The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-09-21

POKING FUN AT GORDON.
Comments of the Anaconda Stand
ard on Editor Yerkes' Letter.

the state. The Hon. Samuel Cor
don of Miles City, who is old enough
and big enough to know better, has
through the temporary incapacity of
the editor obtained access to the col
umns of the esteemed and usually
dignified Yellowstone journal and is
taking occasion to indulge in Il wild
and unseemly jocosity with A. X.
lerkes of Bozeman, gentleman
and journalist of hitherto unim-
peachable responsibility. 1t appears
that last Sunday the Billings base
ball club met similar organization
from Miles City and defeated it with
great slaughter; whereupon Mr.
Yerkes telegraphed the news to Mr..
Gordon and afterwards wrote him n
letter extending sympathy and con-
dolence, and begging to assure the
gentleman from Yellowstone that
:" the whole city of Billings is Jump
ing on you with its hob-naled shoes
and the bleachers are uttering your
name derisively." Mr.. Yerkes
made various other remarks of sim
liar nature, delicately conveying the
information that Billings was meta
phorically walking over Mr.. Cor
don's PROSTATE corpse and finding
that the exercise possessed pecu-
lar zest, piquancy, and charm.
Mr. Gordon endeavors to retalate
by alluding to Mr.. Yerkes as a gent
leman whose town supports gang
of alleged ball players, not one of
whom could stop a pumpkin that
might be rolled to him or hit it ly-
ing on the ground with bat afoot
wide" The Standard is inclined to
view this as prejudiced opinion.
At any rate it would advise Mr..
Gordon not to go to Bozeman and
test the correctness Of his theory by
impersonating the pumpkin. This
newspaper entertains high admira-
ton for Mr. Gordon. He is great
man in many directions, particularly
in the abdominal region, and after
his ihdiscreet reflections on the abil-
ity OF the Bozeman club we should
be afraid to have him very close to
any member of it with bat a foot
wide. The Bozemans many not be
able TO whitewash the champion Bal
timores two games out Of three, but
give them bats of the dimensions
specified and they could impress up
on Mr.. Gordon that their batting is
not of the weak and impotent char
acter he has assumed.
1t may be all very well for Mr..
Gordon and Mr.. Yerles to jolly each
other as they pass along through
this vale of tears, but they should
take care to avoid stirring up the
passions and prejudices of the pub
lie. Baseball is a serious business,
and every self-respecting community
values the honor of its club more
than its board of aldermen. Men
will suffer Sam Gordon to be chair
man of the house printing commit
tee, they will suffer great deal at
at the hands of Sam Gordon without
searching for stout rope and CON
venient tree, but when Sam Gordon
leaps over the boundaries of civilized
life, breaks down the barriers of or
ganlzed society and impeaches the
ability of a base ball club to knock
Yellowstone pumpkin into smther-
Gems with a bed-slat, we will not be
responsible for the action of infur-
lated mobs. Hse in Anaconda we
have base ball club which has ac-
cepted all challenges and met every
thing and anything that has come
along, making excursions at times
into neighboring towns in search of
additional prey, and which now re-
tire at the end of the season with
the astonishing, and, we believe, un-
precedented record of one game won
and twenty one lost. But if this
man Gordon should asperse the An
aconda club as he did Bozeman's
three days later the beautiful valley
of the Yellowstone would witness the
saddest, the most impressive and
best attended funeral in its history.