The Nevada County picayune., 1907-09-19
OLD-TIME BASEBALL
aneAT GAME PLAYED AT AN.
 NAPoLIs IN 'es.
when the Jeffersons Met the Monitors ana Had to Work to Win-Doinos Of Men Who Are Since
 Famous

'i0 sally udyS or baseball 1t was wonderful thing for our local teams to make visits to other towns and cues, and our embryo tourists regard. ca the trip down to Annapolis. where they met the future rulers of the goa as a top notcher," said old Musty Rec. ora as he scanned the copy at the sporting editors desk, according to the Washington Star.
 It was pretty long trip in those times. You had to get up with the sun 'i you wanted to reach Annapolis the same day, as the then fast going 5aItimore X Ohio only had one train out that connected with that air line that worked it's way from the juno. tons and stopped at every signal. like our old-time horse cars.
 The first team to visit Anpapolis rom Washington, and, indeed. per. haps the first from any place was that lively bunch of amateurs called the JeHersons, who were just coming to the front in 1868 as the leading ex. ponents of their class of ball tossers. This visit took place on Thanksgiving day, so you can see here also that on that national holiday baseball was the real thing, though at this progressive period it is football. In honor of the visit great preparations were made by our gallant naval officers to make the affair notable.
 The naval academy chaps called themselves the Monitors. in honor. perhaps, of the then new craft the navy had made historic, and their uni. form consisted of white flannel shirts and knickerbockers trimmed with blue, and blue stockings, quite a sur prise for the visitors, as the Jeffer- sons at that time, as most of the clubs elsewhere, except the famous Red Stockings, were still wearing long trousers as part of their uniform.
 The game was exceptionally bril-. liant for those days. Some of the fielding catches of the midshipmen would reflect credit on the best pro- fessionals now before the public and would warrant extra space in to-day's Writeups as phenomenal.
 Midshipman Calhoun, afterward Ad. miral Calhoun, played his position like Lajoie, as he went after and cap tured everything that came his way with the ease and elegance of a sea. soned player, while the baekstop work of Dillingham; was as good as Dug Al lison showed with the famous Red Legs of Cincinnati. Wainwright, at left field, was the admiration of the large crowd, his excellent work bring ing out applause from the Jeffersons.
 The Jeffersons won the game on their merits, but it required the best individual and collective work of the team to surpass that of the middes. Their clean-cut work made them best of friends, even among the young ladies present. and every one knows how hard 1t is for civilians to make an impression on the fair sex when brass buttons are around.
 This opening event in athletics at the academy was soon followed by FIollo llOLH lIc ollcI ol SdulEdAlOIo ol Baltimore and Washington, in which not only baseball played an important part, but boat races and other sports were included. These have been main tained these many years, and 1t is re- markable that 90 per cent. of the mid. shipmen who have figured in the an. nals of athletics have also filled niches in the history Of our country and be come famous in war and the develop ment of the service