The Irish standard., 1908-05-30
II WAS A LONG GAME
The Great Fifty-Seven Inning
Contest Between
The Famous Lightfoot Lilies and
Ringtail Roarers.

order to secure his favorte seat on
the right field bleachers. The fat man
with the crooked fingers was already
( there, says the New York Sun of May
18th 49,
Il see you here almost every day.
remarked the thin man.
The fat man looked the speaker
critically up and down.
"Yes," he answered. apparently sat
isfied with his inspection. you could
not make me miss game if had to
watch it through a knot hole in the
fence"
"That reminds me-" said the thin
man. "of funny thing that happened
up in my old home last summer.
There's man with glass eye up
in our town who is one of our most
ardent rooters. He is very absent
minded. though. and they say that one
day he stood with his glasc eye glued
to knot hole in the ball park fence
for eight whole innings. wondering
why in the name of Pop Anson the
game didn't start and where in
Schenectady all the people We're.
The fat fan swallowed hard a couple
of times and puffed furiously at his
cigar so that it soon degenerated into
a red hot race between wrapper and
filler
he a,L.o n t, i'm,
es soon as he had mastered his emo
zion, have you noticed that this years
official baseball records give the long
est contest OH record as the thirty-in-
ming game out in Cleveland last Fourth
Of July between the Brooklyn A. c.
and the F.. E. All Stars? Funny. isn't
it, that publication so accurate in
every other respect should make such
a papabe blunder?''
well. then. what was the longest
game ever played''" asked the thin
man suspiciously.
The fat fan regarded him with con-
tempt
DO You mean to tell me you've
never heard of the great 57-inning con-
test between the famous Lightfoot
Lilies and the redoubtaLie Ringtail
Roarers? Well. we'll. we'll!
'sHoweWer. it's never too late to
learn. It's half an hour before they'll
be out for practice. so here's a chance
to complete your education.
1T was the final game for the cham
pionship of Jones county Each team
had won on it's own grounds and the
deciding contest was to be played on
the diamond Of the Jones County Etc
Ear and Tongue 1nfirmary.
every man. woman and child for
miles around had crowded through the
gates. so that-well. if one more had
managed to squeeze in man wouldn't
nave been able to tell where his vest
stopped and the next mans back he
gan.
The invincible Cy Priest was In the
box for the Ringtail Roarers. No hone
then. for the Litghtfoot Lilies. YOU
might naturally suppose. But YOU
must remember the batsmen who were
70 lace him. Capt. Slugger Burrows,
the mighty Bull Thompson, Home Run
Hankins and others of tie same ,,k
was the old case of an impenetrable
body stacking up against an irresist-
ible force.
. a..
well, the game seesawed back and
forth. with the rooters of the re-
spectlve teams bowling continuously
IKE bedlan let loose in boiler fac
tory. The brass band that the Lilies
Drought with them, when playing it's
loudest produced about as much sound
as the dropping of a pin in a stamn
mill.
In the sixth the Roarers almost
scored. With two out and a man on
third Pegleg Woodruff got hit iust he
low the knee with a pitched ball. The
Lilies all crowded around the ,mpire
sf ana ana protested that it was his wooden
ieg that had been hit and that that
uiui' 1 count. The umpire. however.
Tuled that legs leg whether it's
\ II wood or flesh and gave Pegleg his
base.
The next man up for the Roarers
was cy Priest and like most great
pitchers he was about as much use at
v the bat as pair of ear tabs would
I be in Hades.
Realizing this Pegleg hobbled off
for big lead toward second and pur-
posely got caught between bases so as
to, give the man on third a. chance to
score. AS luck would have it, though.
he slipped and fell just as the runner
was starting home. Before they
q touched him. however, he managed to
xank his wooden pin off and gave it
m accurate fling that landed it square