Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-08-28

oSSlOSdtlou VI Udil DIdyGIS,
were very much pleased with the treat
ment accorded them while here.
During the game ball from Jack
sons hand tipped the bat, came over
the screen, struck the grand stand
about the middle with resounding
whack, went on and held lively ar
gument with the roof and rear wall
concerning their ability to stop it.
The roof and wall were fortunate in
receiving it when well spent. Other
wise. there would have been no argu-
ment ; the ball would have gone
through. ugh !" said boy, and, al
luding to the grand-stand spectators
who jumped when the ball whizzed in,
weren't them passengers skeered ?"
jackson is a young man of slender
build, but the momentum he puts in a
ball is frightful.
The following retort is contributed
The dime museum freak who writes the
baseball news for the Homecoming Reyie,c was
troubled with very bad case of dyspepsia
last week. The following is his mournful
spell"
Berlin defeated Frostburg by score of to
at the last named place Saturday afternoon.
The game was ended before the nine innings
were played because the Berlin boys refused
to be bulldozed any longer by rotten, I'M
Just and overbearing umpire, who halls from
FroStburg. 1t is said that this individual is
paid a certain amount day by the Driving
Park association and baseball club of that
place every time he acts as umpire at game
on that ground. And if team superior to
Frostburg lays out that club, imported men
and all, this umpire manages to rob the
game from the visiting team by unjust de.
ciSionS.
We are also told that the game lost by
Meyersdale to Frostburg recently was due
only to the fact that Powers, the umpire, APP
piled decisions similar to those of "Wright-
wrong Wright fame of last year.
Everyone who knows anything at all
knows that Berlin didn't defeat Frostburg,
as at the end of even innings (the Sth) the
score was 6-5 in Frostburg's favor, and up
to that time there wasn't a kick or growl of
any kind except those which came from the
princes Of GROWERS and kickers Pollock and
his ''inke' from Homecoming. They were
defeated the day before by Berlin and it hurt
them to see Frosburg win. They had to at
tribute the result to something, so they put 1t
on the umpire.
w. j. Powers, the umpire, has never re-
ceived one cent from the Association or base.
ball team in his whole life
The Berlin team, with one execution
Davis, was ready and willing to play the
game through, and the last issue of the Berlin
RecOiu says:
The treatment accorded the team while in
Frostburg was good, the best of feeling pre-
valllng, and the boys are very sorry that the
circumstance compelled them to quit play.
The Frostburg manager has communica-
ton from the Berlin manager asking for
game to-day, Saturday, August IS, but owing
to arrangements made with the Midland
| club, he was compelled to decline However,
the Berlin boys will be here once more this
season to play-possibly, Saturday, Sep
| TENDER 4.
The readers of the JOURNAL can Judge for
| themselves who is correct in reporting the
result OF the game-the Berlin Record, who
had gentleman present, or the freak from
-@o'''S WIZ "ioIo iiio lCPolt NUN near
say, and whose liver is out of order.
The Midland team will play here to-
day at $50 p. IN.
McGee, of Homecoming, will pitch
for Midland, and the team from that
growing town will be strengthened by
several other Homecoming players.
jackson and Williams will do the
battery work for the locals and good
game is expected.
Negotiations are pending for three
games with the Homecoming club-to
be played here at the Driving Park FOR
800, the winner of the series to take
the above purse and 40 per cent. of the
gate receipts. If satisfactory arrange
ments can be made the first game of
the series will be played Thursday,
September 3.
The local manager has enough games
in sight to keep the team playing one
or Two games from now until the snow
begins to fly.