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THE NATIONAL) GAME.
THE EXCELSIOR UMPIRE.
Tho crowd was Catherine thick anil fast
As from outsido inside passed
A man who stood up strong and proud,
And in a bravo voice shouted loud,
"Play Ball!"
His brown as sad; his ejes beneath
Flashed liLn a falchion from its sheath,
And liko a silver clarion runt;
Tho accents of that well known tougue;
"One strike!"
In many ancje he saw tho light
That wanted him how to shapo tho fight ;
Deyund tho spectral bleachers shown,
And from his lips ecacil a groan ;
"One ball r
"Let up on that 1" one bleacher said;
Another yelled : " Wo'll punch your head I"
And forty yelled, "Go soak your hide!"
And loud that clarion voice replied :
"Two Kills !"
' 'Oil stay," a small boy guyed, ''and rest
Your weary head upon this brest."
A tear stood in tho bright bluo eye
As now ho answered with a sigh ;
"Two strikes!"
"Bewaro tho piuo tree's withered branch;"
"Beware tho awful avalanche!"
These were the grand stand's words, and ho
liraced up and shauted lustily:
"Three strikes and out!'.
tho bleachors jell.
Well!"
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There at tho home plate, cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful ho lay;
And from the sky serene and far,
A voice fell like a falling star:
"Neit!"
W.J. Lamptou.
Vo gods! Can it bu true, or do I dream;
Did wo only win one from the Lincoln team?
Oavo Rowe.
Say, it's great fun to do the Omahas.
Two straight games from tho pork
packers.
Wasn't Tuesday's game a cuckoo and
Wednesday s gamea la la, but say, what
do you think of Thursday's game, dis
gusting wasn't it? But it was a corker.
The Omahogs were taken in charge
by Undertaker Roberts under the
direction of D. Rowe who still survives.
Late news from Omaha yesterday
conveyed the information that the ball
teatr. arrived home unhonored, unpaid
and unsung.
Tho Omaha club arrived Tuesday
morning, each member thereof wearing
a "do us or we'll do jou" expression and
a cataract in his left eye. Perhaps that
is why they couldn't hit the bill. Al
though it could not be verified it was
reported that they came up with the
intention of winning at least twogames.
Subsequent events proved that they
were laboring under a delusion of some
sort.
Tuesday was a great Jay for ball and
the grounds were in the best of con
dition, and the game was, without
doubt, the best one played here this
season. Gragg pitched for the home
team and Baltz for the visitors. Score
7 to ,3. Attendance 1,273.
Wednesday's game was but a repetition
of Tuesday's game as far as winning
was concerned. Neither Darby nor Kim
erer pitched what could properly be
called good ball. The game was called
in the fifth inning on account of dark
ness. Score 10 to 7. Attendance 1100.
Thursday's game was by far the best
one of the series. Kimerer and Egan
did the twirling. Some people insist
that had Barnes pitched the game would
have been ours, and although it was
Barnes' day Buck put in Kimerer. Ho
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Glasses fitted, correcting t lie most difficult eyesight.
Repairs Promptly Executed.
says Kimerer needs practice. Lincoln's
costly errors won the gatuo for Omaha
and they were tickled to death, and
justly so, it is an honor to win from
Lincoln on their own grounds. The
attendance was large.
Rockford plas here the Fourth.
Tho Glarkson team played at Crete
yesterday.
Geo Whiz! We annhihated 'em right,
didn't we?
Snapper Kennedy plays ball from
start to finish.
Burkett leads tho batting average in
the National league.
Kid Speer's hitting qualities are no
longer of an inferior brand.
Shortstop Griffin has been laid otr by
the Des Moines management.
President Elesso, of St. Joseph, has
designs on Pitcher Lou Johnson.
Armstrong, tho Quincy catcher, has
been laid otr for insubordination.
President Kent has signed a new um
pire in Robert Burncs of Roc'tford.
Great pitchers aro those fellows,
llawley and Hart, of tho National league.
The llerpolsheimers were very much
defeated at Wahoo Monday. Score 2G
tol.
Rockford has a new pitcher in Howe,
of Brainerd, Minn. Ho is said to have
gieat speed.
Kid Mohler of tho Des Moines team is
an all around plajer and he plays from
tho word go.
Whisky is stronger than beer. That's
how Peoria came to do up Quincy.
Quincy Herald.
Arthur Preston will, it is said, sign
with St. Joe if ho can secure his release
from Louisville.
The only redeeming feature in Mon
day's game was the fact that it lasted
but seven innings.
We done tho Omahas with neatness
and dispatch. Will we do the same
when Quinry comes?
Matt McVicker didn't do a thing to
the Globe's "hit me for a hat" sign dur
ing last Monday's game.
Billy Clingman, the Cincinnati boy
with the Pittsb jrg team, is playing a
phenomenal game at third.
"The fans who have insisted that
Gragg has seen his day are now silent."
Rockford Register Gazette.
McPhee,' of Cincinnati, is. without
doubt, the greatest second basenVan that
ever played on a professional diamond.
Manager Brackett, of Quincy, is ex
pecting a new pitcher from St. Louis.
