The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09

They say the police were called out to
protect the New York Giants when they
played in a couple of western cities last
week, an that they had to guard 'em
from an Infatuated pOpulace, and angry
mObs and all that. Reminds me of what
the COrndrOppers' circuit papers said the
memorable year that we won the cham
piOnShip at ClOverdale. guarded by the
sheriff an a hundred deputies and a cOu-
pie o regiments o. militia thrOwed in TO
guard from the Deputies and most
brigade o Uncle Sans troops I'm Fort
Riley top o that to guard us from the
militia.
Wonder how the league teams of 1906
would like that? Wonder whether they'd
put up a winnin' article o. ball with
couple o thousand bayOneted muskets
right on the job, an battery or so o
Gatlin guns trained SOS to sweep the
field an you not KNOWN when some
uniformed idiot was goin to pull
a string or turn a crank an pour bunch
o hot lead across the di mond. Could
the wife Sox win twenty straight under
them conditions? L guess not.
You see we were tied with Cloverdale
as we swung into the last week o the
season, and we won one day and lost the
next till it came 10 the last great con-
witch would settle the question o su-
premacy and decide which town'd flaunt
the CorndrOppers banner O victory.
We started for ClOVerdale the night be-
fore the game SOS to get a good nights
sleep; and when we were about ten miles
I'm town the conductor on the train
comes TO us an says:
You better git off the train mile or
so this side o. the station. I got a tip
that theys a thousand or so Illuminated
gents there lookin' for your hearts blood,
an you better be careful about flauntin'
your presence on EN- when cops is
scarce
Josh thanked him for his warning. but
said he'd seen crowds of excited baseball
people before
'They probly want to welcome us
says he. "They prob'ly wish to extend us
the right hand o fellowship account O
the big game tomorrow.
Right hand o shucks, says Pinch
Hobbs an me an the conductor an Pete
Brown an Sam Merritt. Welcome nuth-
! in. They want to hand us crate o lem
ons-if it amt a thousand o brick
You see, we knew ClOverdale crowds.
| But our warning didn't have no effect on
] Josh
let EN- blaze with their serried col
gums" SAYS he, grand like he always
/ fas sh'll not sneak in the back door. We
will dare them to do their worst
Il KEEP a smile on my face, but inside
/ was worried An / was cheered by re-
memberin' l had on fairly light pair o
shoes.
So we huff into CIoverdale half an hour
| late and the crowd that much madder be-
| cause of it.
y. \
at least .5SS caliber goes off outside; an
somebody says: 'Lemme at EN-"
Crash. A brick comes through the car
! winder and ketches Josh in his watch
! chain. Another makes a middlin' success
o. wreckin' Wilyum Rice's pitchin' arm.
'"This is Cloverdale. all right" says Pete
! Brown, as "A sody water bottle smashed
the lights. 1t amt no way station we've
stopped at.
! The end O. that was that we climb into
/ the tender o. the engine. the fireman I'M
/ couples I'm the train, an we run on a
mile or so an come into town a back
way after all And then, with a howlin
mob outside Josh appeals for protection
Cloverdale had only two cops, and they
/ both worked at the ball grounds. so we
! didn't send for them. Josh gifts the Sher-
/ if o the county. He swears in a hun
! dred deputies. and the fust thing you
| know RUDE GIBBS, our right fielder an
/ four o. the deputies is roughhousin' it al
! over the hotel an they near Kill us al
! before we can separate EN-.
Hearin' that the sheriff was stockhold
er In the CloVerdale club jars John. an
he wires the governor an asks for the
| militia. So a regiment comes round, an
! every one of 'em is f m that part O tn,
state Cloverdales in and nobody f m neal
/ Alfalfa First thing you know deputy
| and Tar Paper Hennessy get fightin an(
! four militiamen mix in with guns an side
I with the deputy. And Tar Paper gets 81
beat up we don't know him..
] So Josh sees there's no help IN th'
state soldiers an wires the guy ment a
Washington for regulars. And they ge
on the scene about noon of the day OF Tn
great game.
| 7 The sheriff an his hundred deppitiei
set down about ten feet back o the fou
lines. an behind them set the militia
every one of 'em achin' to get in an bat
ter one of US with his gun.