Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-17
That BAH Game.

Dlu you ever! It's fun to see the
colts prancing about the pasture but
lt's nothing compared with when the
old nags get gay. Whew. But the
big boys did tear up the turf last
Saturday afternoon out at the ball
grounds. The base lines are full of
ruts and ridges since the fatties
steamed around the course. The
leans had difficulty in keeping on
the line as there was quite breeze
blowing and being clad in base ball
suits they had no pockets in which
to carry weights.
Charlie Stevens acted as umpire,
Mr.. Stevens is usually the umpire
IN all the real ball games PLAYED in
this city and is perfectly familiar
in all the realus of the game. His
expression was a study when some
OF the old boys who used to play town
ball and scrub, back in the last CEN
t1ry, would question his decisions.
At first he tried telling them the
reasons why.-but it got monotonous
and he settled down to the patient,
plying expression of a man arguing
plain sense to his.wife.
1t had been planned that the fatties
should wear boiled shirts in the
game but their wives had filled the
bureau drawers with SO much truck
that they did not have time to dig
the shirts out, so they wore what
they could find handiest. Another
conspicuous circumstance was that
hardly married man in the bunch
had..a matched pair of socks to his
name. The single men were little
better off in this regard.
Justice Carlson was in the pitchers
box at the opening of the game and
he heaved the sphere at regular
Intervals with the force and d.precision
OF man piling shingles in a min
yard. Emil Tornell took turns with
him at this part of the job and be-
tween them they made the leans look
like the guide board when the boy
with the 81 musket has been that
way. Charlie Wees was the only
man that really made claim to
have been hit by pitchers ball, and
he--proved it by the fact that the ball
was slightly damp when picked up,
as II it had passed through heavy
fog. SD. Swanson, of Luna, was
the man behind the bat. The fact
that he is from Luna does not mean
that he is a lunatic, neither is he the
man in the moon, even if he did stick
to his position through the whole
game.
Judge Grindeland and Clarence
Spaulding came near being "took up''
for exceeding the speed limit while
running bases. The 'leans'' who
were unfortunate enough to be run
over declare they will not play in the
same game with them again unless
they carry "tooter' and headlights
to signal their approach.
Braggans pitched for the thins.
lie was put in that position because
he is a short hand writer and conse-
quently familiar with curves, and he
easily fulfilled all expectations.
Lindseth was the catcher, but he is a
member of the regular city team and
therefore not entitled to mention
here. Haney, Weld, T.. Il. Frank,
W. N. Powell, Myhre, Sathre, and
Wees could be noted at irregular in
tervals on the grounds, but only those
who had field glasses were enabled to
spy them when facing edgewise.
Winberg, Wittensten, Morck and
Sinclair pastured in the outlots for
the fatties
The only serious accidents occurred
when Morck insisted on using the
clothes paddle he had borrowed at the
laundry for a bat and the umpire
chased him out SO hard that he lost
control of his speed lever and criukle led
up the gearing. However, the mach
mist says the repairs can easily be
made.
George Johnson kept score, but it
was not recognized as being good evi-
dence. Too much like .hearsay. The
only score reliable enough to be re-
ported was that made by A. B. Mel
son at the gates. He took in S42. So
and is therefore the best man on the
team
! This isn't write-up Of ball
game, anyway.
Fortunate Miss O1l7ia,.
L silNhan Mas q drnnnict OF I.iaron-