THE AUSTRALIANS AT SAN FRANCISCO.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 289, 13 December 1878, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIANS AT SAN FRAN CISCO.

The following novelty in the shapb of a cricket report; 13 from an American paper : — Great excitement at the Cricket Grounds. — Australian eleven plays the Californian Twenty-two. — Fourteen 1 thcusand people. present. — Twenty-six thousand get fooled by going to Badger's Park. — Popular impression ' that all violent and sanguinary pastimes take place over there. — Crowd very much disgusted to find the admission one dollar, and so two-thirds incontinently climb over the fence. — Game j advertised to be called at 11 30 ; everybedy therefore seated at 10.30 so as to be in time. — Eorty-six people carried oufc with the sun stroke at 1.15.— -At 2.25 Australian team drives up. -jCaptain finds only ten players present. Odd man went fishing early in the morning, and now. becalmed on other side of Aleatraz. — Substitute put on, and game called at 3.11 sharp.—Reporter takes Secretary aside and wantfs . to know when lunch will begin. — lady says she's sorry all the players have their legs broke. — Young man with bent thumb says that baseball's the only game after all. — CTmpire calls a bye. — Hand plays " Sweet Bye-and-Bye." — Pat man on the top sea;t ■ melts aad runs down like a stage waterfall. — Australian player wonders what makes the ground so rough — thinks the Twenty-two must be afraid of hot balls and have been throwing up breastworks. —Millionaire sits in the four-bit place for economy, and tears seat out of 16dol. pair of pants on nail. — Young man with bent thumb says cricket's slow-^---base-ball'f? the game. — Ball hits umpire on funny bone. — Has a fit among the bats. — Old gentleman says be never laughed so much in his life.-r-Ball hits old gentleman on the back of the neck.— Old gentleman yells "Eirej ' twenty-nve times, and goes out to telegraph for Chief of Police —Reporter takes President aside and wants to know how about this lunch anyway.*— Matron says if she knew that the players " were to walk round in their drawers, she would never have brought Maria. — Maria Bays she "wishes the young man on the seat below would s'quit and behave. — Long field misses a high foul, falls on and kills a blue poodle. — Infuriated old lady chases long field four times round the grounds with a green umbrella. — Policeman discolours his new uniform trying to put her out.f— Reporter sends his card to the Treasurer; wants to know whether there is anything authentic about this lunch business.—"The Oakland Banner" is not to be trifled with. — Young man with bent thumb saya there is no dash about cricket — base ball wakes a feller up, you bet.— Sides change.— -Man with white hat opens a valise and says he wants . to call attention to the only Genuine Carbolic Anti-Corrosive Corn Salve. He is killed with a bat. — Californian bowler bursts a blood vessel and is carried into club house to bleed amid deafening applause. — Waiter takes four sandwiches and pint freezer of cream Jnto : cricket tent amid terrific excitement—Sarcastic Californian Captain tells his fiddlers that little round thing is the ball. — Funny Twenty-two says he thinks he could do better if they'd let him tie a string to if..—- Broker bets five shares of that. — "L tj-n-c-h !"'