| Show FIRE FIGHTERS WIN The Policemen fleet with a Regular Reg-ular Waterloo I THIRTYONE TO SJXTEEN II I I A SCOnE THAT TELLS ITS OWN I STORY Jim Adams Giants Unable to Cope with the Husky xiremen Commissioner p Com-missioner Dinniny Officiated as UmpireThe Rooters Out in Force The bluecoated and dignified annihilators anni-hilators of the evil doer met the fire extinguishers on the university campus cam-pus and when the blue mists of evening even-ing gathered over the baseball arena Jim Adams picked giants retired from the field tattered and confused and conquered con-quered It was like unto Napoleon gathering hIs valliant warriors around him and retreating before blazing Moscow Mos-cow and the fiery onslaughts of the bearded Cossacks Two vehicles rambled over the field when the battle was over and the dust had settled The Black Maria which was freighted with Jims picked cargo of defeated giants lurched away noiselessly noise-lessly as an ambulance Almost at their heels came the victorious firemen with fluttering flags and prancing steeds Captain Adams chief of the frock coated and defeated ones lays the blame of the conquest of the fire department de-partment upon the shoulders of Commissioner Com-missioner Dinniny who umpired the game and escaped with his whiskers and attire Intact It is true that some of the umpires decisions were unique and lurid but that large and luminous lumin-ous score of 31 to 16 is what the uneducated un-educated public takes to final and decisive de-cisive But people do not make this argument to Warrior Adams It isnt safe When the chief of the wielders of the club looks down upon anyone with that set basilisk stare no one is likely to arise and oppose him The weather was after the nest fashIon fash-Ion of June days The sky was not is blue as the azure coats with which the police baseballists are wont to decorate their beats nor did the beams of the sun slimmer redly as the crimson belts I of the fire fighters who were preparing to make a fricasee of their rivals But there were zephyrs in the air and almost al-most a thousand people were attracted to the campus It is the largest and most flattering attendance which has been at a baseball meet this year in Zion But a contest between fire fighters fight-ers and thug fighters of course was no ordinary occasion POLIcELIEN THE FAVORITES Soon after the last rooter had climbed to a convenient nook in the highest part of the tall sycamore tree that overlooks the arena Jim Adams and his company of victims came on the field There were loud and hilarious shouts Jims men were the favorites strange to say even among the small boys who had felt the tatoo of the official club upon their fingers We are sure winners said Jim with a radiant smile as he looked over the field dotted with his whiteshirted warriors Everyone did not take the captains word for it especially after they had witnessed the way the patrolmen got tangled up with themselves and threw themselves violently down and tore up whole cart leads of dust when a ball came towards them The firemen were received with looks of Intense indifference from the multitude multi-tude The rooter thought they would be eaten upand said so The firemen wore black shirts There was no one In all that campus and grand stand save the firemer Who did not take that as an emblem of mourning which would shortly be very appropriate UMPIRE DINNINY When Commissioner Dinniny came on II > the campus arrayed in his saffron whiskers and glorious neckwear he was received with universal smiles which bore no hint of the sweeping and ferocious condemnation he was shortly to receive One of the firemen handed the commissioner a bouquet which was looked upon as a peaceoffering and a bribe and fatal results to the bluecoats blue-coats and brass buttons were predicted But it put the commissioner at once t t In a graceful and radiant mood and dse as lao eO filled him hll a sense of the imcort ance of his calling No one among the uninitiated expected ex-pected to see such baseball as that which was witnessed when Commissioner Commis-sioner Dinniny lazily strolled to the pitchers box and called on the ball tossers to start TWAS A GREAT GAME There were professionals in the midst of these selfsame firefighters and f coppers Love who covered first base not only spoiled several balls and lost another large supply in distant barnyards barn-yards but no ball came within an eighthyard radius of first base where his maulers were doing execution and escaped him And the firemen had others of this variety and therein hangs the tale of the sad and pained I look which sits upon the brow of Jim I Adams Cahoon behind the bat was a ball annihilator and Woods whose lank and besinewed form was located in the I box was by no means to be taken as young and tender at the sport THE BLUE COATS t Jim Adams ball punishers