The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-20
~sHoRTY" IN THE CROWD.

y .SHORTY. IN THE CROWD. Is
Went to see the game
Arrived a little late
Managed to get standing room
Just inside the gate.
'All the bases filled.
Pitchers up a tree.
Watch our Jimmy bring EN- in
Fellow said to me.
And there was me
= Trying for peep
From behind human wall
Six or seven deep.
= Knew it was a hit
Heard the mighty roar,
But couldn't see cuSsed thing.
Gee! But l was sore.
i = =
Bad weather this spring means a
good many double-headers next fall.
The Lancaster team Of the Tri-State
league Won nine of the first ten games
it played this season.
Hans Lobert. the Cincinnati short
stop. is one of the greatest finds Man
ager Hanlon ever landed.
Jim O'Rourke says he has just got
to win that Connecticut league flag
with his Bridgeport team.
Sullivan appears to be the best
youngster the Boston Americans have
picked up in many a day.
The Terre Haute Central league
team looks to be much stronger in
every department this season.
When it comes to an equal division
of playing strength the New England
league teams are the real jingle.
Touted as loser before the open
ing of the season. the Houston team
is holding its own in the Texas league.
Since the Devils Lake Journal got
that Mergenthaler, Bloom has been
substituting editorials for boiler plate.
The common council of Newark, N.
j., has passed an ordinance permitting
baseball to be played Sunday after
Moons.
The Nashville team has been a great
surprise in the Southern league. So
far the Boosters has showed very
strong.
The Aberdeen and the Tacoma
teams are setting fast pace for the
other clubs in the Northwestern
league.
Virginia league teams are gaining
race for the pennant before the close
OF the season.
The fast game played by the Toron-
to team since the beginning of the
season has upset the dope in the
Eastern league.
The Uniontown league OF the P. o.
NJ. league, which won the champion
ship last year. lost the first three
games this season.
Frank Pfeffer of the Boston Nation
ais holds the honor of pitching the
first "no-hit" game of the season. Gin
cinnati was the victim.
The Boston Nationals have had to
postpone one holiday game and three
Saturday games so far this season on
account of bad weather.
Clinton, the youngest member of
the Three-I league, has been showing
the way to all the other teams of the
loo ono On 70 &hic coocon
Pitcher Liebhardt is doing grand
work for Cleveland. The Maps paid
good price for the German" but
he is worth every cent of it.
Strange that the Brooklyn team,
led by that old-timer Patsy Donovon,
should become confused and lost their
bearings. Turn around Pat and go
the other way.
At the present time it looks as
though the New York Americans will
have to rely on hitting to win the
pennant. Their pitchers are not able
to fool the other fellows.
George Stone has not been hitting
to form so far this season and the
/ s1AOiSdu lCo5uO Day IhCy
have him faded. They won't have so
much to say when. George starts the
slaughter.
A new semi-professional league has
been formed with teams in Knox
vile, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Louis
Vile, Kansas City and Chicago, Frank
Moffett of Knoxville is at the head of
| the new organization
Manager Cnglaub of Boston.
Once he was only sub,
Which made him feel like dub.
So he hoped to new scenes.
Then back to the beans,
And now he's the boss of the club.
SANITARIUM IS OPENED.
Hot Springs. s. D.. May 2o.-The
new Battle Mountain sanitarium
which is to be formally opened this
week. is the finest institution of its
kind in the country. It was built