The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-29
I PLAIN TALK
3BOUT BASEBALL
Nays Game Was Not
ed; Dad Gimlin's Lob
trs Failed to Appear.
ING NEED OF
BETTER MANAGEMENT
S Game Will Probably Be
pd, but Can Managers
Expect a Crowd?

Esd the spell is broken After
trAight defeats the Tailors won
Iky 3 game-that is, the umpire
VITO them. Ogden failed to show
We Tailors were there arrayed in
how white uniforms and when
Il OF 8 o'clock arrived Umpire
Xltch shouted 'fPlay ball!' Con
!, y,.eyond the power OF words to ex~
,e local PLAYERS stalked haughtily
The diamond and planted them
their various positions. Scare
little slow getting on the mask
~ptector, but when he did get
IIeusser sent up a fast one that
plate. And then the Tailors
A as proudly as they had ap-
Billy Dutch walked up to the
Stand and announced to the
/ resent that Ogden had failed TO
and thereupon he awarded the
- the locals by score of 9 to 0.
en- there was n mighty yell, a
Z triumph. AT last Salt Lake had
otherl Glad in their hearts, the
urchins and dirty-faced young
ho had crowded their way into
md stand beat n vigorous song
5e by kicking their boots against
7iches. They cheered for the To-
ley roasted Ogden, excoriated
Imlin and concluded the great 4
'itration with three cheers for the
1who had shut out Ogden without
1t and won with hands down by
p of 8 70 0,
r Bad as the Postoffice.
heb for the great game, and now
s of praise for the splendid man
IT, Certainly it is splendid. Not
I'd of disparagement can be said
/he management, for truly there
=py. 1t is positively and abso-
Gon est. The magnates who con-
INC of the great teams in the
<tate league don believe in it.
pink IT a bad idea for the public
n beforehand whether game is
Mayed or not. Too many people
Ipe there. About the evening be-
game is going to be played, or
should be PLAYED according to
Fe, the managers chat little over
g distance telephone and decide
= they will play or not. And
decided to play, they let it 90
\ They never once think about
the exact time for a game to
ed. 1t doesn t matter whether
,llc waits five minutes or an hour
play begins. 1t is so delightful
"a those clean, easy back cushion
down at Walker S field. where
sh breezes blow and the hot July
yer turns its scorching face.
Lack of Management.
still those in charge of baseball
ae nerve TO inquire, What IS the
with the people?'' Small
why. of course. IS not the
& ball played that is responsible:
toor, miserable management. Or.
more correct, it is the utter lack
There is something
p running baseball than sticking
zen in uniforms and telling them
II ball, and the quicker those in
!, learn this fact, the better will
Tor the game and their own
books.
Dad Gimlin or Father Dubei
Z that those people who went
Ito see yesterdays game will
'1t today. The chances are that
|ying this afternoon will be good.
the game is over probably Father
fnd Dad Gimlin will get their
waggle their tongues a
Id moanfully exclaim: "Such a
land think of the crowd Salt
>eople den g support baseball. -
Must Clear the Yard.
: and Salt Lake people won I sup
until the management
3 its present policy. Let the
Fment first clear its own back
/efore ii registers u kick on the
Let Father Dubei and Dad
1 see that their men are at Walk
fld on time, so that Billy Dutch
Hrt today's game at 3 clock.
1he reform movement today.
Il is TO blame for yesterday 8
~ The tale is Il long one and
forth the telling. IN fine, it is
]ad Gimlin thought Father Dubei
m that he wouldn Z have to play
4ay 8 game. Dubci saws he didn Il,
tys he did, and the two are at
'1"uSs IcSlucnI SneparQ is ap-
To and Dad Gimlin is ordered
>e the Ogden team at Walkers
or Saturdays game, in default
4 to lose $50. Yesterday morning
'arted to round in his Lobsters,
~ turned by II clock, after
'g from sunrise. and wired Father
THAT he didn t think he would
Fn- And so there you are. Ira,
la. Throw, up the window, pray
"a let us have a Whit Of fresh
Had Ball Game. Anyhow.
tlnntely for those who wanted TO
pail game-good, bad or indifrer-
so happened yesterday after
That the Timers and Plumbers
4 game scheduled for the Salt
grounds. They were invited over
|pused the crowd for the suace
|ut two hours. When the game
yer and the runs counted, the
81 totaled up fourteen runs To
q for the Plumbers. The lineup
rs Positions. Plumbers
~-s.c .c.,,.-,,.. Spencer
<.|-..,.. .V..-.-.. Rockholt
IA R,.,,.