Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-12-08
Sport.

Baseball seems to have gone out to
the sport here. Last season was a dull
one; nothing TRANSFERRED to "enthusc"
either players or fans" The latter
class, of course, is really the crowd
which keeps the game going, as they put
life, patronage and ginger into the game
While, however, it seems baseball is
going. the great game of football is Just
a-coming, and FrOStburg may well feel
proud of the aggregation that for the
past two seasons has represented it on
the gridiron. The manager, L. n.
Meadows, has got together IA team of
players that is equalled by few and
surpassed by none i'll this locality.
Anthony, the coach, is1ight up-to-date
i'll the game. His signals are nicely con
ceived and properly executed.
Captain Carson is certainly the right
man i'll the right place. He knows the
game as the scholar knows his books.
As a leader i'll the game the boys look
up W llllll dllNt, lie mas no
trouble i'll keeping them together.
n great many people think football is
game of main strength and awkward
ness. Such is not the case. See the
Frostburg team play one or two games;
watch William Evans, Hansell, Thomas,
Stanton and others play, and anyone
will be convinced that it requires skill
and activity as well us Drawn to be IL
successful player.
Watch the ruShes of Horace Evans,
big Dave Pugh, Hamilton and Lewis,
and one will conclude that intelligence
cuts quite IA figure i'll the game. 1t
would be hard indeed to get together i'll
this community a stronger aggregation of
muscle, mind and matter than the Frost
burg Football Team. Every man, from
manager Meadows down to Ehm, Stew
art and Davis, the substitutes, has all
the characteristics that make good foot
ball players as well as successful men.
Cumberland With 20 900 population;
with its elegant organization of Y. NJ G.
A., numbering over il Thousand members,
trained by professor of physical culture,
and yet no football, no baseball, no ath-
letic sport of any kind. And Lonacon-
ing, the home of the Caledonian, where
kinloch, Hohing and other great athletes
We're wont to gather in the prizes on the
cinder path and i'll other athletic con-
tests, are 10 more. Sometime in the
coming century, perhaps, LonacOn-
ing will have team of prize winners,
though just now the element of sport III
that town is in the condition described
by Roy McCardell as completely ON
the dink.'
Saturday, Dec. 10, the Frostburg team
will play i'll Mt. Savage.
In that busy little town they have
gotten together club of muscular gen
tlemen who desire to become acquainted
with the intricate principles of the game
by actual experimentation and demon
stration. 1t is safe to assert, therefore,
that after the game with "Our Own"
they will have learned some information
about football they would never acquire
otherwise.
The foregoing information is CLEANED
by the JOURNAL through an interview
with a gentleman known by few as
"lHIctd."
Two kicks come-one from Midland,
the other from Homecoming.
The Press says, in effect, that Layman,
Sloan, Neth1in and Brady are IL, and
the FrOstburg team y.
And the Rrric~, voicing Rugby
aggregation complaint, speaks of dad
treatment by the Frostburgers, especial
ly by the referee-a schoOl-teacher who
couldn't ditferentiate between - and "a
feet, long measure.
These are derivations from defeat,
however, and are usual in explanations
to home folks of how the hencenesS camt
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