Smyrna times., 1875-07-28
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f"F me Smyrna Times.
EDITOR OF THE SMYRNA TIMEs-Sjr.-Did van COO
that article in the DdWdrcdR of Saturday last vbs,
a feast those base ball fellows had down io D1var 90,
| Ice cream and cake, and the band Dlnvod ybJIo
they were eating? Well, wasn't that niccP Don't !
wish was one of them? They said il was piven IN
them in honor of the victories that thcv hod W
the smyrna and the Milford base ball clubs We'll
now the poor fellows ought to have been treated fr
tIieE nave been hye or six years trying to win a
victory over some club in the State and This Is the
irs time they have been able to accomplish that end
and Mr. Robbins thought that they should have
ana cake ana that the band to play while they
were worrying ii down, while other clubs tbroiIpbont
the Peninsula make up their mines out of young men
3 WV ale natives 9nd reside in their respective towns
Y nIu What they Know about ball playing they have
learned themselves amongst their own bows Dover
made her boast this Spring that she intended to beat
smyrna ana Milford II she had TO bankrupt the whole
town Of Dover to- do it, Mr. John Salisbury iformcrlv
OF Georgetown) moved to Dover and put new life in
INC Doys. J0hn Is right good country player And
when they came to count up their nine they had no
man IN Dover that could catch behind the bat they
sent four or five times down to Milford and after a
while hired Robert SammOns, the catcher of the
Milford club. Their short-stop when they came TO
examine, was not up to the mark. and they hired
Benjamin Horsey, OF the Seaford B. b. C. Their ieft,
fielder was not quite up to the mark and they hired
COLLINS OF the SeatOrd B. B. G., to fill the left field
OstOn Harrington, formerly of the Actives of vii.
mngton, had to take the place of their pitcher Oson
Is sad TO be the best amateur pitcher in the State
base ana we understand, with all Of this, they are
sireid OF Milford for the third game. And they have
the SeatOrd club, and Mcfarland, formerly OF The
Philadelphia club. Now, Mr. Editor amt them nice
One player out of the Georgetown club three out of
the seaford club. two out of the Active club Of VIII
mngton, and one from the Philadelphia club of Phila.
delphia And we understand they intend TO hire one
OF the Athletics 70 GONE down and play the third
game against Milford. So you that there is not
one these ice cream eaters that got their education i'm
Dover ON ball tossing, but that they all hired and
borrowed ana begged to enter their names on their
books and say that they belong 70 the club If a
young man visits the town he Is s0Op waited OH to
ascertain what he knows about ball TOSSING We mn.
derst0nd that Milford will not play them until they
will give them the names of the nine that they pro.
pose To- play against them aud after thOy do SO Mil.
ford will consider tho matter and II they think they
are constitutional members and have right 10 piay
under the rules of the amateur ASSOCIATION they wifi
appoint the time and go ~ Dover aud play them nc
eOrding 20 previous agreement But when thew
made that agreement they didn't intend TO play the
picked nine Of the State. No; neither do they now
We understand that there was some cream frozen 10
treat the boys ON when they returned from Milford on
Thursday evening" July the Sth when Milford Ind rs
full nine 10 play against them, but getting beat there
two TO one the boys had to go TO bed without any
cream. Orr ON A Eo,,T -
MILFORD, July 22d W."