Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-06-07

Their Contests Witt O'u
Would Rival Best Efforts OF tho
Champion White sox, Declares Ad
nirer-championship Game at
End of Season Easily outdre~
Burning Patent Office for Interest
"You may talk about your games be-
tween the Red Stockings and Chica'
gas. your Athletics of Brooklyn and
Athletics of Philadelphia away back
in the green days of baseball, quoted
one of the old timers over his stein IN
a well known resort for sportsmen the
other evening, but for baseball tnat
was baseball, give me the games tha'
our Nationals and Creightons played
back in the halcyon days.
Those two organizations were the
leading ones in Washington in the
wears between 1875 and 1880, havipG
replaced the Jeffersons and Potomacs
who had made the old White Lot ia
nous. They were comprised OF the
leading young amateur players OF tne
city, and as for the rooters, the city
was pretty well divided. Every one
| who paid the least attention to the
game in those days wore the color OF
his or her favorite-red and white for
the Nationals, and green and white
for the Creightons.
"The Nationals were more evenly
| balanced team, simply because they
| practiced more regularly, as nearly all
| their players lived near together and
/ they were able to get all hands TO
| gether for frequent practice. They
we're scientific ball players all the
way through, and they depended oD
their knowledge of the game winning
for them more than any team ever
saw, in those days or now. | have
only to tell you some of their men to
have you appreciate this; there was
Charley Lusk, John Laurie, Billy Lake,
Johnnie Hollingshead, OK Bielaski,
Charlie Blue. Charlie Withrow, Sadie
Houck, the Foster brothers, and the
great Paul Hines.
Now, the Creighton lads were more
of the type of the natural-born-to-it
stlye," said the old fellow, land say
when that crowd struck their gait,
there was no stopping them. They
| were tIl6 IdSIGSb OCT VI O0h PA0J ~ -
you ever saw, and l am not stretching
it one bit to say that from that one
team more first class professional
players were drafted than from any
other team in America.
why, the last season they played
, was one of the most exciting In the
records, their final game being played
, on the day of the fire that destroyed
, the old patent office. They used te
tell it on one of the Creighton boys
; that this fellow, who played on the
team and worked in the patent office
was SO afraid that he would not bt
a able to get off and play that he set tbs
= office on fire. His name was Brande
: bury, and the gang almost made hin
believe that he did do 1t.
a The game was played at the oil
J, grounds at Sixteenth and s streets
and despite the fact that an importan
If government building was being des
troyed by fire, nearly 10000 person
II witnessed the contest. Harry Cavf
4 nRugh was manager of the National
- and Michael Seanlon filled that pos
ia ton for the Creightons. This fins
game was in certain way disappoin
10 ing to many, for the game turned OF
q. to be a walk-away affair. where
closely contested one was expected
. The Creightons got the jump on th
81 Nationals with one of their whirlwin
bursts of speed and the best the NJ
as .aonate eouiu w "as seoiez wv -
T. to the Creightons' %.
r.. "A big parade escorted the winner
nv from the grounds, and they all packe
err in here for the biggest celebrate
Mike ever had There's no need
:. those newspaper people going all Il
- way to Chicago or Cincinnati to fiji
exciting ball games