Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-09-03

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Presbyterian church at both services
tomorrow (Sunday.) The pastor re-
quests a full attendance of members
and heartily invites the public gen
orally.
BIB.
A large crowd witnessed the third
game of the current series between
Frostburg and Homecoming at the
Driving Park last Saturday. 1t in
cluded Homecoming contingent of IA
strikers, 16 intimidators, n shouters
$50 blowhards, and Joe Robinson. 1t
was evidently we'll understood before
and after they left Homecoming that
the days game was theirs. 1t was
equally patent that the Frostburg
people fully understood that success
that day meant an end of the fun.
Hence, those not in the interior were
inclined to find fault with Jack for a
couple of wild throws which, under
other conditions, would have been
inexcusable. The JOURNAL will not
90 into tedious detail of the move
ments, but it must notice the kicks.
The first occurred early against
| Frostburg-a decision of the umpire,
DR.. M. G. Porter, in which the doctor
Undoubtedly erred, and Frostburg lost
an advantage of its apparent earnest
ness. In the fourth inning Pollock
made one of three runs. Joe Robinson
shook hands with Pollock. Some
other runner was allowed to come in
and Robinson was just on the point of
moving to make it unanimous, when
another idea struck him. He pro-
posed, it is said, to bet 81 against IS
that Coney would win! By this time
Frostburg had permitted the third man
to come in, and he was rewarded with
one of Joe's loudest unshaved smiles.
In the seventh inning d hot ball came
very near burning off one of the
umpire's legs, and Robinson yelled
''put another one i'll the same place,
Hen" In the eighth inning a Frost
burg runner now in earnest to stop
the foolishness of ''letting ON to play,
took advantage of a passed ball, made
third, and seeing that Homecoming
was ratified, let out for ''home, sweet
home," and ''got there, Eli" The
umpire decided it Il run, and
thus disagreed with Robinson. who
had been Dragging on the doctor
as ''the fairest umpire" that ever
stood on that particular slot, piece
or parcel of land" All Homecoming
rushed inside the lines and for
few minutes it looked like every
thing from Frostburg would have to
break and run for the towns fortifica-
tons. What made it all so dangerous
was Robinson. Had he not showed so
much excitement Homecoming would
that when an outsider monkeys with a
passed ball, whether at the request or
not of an easy going catcher, his side
of the case is fatally vitiated. Well,
Robinson got quiet and Homecoming
simmered down with uniform ratio
until train time when Robinson had to
leave so that the news could be carried
to Homecoming that "the dead is alive
again" The game was a good one,
Lonaconlng doing its level best, while
Frostburg evidently designed to save
itself only from shut-out. The guying
of the crowd, mainly boys, was dis
gracefully discourteous to the visitors
and a gross indignity to the many
elegant ladies present. No less 50 the
treatment accorded DR.. Porter, who is
too much of gentleman to be de-
liberately dishonest. Several mem
bers of the home team INDUCED some
very unnecessary talking. AS a matter
of incontestable fact, when an umpire
is once selected, his decisions, right or
wrong, should command absolute and
universal acquiescence. Otherwise,
the most unsystematlc, unsatisfactory
and indecent exercise under the sun is
a baseball game. The result was Iona
coming, 5: Frostburg, |.
The fourth of the series will take
place at the Park this afternoon at y
o'clock. 1t lies within Frostburg's
reach to stop the series right here, or
defer it.