The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-17
CROLES CAITIFFS
PRAY FOR RAIN
Commercial Club Ball Team
Craven in Face of Defeat
MAKING WILD CHARGES
GAME TODAY WILL BE SAVAGE
AND oNE-SIDED.
90 Al whom It 10 Coneern:

morning and, peering out from their
novels, observed the overcast sky and
falling rain the members Of the Com
mercial club baseball team shrieked
with glee and their craven hearts
bounded with gladness, for they
thought il would be impossible to meet
the Press club team at Walkers field
this afternoon at $3.50.
But the caitiffs are not to escape US
thus. The man Harris made frequent
inquiries of DR.. Hyatt, the weather
physician, during the day and was
heard to mutter savagely when as
sured that the prOba biltieS were IN IA
vor of a sunny afternoon today. Moth
ing short of an earthquake or a vol
cano can prevent the Press club teams
appearing for the game and police Of
ficers give the assurance that the Com
mercial club team viii be there if it is
necessary to arrest the whole lot Of
them and drag them to the field by
main strength. So the game win be
played unless something unprecedented
in the way of a catastrophe occurs
The Press club team will appear in
resplendent uniforms made especially
for this event and rendered the Press
club team by NJ. Levy. The CONNER
cial club team win wear a uniform
with a broad yellow streak down the
middle The Commercial club team
will go to the grounds together in
OMNIBUS
naents in an undertaker'S wagon The
Press club viii go to the grounds in
automobiles, probably returning TO the
city on the shoulders Of ardent admir-
ers of the national game as 1t should
be played. although the members may
consent to walk at the head of a tri-
umphal parade Of fans.
Undertaken For Trainer.
II was stated on reliable authority
last night that a local undertaken had
been training the Commercial club
team for two weeks with a view to
challenging the Press club if he thought
the Commercial club team would make
a decent showing. The undertaken was
employed because CrOn insisted on a
trainer who was used to dead ones
and would understand how TO handle
the petrif1ed mummies who constitute
the Commercial club team.
Bill SpiVins, a notorious crook, was
arrested on Second South street last
night while trying to steal a door mat
He explained to the police that he had
been brought here to pitch for the
Commercial club team today, and the
copper, who is a member of that or
ganization, permitted him to go. Thus
is another villainous plot of the Com
merciai club team exposed, and Incl
dentally Is a little light thrown on the
inside workings of the police depart
! Icemen are in league with law break
eTs-
The money taken in at the tabernacle
/ concert is still unaccOunted for, and
the situation viii probably be brought
| to the attention of the grand jury when
/ that body convenes next week
The dupicity Of CritchlOw and MS
] disposition to give the Press club the
worst of il was clearly shown by two
/ incidents yesterday. After accepting
an offer of SO from the Press club to
/ umpire on the square, he sought the
/ Commercial club people and, using his
offer from the Press club as a lever,
/ secured from them the promise Of $3.50
/ if he threw the game TO them. The
I other incident was the leasing to the
/ Commercial club team Of the uniforms
/ of the old Lagoon team. 1t is well
/ known that CritchlOw is the manager
/ of Lagoon, and the inference is obvious.
/ The Press club. however. has the sat
] isfactiOn Of knowing that CritchlOw
/ viii never be able to collect cent from
/ the Commercial club. so that his double
( dealing has netted him a loss Of SO
/ The Press club is depending on all low
/ ers of fair play to see that the Press
/ club team gets a fair show. That will
! enable the Press club players to make
! seven runs to each one for the Com
| mercial club. The Press club team has
/ a record Of 10 miles of base running
in one game, so some great footwork
l may be expected
The following offervescence was re-
( ceived by the Press club team yester-
day:
Cron's Impossible Screed.
Salt Lake City, Utah, May Is. 1903
/ Mackenzie. Captain Press Club Baseball
! Sir-The absurd and ridiculous misrepre-
/ sensations contained in your syndicated
J screed Of this morning and the insulting
that the match, scheduled for tomorrow
! Sunday at $3.50 D. m, between my team
Of intelligent and gentlemanly ball toss
ers and your piratical crew of rattle
headed and bezgarIy rnuffers shall be a
/ friendly one. Your challenge was &C
cepted and you were afterward addressed
| in cultured and classical language, and
you have seen fit to reply IN terms which
] convince me Of the complete uselessness
I of trying to make a silk purse from a
pigs ear. Not satisfied with having used
I the vile and scurrilOus language (see
court records Of Pike county. MOI re-
Z ferred TO- You have attempted to de-
/ bauch our umpire, Mr.. John 5. CritchlOw,
by the beggarly offer of SO TO throw the
I game. But he being a high-minded gen.
tleman and above reprOach, spurned your
offer with honest scorn and accepted ours
I of $3.50 for the same service Thus are
the wicked COMPOUNDED and the vicious
man hoist with his own petard. Your
/ are further informed that your diaboNcal
scheme TO effect free entrance into the
grounds by digging tunnel under the
. west fence mas DeGu LOLGu Ds the VIZ
1 lance of our private detectives. This plan
Z TO rob the treasury was devised and con-
cocted by a certain notorious bandit and
porch climber known TO the police as
"OId Sport" We note with chagrin that
I the name of J. /. Priest appears among
your substitutes This IS a contemplate
I outrage and we protest This man Priest
must not attempt to mix up IN this game.
He was born ia old Kentucky and was
] driven out of that state in 1883 for refus-
ing 10 pay money lost in q crap game
He then went to Missouri and became
7 chief of scouts TO Jesse James. When
/ that desperate gang was broken up he
disappeared and was lost sight of for
several years, finally reappearing as a
writer Of alleged editorials in a cheap
newspaper published in a small town
some thirty-seven miles south of Ogden.
Under no circumstances viii our men
mingle with this road agent.
Captain Commercial Club Baseball Team.
Caught With the Goods On.
Ignoring in the above the unpatriotie
reference to the size Of this great cftv
we VIII take up another phase of the
subject In reference to the statement
regarding the hole under the fence the
Press club desires TO say that its detec-
! tives also discovered this hole Not only
that. but the detectives caught Harris
just emerging from the mouth of the
tunnel with a spade in his hand When
his record was pulled on him and he wa s
charged with q design to rob the schools
he put up lamentably weak defense and