Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-08-29
BASE BALL NEWS.

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| No one here e'cr gets on bust;
| Therefore, this subject is not new
| To do the best we have in view.
| The worlds full ofarrows and of stings
| From Savage heights to Berkeley Springs.
| Whether in the wales or on the mountains
On the hills Or by the fountains
They dispute our right to wear the crown,
Specially up in Frostburg town.
Those Frostburgers, say, who never do lose,
But come to our city with thumbs on their
moose
Come down all looking their very best
As though they We're kings Of the East and
the West
But Romans-Cumbcrland | should say
No longer permit them to have their own
way
Rise freemcn, each man to his post,
On pain of meeting old Rienzis ghost
Come basemen, feldmen, pitcher and catcher,
One pull altogether and then Wen fetch her.
The items for this week are meagre
Of the usual interest.
Eckhart defeated Bowery last Sat
urday in Il close game score to 4.
The same clubs will play again in the
Park this afternoon.
Wednesday the Fats of Cumber-
land and Frostburg played at the Park
here. The announcement of heavy
weights which preceded the visitors
made it a question whether the bats
would stand over a ton of impulse.
They came along, great, big follows,
and filed into the diamond with dig
nifty worthy Of elepAantiasis. Beside
them the Frostburg iumbos appea red
at a disadvantage. Our largest men
could not be induced to engage hence
the best available talent for fatness
was employed. The game was long
and at times dreary. AT the end of
three hours Frostburg won by q score
of A to %.
Robb, Pittsburg Firearm pitcher,
has arrived, having been engaged by
the Frostburg Association to take the
place of O'Brien, resigned
In Cumberland Observation-Disclosures
land 6, McKeesport 0.
Same clubs yesterday, same grounds.
Cumberland s, Mcheesport 3.
1t would appear unnecessary for
Mckeesport to visit Frostburg.
No games at this place announced
as yet for next week.
stu lHo"e In,procments.--The orig
inal plan of putting in solid slate
blackboards in Public School No. l has
been abandoned and another adopted
that promises to be more satisfactory.
1t consists Of cutting down the Uains-
roting. so as to make the boards only
two and a-half feet from the floor, re-
moving the old ones, and replacing
them with a preparation that is said to
be one Of the best in the market. This
will do away with the platforms form
erly necessary to reach the black
boards, and thus increase the seating
capacity of the school largely. The
building will now have 1900 feet OF
first-class blackboard surface.
Another desirable improvement
made last week was to change the
partition in the main room so as to en-
lalge the room in the rear ard so make
all the rooms Of the building of exact
~ the same size. Hitherto it has been
necessary to place about 100 pupils
in this room in charge of two teachers,
using the small attached room to hear
rotations. This was a great disad-
vantage.
1t has been decided to have all the
interior walls of the building white
washed.
The entire work will be done by the
close Of next week.
The job has been in the hands of
Messrs. A. J. Wilson, Henry Will
Jams and John N. Carson, and has
been done in a thorough, workmanlike
manner.
With the building put in first-class
condition, and with probable
strengthening eff the corps of teachers
IN the higher departments, the outlook
for Il successful years work would
seem to be very encouraging.
The public schools will open this
Npar Monday S,ant Ii