Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-02
ROUULES SKUNK ORIGINALS
Western Lssgusn Give Amateur One Run
and No Hits a. Benefit.
KELLY WEIGH DOES THE PITCHING
Oldest Inhabitant, Careful Observer
and Little Boy on Center Field
Fence Weep % see F1ag
No More.

That little game Of base ball yesterday
afternoon-probaby the last that will be
played this season at the Vinton Street
park-was not unlike a trip downtown In
a crowded street car, so full was the game
or little incidents. OF course, there was
no street car on the grounds, the woman
who jumps on backwards and calls the
conductor names was not there, there was
no dog cold in death before a car OF pas
sengers' eyes, no plugged nickels were re-
turned, although Manager Rourke did let
one little boy in for "A cents; no woman
with four small children and a basket Of
groceries was carried four blocks beyond
her destination and her husband at home
waiting for his supper after a hard, hard
days work; there was no young man who
rode all the way to South Omaha on the
last car. thinking he was being transported
to Walnut Hill.
There was none Of those things, except,
possibly. in the imagination of one who
iikened the game to ride downtown on
a crowded street car. But the game was
so fraught with fads, fancies, foibles and
frivolltes that It made the little boy who
sits on the center Geld fence go and tell
Pa Rourke after the game what was in his
mind, namely, that the game was like a
street car ride.
you know, Pa, that you read in the
street cars, on the signs that are fastened
over the seats, about a voice from the
grave, the man that ran and fell,' the
boy that rocked the boat and hid his sis
ter's curling iron,' the smile that stays
on the best place in Omaha to get bird
and bottle at just the right tempera-
lures and all these things"
PA Pats the Pretty Pate.
Pa gave the boy a kindly pat on the
head, told him to simmer down for this
season and return next spring.
It was not such a bad game after all.
Kelley WEIGH held the observation-disclosures
Originals down without a hit. even II the
amateurs did make one run. The Original
boys played we'll, but Mr.. WEIGH leased
them all along the trail. Fifteen hits and
eleven runs for the Omaha team did the
work for Rourke's children. who wept
whenever they looked toward that old flag
pole.
Johnny Gonding umpired the game and
was well received by the fans. In the third
act he responded to two encores. In the
fourth inning Gonding called three
strikes" so loudly that a sleeping man on
the top tier of the grandstand was sud
denly awakened. He rolled down two tiers
and then pulled out a long coupon railroad
ticket from one Of his pockets.
There was, however, one sad. sad thought
that filled the hearts of the fans with
large gobs of gloom during the game. That
sadness was not because Pa Rourke forgot
to wear his cuffs, nor was 1t because Kelly
WEIGH was hit by pitched ball from
Adams, but because the pennant that
noated so triumphantly to the Vinton
street breezes all season was not to be
seen yesterday afternoon. In the words OF
the poet-butcher, There was an aching
void at the top of the pole in the field
and everyone seemed 10 notice the void.
Over in Pa Rourke's box, with heads
. bowed low, were the Oldest Inhabitant
and the Careful Observer. while with
solemn mein sat the Earliest Arrival and
his little sister
The game was a beneht for the Rourke
men and was fairly we'll patronized.
The score: