Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-07-11
b. Il.

The JOURNALS reporter tells the
story of the game between Frostburg
and Homecoming last Saturday as fol-
lows:
Hooray.! hooray! everything comes our way
On glorious Independence day
There can be no lurking doubt about the
superiority of our base ball club over Iona
coming Those who witnessed the game
which occurred on the 4th were satisfied on
that point ere the game was half through,
but they also had another thing plainly DEM
Onstrated to them-that the Frostburg players
are gentlemanly in their department, winning
the game on the merits of playing, while
Lonaconing-or at least the maiority-are
toughs who attempt to win the game by
braggadocio and intimidation, and the
majority Of the base bali people of that place
encourage this unworthy disposition.
1t was only the courtesy and leniency of
the boys that permitted the Homecoming
pitcher to continue when somewhere IN the
last innings he promised to kill one of our
boys, then at the bat. for the manner in
which he delivered the ball. The sentence
suggested the most serious design, and he
should have been put out of the game, if not
arrested. 1t is time such language and &C
tons are called down with heavy hand.
That same gentleman proved his ferocious
intentions when he assaulted Mr.. Wright, the
umpire, for rendering the just decision that
retired the side and won the game Both
Messrs. MCGEE and Pollock, who took a hand
in trying to ''do up" the umpire, are wiser
but poorer men and it is to be hoped that
their impetuous and irrascible tactics on the
ball ground will be sun:marily suppressed
hereafter, in like manner, only little more
so. Let the fine be increased for each otfense
until their manner of playing base ball will
become too expensive for pastiine as it has
long been an eyesore to true lovers of the
game.
The exhibition of the Homecoming rooters in
the last inning should be tolerated no more
by the club. 1t is impossible to play under
such trying circumstances and it is foolish
for any club to continue under such a
strain. Manager Dillon holds an agreement
with the manager of the Homecoming club
which should have called the game at 4:3O
If this had been done the nearly disastrous
result of the last inning would have been
prevented and the score would have remained
in our favor
frostDurg.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 8
LOnacOnlng. .....................3
AS it is, the score stands
Frostburg. ............... ..................S
Homecoming ..................
Homecoming sports could not accommodate
themselves to fate's decree. In the morning
Goldsworthy beat their champion rider in a
bicycle race and it was well nigh beyond
their endurance to see the ball game slip so
gracefully and easily out of their grasp All
honorable and manly means to win it back
would have been applauded by the audience,
but their attempt to bulldoze cannot but meet
with disapproval and peremptory suppression,
and we are not like people who will not take
hand in suppressing it when it is necessary.
In the game with Homecoming the boys
initiated their new uniforms, for the pay
ment of which the gate receipts of several
games IS required. SO that in the game with
Meyersdale this afternoon it is hoped
that the lovers of the game will assist them
both morally and financially with their much
deserved presence. The boys play gentle
manly ball and no trouble need be feared.
The "Orioles," of Frostburg, were
defeated by the Meyersdale club at
the latter place last Saturday by a
score of Is to II.