| Show GREAT GUNS The Ammunition Experts Need Some Ball Training If the baseball nine of the 16th Infantry Infan-try ever worsted many clubs around El taso Texas those clubs must have been composed of females or Indians The boys in blue made their initial and probably final bow before a Salt Lake pibiic yesterday afternoon under painful aud ice Announced by Manager Scarff as bearing a reputation for having scalped the greater part of tho Texas circuit they excited a good deal of curiosity and a very goodsized crowd assembled ont on-t e grounds to be bewildered by their prowess The first ten balls had not been pitched bifore it became evident that the new club occupies the same proud position toward baseball tbat the Count Johannos James Owen OConnor ant Miss Nellie Boyd occupy towards the drama At first the lookers on were silent out of politeness to the now comers then they were silent out of sympathy then the gorge of tie youthful buzzards in the trees began to rise at tIm thought that they hill been imposed on and the familiar rallying cry of hats 1 begun be-gun to sound in the air It was all very reminiscent of those bygone days when on tha bounce was out tnd tie Red Dead ball struggled to aupphntSpaldiugs standard sphere The boys from the fort dodged balls which tile um j > rTnr fld strikes when their fielders hart a long fly they ran about three yards under itaud looked surprised to find the ball behnd then tnere were passed bals wild pitches and muffs galore The Nationals pounded the ball at their own sweet will and Mathias made a clean home run There is no doubt but that had the Nationals chosen they could have shut their opponents out and only limited their own runs by the duration of daylight But out of a spirit of generosity gen-erosity they retired their battery Busby and Ridges m tne third or fourth inning snt put in Platts and Barker Bar-ker immediately after which they went all to pieces and the soldiers made their first run The first man who came in swung his hat in the air in a heartfelt manner and was saluted by his comrades com-rades as if he was a second Sheridan Some one in the crowd at ones duobed him The Pride of Battery B The following score tells its own sad s cry though the Nationals kicked most vigorously when thoy found it was to be published ou the ground that thtY were not playing for publication publica-tion Moral When a crowd pays to seea game it is the duty of the players to do their level best THE BOORS NATIONALS Husby 2 4 2 Plnts 2 4 0 Larson 3 C 2 Mathias 1 2 u Hodge 1 1 1 Blrker 2 2 4 Gray 34 Ridges 2 2 1 GOlding 2 Total JR A f U A EOLDIERS Cadwellsecoudbase0 3 2 Trapper catcher and pitcher 0 5 7 Ll1wlyfirsthl1 0 5 5 Wodicka third base I S 2 Donnelly shortstop 2 1 3 Summers pitcher and catcher3 1 7 Hurley middle field 0 3 2 Shaffer left field 1 3 2 Ashburn right field 183 Totals 82783 Bertie Tmpire To morrow atteraoou cyiumeuciug at 3 30 the Nationals and Silver Greys trill again meet A better game is promised |
