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Updated: June 27, 2025
She gave the boys twenty cents each every Saturday night to go to the picture show and for peanuts. They knew all the knot-holes in the ball park fence and all the home players by name and sight. They argued and sometimes fought over the umpire's decision. The Government selected and named a training camp site, out the Preston Street car line, Camp Taylor.
Well, anyway, up goes the goal umpire's hand for a goal, and down goes the umpire for the count, for Tip Doolen of the Stars cracks him a wallop on his brain factory you could hear a mile away. And all the Easts piles on to Tip and it took the police fifteen minutes to get 'em untied.
General Pierce would keep him at home during the deliberations of this Convention: let us console our disappointment by trusting to what the future may bring forth. Here the Umpire's patience was at an end patience no longer remained with him a virtue.
Germany, with a larger population, a vigorous and irreconcilable proletariat, a bolder intellectual training, a harsher spirit, can scarcely fail to drive us at last to a realisation of intolerable strain. So we may never fight at all. The war of preparations that has been going on for thirty years may end like a sham-fight at last in an umpire's decision.
"Ball one!" Hi felt a bit better for a moment. Then: "Strike three! Out!" With a muttered growl of disgust, Captain Martin gave up his post to Percival. "What has got into Prescott?" demanded Rodgers, of the Norths, anxiously. "Oh, we'll pound him to pieces soon," muttered Hi. "Strike one!" sounded the umpire's steady, low voice. In a moment or two more it was: "Strike three. Out!"
Larkins obeyed, and there might have been some dispute over the umpire's decision had not the ball slipped out of Roger's fingers just as he poked it onto the prostrate fellow. "Safe!" announced the umpire, with a downward motion of his outspread hand.
"Yes; you have it straight that this is to be the Army's game," mocked Greg. "But we knew that before we saw you to-day." "There goes our joy-killer," grunted Prescott, as the umpire's shrill whistle sounded in. "Dave, we'll be in the Navy's dressing room just as soon as " "Just as soon as this cruel war is over," hummed Dan.
A great many points were always coming up: whether a boy took-up, or edged, beyond the very place where his toy lay when he shot; whether he knuckled down, or kept his hand on the ground, in shooting; whether, when another boy's toy drove one marble against another and knocked both out of the ring, he holloed "Fen doubs!" before the other fellow holloed "Doubs!" whether a marble was in or out of the ring, and whether the umpire's decision was just or not.
The costers and clerks set up a sort of a cheer when we came out, and one of them cried, 'God bless you, sir, to the doctor, but I was sorry they cheered. It seemed like kicking against the umpire's decision. The Colonel and I got into a hansom together and we trotted off into Chancery Lane and turned into Holborn.
There was a great argument, but the umpire's ruling had to be upheld, and the batsman retired, declaring that he would never play cricket with savages again as long as he lived. He said: "In the first place the ball was a wide, and in the second, after breaking a yard and a half, it hit my elbow. Then that black ass gives me out 'leg before. It's sickening.
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