Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-24

VeScent lmp-miSchleI. Seems he would
have tumbled, but goodness knows il
takes q man for d%enseness every time
they are SO contemplative-of self
Therein, little girl. lies your power 10
fool him-mere man is not intuitiye
n his superb self engrossment won't
permit him TO make a study OF your
motives. OF course not. But no
knocking-and about the girl with the
eyes M the mar without-he
might as well have been blind
for all the use he made OF his optics
they We're out to view the defeat
of the Ancient City aggregation which
happened as per schedule, drubbing
and all. Now the masculine part of
the story is we'll known TO you all,
although the proverbially friendly
newspaper spirit in all kindness with
holds his name. He won't give You
the story so toss your laugh (you will
laugh Won't you when informed of the
proper ''where') off into space and
the winds if not perverse. will blow
il into his red face. Look into your
mirror, Mr.. Man of my story, isn't
The blush OF the rose tinting your
whiskered face?
Who's the girl. did you ask? l
don't know, but careful inquiry has
developed the fact that she is a sum
mer visitor in our midst.
So much for the preliminary: Here's
how the main bout started:
do you understand baseball in
quired the solicitous he, of the bit Of
white femininity which with true a
culine discernment was deposited di-
rectly behind the backstop.
Girls never understand ball, do
they?" she asked innocently.
"Oh. yes magnanimously admit
ted the man, lots of girls | know are
real bugs-er--I mean fans and the
girl smiled more comprehensively.
They're loony over the game and sabe
all the inside dope. Gee, / wish you
were a fan. This is going to be a class
sy game"
She was watching the boys in white
and gray run across the diamond
which side IS Albuquerque. r want
10 know when to roo-er when to clap
for the home cam"
THE boys in gray are our boys and
now let me tell you the main points
OF the game. ! wager that after You
see half a dozen games you wont be
able to do anything else but think, eat
and dream baseball
Yes. do tell me all about IL" she
said vaguely with a far away look at
the score board.
well, it's this way and he plung-
ed into that old rigmarole which men
employ with variations of pity for
our ignorance, and patronage in the
nansferrence of their knowledge, in
enllghtening women folks as to the
way the great American game is play
ed.
There are nine men on a side. do
you see, u the idea is to make runs.
A run is when the batter gets all the
way around the bases to the home
plate. Unless he gets hit by the pitch
er or gets his base on balls-Ill eX-
plain the difference between IL
strikes when the game begins-the
batter has TO make a hit to get on
first base and then it's up TO the 9TH
er batters to bat him around. See?
He can steal bases too. but | will ex-
plain that stunt when it is pulled Off"
And all this time the girl was all at
tention with a little frown between the
white brows just by way CT proving
concentration, or maybe twas to Keep
back the smile which seems somehow
to hover round the eyes.
Now you see" continued the ora
tor eloquently, the pitcher is really
the whole works. II you have n crack
eriack pitcher why the other gang
cant hit his stuff and that's all there
is to II.
Now Bugs Newmeyer pitches to-
day and it is hard to touch him for a
hit. though the guy pitching for SAN
tn Fe-Safford is his name-thats
him standing over near first base, can
tie them up in a burlap bag when he
takes the mound in good form. But
we expect Bugs to bump him today.
Just then coombs busted off the bat
and called Batter up in his most
peremptory tone and that's some tone.
too. isn't il?
oh. they're going to begin ex-
claimed the girl with the wicked eyes
which had in them a look of keen an
ticipation. But the man was busiiy
watching the fielders run to their
places n noteu hfltHfA INV 'oN
tones nor eyes.
That's Gaastra." Informed the
baseball information bureau, as the
first victims for Santa Fe approached
the pan swinging two bats trying them
out for heft. "He clouts the old thing
pretty good. too" And he kept up
his running fire Of explanation during
the first half Of the first and the girl
watched the diamond with rather
keen eyes-considering.
Who's the batter" suddenly de-
manded the demure one at the begin
ming Of the second half and from her
pocket book she produced pencil and
"A real score card and scrubbed the
pitchers names in the right place and
started the batting order. slam II
up against the stockade.' f~erHently
breathed the uninitiated as Chavez
went to place. ''oh. you will have TO
smash il right on the seam this time, 1
as the umpire held M two fingers on
the side registering strikes "Um-ah.
ne famed You. didn't he boy \
The man who had been telling thisii