Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-31
TOWN AND VICINITY.
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burg club, Thomas G. Dillon, in strong
style, as will be seen below.
In justice to Mr.. Dillon, however, it
ought to be stated that he is not the
gentleman who told the JOURNAL that
the brothers johnson are also immi-
grants:
FRosTBURG, MD. July %, 1897.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In the last issue of the Homecoming Reyiew
there is piece of news which the editor has
head-lined Some of Dillon's inaccuracies"
1t reads as follows:
FrOstburg has now concluded that the
only way to crawl out from under the
accusation of importing base ball players is
to charge Homecoming with going ont of the
State for men, but in this, like in their claim
to a team superior to Homecoming, they are
very inaccurate, or in other words, they
make a statement which is absolutely false.
The two young men from Piedmont who
play III the Homecoming team are regular
mem bers of the nine, and have been from
the date of its organization, taking part in
every game this season. Gncuding the two
in which Homecoming defeated Frostburg)
and were not imported especially for the
game on the 5th, as were DewIng and Metz,
because Dillon kne~ from experience that
Frostburg could not defeat Homecoming with
their regular home players. If Frostburg
could have defeated our nine with its regular
men, why were Dewing and Metz imported
at a heavy expense?
You may as well acknowledge that Iona
coming can take team of home players and
defeat your home nine every day in the
week. But it makes very little difference
whether you make the admission, as the
people (and many i'll Frostburg) know it to
be fact.
quote this in its entirety and trust you
will give it space in your next issue.
The two young men from Piedmont whom
the Reoie~ would have us believe have been
members of the Homecoming club since its
organization" certainly did not play the first
game played here with Homecoming, as one
OF them umpired. Possibly that was why
Homecoming won.
We are making no kick, however, on these
gentlemen. Both played here with Keyser
last Saturday, and if we played Piedmont
this week they would no doubt be with that
club, or any other club that will pay them
their price.
Only a lew seasons ago Homecoming had
Baker and Sullivan, who were ''imported at
very heavy expense" from McKeesport.
How much honor, glory, fame and money
did they make for Lonaconlng?
In regard to defeating Frostburg every
day in the week"-that is little opinion of
the Reciems ownest own, but which am
sure it would not back up with very much
money. Talk like that costs nothing. We
are willing to pay the Reyiep IS head for
every intelligent man it finds in Frostburg
who believes that Homecoming can defeat us
'any day in the week" How it does hurt
the Re0ic~ and its gang to get beat-and by
our own players, too. Who pitched the
game on the 9Th day of July? Was it not
Kreiling-and Homecoming got all the way to
hits Off him? Had we put in Dewing
Lonaconlng would have been shut out al
gether
Homecoming is great on the hort. That
town has been practicing it for many years
and it will get a chance to indulge more of it
for if Frostburg plays that club again this
season its name is Dennis" and they know
it if they know anything We are on the top
ofthe heap so far as Homecoming is concerned
and we are going to stay there. So the
Revie~ can prepare to howl as it never
awakened the woods before
T. G. DILLON.
The Iona coming Star of last week
mlsrepresented the Frostburg manage
ment. The facts given the JOURNAL
are as follows:
L. A. Smith was here and requested game
of ball in Homecoming Saturday, July "a.
The Frostburg manager told him he would
see what could be done.
Nothing had been said however, about
paying Frostburg's expenses to Homecoming.
Next day the Frostburg manager, as in
structed by the club, wrote the Homecoming
manager as follows:
Will play your team in Homecoming Satur-
day for SO, or will give you SIS for game here.
Mr. Smith replied as follows:
Your card to hand and noted.
We cannot give you S15.
We will give you tram fare and think that
Is more than you ever got for playing where
there are no enclosed grounds.
We Will not play another game with you
until there Is return game played here.
1t will be seen, therefore, that there was no
promise out to play and, consequently there
could have been no disappointment founded
upon the action of the home club or manager
The Homecoming club has played three
three games here this season, and they have
been paid for their games as follows
May &c.. 1900. ............. ~
June = '..'.. ''................. Is 80
July o..... ........... ........... :. 1920
Ao'ai' '''''''''.'.. ..'...... .S6O.O2
The Frostburg club has received for the
same games the following sums:
June Il ...... ........ 9.45
July 5.......... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1920
Iotal. ............. S44. 6l
Now why the Frostburg club should go to
Homecoming for their car fare and pay all other
expenses is something we do not understand
The manager drops the Homecoming
Star and pays the following attention
to another captious contemporary:
The Keyser CIV. Va) Tribune says 1.-The
Frostburg team was materially assisted in her
victory by the rank decision of the umpire
who, both in strikes and base decisions, took
good care to give Frostburg the big end of it"
wonder whether the umpire helped the
FrOstburg team to make six hits and seven
runs in the sixth inning? That is what won
the game. Good hitting clean fielding and
excellent all-round team work-not the UNI
pire, in our opinion, for he was as far and
honest as could be.
To-day Saturday the great Meyers
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