The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-09-04
LOOKED FOR GORE.
Scot! County Officials Sought the Blood
of Hated" Rivals.

Recently the officials of Carver coun
ty challenged the officials of Scott coun
tv to a game of base ball and this is
the reply the Scott county men sent to
their would-be adversaries:
To the Unterrified Court House Ink
SINGERS of the County of Carver: We
accept your challenge and pick up the
gauntlet so courteously thrown at us
and woe be unto you, for you have rous-
ed the tigerish thirst for gore that has
so long remained dormant in our blood
Rash and misguided men, know not We
that we are the children of the deadly
cyclone? That your bodies are destined
to be fed to the vulture and the wild
wolf? For, 10, we speak and the forests
tremble; the mighty thunder is seat
ed on our brow, the lightning shoots
forth from our eye, our breath is fierce
flame, the mountains topple at our roar
and the earth quakes beneath our tread.
In our right arm turks dire destruction
and death, our left arm is prolonged
misery and woe. Brave men shrek with
fright when we turn ourselves loose,
and kings and nations tremble and grow
pale at our approach.
The beauteous grass shall we soak
with your gore, and the thirsty earth will
we glut with your carnage, and the dia-
mond will we mop with your cringing
carcasses.
For, 10, we shall have your clothes
labeled so that your sorrowing friends
shall be able to recognize your disfigured
and mutilated remains and collins shall
We buy in job lots, for, 10, We shall dire
ly need them. For our motto shall be
''sock it Tuum' and we shall bury the
corpses meath the flowers that bloom in
the spring, ira la. The following con-
ditions shall govern:
The combat shall open at 3 o'clock p.
M, August I'd, 1908, on the Shakopee
field of play, and shall continue from
day to day Sunday not excepted) until
the game be played or until cold weather
puts stop to further carnage.
The bodies of the slain shall not be al
lowed to encounter the diamond.
Non contestants shall not be allowed
to set 'em up to base-runners between
bases.
No player shall be allowed more than
two refreshments at each base.
Each man shall strike at the ball once
before he allows substitute to strike for
him.
No more than five men on each side
shall be allowed to cuss the umpire at
any one time, nor shall more than three
on each side be allowed to dispute with
clubs and decision of the umpire
No one except the catcher and the
umpire shall be allowed to wear plate
armor.
The umpire shall, if possible, know less
about base ball than any of the players,
and shall not change his decision more
than three times on each point.
No pitcher shall be changed while
batter is trying to bat the ball unless he
is dead or mortally wounded by a club
thrown by the batter.
Each side shall come provided with a
corps of surgeons and nurses, and suffi-
Gent arnica, court plaster and bandages
to care for all casualties on their side.
The dead shall be buried at the ex-d
pense of the county. No .coroner's in
quest shall be held and no indictments
found
The winners shall be allowed twenty
four hours in which to leave town.
Signed-J. H. Moore, Mic Meyer, VIM.
F. Witt, f. j. Leonard, Alois Hirscher,
H. p. Fisher, NJ. D., C. j. Delougharty,
Frank Hubert, Frank Wagner, H. ]. Vitz-
patrick, A. j. Mayer.