The Browns and Westerns did not play at Keokuk yesterday on account of the weather. The game will be played to-day if possible.
Red Stockings stock will look up considerably by to-morrow, when their return game comes off with the Whites.
There was an attendance of about four hundred at the Red-White match yesterday.
In the twenty-seven innings played by the Chicagoes against our various professionals, twenty-five of them have been whitewashes. "Carry the news to Mary," and the Garden City.
-St. Louis Republicans, May 12, 1875
I had no idea what that last bit about "Carry the news to Mary" was all about so I looked it up. Seems it's a reference to a song and once I saw the lyrics, the biblical reference is obvious:
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