The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-22
The LOveIoCk Team Won't
Play--They Fail to Come to
Time--Can't Get in Line
FOR BIG GAME ON THE FIFTH
Tried to Run Q Bluff, Didn't Have
the Stuff, And now Wantto
Play Here on the 5th

Those who have laid wagers that
the much-discussed $1,000 ball game
between Lovelock and Winnemucca
would not be played on the 9Th of
July are feeling pretty sure of win
ming their bets, and from present in
dications. those who bet that it would
not be played at all are equally safe.
Generally speaking, the actions of the
Lovelock team is the subject of sur
prised comment, although many who
should know the conditions best, only
laugh and say, Il told you So" A
prettier, palmer example of a team
putting on a bold front, a swagger
dir and big bluff, and then dehDer-
ately erawfishing was never seen. Pos
sibly they did want to retire INTO
oblivion maybe for the purpose OF
turning up that buried card and look
/ .ng at it for awhile.
Under the terms of the verbal
| agreement entered into last Friday be-
tween Captain Dunn and the manager
and other members of the Loyeloek
| .eam. a representative of theirs was
10 come to Winnemucca yesterday,
sunday, to discuss the final arrange
ments and sign the articles OF agree
nent governing the playing of the
team. No representative came. how
/ eve Yesterday Mr.. Howard n. Rid
die passed through the city on NO.
ON his way home from Battle Noun
tain When told of the disappoint-
ment the Winnemucca boys felt at the
| result of the agreement made regard
ms yesterdays consultation, he was
much surprised. But that did not
help matters any. Not only did the
I.ovelock club fail to send represen-
tative, as they agreed to do, but they
did not even have the courtesy to no.
tify Capt Dunn that they had chang
sd their minds.
Since this turn of events, no one
can blame our boys for feeling that
they have been misused. If the dis
cussions that have arisen since the
challenge all the trouble and all the
expense have been borne by the mem
oers of the Winnemucca club, and all
the concessions that have been made
we're made by them. The forfeit money
is posted, and the home nine has done
everything it could do to bring the
game about The Lovelock club has
not covered the forfeit, and is still
asking concessions from the original
terms of agreement, which, by the
vav, were their own.
Saturdays Lovelock Tribune has
the following:
! James Dunn came down Thursday
with the $500 forfeit for the Winnie
mueca ball team and deposited 1t
with the Loveloek Commercial COM
Dany. We are now sure of a game
Sunday, July 5th, and they want to
play for $4,000 a side. Love'ock is
getting ready to celebrate the Fourth
Ia grand style and this will give us
two davs' celebration.
Mr.. Sain may be the official reporter
fol- the Lovelock nine, but We must
g av for a team anxious 10 play for
e 900, they are mighty slow in COM
! ng to the scratch for a $1,000 game
Sain may be sure there will be game
between the two clubs on the 5th OF
Iulv, but there are others betting the
other way quite strong. INQUIRY al
the First National Bank, this eitv
however. will reveal the fact that Mr.
. Dunn did not deDosit the $500 with tn
Q IOvelock Commercial eomnany, as
~tated in the Tribune. We're so~rN
IN saw il. and sorry to believe ": bu
IT looks TO disinterested n9rtv a
though the Lovelock players reve
| wanted TO NAV under the condition
they proposed themselves.