Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-14
GREAT ASYLUM.
FOR insane AT
CON|SKEY PARK
Thousands of Violent Cases
of Acute Dementia Base
ballus Develop When the
Giants Goat Arrives.
Official Scorer Had to Send
for Adding Machine to
Keep Track of Errors
Sox Tried Hard to Present
Game to Visitors.
BY H. D. JACOBS
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

BY H. d. JACOBS
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Chicago, Oct. 13.-The biggest in
sane asylum in the world was discov-
cred on the south side about O'Clock
this afternoon.
There were 27,32s inmates All were
violent cases, stark raving crazy-and
glad of 1t.
They were suffering from acute
dement's baseballus, superinduced by
q flock of runs
The epidemic of insanity broke out
Just about the time a small, fuzzy
animal was observed cantering across
the barren wastes of the stockyards
The animal was later identified as
the Giants goat.
ADDING MACHINE NEEDED.
Two honest to- goodness, big league
teams probably never staged a con-
test that so closely resembled a high
school game. There were so many
errors that the official scorer had TO
send out for an adding machine to-
ward the last and there Is a lingering
doubt that all of them were chronicled
even then.
Buck Weaver crowded an off year
all into one afternoon. He was suf-
fering under the hallucination that 1t
was football game and every time
q grounder came his way he tried to
boot field goal. The White Sox
didn't forget their company manners,
sther. They tried their blamedest TO
make the Giants a present of the
game, and for six innings it looked as
though they would get away with IT.
But the Giants we're equally polite and
handed it back in approved Chester
tieldian style.
WHOLE STAFF ON REVIEW.
Manager Rowland had practically
his entire pitching staff on review. It
was one of the longest parades ever
,eep here, taking two hours and 37I
minutes to pass a given point
left handed gentleman named
Russell started to pitch for Chicag
and probably would lave gotten a man
out if Rowland had been more patient
At that, he held the Giants down to
two hits and walk in the first three
men up.
After him came Cicotte, williams
and Faber, Rowland WAS just warm
ing up the water boy when the game
was finished.
Meanwhile, a person called Sallee,
was bombing the White Sox from an
altitude of about six feet something.
But a few mishaps such as when
Happy Felsch tried to bean some
bleacherite with a two-bagger, this
Salee pitched a whole Of a game for
six innings.
THEN THE SEVENTH.
Then came the seventh. Jackson
and Felsch had gotten on after Eddie
Collins had died Salee wound up
and let drive straight at Chick Gan
dis bat His aim was deadly. The
ball struck squarely and bounced over
kauffs head in center field for
double scoring Joe and Hap
This hit had a bullish effect on the
mems millinery market. At least 200
hats Of all varieties suffered annihil-
alton as fans vented their enthusiasm
by joyfully pounding their neighbours
head.
Gandil tben took third on an out and
Schalk walked Lynn. batting for Will
Jams, tried to strike out. But before
he had accomplished this Iaudable eff
fort, Raridan got a bunch Schalk was
trying to steal center field. Bills
throw was little short for Kauff
and Gandil cantered home with the
tying run.
The howl of the wild fan calling its
mate tore the atmosphere wide open
and left 1t quivering mass The air
was darkened by hats, coats and other
apparel hurled by the gbbering man
iacs. If 1t had not been a cold dav.
this disrobing stuff might have been
startling.
CHASE AROUND BASES.
The eighth inning followed the sew
enth. That fact, in itself isn't startI-
ing. But what happened was
There was Saee out there, dropping
them down at the Sox the same as
ever. Suddenly there was an explosion
OF base hits While uniformed run
ners began to chase each other around
the bases.
When it Gained down, the Sox were
TWO runs to the good and poor old
slim was ancient history,
Perritt relieved him but the homo
boys were going good they couldn't
stop and showed another run acrassl
Tor good measure. They played the
first half of the ninth. hut it was only
matter Of form. The Giants goat
had Travelled so far by this time tina.
they couldn't locate him by telegraph.
Those seventh and eighth inning
cutbursts by the fanatics were gobs
OF gloom compared with what hap
pened when the last man was thrown
out.
ASSAULTED DEAREST FRIENDS.
Wild eyed men committed assault
and battery on their dearest friends.
They shouted and shrieked and rent
each others raiment 1t was one great.
big riot-a mob scene with a $4,000
man power mob
And lovely time was had by all.