Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-08-13

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box this season. Coupled with the best
| kind of horseshoe luck, he won his
| game Saturday hands down, and made
| our heavy hitters look very much woe
begone before he got through. Some
| wise man said, 1t is better to be fOrtu-
| nate than to be wise, and an apter
maxim could not be fitted to Browns
| case. The score will show that Frost
| burg scored six runs, and that Fairmont
| did not succeed in scoring at all. A
| further examination of the dope sheet
| will show that all Fairmont could get
| off the gentleman in the box for the
| visitors were two hits but i'll this in
| stance the figures do not tell the whole
| truth, for lucky pickups and long-shot
| fielding chances the Frostburg aggre
| CATION has the world beat block, and
| then some. Drives that looked safe by
| fifteen feet fell into the hands of their
| fielders, and to prove that it was not
| entirely due to their superb work, they
| did not know they had them until they
| looked to see.
But with all their lucky fielding the
| MARYLAND team would not have been
| able tc whitewash Bero's boys, had 1t
| not been due to the fact that Brown
pitched elegant ball, as smooth as silk.
And there was not much poor play
| ing on our side, either, only two errors
| being charged up against the locals.
| Both were on poor throws, and both re-
suited i'll runs. D.
But that was not what lost the game;
| it was the inability to connect with the
horse hide sphere; it was the tantaliz-
| ing, nerve breaking, back-bending
curves and slow balls of the opposing
| pitcher Only two hits against the
team that pounded out 81 against Hooker,
of the Cumberland team week before
| Our Vas left the box in the third, and
remained ON the bench the balance of
the game, and permitted his younger
brother, Calvin to do the work. He's
pretty good at the business and his
record proves our assertion, but on
Saturday he did not have anything on
the old man.
| Then follows detailed account of
strikes, runs, steals, outs, etc.
| At the end of the fifth the Times
| says
| "Fairmont trying hard.
| The sixth and last run for the vlsi-
| tors was scored in the last inning o.
| Gunnett grounded out to young Vas.
| f. Spates hit down to the young gentle
man but he threw it wild and Spates
| took second. Stakem flew ont to Bry
son. o. jackson singled to second,
scoring Spates. ]. Jackson then died
on ground ball. Adamson to Conway
The only time that it looked as if the
| Beroites might score was i'll the last
inning Bero hit to Stakem, and he
hustled it over to first, hut G.. Gunnett
| dropped the ball and the doughty cap
tain was safe. Adamsoh grounded out;
Il sacrifice is what it really was. Coma
way went out to G. Gunnett, aud Gibbs
famed the air three times. The teams
heaviest hitters could do nothing to
bring their captain home safely. 1t
was bad day for the Fairmont boys
batting eyes, but they left the park
| vowing revenge on Sunday
| OF Sundays game:
| The victory is all due to the auburn
| haired young man who plays in center
field. With his trusty louisville Slug
ger the great ash bat that is turned out
in the city of Colonies, he pounded out
| IA hit that went into the hollows and
| beyond and with this hit won the game.
For all the good that it did to return it
| the horse-hide might still be resting
among the weeds ont i'll left-field. The
score was tied and there seemed to be
no prospects of anything further being
done with Brown, the same man by the
way, who pitched shut-out game on
| Saturday. When the ball hit the
| ground it travelled at about the same
| speed that a comet would if it should
happen to hit this terrestrial globe.
Crack went the bat, and away down the
| third base line tiny white object NOV
ing at a tremendous rate of speed was
seen bobbing up and down on the sand
covered field. On, on it. travelled until
it reached the hollow spot beyond the
fielding lines, and there it found a tenn
porary bed. long enough at any rate to
| allow the Titian-hai gentleman to
skim the bags and cross the plate.
| Ahead of him there trotted another
youngSter who answers to the name of
| Mcdonald.
| "Up III the stands it seemed as though
Bedlan had broken loose, and it truly
had; there was nothing to be seen of
| the bodies of the spectators, only their
| hands Snd arms were seen wildly bob
| bng back and forth and their voices
were shrilly cutting the country air
| with the name of Fisher. Fisher, the
mighty batsman,' so will his name go
down in history. FairmOnt baseball
history at any rate, and as long as the
| files of the newspapers are still intact,
they will bear witness to the brave and
mighty deed that he performed on Sun
day afternoon, August I, 1904. When
his baseball days are over, and after his
| children have raised families, he may
take their progeny on his knees and tell
them of the hit that won the game
| against FrOstburg i'll the sixth inning,
when the score was tied IL. 1t will be
many years before his hair is white, but
as long as he lives, and many, many
years after it has lost its reddish tinge,
he will recall the applause of the four
thousand hands when he trOtted home
| with the winning run.
After this inning the visitors played
with fire in their eyes and with so much
ginger that it heated the ground. But
Drumming, the southpaw, was there
with his wonderful arm, and he held
them down to two runs. The inning
following the now historical home-run
of Fisher, f. Spates succeeded in get
ting IA two-bagger to right, but the fates
We're against them in the form of Blum
ming's arm. and they could not get him
safely home"
1t is evident that Frostburg lost i'll the
fatal first Flanagan, on the rubber,
was touched heavily. Brown took his
place and nothing was done until the
sixth. Meanwhile, says the Times
1.-The next time that the Frostburg
team comes here it will remember that
| Gibbs has an arm that is not Il glass one
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