The Australian Eleven in 'Frisco.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3098, 22 January 1879, Page 1

The Australian Eleven in 'Frisco.

(FBOIC TUB KBWS IKTTM.) ' Grand excitement out at the cricket grounds. — Australian Eleven yesterday played the Californian Twenty-two* — Fourteen thousand people present.— Twenty-six thousand got fooled by going Ito 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 climbed over the fence.—Game advertised to be called at 11.30; everybody seated at 10.30, so as to be in time.—Fiftysix 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 the morning, and now becalmed the 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.—^oung lady says she is. sorry all 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 by-and-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 have been afraid of hot balls and been throwing up breastworks.—Millionaire sits in the four-bit place for economy, and tears seat 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 the funnybone.—Has a fit among the bats.— Old gentleman says he never laughed so much in all his life.—Ball hits old gentleman on back of neck.—Old gentleman yells " Fire !" twenty-seven, times, and goes out to telegraph for Chief of Police. —Reporter takes President on one side and wants to know how about (his luuch anyway.—Matron says if she had previously known that the players,were going 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 high foul, falls on and kills blue poodle.—lnfuriated old lady chases long field four times round the ring 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 there is anything authentic about this lunch business.—The Oakland 'Banner' 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 bowler bursts a blood-vessel, and is carried into a club house 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 twentytwo says he thinks he could do better if they'd let him tie a string to it.—Broker bets five shares of washoe that— "Loch!"