Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-08-01

have cause to complain.
"a" 1t only remains to be stated that to
many it is unnecessary to name these require
ments. Such respect them without notice.
To others they are here given as rules for the
guidance of all who desire to take the JOURNAL
Baseball Notes.-The Cumberland
player who did not hire his washing
this week ought to be struck by some
thing next week, but not entirely kill
ed.
We want to say for the Frostburg
Baseball Association Park that it is
not exactly the place where the gentle
zephyrs lull to rest or sustain the
quantity and quality Of atmospheric
oxygen, but where the home club goes
on rampage and with cyclonic force
sweeps the surface with anything that
happens to be handy.
A half-holiday agitation is getting
in the wind. Men of work and
thought are ranging themselves on the
side that favors closing the weeks
work at Saturday noon. If the idea
of work includes baseball exercise, in
the name and behalf of an otherwise
public we protest against any legal
enactment of the character referred to.
The clubs have no more right to be let
off Saturday afternoons than preachers
on Sunday.
But bark! The air again is still;
The bail near Flanagan lands,
And silence, like poultice, comes
To heal O'Brens hands.
Now extend the telephone to the
bulletin board that ought to be con-
spicuously located in the baseball
park.
The crowd did seem to be against
Cumberland Tuesday, but with such
cool, daring, and wholly unexpected
good playing by Frostburg, who could
help yelling7
sxsThe JOURNAL disapproves very de-
cidedly of jeering and grooming at de-
feated clubs. 1t is exceedingly rude,
and tile small boys who did it should
be taught better.
The Neaos explains the defeat by say
ing "the Cumberlanders started from
here in wagon, broke down at the
edge of town, took the Georges Creek
to Vale Summit, and walked over to
Frostburg, three miles. This tired
them considerably" No doubt this
tended to keep down their score, not
withstanding the fact that when one
of them got chance to run he travel
ed like Il thoroughbred who had just
escaped from Jail. Further: "They
lost the game because they could not
hit O'Brien, the Frostburg pitcher,
with any regularity or effect, for
although they made base hits they
were too much scattered" Something
in that, too.
The score by innings next Monday
will be like breakfast bacon-a streak
of lean and a streak of fat.
The pretty Frostburg girl, who,
speaking of Quinn, exclaimed SO,
isn't he a lovely catcher!" was no
worse mashed by his good work than
everybody else in the crowd.
The account in both the dailies
were short and modest, compared
with reports of less important games
previously played. The whyness of
this coyness is attributed by an ex-
change. fend to the resultness.
O'Brien and Quinn are recognized
as the strongest battery in Allegany
county.
The astute Cumberland correspond
ent of the Baltimore Herald states that
"O'Brien and Quinn, of McKeesport,
were the battery for the Frostburgs,
and Flanagan and James O'Brien for
the Cumberlands." The uninitiated
reader of the Herald has doubtless con-
cluded that James O'Brien and Elan
agan are either from Cumberland or
nowhere. The Cumberland nine
should muzzle the OK that treads out
such nubbins.
O'Brien and Quinn have this ad-
vantage over the Cumberland battery
they are good anywhere you place
them.
On one occasion Flana gan nettled
O'Brien, who was at the bat. The
latter stopped and creased his hands
with dust and let the next one have it.
The ball rose at an angle of 45 degrees
and sped away through space. The
left fielder started for it like a man
who expected to find it "beyond the
radiant glow of sunrise.
Almost 600 persons entered the
Park Tuesday and witnessed the game.
Outside the imam up tree" was very
numerous.
The Meyersdale Commercial rema rk.
with its usual wisdom that "Cumber
land wasn't playing 'Cony that time"
We warn our boys that Cumberland
has set the pegs to beat them to-day
New players are introduced, and tn,