Will he send Abbey back to Chicago?
Jack Glascock, the well known short
stop, who was recently released by
Louisville, has Joined tho Washingtons.
Van Dyke and Hoovei.both of whom
played with Lincoln in 1S37 our first
professional team are with Jackson
ville. Umpire Haskell's decisions last Tues
day were as rank as the democratic
party's promi es to the laboring men in
1S02.
"Yes, it is true that Lincoln has a
knack of getting players that can play
ball, I used to play in Lincoln myself."
Dave Rowe.
It is reported that "Kid" Fear has
been suspended from the Western
league for quitting tap Omaha team last
year without permission.
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In Shaffer, Ulrich. Hutchibou and
O'Brien, Omaha has a quartette of
kickors that are, by reason of long
practice, proficient in tho art.
"The Lincoln fans aro so madly in love
with their team that they have learned
'Maud' and are reciting it to the play
ers." Omaha World-Herald.
Deveney, who has been playing short
for Jacksonville, has been fined 823 and
sent to tho bench without pay for an
indefinite length of time.
Phil Knell has signed a Cleveland
contract. It was thought that when
Knell joined tho CIcvelands Mike Sul
livan would be released, but such is not
the case.
Shaffer's coaching creates a good deal
of amusement fur the audience. The
Omaha team, as a whole, causes
much amusement for the Lincoln boys.
Eh, Buck?
"All is not gold that glitters." '1 he
Quincy papers, one and all, roast their
S20O pitcher to a turn. He costs them
about 825 a game, yea verily, it is true,
they have an elephant on their hands.
George Stultz, the pitcher lately re
leased by Kansas City, and Andrew Por
ter, who played with Des Moines list
j ear have been signed by the St Joe
management.
Omaha's new ball grounds were open
ed for the first time jesterday. It is
said they are a great improvement over
the old grounds, inasmuch as they aro
much larger and contain better accomo
dations. President Freedman last week offered
President Robison 610,000 in cash for
Left Fielder Burkett and Short Stop
McKean. His offer was refused. This
is one of the largest offers for bate ball
players on record.
"Umpire Snyder received a request for
his resignation Wednesday and acted
promptly. There were many points
about the game of which he was said to
be uninformed, hence the resignation."
Des Moines Record.
The Lincoln team left with Dave
Roue's aggregation yesterday morning
for Omaha, where they will play three
games. They will visit Des Moines for
a series of threegamesand upon return
ing home will play Peoria, Jacksonville
Quincy and Rockford respectively.
While most all the other clubs in the
association have been, and are, chang
ing players Lincoln has not. so far. made
a single change, no new players signed;
all the boys playing the positions they
assumed at the beginning of the season
and every one of them playing ball that
cannot help but make "Me Lord"
Ebright feel proud of them.
The Des Moines Review commenting
on their club sajs: "l'he Des Moines
ball club should either brace up or quit
trying to play ball. If they win a game
they think that is enough glory and
they lose ten on the strength of it."
The Ded Moines team is playing in
hard luck, that is all; I have no hes
itancy in saying that Manager Trafliey
has one of the best teams in the associa
tion, and they play good ball. Last but
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Frank utcH 1020 (?) gt.
Sign of tho Red Dude.-
not least, they take their defeat good
naturedly, which goes to prove that
they are, one and all, gentlemen.
To the base ball fans of this city who
are bewailing the fact that we do not
have Sunday ball in Lincoln I would
give the assurance that "every cloud has
a silver lining." Is it not a fact that wo
have prize tights occasionally, right in
tho heart of the city? Don't we have
"Dutch dances" every Sunday evening
where jou can purchase intoxicants of
every description at the usual price?
And are not the noise, music, etc., heard
for blocks around, enchanting to the
ear? But that is not all. Have we not
one of those old time beer gardens within
a half mile of one of our prominent
normal colleges, where people of every
degree, high and low, congregate and
drink beer to their heart's content?
Truly, this city of colleges, universities
and churches impresses one with its
moral aspect, especially of a Sunday.
The St Joo people are excited over
Sioux City again clamoring for admis
sion to the Western association; in fact
Sioux City would like to buy St.
Joe's franchise. It is said that the
Saints are in a bad condition financially,
but President Hesse of St Joe says:
"We were the first of any team in the
association to advance dues to President
Kent. We are paid up to July 1 and
owe no man a cent. The St Joe team i?
in a good financial position, in fact there
is no team in the Western association
better off than we are. Green eyed
envy is at the bottom of the whole mat
ter." It is said that J. F. McKee, of
Rockford, one of the magnates of the
Western association, is at tho bottom of
the whole thing aided by Dave Rowe;
but I predict that nothing will come of
it. The Sioux City Tribune is author
ity for the statement that there is talk
of Indianapolis going to the National
league and should that be done there
is a possibility that Sioux City will tae
Indianapolis" place in the Western
league. It says too. that it is reported
that Dubuque may take Jacksonville's
place soon in the eastern half of the cir
cuit. This is all bosh. The Western
association will finish the season just as
it started, reports to the contrary not
withstanding. THOMAS
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