The diamond drill., 1903-08-29
MARQUETTE A
DIRTY BASE
BALL TOWN,
Discovrtesy Of Management
Coupled With Deliberate
Thievins of Umpire Stack
With the Mining Journal
an 4ccessary After the
Fact is the Deal That was
Stacked Against Crystal
Falls.

From one end OF this peninsula TO
the other the cry has gone forth there
is nothing in Marquette for base ball
player but dirt Crystal Falls can
vouch for the truth of the assertion.
Calumet Bsraga. Munising and Ssult
Ste Marie have each in turn put forth
the assertion that there Is no town in
Michigan where as much dirt can be
given by as small crowd as In the
Queen City. Crystal Falls can go them
one further and say that there are no
people in the peninsula who are cap
able OF being as dirty as the manage
ment OF the Marquette base ball team.
Arrangements were made for n game
at Marquette last Sunday. and posters
were issued advertising the game.
The manager assured Crystal Falls
people over the phone that big crowd
would attend and good time would
be had by all II a crowd accompanied
the team. Accordingly 100 people ac-
oompanied the team. Arrived at Mar
quette. no one came to meet the team
to assign them TO quarters and the
boys, after standing around on the
street corners for a time, finally con-
cluded to go to the New Clifton. The
time for the game came around but no
Marquette man showed mp to even say
"How do you do The team and its
supporters went to the grounds where
the 1900 spectators promised by the
management were expected to as
semble and found, actual count, S57
people, 100 Of them from Crystal Falls.
One gentleman in explaining the
small attendance stated to the writer
that it is the disgusting methods pur-
sued by the base ball management in
Marquette that has killed the game
there. Why, said he You may win
but IL will be- an up hill fight. You
certainly can't win on merit especially
IL Stack Is put in To umpire. Mar
quette people like clean sport and they
cant get it here. That's why you
, don { see them out. - But it was
the umpire that did the dirtiest work
OF the whole schmere His WORK was
so rank in the fifth inning that a
number OF Crystal Falls people went
to Manager Corcoran and asked him
to withdraw the team from the field
as it was apparent that there would
|, be no square deal.
IL was in the ninth that the breal
; came. The score stood Crystal Falls
: to Marquette 3. A Marquette man hi
!: for two bases and afterwards scored OF
. hit. The second man was forced a
. second by a couple of yards but The
{. umpire called him safe and he alsC
!: scored tieing the score. There was 4
! man on bases and batter up. Th,
|: batter had two strikes and struck a.
(: third, umpire Stack calling it tive
! strikes. There was kick but II
: finally passed and at the second bal
; thereafter the batter struck when the
! umpire called three balls and refused
: to change his decision. That was too
; muco. II as then apparent that STACK
! deliberately intended TO steal the
: game and Manager Corcoran called th'
|; team off the field while the boys were
; stacking their bats the man on second
, , walked in and the umpire instructed
! the scorer to score the run.
IL ia too bad that such work Is per
! mitted but from the subsequent actioni
I of the management IL was apparent
7 that they had the thing planned. The
3 game was played on forty and sixt,
3 guarantee and there was about ter
3 dollars coming 10 the Crystal Fall
4 boys even at forty per cent, but th'
Z manager "ducked'" In the eighth In
2 ming taking what money he had will
q him-and never showed up again ~
3 that the boys had TO leave without |
settlement
4 To cap the climax the MiDinl
4 Journal came out on Monday and no
4 content with giving their home tow
: the best Of IL, proceeded 10 hurl NOR
q dirt at Crystal Falls However. W
3 suppose that the sporting editor Of tn
4 Journal got the Crystal Falls club