keep quiet,
as the author is not very we'll versed
on millinery matters. But that's how
it sounded to me.)
1 picked up my book again, for l
knew the chances of any baseball news
were slight when the ladies were on
their favorite topic. Soon, however,
the baseball got in its work. Mrs. H.
was saying: eyes, the man stood there
with big club and when the ball came
along he struck it with the club and
ran down to first base and earned a
rum"
"Anybody could do that said the
old maid.
"They could if the shortstop didn't
throw the ball to center-feld before
the man ran to third base," said Mrs.
H.
swell, did this man get put out after
all ?" asked Mrs. Rogers.
"No, not yet" explained Mrs. H., she
had to wait to see if the right fielder
caught the ball, and if he did he had
to run to second base before the right
fielder touched him with the ball."
sis the right fielder the one who al
ways catches the ball?" asked Mrs.
Jenkins.
"Not always, sometimes the left field
er catches it and sometimes the short
STOP"
"How can they tell who beats 9''
asked Mrs. Rogers.
"Why they leave it to the umpire; if
he gets mad at the Bostons they lose
and if he don't like the home team
they lose."
"What do they do when they don't
catch the ball?" asked the old maid.
"'Why they let the ball 60 and take a
new one and keep knocking it in the
air till someone catches it. One man
didn't catch it till he got to the players
bench. 1 didn't see him, but my hus.
band said he caught it good and strong
from the manager"
"What else do they do?" asked Mrs
Jenkins.
"Why they run and slide on the
ground to make two-baggers."
"To make what?" said the ladies IN
chorus.
"Two-baggers! that means they gel
safe at third on foul ball." explained
Mrs. H.
"Foul ballw they cried. "What';
that?"
"Why. foul ball is when the batter
gets struck by the ball."
"Do they strike him often?'
"Yes," said Mrs. H., "that's one OF
the scientific points of the game, tt
strike player so hard as to put hin
out of the game. You see it's thi'
way" continued the now thorough!
ratified Mrs. H.; "when the players lin,
up in circle around the batter he ha
got to knock the ball over their head
clear to right field. If the man on th'
first base gets the ball before the bat
ter gets to third base he is out at sec
ond on home run, but if the short
stop bunts the ball too hard on fou
the catcher takes his mask off and run
to left field to help find the ball, ant
then the player runs from second bas
) to home plate and if he gets there be
fore the first baseman puts the ball t.
{ second base he's out, do you see?"
l 90 yes," said the chorus, sit must D
: just grandw
D "Deed it is," went on the enthusias
t tic Mrs. H., "it's fine but it took me tn
r longest time to understand all tn
rules of the game. Now that 1 do un
J. derstand, just love baseball and ca
scarcely wait till next Saturday"
And next Saturday it rained.
HARLEY.
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