Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-21
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1t is hard to tell what the Meyers
dale (Pa.) Commercial is driving at in
the following paragraph concerning
the game last played there by the
Frostburg team:
The reporter of the FRosTnURG MINING
JOURNAL continues to claim the game by a
score of 6 to 7. The reporter perhaps is not
aware of the fact that when the racket was
raised and the Frostburg boys quit playing
the innings were uneven, the latter having
been at the bat once oftener than Meyersdale
Had the game been played out, no one here
and we venture the assertion that no one in
the Frostburg game, not even the umpire, en-
tertains a shadow of doubt but that Meyers
dale would have won the game Kenny was
Just getting in shape to do some effective
work and none were wider awake to this fact
than the members of the Frostburg team
themselves-hence the kick
AS to shadows of doubts" and what
"Kenny was just going to do'-all
that is the himsiest speculation.
There is nothing certain in baseball
but accomplished results.
The JOURNAL leaves the matter,
however, to the disposition of its sport
ing reporter:
1t is strange that Meyersdale so persistent
y kicks at the result Of the game played be-
tween our boys and theirs recently | say
strange, because at no stage of the game did
Meyersdale prove themselves equal to the oc-
casion, and their weak clam that our boys left
because they feared the loss of the game is,
therefore, hardly worth notice. But in order
to set the mind of the public right on few
erroneous ideas that they advance will give
the straight story of the whole transaction.
Our boys were in the lead the entire course
of the game up to the time of the Meyers
dale objection to the umpires decision !;
consequently, it would be worse than poor
policy for them to desire a cessation What
ever may be said to the contrary, the score
book proves concluslvely that our boys had
one more inning at the bat, giving an ad
ditional advantage which they recognized to
a man. Furthermore, the kick came from
Meyersdale and was sustained by them
throughout the 10 minutes given by both
umpires to resume the game our boys in the
meantime quietly held their positions on the
field waiting the pleasure of the opposing
nine. After the expiration of the time both
umpires called the game in favor of Frost
burg. This should be plain enough to any
reasonable man or assemblage of men.
Our team has played gentlemanly baseball
this year with every aggregation they have
met, claiming nothing which they did not
honestly earn, and we did not make this an
exception. The very great trouble with
Meyersdale is-they recognize the superiority
of our nine, but they cannot gracefully accept
defeat at our hands. But the boys take this
means to say that with the same aggregations
in the field they are not fearful of the result
anywhere and under any fair treatment.
The foregoing is the plain, unvarnished
truth and l believe every fair-minded spec
tator will corroborate the same.
This report branches off into more
general and pleasanter aspect of af-
fairs. 1t says:
There is nothing new on the boards, which
'sorter' indicates that the boys have made
good our claim in first report that they would
prove themselves superior players, the cause
of no games being the coyness of our neigh
bors in tackling us to any great extent.
To which allow me to append few lines,
although the JOURNALS many readers have
been so kind and considerate of my great i'm
positions upon them that think one more
attack will be borne by them:
Upon our lofty ground we stand
And view the landscape DER;
Above, beneath and all around
The neighboring clubs are sore.
So, with detected hearts, we bow,
And with the ancient warrior weep,
Because our arms must idle lie
And vct ries now no more we sweep.
Mayhap among the jungles wild
In the city far beneath the eye
A crowd Of valiant youths may live
Who for their land may wish to die