Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-12-24
II. Il.

Newspaper comment anent base ball
along the Creek has set the enthusiasts
here to talking, and the plans and pros
poets for next season are discussed at
length.
The Base Ball Park Association will
hold their annual meeting at the st.
Cloud Hotel the first week in January,
and just now it looks like there will be
something doing when the blue birds
whistle and the "springtime comes,
gentle Annie"
The election of officers at this meet
ing will be important business, as new
deal will be in demand. New faces will
appear among the stockholders, as dur
ing the past month quite a lot Of stock
has changed hands.
But one thing is certain-a tirstclass
team will represent the victorious old
town. Already the personnel of the ag-
gregation has been mentioned to the
directors, and if the next nine doesn't
head the procession it will be very close
to the team that does.
1t is certain that Frostburg is not one
of the two teams of the Creek that is
going to join Ted Lewis league with
the Cumberland aggregation. and in
quiries have been made concerning the
two teams Oh the Greek that are going
to join the Cumberland Coal and Coke
League, but as yet no one has been found
that pleads guilty to the charge as speci-
fled i'll the indictment.
Someone suggested that possibly it
was the Midlothian and Carlos clubs,
though Dick Merriman and Lord Chief
Justice Britt say no.
Anyway, there will be lots of good
baseball here the coming season; that
is assured.
"Pixey" Williams, the Hoblitzell boys
and the many good baseball people of
Meyersdale, Pa, are getting together
and promise to have what they generally
always had in seasons gone by-a good,
strong club.
Broderick, DR.. Carpenter, Phillips,
Cregan, and the many other lovers of
the sport at Midland are sure to have a
bang-up team. There is no town in
this favored neck of woods where base
ball is better supported than at Midland.
Pop Watts and his colleagues in Iona
coming have already announced the
roster of their club for 1905. 1t is a
good one and they will make the best
team hustle to win.
Down in Piedmont managers For
roster and Kenney are gathering around
them the very best men in the twin
towns men who love the game for
the pleasure there is in it, and not for
the dollar and cents to be got out Of it.
These gentlemen are sure to put the
game where it belongs in Piedmont,
and every baseball attendant in Frost
burg wishes them all possible success.
The Cumberland Association has Sc
lected Il new manager, Harry Tate,
gentleman well and favorably known
here. Mr.. Metzner retires, owing to
the strenuosity of business affairs.
Folks here are sorry to see Joe go. know
ing. AS they do, that his heart Is in the
game. He retires with the knowledge
that to his untiring effort the people of
Cumberland have Baseball Park and
Baseball Club that We're successes
in every respect except the unnecessary
boycott of Frostburg The new man.
agement has already secured some very
desirable talent for the coming season
Players of national reputation who, not
only look good i'll the newspapers, like
Jack O'Brien, but are really good on the
diamond are named.
AS yet it is not known whether Cum
berland will continue the boycott Sc
needlessly put on Frostburg last season.
In any event, it is hoped there will be
no cringing here, no lowering of the head,
or bending of the knee to people who
affect to be the whole thing. The man
agement here should be ready and will
ing to meet halfway any proposition
that comes to them in a courteous,
manly way, and then if Cumberland
elects to get along without Frostburg,
make the best of the other fraction of
the world. For many years and years
Frostburg got along without Cumber-
land, and then had all the baseball the
town could stand.
Business Movements.
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