THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ’FRISCO.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5540, 30 December 1878, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN IN ’FRISCO.

(From the News Letter.)

Grand excitement out at the cricket grounds. —Australian Eleven plays the Calfornia Twenty-two.—Fourteen thousand 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 twothirds incontinently climb over the fence.— Game advertised to be called at 11.30; everybody seated at 10.30, so as to bo in time.— Fifty-six people carried out with the sunstroke at 1.15. —At . 2.25, Australian team drives up. Captain finds only ten players present.—Odd man went fishing early in morning, and now becalmed on other side of Alcatraz. —Substitute put on, and game called at 3.11 sharp.—Reporter takes secretary _ aside, and wants to know when lunch will begin.—Young lady says she’s sorry all the players have their legs broke. —Young man with bent thumb says that base-ball’s the only game after all.— Umpire calls a bye.—Band plays “ Sweet byand bye.”—Fat man on the top seat melts and 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 breast works.— Millionaire sitsiuthe four-bit placefor economy, and tears seat out of sixteen-dollar pair of pants on nail.—Young man with bent thumb says cricket’s slow—base-ball’s the game.—Ball hits umpire on funny-bone.—Has a fit among the bats.—Old gentleman says he never laughed so much in his life.—Ball hits old gentleman on back of the neck.—Old gentleman/yells “ Fire !” twenty-five times, and goes 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 says 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 -bluejPQodle.—Xn£uriAtGd.qld lady_cbases long field four'times ironed the ground with a green umbrella.—Policeman discolors his new uniform trying to put her out.—Reporter sends his card to the treasurer ; wants to know whether tliere is anything authentic about this lunch business.— The Oakland Fanner is not to be trifled with.—Young man with bent thumb says 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.—California 1 bowler hursts a blood-vessel and is carried into a clubhouse to bleed amid deafening applause.— Waiter takes four sandwiches and pint freezer of cream into cricket-tent amid terrific excitement.—Sarcastic California captain tells his fielders 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 it. —Broker bets five shares of Washoe that—- “ L-u-n-o-u 1”