Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-10-08
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Il. Il.
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Nouday-"Five exhibition games.
Tueday-" Exhibition games"
Ucdncsdoy-"Scres of games between the
locals and FrOstburg for the championship
of the county,
Uurday-"They (Frostburg) looked like
score-and-a-half of plugged pennies
Friday-"The pcnnant flies in Cumber-
land i FroStb~,y isa back number IN tie
base ball morid'
'Sat.rday-"We contributed consolation
one But we are the CHAMPIONS
Now, gentlemen, re-read the JOURNAL
of last week for IA prophecy literally full
filled
QUESTION.
Does the Frostburg end of the Iona
coming star stand with the Cumberland
end of the Frostburg baseball team?
NOTES
Outside the JOURNAL FrOstburg base
ball interests haven't a friend among the
newspapers. In many respects, Cum
berland owns papers whether published
there or not
There is baseball trouble on between
the National and American Leagues,
concerning which the New York IIorid
asks
Will President Brush take any notice of
President Gordons challenge on behalf of
the Highlanders, or Is he truly and finally a
gutter?
Hardly.
He will probably depose Gordon, APP
point new president for the High
landers, and then arrange with him for
three of five games on his (Brush's) own
ground.
There have been meetings between the
II m lnr nnh nd Il,
Ehm calls 1.-The second half of the Frost
burg Club but the JOURNAL has been
unable to get its usual official reports
owing to the decentralization occasioned
by the success of the Championship
Board of Strategy.
Even second hand news has been I'M
available, nobody seeming willing to
confess.
Keno however, writes concerning a
live matter:
The Cumberland .Ncms Thursday articles
on Keno" and charges him with being
ungrateful to the players of the Frostburg
club who won the championship of the
county this season by advising the fans"
and "rOoters' by implication to stay away
from the five games. 1t goes farther and
says lowing to there being no money con-
sideration in these games for Keno he plays
the part or the dog in the manager and the
keno never advised anyone to STAY
away ON the contrary, he advised all to go
He could not consistently go himself as he
was asked to keep his hands off and not
stand III the way of the players of Frostburg
and Cumberland making $50 apiece on these
five games. The grounds grand stand
everything was given over to the managing
gentlemen III order to let them make $50
apiece on the split-even plan of so per cent,
win or lose get-r icht-qmck way. Everyone
: Ia = l..
now and never has been in baseball for the
money consideration If he had been the
Cumberland Baseball Association would
have been his year ago. For it was he
who advised the very men who would now
put HIM out of business to get together and
organize, and he blazed the way to what
ever success they have won by showing them
what had been done in Frostburg
But he is not seeking any distinction at the
hands OF these men. He knows he has full
hlled every promise made to the baseball
patrons here; has paid every obligation
the implied as well as the specified, and no
ball-player can say he ever asked him to do
anything wrong during the many wears of
his baseball career.
For one. the JOURNAL accepts that
statement as wholly true.
Moreover, 1t believes that, put to the
test, neither the Nems nor Cumberland
player can make provable statement of
any one thing done by Dillon which
justified the abject and shameful fiuke
OF the Cumberland club here July IS.
II cdnnot be dOne!
But the .NeUs says also
The appeal in the Frostburg MINING ,JorR.
NAL to the rooters to absent themselves from
the present series of games, was indeed
selfish and far from philosophical 1t east
II bad reflection on the players of Frostburg,
who worked hard all season and placed the
Mountain city in the first rank among the
baseball aggregatons.
The fact that the appeal was needed
beyond all expectation indicates that
the JOURNAL measured somewhere near
par the extent of the popular disgust AT
movement which looked like a Cum.
berland grab for championship that
Cumberland couldn't win in the regular
way.
There is good reason to believe that 9C
II not 80 per cent of the people are with
the JOURNAL in this matter.
Again:
Keno and his untimely and selfish adj
vice were unheeded in the first game of the
series. Let the Frostburg fans turn out in
larger NUM- ers to-day and deal death blow
to the knocker
The first day over 80 per cent. of the
crowd was from Cumberland; the second
day the FrOstburg attendance was much
smaller, and tine "knOcker" still lives
300 strong. Inshallah
Cumberland proposed and arranged
these games with the prime purpose OF
establishing a claim to a championship,
otherwise lost. Everything was done
i'll Cumberland-prnting, etc, and all
the balls even bought there on the pre-
text that they We're cheaper
The championship, of course, remains
here, but only the manager and two
players can shout it. while Cumberland
can yell its pretense from an undivided
house
With Il baseball team about as old AZ
the current crop of hay, isn't the Cum
berland Ne~S little pert" in featuring
anybody in town where baseball hal
been IA continuous performance for a
least 30 years?
Cumberland team came in from tn,
ID, 81, IS