Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
TOWN AND VICINITY.
IL. Il.

Midland baseball area last Saturday
1t was good-natured crowd, es-
pecially the boy contingent equipped
with cowbells and superannuated tomato
cans loaded with mountain gravel.
These guyed the FrOstburgers unspar-
ingly, but their jibes and noise fell upon
needless ears, for Frostburg, under Leon
ards lead, had gone down to win-not
to audit badge.
Fact is, the metropolis never put up Il
more symmetrical article Of the national
at home or abroad than they furnished
hot and heating to their Midland hosts.
When they picked up the stick i'll the
opening act everybody in Midland from
the oldest fan down to the smallest
paper peddler in the county was meta
phorically standing and appealing to
Entler, the local slab artist to serve up
his choicest assortment, of rOund-house
bcnders and street-corner dodgers and
thus keep Frostburg forever nibbling at
SHARES and pivoting at delusions.
But it was all to no purpose. The
boys put the willow on to the yarn with
so much consistency and unanimity that
nearly everyone of the nine got to the
hitting station, meanwhile grinding out
four runs for starter.
Midland came to the bat limping OH
leg and futtering on wing. Leonard
had at Frostburg manifestly under-es-
timated the talent of his antagonist and
lost the game. This time everybody
could see that he meant to transact bust
ness and he laid them over the plate so
fast that the receiving end of the bat
terry, Tom Jackson. appeared like man
looking through Il bird-cage Smelling peas
from a pod big as prize-fghter's mitten.
All, yes glorious Tom he answered
every wireless message from the pro-
jectiler's plate and tagged the horse
hide pill with his sinister talon with
haste and skill equal to every deter
mined demand of the imperious occasion.
The game went on this way-Frost-
burg keeping ahead, Midland dying and
passing away hard. One of several
showers married the game, coming at IA
juncture favorable to Frostburg and put
ting the score several numbers above
merit.
But in baseball so long as there is
vitality there is expectation. In other
words, game is never won until the
last half of the ninth has been relegated
to the shades.
A big fellow named Layman took the
weeping willow for the farewell swat.
Two strikes We're quickly charged
against him. He squared himself for
the next with show of putting the
sphere i'll the last row of potatoes in
Upper Ocean. He hit it, 1t became IA
flyer. There was fearsome inclination
to yell, but it fell sock between the
scratchers of Frostburg pair of hands,
and all was over.
As at Midwife when the mighty Casey
struck ont, there was no joy i'll Midland.
The old men We're mute; the young
looked sorrow-hit; the boys disappointed,
and Clayton, with fearful smile, moved
downhill to his office with the gait of an
automobile climbing the sunrise side of
Dams Rock.
These SadneSseS We're accumulated by
the very recent return of the Midland
team from "a tour laden with the trophies
of three of four games won from crack
teams in the gardens and glades of West
Virginia.
In this connection the JOURNAL will
quote from the Parsons .id"ocate:
The strongest team that has been up
against the Parsons team this year was the
Midland nine, composed of the best players
along Georges Creek, including Frostburg
and Homecoming. They were strong, heavy
muscled men and knew how to play ball.
Their pitchers, Entler and Spates, are on to
their jobs, They played Tuesday and We'd
nesday In the Tuesday game they beat the
Parsons nine by hard tussle. The score was
7to4 PIintz pitched for Parsons and put up
good game. So did all the Parsons boys
but two or three errors were made that gave
the visitors the advantage on the score.
Wednesdays game was different IN results
and it waa the best game played at Parsons
this wear. The score was three to one in
favor of Parsons. Bowman and Schriver
made up the Parsons battery and MalOy and
SpateS the Mlulanu battery DuI tHlS game
was not played by the batteries alone. 1t
gave every man a chance to do something,
and they did it well. 1t was an exceedingly
interesting game. and the largest crowd that
has been on the ball ground witnessed the
game.
Later than the foregoing came ''Thc
Scorers" account
Last week the Midland club made tour
of West Virginia Central railroad towns,
playing two games at Parsons and two at
Elkins, winning three of the four, demon
strating to the baseball cranks of those places
that the boys along Georges Creek can play
ball.
The three Spates brothers, of this place
played with Midland on the trip and their
good all-round work cut quite figure i'll the
success of the Midland team.
On their arrival home last Saturday al
noon the good citizens of Midland, to the
number of several hundred, met them at the
train and escorted them to the Stakem hotel
where a sumptuous repast had been prepared
Tor them.
After dinner the whole town adjourned tC
the base ball park where the Frostburg Clut
was awaiting their coming.
The game was called at - O'Clock and III 4
very few minutes the Murphy aggregation
discovered they were again up against the
real thing" sure enough.
Leonard was OH the slab for the visitors
and his twirling in this game was "a thlnt
of beauty and a joy forever.
Jackson was ''StOnewalI behind the bat
Coleman had no less than nine chance
and took every one easy.
The Jackson brothers, Owen and jim, II
the ont field were in the game all the while