had such l i advantage as is I to be found In collos sal proportions and if it had been a tugofwar or golf or a prize skating match undoubtedly they would have been the winners Perry did some fast and luminous execution on second base and Tom Shannon did the duties with great grace and aplomb and both handled the bat with great vehemence I and emphasis which was taken to be the result of long practice with the implements im-plements of war which they daily handle han-dle But the wild surging and plunging in the field and the harsh way in which they tore excavations in the campus when searchIng for flies was the source of the firemanic triumph i FIRST INNING I When Commissioner Dinniny lifted his soft accents to say time Officer Burgess went to the bat where he succeeded I ceeded in remaining long enough to make three heavy swipes at the ball Then he gracefully retired in favor of Wilson who in turn vacated for Shannon Shan-non Shannon found the bat too small and Sergeant Wire lost the ball in the direction of the north star on a foul I Then Wilson was caught napping and the blue coats went to the field without with-out scoring A THREE BAGGER Woods found Wilsons first ball and passed it over the head of the right fielder which gave him time to make three bases Berry missed the sphere twice by large margins but gained first on the third on a ball which hit his portly form before touching the ground Cahoon and Paul both succeeding suc-ceeding in scoring which made three runs A phenomenal decision by the umpire created a tremendous altercation alterca-tion during which the strident tones of Officer Shannon almost succeeded in drowning all other sounds The firemen fire-men had registered three runs SECOND INNINGS The patrolmen were received with loud clattering applause from the bleachers as they came in from the field and Sergeant Weir took up the bat The huge sergeant sent another j ball skydiving directly towards the zenith but it was safely taken care of by Paul on second Roberts and Heath then died with the willow in their hands Love smiled iridescently as he entered en-tered the box The firemen failed to smile when he lifted the sphere above the topmost bough of the tall and distant dis-tant sycamore McGuire followed this up with a warm one to center field and Heath remained there Juggling with It while Love passed over the home plate Paul lost the ball and when another came up Cahoon made an infield hit with two men on bases and the policemen claimed he was out The umpire decided otherwise and looked on serenely while a fierce wrangle ensued Captain Sullivan went out but not until he had sent a ball backward against the shirt front of E W WIoon Paul then trifled with Heaths feelings bj sending a fly to him The sight was too much for the patrolman and he collapsed col-lapsed and fell just as the ball reached him It is alleged that this put another an-other wrinkle in the brow of Jim Adams POLICEMEN WARM UP The Olympic blood of the policemen began be-gan to warm up as they again took the bat Parry put a twobaser in the field and on attempting later to make a graceful hit to third was hit in the region of the spine by the oval He shook himself but winced not Then Jim Adams sent a redhot liner between third base and short stop The sergeant sprinted to first in a way that was strikingly unique and poetic When he is in full chase the doughty sergeant throws his feet far to the forward for-ward of himself and then proceeds to follow them at more leisure But Jim made the bases and he came in gracefully grace-fully for a run by virtue of a twobase hit by Shannon The game straggled on eventfully for I some time and the coppers made a gay and gallant spurt and tallied up seven runs which made a total of 13 at the end of the fifth inning That was only the beginning of the fray for they I followed this up by holding down the firemen In the next fray to a goose egg JIMS HOPES SHORT LIVED I Jim Adams smile was so luminous that it reached to the tent where the beer was lying in cold repose Weve got em beat said he But the elation was short lived The firemen retaliated upon their enemies with a whitewash The game pushed on excitedly The umpire by his strange and mindbewildering decisions decis-ions fell from favor with the rooters Every time the burly form of a patrolman patrol-man glided towards a base there were derisive cries of Out Out All this rooterbred irony fell however on heedless ears In the eighth inning the firemen made nine runs many of which were vociferously vocifer-ously protested by the men in blue But they went and the firemen had a score of 31 and one inning to spare when Jim Adams giants walked slowly and stolidly from the field to enter the Black Maria It was a good symbol of their blighted hopes 1234167S J Policemen 0 0 2 4 7 3 0 016 Firemen 4 10 3 1 2 0 2 931 |
