Evening star., 1909-07-17
GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT
Republican Party Wits Before
the Democrats.
AT LEAST NINE OF THEM DO
Memorable Game of Base Ball on
Nationals Grounds.
G. O. P. ELEPHANT TAGGED OUT
Score About 81 Runs to 16-B.
Bryan Donkey Still Bray
ing Defiance.
AT LEAST NINE OF THEM DO
G. o.P. ELEPHANT TAGGED OUT


memory of man the 6. o. P. yesterday
went down to defeat. At last account
the party elephant was giving few
expiring gasps and blowing departing
clouds of American League Park dust
over It's whitening back. The Il told
YOU 50" rooster awakened from it's long
somnolence. caught a special train from
Salt river and was in our midst giving
cards and spades to all other chanti-
CIeers within fourteen miles of the Dis
triCt Of Columbia. Incidentally there
Was a record demand last night for DIR.
t'ixems liniment for man and beast
This morning a prolonged and united
chorus Of Obs and Abs and
"Ouches." etc, etc, proceeded from the
chambers of some two score congress
men. as said athletes essayed to climb
from their downies.
benighted individual who submitted
query as To the score was informed
+ that the exact result was somewhat in
doubt. Some of the Official scorers de-
clared the democrats made twenty-eght
runs, while others insisted the total was
only twenty-seven, and from those two
standards the total varied between
7 twenty-five and twenty-nine, depending
on the ability of various penci-shovers
l. III making records of the numbers of
of the Jefersonian idea ambled round the
circuit. The Republicans? Why, to be
sure. They made sixteen runs.
B. Bryan Donkey Rejoices.
And the B. Bryan donkey went on
jambouree. alternating courses of hay,
bran mash. oats and alfalfa with pink
lemonade and soda pop. 1t was still
braying defiance to all the rest OF the
animal kingdom when 1t was led into the
Museum OF the Lost Cause and beaten
! INTO submission with a 16-to-1 plank of
/ the vintage of 1923.
/ Anyhow. the proceeds were for the
i benefit of the Fairgrounds fund. and quite
few simoleons were garnered at the
gate, as other congressman, government
officials and friends of the combatants
gave up good money to see kinkead's s
SuperbaS take a fall out of the Tener A
\ G, and to hear the solons make a noise
like base ball game.
Text of Special Rules.
Special rules adopted for the occasion
included the following:
4 Rule !. mo runner mad advance more
/ than one base on q passed ball or wild
! pitch, irrespective of the fact that the
said passed ball or wide pitch may be the
batters third strike. because 1t would
t 1Induly fatigue the catchers to chase the
hall in season to prevent runners scoring
from second
Rule =. Substitute runners may be sum
Inoned at will. but the substitution OF a
runner will not prevent the original
player from competing In the next in
ming
Rule :. "Batters may skip time at bat
whenever windbroken. This rule also to
obtain when q weak batter is next up
ana there are two or more men on the
bases"
Rule T. "All batted and thrown balls
should reach the basemen and fielders
on the second bound
Rule >. Especially drawn for N. Long
WORTH The placing of peach baskets,
catchers' mitts, etc, in spots in the out
I Held where fly balls are likely to DROP is
permissible. Stern chases after mis-
Judged fly balls must proceed with due
deliberation."
g. O. p. Gets Its Bumps.
In the midst of the proceedings, when
tine q. .. L. was getting its bumps the
hardest, when as many as ten democrats
in row had registered. Speaker Can
mon suggested the advisability of a mo-
ton to reconsider. and Whip Dwight
was sent out to round up majority OF
the faithful-but the insurgents joined
with the dimmycrats and the prospective
motion was howled down.
For the time being Hank ODay,
keeper OF the grounds, ruled the rulers
the bat and he called strikes on the
lawmakers with fearful regularity Rev.
}. a. Reynolds of Redbank, N. j., gave
decisions on the bases, and he joined
with Hank in giving the CLASSY stare to
a threat of the Tener A. c. to protest
the game because one of its strongest
patters, the gentleman from Ohio, N.
IongWorth. was compelled to face a bat
terry OF seven cameras as well as the
pitcher every time he was drafted to
swing the willow.
That the Tener Athletic Club had good
grounds for the protest was evident from
the fact that Nick struck out twice his
slrst three times up.
Mick in Error Column.
i-ongworth also broke into the error
Ecolumn, the judges assessing seven wob-
'hes against him because he wore a golf
isuit in which to play base bail Butler
sAmes of Massachusetts was given eight
errors because he wore a white collar and
flowing scarf throughout the seven
innings of the game.
Capt. kinkead of New Jersey, leader of
the opposition, won the toss at the tap of
the gong, and elected to send his men
t1irst TO bat Representative J. II. Gaines
'of West Virginia did the twirling for the
G.. o. F., and il was largely on account
OF the fact that he had just come from
'1he White House, where he pleaded with
President Taft for protection for the raw
products of his state, that Kinkead' 8
superbas gave him the rawest sort of
treatment. In the first inning they landed
on his curves for three safeties, and in
The second for seven bingles and ten runs
In the fifth inning. with the score IL
TO against them. the Tener A. c. gar
Eered ten runs, tying the score, but there
was loud cry of fraud from the Op-
position, and "A recount showed that the
official" scorekeeper had allowed only
nine tallles In the second, when the Dim
mycrats really made ten.
OConnell of Massachusetts led all ner
formers with the willow. He willfulIy
jumped two OF his colleagues In the
batting order In the seventh and made