The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24
Home Brew
THE OPENING GAME

THE OPENING GAME
s3o-Alayor Brown walks out 10
Tie pitchers box. Stranger seeing
Does hair thinks he has got into a
violin recital By mistake.
e:3e-Mayor Brown peels of coat
and vest. displaying beautiful pair o,
suspenders-
s.5s-hert Swezca says he Is glad
70 see that the mayor has az least
,wo supporters he can trust
s:35 - Chief Sevcryns dous
eatcher's glove and reveals that
he 4 a southpaw. One hundred
potleggers say, Il thought some
thing was wrong with that guy"
$40 - Frankfurter merchant In
hleachers. offers 1914 hot dos.
hardly used. for cents.
.ai-afayor Brown pitches first.
hall TO Wee" CoyIe, First baseman
catches II in left field.
24s-Umpirc Matt Star7Tieh calls
Il a field goal,
ss5O-sun Elinting on Charley
Lockartl's bald dome reminds
Harry Druxman he must get
some new billiard balls for his
pool room.
s55-Sacramento players fail 20
<.xcore IN the first inning and blame
on the hoof and mouth disease.
s0O-scattie player gets two base
hit. Many local fans willing TO 20
home. They had waited since 1915
Tor the feat.
3o5-Tom Page blows his nose
and Sacramento players start TO
run TO clubhouse. thinking that
IL j. the whistle for the end Of
the game
s.0T-Glri in grandstand says.
"oh. isn't Lefty Thompson wonder.
ful pitcher. Why. he hits the Seattle
players bats almost every time
aiO-EIdrcd and Crane both sin
gle. scoring two runs. Franklin high
school student falls off top Of right
<sficld fence In excitement
5.lz-Cnlef ltiloWuotAS NaAht7 w
for Sacramento. Joe Waterman
leaves park in disgust. He came all
the way from Tacoma to see Yellow
horse race Zey. and the Yeliowhorse
turned out to be only a pitcher.
ana Glen McLeod's BARRIERS.
dressed as Indians. file into their
box. their faces covered with red
p.lnt. Eddie sheehan remarks that
they looked as II they had shaved
themselves.
3:is-Chief Yeiiownorse waves
greetings TO the Sitting Bulls.
s22-Sewspaperuan tries to enter
press box. and Is Indignantly thrown
out by the actors. lawyers. policemen
and cigar store proprietors already
there.
sao-Marsh Wiley remarks that
Chief YeIIowhorse doesn't have 20
play ball because he owns a $50.
barrel oil we'll Eddie O'Nei.i. florist.
says that is nothing. he knows gink
who owns a 1o.gailon still
,3:35-Center field discovered to be
very vet. Wade Killefer sends Billy
Lane a pair OF water.wings.
3i0-seattIe scores more
runs. Irving Green, cigar man,
offers to bet even money Seattle
wins the game.
3:42--yic Pigg warns up for Seat.
lie. Doctor refuses 10 let Pigg pitch
until he is examined for hoof and
mouth disease.
5s5-vean Gregg replaces suther-
land. old.time fans cheer wildly. re.
Numbering when Gregg pitched for
the Baltimore Orioles in 1895.
..3oI-Factory whistle in Rainier
valley blows. Some Of the Sacra.
n5cnto players quit working. The
sothers hadn't started.
4Os-As the eighth inning opens
Virgil Garvey. treasurer Of tho Seat
tie esSb. is cool and collected. That
Is. he collected $4,000.
RI. 49s--The excitement Is intense
Y ZEN doctors rush UP into the bleach
FRS 10. help Charley Hulen get his
taftk bark IN his collar.
10 4:12-Sporting editor phones
II Office that Seattle Is leading by
five field goals on the seventh
- hole.
4l4-Sacramento manager send'
down town for a dozen more pitchers
The first dozen not being up e
standard
4:23--Joe Gottsteln says sacra
nento players run bases ike thu
horses he picked at Tia Juana last
year
4:2G-Jact Sullivan spends 20 cents
for some red hot soda pop and an ic'
cold hot dog.
- 4.2s-charley Lockard gives NEAR
look at firemen and policemen whc
came in free.
4:3O-Two thousand fans who rent
cd seat cushions for 10 cents deter
mine TO take same home with them
i:32--Game ends. Ten thou
sand men resolve to tell their
wives about what n tough day
they had at the office.
IA. J. s.