West Side Vs. East Side

The long talked of game of ball between the clerks (?) on the west side of Mainit and those on the east side was played on the campus, Tuesday aLternoon, between nine men of all trades, professions and callings, on one side, ditto the other, with the expected result - of one ëide being beaten. Reporters for the Sporting Times, Puck and the Ypsilanti Sentinel were - not on the grounds, but should have been, as, for the firBt, there were some brilliant plays (?); for the second there were some funny phases, and for the third, there were offered chances for the biggest kicking and most fault-finding that have never been equalled in the aunáis of history. Kicking began before the game did. Pewee Johnson was going to play with the west sides, but the ea6t-sides objcted because he did not work on the west side. Some one said he worked at Hangsterfers. Some one replied that the only work he ever did there was e ating ice cream. Some one else said he worked for A. J. Sawyer. Some one else said that he was never known to do a day's work anywhere, but after considerable raoket he was allowed to enlist. Objections were made to Buff Taylor, a colored gentleman who bandles a ball like an Anson, but Buff convinced the crowd that he was a laboring man on the occidental side of Main-st, and so peace spread her wings over the scène. Space forbids mentioning more than some of the most brilliant plays. The toss cf JLennedy's last copper gave the west side their innings. Cobb Brush, who will stand more abuse than any man in Ann Arbor and not get mad, was chosen umpire, and all was ready when it was discoverd that no ball had been provided. This article is quite necessary in a game of ball, and so the hat was passed around which collected 102 cents in legal tender, one pants button, a poker-chip and a postal card on which was wntten in mystic characters "One a day." The ball was purchased and time called. The west-siders were Hangsterfer, p., Lynn, c, Taylor lb., Johnson 2b., Duffy, 3d b., Schumacher, e.s., Wienman, If., Kline, c. f., Henderson, r. f The east siders were Merrithew, p., Jolly, c, Kemper, lb., Kennedy, 2b., Wadhams, 3 b., Mann., o. f., Slattery, 1. f., Goodspeed, r. f., Campion, 8. 8. The game opened by Lynn batting a single, stealing tbe baset blind and coming home, while Slattery was looking in a bunch of weeds for the ball, which was forty feet behind him. This error made his colleagues tired. Wadhams frightened a gmall boy to death by suddenly leaping in the air, catching between his thumb and finger a hot one from Schumacher'a bat. For the eaatsiders, Campion ba'ted a hot one to Duffy, who let-her-go Gallagher, the battersliding to first on his right ear, stealing second on a passed ball, put out on third by the eagle-eyed Wadhams. In tbe fourth inning Johnson ran to second, and Slittery said he didn't touch first, Merithew said so, too. Johnson said he did. Kemper said he didn't. The umpire said he was safe. Someone "sassed" tbe umpire. Blood was on the moon, but quiet was restored, by the umpire fining Billy Eearns who was not in the game, but wbo did lots of talking, 35 cents and ten days in jail. While running after a ball, Kennedy at.d Slattery collided, oausing a rupture of tbe cebro-spinal-meningi tis, in Kennedy, and loosening of Slattery's clavicle where it joins the knee pan. They both recovered. During this inning, it was noiaed around that Latham, of the St. Louis Browns, was coaching the west-siders, but on investigation it turned out to be Kline, who is as far above Latham in coaching as Har?gsterfer is ahead of Dunlap in stealing beses. In the last half of the fifth inning Hangsterfer pitched a terrific ball to Goodspeed who was at bat, who, instead of striking it with the bat as any one else would have done, turned around and asked Lynn, who was catching, whether Belva Lockwood had any Chinese record or not. Just then the ball struck him "kerwhack" on the south section of the back bon, paralysing tbe lumbar región, and sending him to first base. At this time, it was apparent tbat the east siders had lost their grip, and the west siders continued piling up runs until at the end of the game the score stood : West-siders, 27; EastBiders 14. Error?, West-siders, 64; Eastsiders 120. Time of same not estimated.