The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
SING SINGS FIRST OUTING
is A FACILITATING SUCCESS
All Bars Let Down at Baseball and Athletic Meet
and 1900 Convcts Frolc Like Kids
After School,

, rules against eighteen or twenty two or
| three weeks ago
| When the men left the mess han this
| afternoon out OF the entire 1900 not more
! than 100 OF them really believed all those
things they had heard about the after
| noon. II was Incredible. Men some Of
whom have been there more than twenty
! years announced that everybody had gone
| crazy and they had to be shown. They
marched out OF the hail and instead OF
| going back to the old cells turned to the
left around the building, marched to the
| edge OF the green and there their keepers
/ left them. Those were the orders.
Go on now" was tho last command. II
gripped the observer a little to watch that
march across the green by those men.
| They just couldn't break ranks-habit held
| them. They shuffied over the new dia-
! mond. which volunteers made yesterday,
! got over to the south wall. halted irreso-
| lutely and ventured to look around. They
! had been told that all the rules were to
| fall In "A crash and they were afraid OF
something, they did not know What. The
! line swayed around and turned to watch
other companies coming across. One man
stepped hesitatingly out of line, which
would have meant five days on the emu
| Of his sentence ten minutes before, and
looked around. Another man Joined in
and finally tall negro threw himself face
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/ hands N 1t and laughing
1t has been long time since that negro
/ rolled on the grass IL will be twelve years
/ perhaps before he goes through the old
gate. Another man. lifer, Hoped down
near him and the whole line pumped
! down. They were laughing and asking
! each other What do you know about
this They spoke in the prison mono
/ tone at first, but soon voices cleared and
/ rose. All the other companies were fol-
! lowing suit. one young fellow gave an
I other shove and not word was said
as the victim rolled over.
over the heads of the crowd came red
boxes containing new basebals. They
were caught by excited men The white
balls appeared and one man tossed a ball
to another. Nothing happened. Two or
three men stepped out and began to walk
around and nobody stopped them one
very brave man waved his hand over TO
friend nifty feet away with cheerful
X eetlng and was not called down. He
started to walk and the two met. Three
or four ran out on the diamond.
YeII Like Real Fans.
Get to II" said Keeper Deeley. point
ing at the diamond Bat some out !!
and that broke all the ice there was left.
Inside OF five minutes there were prac-
tce games going on the diamond, pitch
ers were warming up on the side lines,
hnndball games were in progress against
the south wall. a hundred or 80 were play
ing catch on the gravel walks, and how
those balls ever got through the crowd
without taking noses and eyes along with
them is nothing short OF a miracle.
A long line of men were passing the
medicine ball under the tutelage OF
giant negro. once n trainer. Now ovah
yoh had." Now undah the body he
commanded. and his painting. sweating
pupils obeyed him until their eyes popped
out
That was not all one old timer plucked
up courage enough to bring forth pipe,
MI ii and light Il. II went. Pipes and tho
"makings' appeared Lucky men shared
with less fortunate brothers. Groups lay
on the grass and talked. laughed and de-
manded loudly that the game begin. The
olders took the eastern end OF the ground.
where they at last gravitated TO one
another and talked and smoked. OF
course they talked about the afternoon
inst and what they thought OF It, but
later. after that was exhausted they talked
politics. Mexico and the pending cam
paign II may he said without fear or
successful contradiction that District
Attorney does not start with an even
chance In such discussions.
Candidates for the team from the job
bling shop and from the office men played
the first four inning game Really the
jobb!ng men had II all over the office
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the jobbers had n pitcher who once played
professional ball There were two pro-
/ fessional PLAYERS In the game to-day. This
pitcher made what the crowd very
promptly called monkeys" out of his OPP
ponents, tanning them out until the SIDE
lines after n little practice gave them
a very fair imitation OF a regular hoarse
boot You can't expect much at first in
the way of cheering or roofing from men
whose voices have been used behind closed
hands II started to-day n little hoarse
or squeaky at first. but after while II
grew stronger until IL reached very
respectable volume. II Will be all right
a month from now
ROnst Umpire, and lie an Omcer.
The knitters and painters had 1t next,
and the knitting men won by score OF
6 to 3, revealing one or two very good
PLAYERS. one was denounced as n ringer
from the hospital He played second.
Another. n young negro in centre field.
showed class the crowd decided but they
enjoyed IL very much when he ran for
ward on a fy tripped on clod. spraddled
himself on the field and ripped his under
shirt M the back He did not mind Il
and got up laughing.
The tailors and the woodworkers ended
the afternoon, and the tallors showed a
pitcher, while the woodworkers had a
CnuUhN NbuHb NH'lN0Nop WHo VIII Eet VII
some teams. TIE score was to g. and
In this game the rooters became so OK
cited they gave the umpire n big roar
when he called a man out on first who
was not out, so they said. Officer O'Neill
was the umpire, but the captains and
the players went after him in approved
style. one very red haired young man
famed up with every rule in the baseball
book and the crowd called him Sunset
and he subsidized
Just then the bugle from the chapel
window sounded retreat" and in an In
slant the turmoil ceased The scene
changed. one minute later the companies
had formed and started for the cell block,
each man straight, silent and machinelike.
only all the discipline In the world
could not dim the light OF their shining
eyes.