The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-13
IRON MOUNTAIN FANS CREsTFALLEN
OVER DEFEAT OF PETS.
TEAMS EVENLY MATCHED
Crystal Falls Won Twice by Close Mar.
gins in Games In Which But four
Errors We're Made.

1890 p. m. in the back room OF Joe
Eslick's barber shop, base ball team
was organized for the corporation
known as Iron Mountain and on
August 3lst at O'Clock a. M, it was
proclaimed throughout the highways
and by-ways OF the metropolis OF the
Menominee that 1.-THE Iron Mountain
base ball team was the best aggrega-
tion that ever happened. To back up
that assertion games were arranged
with Qinnesec, Niagara and several
other large places, during the fall Of
1908, and after fiuke on the Crystal
Falls diamond, Bob Sherman and Max
Kurz were selected by the city fathers
TO oflicially declare the suspension OF
operations during the winter and
their continuance during the season of
1904 Accordingly the good people OF
the Mountain locked up the remem-
berances OF the glory won by their
boys on the grassy field, In their
strong boxes: the housewives hummed
odes or praise To their champions as
they swept the shifting sands Of Pc
wabic hill of their front door step,
while the men OF the place repeated
with enraptured awe, the glories of
their players, as they busted them
selves at the chief industry OF the
place filling the Chaplin mine pit.
Promptly on schedule time the
performances of 1903 were continued
during the early season Of 1904 and to
further cinch their title Of ''masters
OF the base ball earth" they arranged
games with Gillett, West Allies, and
several other small places whose loca-
tion they learned froma directory Of
villages with population Of less than
300 In the meantime they amused
themselves and tickled their vanity
by throwing sly shots at "a little 2x4
town up in Iron county where rs peo-
pie live and ii of them play ball"
Manager Corcoran OF the locals took
their boastings with perfect coolness.
He waited 50 long that the Iron
Mountain sports boiled over and
issued challenges 70 all OF the big
cities Of Illinois and Wisconsin,:
to the copper country and Sault st.
Marie and then he thought IL time 20
get into the running.
Accordingly series Of eight games
were arranged and, during the inter-
val between the arranging and the
starting, the players and the people
Of Iron Mountain amused themselves
by sitting on the Commercial House
veranda and telling how they were go-
ing todo IL, counting up the scores;
the fans planning trips to the Worlds
Fair on their winnings while the
players were busy figuring out just
what raise In salary they should ask
lfor.
| Well, that was some time ago.
They've changed tactics since. Law
yer Hurley says that Iron Mountains
were d--n fools to play Jim' Cor
coran" and we think his Judgment
is good on that point. 1t all came
about this way. Crystal Falls swiped
them on their own grounds, shutting
them out in the first game By score
Of TO O and rubbing it IA the follow
ing day by a score Of ? to !.
They were great games better ones
were never played on the Menominee
range Only three errors recorded
in the two games and the three were
chalkcd against Iron Mountain.
SATURDAYS GAME
4 crowd OF roo people, Of which
three quarters were ladies, assembled
at Athletic Park' to witness the
contest and were well repaid for their
time and money spent. Fitzgerald
and Bics were IN the points Tor the
locals and Mckenzie and Miller for
the Iron Mountain boys Bies put up
as fine an article Of bali as could be
asked for lie was hit safely Just five
times but the hits were scattered SO
that none Of them counted He
struck out seven men and gave two
passes, both men hit by the BALL lie
was simply an enigma 10 The Iron
Mountain boys. A foxy play Of his
preventing a double play IN the ninth
Is as responsible for the two runs being
scored as anything that occurred.
Scott was playing Oh second towards
iirst Bics was on first and Michaels
on second when Henry hit a short one