The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-09-16

on the members of The Dalles baseball
club, we ask permission to answer
through the columns of your paper few
of these many insults, so foully dealt out
and backed by the Goldendale base (very
base ball players.
Goldendale came to The Dalles Sun
day, Sept Sd, with colors flying. They
were going to play the great ball team of
Oregon City the next day, and were con-
fident of victory. They had even sent an
-cdvance guard to inform the people that
something unusual was TO happen the
next day on the ball field, and 1t hap
pened When asked by The Dalles man :
ager if game could be played between
The Dales and Goldendales, their charac-
terlstic answer came: "To HI with The
Dalles. We don't want to play you; we
came to play Oregon City," They were
to play two games with that town, and
make great record for themselves.
Three star play ers had been secretly en-
gagged from valley town especially for
this game, and Oregon City would be
'snowed under" the next day. But oh {!
what a difference in the morning! The
people anticipating the result very sensi-
bly, staid away. This was Goldendale's
first disappointment. Next came the
game, and when nine innings had been
played Goldendale had received such an
unmerciful drubbing that they could not
even be coaxed into the game scheduled
with Oregon City tor the next day. 1t
was at this time that the game was ar
ranged between The Dalles and Golden
dale. The result is known. The Gold
endale's defeat was even greater than the
day before, The Dalles winning by a
score of II to 5.
We had MT expected to again hear
from the Goldendale team, in their Off
clal capacity at least; but, as is their
usual custom, they return home and use
the newspaper as their means of attack.
They attempr to mlslead the public in re-
gard to their treatment while in The
Dalles. One paper says: "The Golden
dale boys played five professionals from
abroad and four Dalles boys" Again the
same paper says: "If The Dalles boys
played our boys, their treatment of our
boys was hoggish and selfish and inhos-
pitable to the last degree"
AS to the players who composed The
Dalles team we are free to admit that
three of them were not Dalles players.
ALI others were,as can and will be proved
if necessary This, however, was fully
understood before the game, as it was the
desire of The Dalles club to play with
their own men and that Goldendale
should do the same. But Goldendale had
imported professional pitcher and two
other players (as is admitted by their
captain and manager) and desired TO play
Them. 1t was for this reason that The
Dalles boys accepted the ousitde players.
came here to play Oregon
City, and that team alone. They were go
ing to win the game,and make big money
from gate receipts. They were perfectly
of The Dalles team, and so
themselves. Bot because they
could not play ball, and their financial
were failure, they retreat
o their mountain home, and, through the
protection of their newspaper, attempt to
excuse themselves from the result OF the
game by saying that which they know TO
Je untrue, and which cannot be proved
lpon the diamond. Their statements are
most ungentlemanly and un-
courteous, and our only regret is that In
tead of allowing the three outside men
o play we had not substituted three
chool girls. The result would have been
ust the same.
DALLEs BASEBALL CLUB.