The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
DEMOCRATS
WIN GAME
Swamp Republicans BY
Ten Runs.
HENN PLAYS LIKE COBB
Whole Of Washington Excited Over
Event.
Tariff Questions, Deficiescy MN Aaa
All Legisiatien Completely
Ignored And Fergotten
For The Nay.

Washington. July ls,---With Uncle
Joe" Cannon looking ON and poweriess
to call the minority TO order or bring
IN special rule shutting of base bits.
ssssduiss out va q tss Rep pS az
American League Park today and won
the most famous Congressional base
ball game on record by the thrilling
The minority wanted to make u ~
to but the Republicans defeated the
proposition once again.
the n extra ssssionvwas followed s 81
cloudburst. The deluge did not descend
until the seventh inning battle had
ended with the stout mem bers all puff
and chasing balls and the lean mem
bers prone Gu the grass from exhausted
energy.
ter. The thrnng included most Of the
distinguished government officials and
they barely had time TO reach their
heaviest thunder storm OF the summer
broke over the city and all Of wash
inston was swept by q miniature
'''' Tart Prefers Golf.
Presidsae Taft did net ,attsna--he
dent sherman playing gclf.
in n2 Rst sans e sn ss.r
seven innings before and strange a.
4 may seem. II was not all bad. The
Democrat: put up .attiins 5000
Sentative Heflin, Of Alabama. playing
in one Of the outer gardens. reminded
one strikingiy, Of ~ Cobb. No one
he had q chance to be hero. The
Republicans suddenly came TO life IN
the nth inning and were scoring eight
or nine or ten runs, when q line n.y.
Heflin. The portly Alabamian. who
played in white flannel trousers with
q black silk watch fob dangling from
his belt, cast one weather eye Ct the
ball and another at his bare hands and
duck cd" The hit ought TO have been
good for a home run but Representa-
tive Rowland, of Ohio. fell exhausted
on the second sack and yelled for
somebody to come on out and finish
'"' 'N Lcngworth a Frost.
Representative Nicholas Longworthf
OF Ohio, signed at a tremendous outlay
1t was said by the Republican mana.
ger. failed to live up to his advance
notice. He presented a natty appear
and negligee shirt, but he "caseysd
out" twice with two men on bases, goe
q base on balls once and then In the
last sf Of the ansas ssye bsn he Ss" ouf
tiny Mttle Anfield hit. His only 9TH
er acquaintance with the ball was .
couple of foul tips and several long
runs after two-baggers, slammed out
by the unterrifed Democracy.
The Official score looked too much
like O House tariff bill coming out OF
be printed In full. The Republicans
stuck to their original line mp through-
out the game but the Democrats wore
themselves out making ten runs IN the
called upon with ever increasing ire
quency and the batting order was
shifted every inning.
--old hands al the business--could
come to see the base hits and errors
was to give the Democrats twenty
ana Ave " OF Of the latter. The Repubii-
cans are credited with twenty safe hits
and nine errors. The real reason there
were not moro errors was because the
players side stepped the hard ones ana
couldn't reach the long ones.
Players Come Together.
Texas leaEuers were there In hunchs
es and once in chasing 2 pop Tx sns
Repu blican catcher and pitcher collided
with feaFsome results. Represenfatiye
Burke, Of Pennsylvania, who. was az
the receiving end for the majority, is
into Pitcher Gaines, of West Virginias
the little catcher was sent heels over
head to the ground. S1e picked him
s sgrd tx TIE u pitcSer were doing an -Ai-
phonse and CASTOR, three Democrats.
with a warped Idea of chivalrous
runs to their already opulent total.
The game had been brewing for
weeks and the members OF the House
thusiasni. Deep, dark. dank rumors
were in circulation for a time that
ringers" would H. introduced into the
contest but when they lined up at
O'clock this afternoon the nine Repub-
Iicans were as stalwart grand old
party men as any to be found In all
the land while the Democrats were Of
as pure q Jeffersonian strain a. the
Halls of Monticello ever knew.
The flrst victory Of the day for the