The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-06-30
A ROAST FOR wILMor.

Corona, :. D.. June 2G. 1905 |
Editor SlssetoE Standard:
Noticing In tne Wilmot Reporter all account
OF Il ball game between The Corona team and
the Wilmot aggregation. we take exception TO
lhe report. for they report Il game Just they /.
play 1t. 1t Is a dirty report. and they play !
dirty ball Never was Wilmot known 10 win
game fairly. The game that was played at
Hartford June 18th is an illustration. But
what we take exception TO principally is the
following language: Our boys put up Il very
poor specimen of bail playing. but still they
oeat Corona, Well now, what kind OF play
ing must Corona have done TO have got beaten
when Wilmot played So poorly: The fact of
the matter is Wilmot played ball all the time
| as evnced by the exhibitions the heavy bat
ter gave when our little seventeen yeu1-old
pitcher would fan them; they evidently
thought they could stick their clubs up in
mother Earth, But they know Herb can fan
them. and they are very sore They gave an
e>libit,on of their tricky tactics, when in the
last half of the ninth inning with one man
| oal, one man on third, score 5 to t III favor OF
Wilmot, Faribault, after having taken his
| position IN the box TO deliver the bail TO the
| batter suddenly starts for third base, giving
The ball to Kinney, Third Dasem;tn for Wilmot
and then returning, takes position i'll box
| thereby constituting Il bak. Well. of course
orr boys being accustomed to playing clean
bali and not on The lookout for any OF this
KIND, the runner led or and was of course
touched out Well, they may say the umpire
attended To all this Now we have no fault to
ind With the umpire. believing he acted CON
scientonsly from nrst To last, and he charac
lerzes it us dirty ball. Corona would not
'beef at all II the game had been won fairly,
and for all that they feel 50 badly TO have u
game taken from them i'll this way. they are
| manly enough not To sneak away and blubber
| over it us at least one of the Wilmot players
did when they lost TO their red brethren Il
| short time ago. And. by the way. Wilmot
woulG have Jared badly, indeed. if Mr.. JONI of
Corona had not assisted in pitching, Wilmot 5
| pitcher allowing five runs in TWO innings. and
| Mr. JOIN holding tn, lnree more in
| the next seven innings. And in the face OF
| all this, Wimot has the assurance lto adver
tise Fast Ball on the Fourth OF July Between
Wilmot ana Corona" How in the name OF all
that is beautiful they expect TO get fast ball
out OF such an exhibition us they put up (ac
| cording TO their own Statement and some
| thing they can beat, is beyond our comprhen-
SION. gain in regard to that game on the
Fourth of July. advertised. would say:
| Wilmot has made the municent offer tpurely
us an Involvement for Corona to play fast ball
with them The Glorious FOURTH that
Corona again put up So and they Will produce
! a like amount, the winners to take the total
S5o. Up to the present writing Corona has not
seen bit To accept this most liberal offer lav-
ing mad offers of $50 simply meet and play
club, that play clean bail. Surely Wimot
must be looking for Il sucker Yes. and by the
way, il Schimington would only return the
ball he took by mistake. we would be much
obliged. However. we We're fortunate To get
out OF it as cheaply as we did, and rejoice to
think we had our bases spiked down. and the
diamond could not he moved.
E.. FAIR PLAY.