Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-08-18
TOWN AND VICINITY.
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While the Pom league people are not
having things 20 pleasantly as they
would like, base ball is not wholly dead
up here.
Cumberland gets good player; then
some other aggregation offers HIM more
money, and he Jumps for the reason
that funds are not overlooking down in
the town where the Natural Gas COM
pany will buy all its supphes-this just
to enjoy the honor of buying i'll Cum
berland
Up here on the ever-glorius Creek
however, base ball times are not so bad
after all. Any lover of good play can
be gratiticd if she or he viii attend some
of the games played by what are called
amateurs by the self-stylcd pro
fcSsiOnalS.
For instance. after the Red Mems pic
mic prominent lawyer of Cumberland
confessed that the contest between Vale
Summit and the y. NJ. |. was the best
game he had seen for long, long time,
and he had seen many. Only one run
i'll the entire game.
Look at the y. NJ |. team, James
Shields, manager, here at home all
good, bright, clean young men, playing
for the genuine love of the sport and
the unbought applause of their friends
Then there are the y. NJ. G. A., Dan
krapt, manager; Clary Poland
Price, manager; Vale William
Drum, manager; Grahamton Hanson
Brown, manager; Welsh Hill-Charles
Williams, manager; Borden Mine
George Kemp, manager; Allegany
J. II. Williams, manager; Midland y. NJ.
Lawrence Dunn, manager; Eckhart
Y. NJ. I.-Bernard Byrnes, manager,
and both Homecoming and Borden Shaft
have good teams.
Hardly an afternoon or evening in
the week but games are played on local
grounds, and the appeal is made to all
friends of base ball-"don't knock, but
join in and encourage the boys, as you
can easily afford, as all games are free "
The Frostburg Y. NJ. l. team played
the strong Homecoming team Saturday,
llth inst, and lost to the latter by Il
score of , to /.
Concerning this game the boys are
not pleased with the report of the Cum
berland Times. Instead of properly re-
porting the name of the Frostburg team
the paper dubbed them the "Swifts"
Like some other correspondents, this
one evidently takes things easy by de
pending upon someone else to tell him
the facts.
After the b. & O. Y. NJ. G. \. and c.
a. c., of Cumberland, decide the
championship at Issue between them
selves, the Frostburg \. NJ. |. team
Will play the winner. After having
won 10 of II games played, the latter
team feels proud enough to tackle even
the pennant team of the Pom league
Nokrg.
There was some trouble about trans
fering two games due to-day and Mon
day between Washingdock and Cum
borol from the latter to the former place,
and the Nc"S sided with the Flat. street
Park imperialistS. Confessions why:
|, Cumberland should win the pcnnant
but 1t cannot do SO when the schedule is
changed to satisfy close competitor.
>, Cumberland has better chance to win
at home than abroad.
Washington papers are reaching for the
bunting Nc">,
Washington should do like Cumber-
pool reach for games with Waynesroi.
Joe Laughlin was one of the glories
of the Cumberville team of the Pom
league until he jumped to Martins
burg. Now Cumbertown suggests the
"blacl- list" for Joe. But should a non
union 3D. H. reach outside the league !:
COMING EVENTS
Elks and y. NJ. G. \. teams will play
next Thursday afternoon, 23d inst, at
o'clock at the South Broadway Park.
Coming Events
Three evenings next week in the Frost.
burg Opera House opening of tie fail
season of theatre going. One of the
leading stage men is w. l.. McCray,
formerly landlord of the Olympia hotel,
Cumberland, stage name-"Cradoc, the
Roman AXeman." The bill for each
evening is most attractive, and the
prices so low none need stay away.
The Frostburg Fire Department has
planned one of the largest and most
diversified parade and picnic displays
ever made here. Thirteen fire com
panies and ten bands of music are ex-
pected, and there will be competitive
exhibitions of speed i'll the one and
melody i'll the other. The JOURNAL is
assured by the huStling Committee that
nothing Is going undOne to make it the
greatest picnic day of the year. The
Fire Department has peculiarly strong
claims upon the people of Frostburg,
and TOR that reason expects general en-
COuragement.
In addition to announcement of adj
dresses by Counselor Z. a. Wastler
and Hon. George A. Pearre at the Mar
rows Park reunion of the Jr. o. u. \.
NJ. to-day, Jesse Taylor, of Ohio IA con-
splcuOusly prominent member of the
Order, will speak at % o'clock this
afternoon.
Full Quartet.
Moses Tenor Keller has his fourth