PLAYED BALL
Best Game of the Season
Election Day.
lladigan’s pets and Sehaber’s “Muck
ers” crossed bats on the afternoon of
election day (yesterday) in a base ball
game which proved to he the best and
most exciting of the season.
In spite of threatening clouds and the
moist ground many of the ladies of the
town and most of the men were on
hand to see the contest, and the game
was worth watching, for it was a contest
in every sense of the word.
The Muckers took the lead in the first
inning, only to he tied in the second
and passed in the fourth. At the end
of the fifth the score was 5 to 2 for
Kadigan’s aggregation, but in the sixth
Schaber’s crowd came along with three
runs, with two more in the seventh and
two in tlie ninth, while the 11. A. C. was
able to get only one in the eighth and
two in the ninth. But the Climax in
the ninth was as full of thrills and yell
ing as often occurs in the great national
game. With the score t) to (! against his
side and two out, old “Pop” Cobb went j
to the bat and lined out a hit. Charley |
Mayo followed suit. S. Harper came,
with another, which netted a run.
Corky Ben Mayo hit safely, bringing in !
another run, and Crockett bunted a safe
one. Only one run was needed to tie
and two to win. Three men were on
bases and the great Captain lladigan
himself was at bat. The spectators
were on tiptoe and the general excite
ment was vented in yells that were
echoed and chorused by all the dogs
within a radius of two miles.
“Strike one,” said Umpire Wesley
Voting. lladigan looked mad and
Catcher Schaber grinned.
“Foul. Strike two,” called the um
pire, and lladigan threw away his shat
tered bat and selected another stick.
“Foul.” Another $2.o0 piece of ash
had become firewood.
The redoubtable Jack seized the last
and only “outside” bat known to exist
this side of Tanana. Young Mr. Foun
taine sent in one of his tantalizing jump
balls, lladigan banged away at it. But,
alas! it did not land on the far moun
tain side, for Bob Schaber had it in his
mit and the game was over.
The usual complimentary cheers were
indulged in before the players left the
field to fight the game over again and
tell how the plays came up.
Within one hour after the game was
over the players on the losing side be
came so convinced that they could easily
wallop Schabc’s crowd they challenged
the winners to play a five-inning game
on Thursday, either afternoon or even
ing, for a nice side bet and the glory of
winning. The challenge was at once
accepted, so that another hot game may
be expected tomorrow, although some of
the boys on both sides will have re
turned to the creeks.
The line-ups were as follows:
R. A. C.
Welch, 2b.
Collins, 1. f.
Cobb, c.
I'. Mayo, s. s.
8. Harper, c. c.
B. Mayo, p.
Crockett, 11).
Knitting, r. f.
Katligan, 3b.
MUCKERS.
Fountaine, p.
Carter, s. s.
Sundborg, 2b.'
AI Woods, lb.
Geo. Woods, 1. f.
Schaber, e.
Squires, 3b.
Lee Mayo, e. f. “
Salisbury, r. f.
I lie score by innings was:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Muckers. 1 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 2 9
R.A.C. 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 2-8
Diamond Dust.
Wesley Young made a good umpire.
He is absolutely impartial.
Fountaine is a new man, but lie is a
dandy pitcher and a fine boy.
Doc Carter was as agile as a ballet
dancer and delivered the goods both at
the bat and in the field.
Den Mayo pitched a plucky game and
made a couple of pickups on the third
base line, getting his man each time at
first. Den is a dandy now and will be a
peacherine in a year or so.
There was iots of batting. The 1!. A.
C.’s made fifteen safe hits and the
Muckers whanged out fourteen gw si
ones that made the game lively.
Dob Schaber had his throwing arm
with him and Walter Sundborg was on
the receiving end of the second-base
circuit. The combination was hard to
beat. Only the speediest of Kadigan’s
crew were able to steal a bag.
The work of Cobb, the great Harvard
catcher who caught Hylands when that
mighty south-paw was at his best, was
well worth the admission.
