Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — PLAY BALL BY MOONLIGHT [ARTICLE]

PLAY BALL BY MOONLIGHT

Marine Drives Ball Through Post Office Window in Fifteenth Inning, Winning the Game; Washington. Marines down In Guam have the ball game and peanut habit, just like all good Americans back in the States. Only this time they’ve started something new in the national sport. In a recent game between the Agana and Sumay Marines, running through 15 innings, the last four innings were played by the light of a full moon rising over the palms which border the plaza. In a game played by moonlight almost anything is likely to happen; Manion of Sumay started things for his team when he mailed a ball in the post office through a hole in the screen of one of the windows. The Agana fielder was unable to recover it without violating section H2O of the local postal regulations and the Sumay boys walked home with the bacon.