Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-07-23
TOWN AND VICINITY.
CUMBERLAND vs.. FRosTBURG.
Keno" writes as follows:

Memo WHITES ttS lOilo"S'
Last Saturday the Cumberland club came
to Frostburg ostensibly to play game OF
ball.
The coming event was advertised eX-
tensively and the largest crowd of spectators
ever seen inside the Park enclosure was
present They came from every town and
village along Georges Creek. Mt Savage
was well represented and many haa 10 walk
home after the great disappointment. FROM
Eckhart Vale Summit, Hoffman, Carlos,
Midlothian Shaft, Midland, Ocean, Iona
coming, BartOn-cvery town ana village
where baseball is talked sent goodly crowd
of representatives, and the grand stand was
crowded with the very best ana Prc''ieSt
ladies ever seen anywhere. All came ON
for an afternoon of recreation, anticipating
Il close contest and pleasant time.
But all except Il few gamblers ana the
management of the Cumberland aggregation
were disappointed, for 1t was pre-arrangcd
that if Cumberland didn't win they were to
auit the game and leave the grounds, III
order to save whatever money the Cumber-
land gamblers and followers had bet. All
betS-and there were many, were made with
this condition-"nine innings must he
played or we get our money back:
After the game Cumberland gambler
displaying Il roll, declared that the Frost
burg people didn't get his money as he got
WISE" before he left Cumberland and was
''put next to save his money. Here IS ms
statement, iotted down by a man from Mid
land and handed in for publication
IAs names are used the Journal thinks
this not the time nor place for them to ap-
pear, but the certificate is evidently founded
on the fact that the subscriber had been
oficiaiiy advised that he should not bet on
cumberland except upon the understanding
that Cumberland would win or no game. J
1t appeared to be the will and the wish of
Cumberland to put Frostburg out of the
baseball business if possible, and there Is no
town in the country where this insult and
injury to the whole people would have been
taken and swallowed like it was here last
Saturday.
When Cumberland left the ground and
was getting ready to leave the Park the
management was asked to close the gates.
insist on the continuance of the game, and
not have the rights of the patrons trampled
under their feet" This would have meant
q riot and possibly many innocent people
hurt.
But this is what would have happened in
Cumberland if the Frostburg club had done
what the so-called "Finshers' did here.
The game started promptly at 800.
Joseph Bone, of Frostburg, was chosen
umpire by consent of Capt. Herbert Tate,
who warned Bone soon as chosen that IF
Cumberland didn't get everything that was
coming to them in this game they would
quit He stated this three times-that IF
we don't get everything that Is coming to us
we are going to quit"
Brown was on the slab for "Our Own
and was his old-time self in every particular.
The team behind him in the first and second
,.a,I IA lit of stage-fright, made several big
errors-one after the other, and the visitors
scored one run in the first inning, two i'll the
second. After this the Frostburgers hit their
stride and played the game like the cham
pions they are.
The third and fourth We're played in ex-
cellent style and before the fifth began the
"Quitters' quit the ground.
1t happened this way i'll the last hall OF
the fourth-tieorge Gunnett was on second,
Stakem on first, two men out. Williams
hit to Bigbee at short, who threw to Brophy
on second, forcing Stakem out The UNI
pire promptly called Stakem out and put up
his hand for Brophy to throw him the ball.
Bigbee, installing the action of the umpire
to mean that the runner (Stakem) was safe,
yelled vile cpithet whereupon the umpire
ordered him from the game Mctzner and
the balance of the Cumberland management,
i'll order to protect this style of baseball
player, left the grounds. Score by innings :