Cobb and Schaber “joshed” each
other in a way that reminded one of the
old times outside.
The base ball game that was proposed
between the Rampart A. A. Club and
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HE NEVER BLAMED THE BOOZE.
—
lie took a bottle up to bed, drank whisky hot each night;
Drank cocktails in the morning, but never could get tight;
He shivered in the evenings and always had the blues,
Until he took a drink or two—but he never blamed the booze.
His joints were full of rheumatiz and bis appetite was slack;
He bad pains between his shoulders and chills ran down his back;
He suffered with insomnia and at night he couldn’t snooze;
lie said it was the climate—but be never blamed the booze.
His constitution was run down—at least, that’s what he said;
His legs were swelled each morning, and he often had swelled head;
lie tackled beer, wine, whisky, and if they didn’t fuse
He blamed it to dyspepsia—but he never blamed the booze.
He saiil be couldn’t sleep at night, and always bad bad dreams;
He claimed he always lay awake till early sunrise beams:
He thought it was malaria; alas, ’twas but a ruse—
He blamed it to most everything—but he never blamed the booze.
His liver needed scraping and bis kidneys had the gout;
He swallowed lots of hitters, till at last it cleaned him out;
His legs were swelled with dropsy till he had to cut his shoes;
He blamed it on the doctor—but he never blamed the booze.
Then he had the tremens, and he tackled rats and snakes;
First he had the fever and then he had the shakes;
At last he had a funeral and the mourners had the blues,
And the epitaph carved for him was, “He Never Blamed the Booze.”
—Author unknown.
the gum-boot players from Eureka and j
vicinity lias been called off. The reason j
given is that the boys from the creeks
will be unable to come to town until
after the water begins to freeze, thus
making the date of the game uncertain
and the conditions almost impossible
fora good ball game.
Both sides are willing to bet large
sums of money on the result of a con
test, possibly as high as ^l ,000.
A Bunn between these two teams is
now talked of for the next Fourth of
July. _
Local and General Notes
Postmaster M. P. Fleisehman arrived
from the outside on the Seattle No. !!
this forenoon.
Preliminary work is progressing on
the llootlnna-Pioneer and New York
Thanksgivitig ditches.
John Minook accompanied Webster
Brown’s survey party, to act as guide
between The Uapids and Fairbanks.
.1. F. Newsom, a mining man from
California, has been looking over the
creeks of the district for several days.
(>. A. Diver came by way of Baker
Hot Springs over the new Manley road |
and arrived here from Fairbanks and
Chena yesterday.
I.. M. Davis, of the Rampart Hy
draulic Company Hunter creek), ar
rived from L<>* Angeles, Cal., on the
Seattle No. A this forenoon.
The wagon mad recently made by
Frank Manley la-tween Baker Hot
Springs and tiU n is |«-rhaps as gi*«l a
road as can be found in Alaska, say
lampin' who have recently traveled over
it. The ground is hard and gravelly
nearly all the way and no grading was
required.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike)
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks
F. W. Cobb, an oW newspaper man
now turned miner, is in from the creeks
the first time since early spring. His
pencil haml has not forgot its cunning.
Ivina Stevens, a woman who tarried
some time in Rampart, was fined $o0
and sentenced to twenty-five days in
jail for drunkenness soon after her ar
rival at Fairbanks.
OLD PIONEER
PASSES WITH SCOWS
Jack Ihllton, the pioneer trader, who
made the Ihllton trail and drove cattle
over it long la-fore the discovery of gold
in the Klondike, passed Rampart Mon
day night with three scows. The scows
hail been loaded at Yukon Crossing with
JU<> head of cattle, previously driven in
over the trail from Haines They were
unloaded at Circle.
The cattle will go overland from Circle
to Fairlsinks. The scows were to Is
dropp'd at Tumina, where Mr. Ihdton
»■ vjsctI to take a steamer for Fair
I sinks.