Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-06-06
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Park, allowing the natives just enough
room to see the game through the
cracks between their bloviating re-
marks and elbow akimbo interstices.
Somewhere, however, during the lat
ter part of the contest the metropolitans
woke up, turned over, rubbed their
eyes, shook themselves, rolled out of
bed and went right to work and dealt
out ball like tigers paw dirt before
breakfast. They did this sort of thing
to an extent that enabled them to look
their home folks square in the eye.
From this stage on the game was one
of the finest interest for both clubs
the suburbans flushed with vain hopes
of triumph, the metropolitans renew
ing their yonth-were on their mettle.
Each play blazed with skillful work.
The game finally ended in tie score,
I'LL, the suburbans narrowly es-
Gaping defeat by the excuse that sit is
too late to finish"
Concerning the decorum of the game
authorities differ. On one part it is
observed that many unseemly remarks
were INDUCED on another that "tbe
game was played to the bitter end,
and, barring few weak discussions
of Empirical infallibility, it resembled
love feast compared with some
former encounters"
But the suburbans did not put up
the game that the metropo;itans did.
Their errors were not very costly,
while those of the metropoitans,
though few, were weighted with dis
aster.
Williams, of the latter team, exc
cuted one of the most remarkable
doubles ever seen III the Park. He
caught fly in deep left and cut off a
man splinting for first base. 1t
seemed almost a superhuman achieve
ment, but it PANIED out with swift and
delightful accuracy.
Somebody began to talk Of rheuma-
tism, stiffness, old age, approximation
and back numbers of an old file when
Crow stepped to the plate, but when
he touched the ball with antediluvian
vim and sent it somewhere over on
the tcther side of the flood, he was
cheered and cheered. Then the old,
gray-headed rooters said-"we knew
he would do it ~
By the way a motion has been made
and seconded right here to pay the old
stays compliment by allowing to
them the honors of the game. "Jack
and Grow, we need them YET" yells a
boy from the gallery, and another
hopes "they will long continue to play
with and inspire the young blood until
it ceases to get wheels in its head at
critical stages"
Gerlach played a good, steady short
stop, but was somewhat unfortunate
in this game.
Miller caught with ease and skill,
and all the rest did we'll considering
the bad condition of the ground and
the small amount of practice they have
had.
Saturday, Both ul,., the metropoli-
tans visited Bedford. Pa, town out
side of suburban jurisdiction and held
a batting and hitting conference with
the team Of that place. The score
was s to 3, the odds appearing up on
the Bedford horizontal. The cause of
metropolitan defeat in this instance is
honestly attributed to the strength and
.fnesse of the Bedford pitcher-a double
jointed handspring catapult of balls
which our bats, IN that
Daylight blind,
Could not find
"Otherwise:" an authentic report
goes, "the metropolitans were more
than the equals of the sulphur water
tenderfeet."
The score, as above given, is correct,
although it will be held by partisans
of Homecoming that it is IL to 10 in
their favor. In proof whereof the
following explanatory letter has been
handed in for publication
On impartial investigation and from par
ticulars gathered from reliable sources it is
found that the victory hastily awarded to the
Homecoming participants in the recent ball
game is really the outcome of error on the
part of the scorer. According to valid testi-
mony the score at the finish was
TrostpurS' .'.'.'..... .'..'............ Ill
Homecoming. ....................ll
This fact leads to the question-through
what means was Frostburg deprived of one
run, thus destroying the equality? The facts
are these-the fault lies solely with the spec
tators, and even with the players themselves,
for when the scorer was engaged faithfully
in the work assigned to him he was constant
ly assailed by interrogatOrs who had not yet
developed sufficient mental ability to keep
the result before their own minds. This I'M
due and improper questioning had the effect of
exciting the scorer and eventually confusing
him so much that at the finish when every
body was dancing around like hen on
hot griddle, the strain overcame his concen-
trative faculties and forced him into error.
The exact standing was IL to IL, but he had
noted 10 to IL in favor of Homecoming, and as
Of in ha