Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-18
.SCRIBES BEAT
THE FIGHTERS
DO THE EXPECTED BY SCORE
OF 22 T07
REALIZE ABOUT $50 FOR ELKs'
ENTERTAINMENT FUND
ScrapPers Play Eleven Men and Two
Umplres Against Press Boys and
Yet Fail to Win-Wrlters
Still Unbeaten
Press Boys %, Fighters 2

Now II that is not a terrible tale to
tell! Even with eleven men playing
against seven for the Press Boys, the
dubs could not beat us. Hen Berry
and Charlie Eyton were selected as
umpires and gave about the bummest
exhibition of umpiring ever seen on the
Chutes diamond. If there was any
thing they did not hand to the fighters
it was overlooked. Not content with
calling everything safe that the fighters
happened to get on a base, they made
it necessary for the Press Boys to
catch them out on fly balls to retire
the side. 1t was impossible to throw
a fighter out at first or any other base.
Every ball thrown to the Press Boys at
bat was strike, unless 1t happened to
be a wild pitch or a passed ball that
would enable the batter to get to first,
and il a lighting fielder even made an
effort to throw a ball to a base Berry
or Eyton would yell ''out" without
waiting for the completion of the play.
However, despite the terrible handi-
cap, one so strong that only a classy
team like the Press Boys aggregation
could overcome, we won and won
easily. When the general public knows
that the Fighters, in their desperation,
slipped the score boy a few pieces of
change and had the kid go back over
the preceding innings and change the
scores hung out, and even Influenced
Red Perkins, official scorer, to make
| unheard Of entries upon the official
card, it will realize what we were up
against. To add to the misery, Lord
Fauntleroy, the public nuisance, In
sisted upon usurping the authority OF
official scorer by changing the bell from
one to nine times every time the Fight
ers scored, and thereby deceived the
boy who hung out the bulletin scores.
Big Boy Jeffries, who was to have
played second base, admitted defeat be-
fore the game started, when he looked
over the Press Boys lineup and saw all
the old stars were on hand. He was so
impressed with the impossibility of
winning that he refused to play. The
same can be said for Tom McCarey and
Lord Fauntleroy All sat in the grand
stand and, assisted by Freddie Maier
and Jack Kipper, Influenced Hen Berry
and Charlie Byton to render unjust
and unreasonable decisions to enable
the Fighters to win, but they could not
win even then.
The stonewall infield-Moriarty, Des-
mond, Walker and Dayidson-was SO
impregnable that when the Fighters
started to quit after the fourth inning,
when the score was about 13 to
against them, the suggestion that IL De
changed about bit to give the t1gnt-
ers a chance was accepted, and Morl-
arty went behind the bat, Desmond
went to first and Gen. M. Oki came In
from the outfield to play short. This
infield lineup was as strong as ever
and the. designing fighters fixed up a
deal whereby Walker was put out OF
the game on the pretext that he was
doing too much kicking.
Finally with no second baseman ana
AL 11n
thought the Press Boys could be beat
en-, but even this great handicap failed
to enable them to win. With only seven
men playing for the Press Boys, they
went through the final five innings
and continued to make the Fighters
look like an aggregation OF juvenile
players. Even Guernsey, the crack
tWirler for the Press Boys team, be-
came Indifferent when the score became
so one-sided, and as several spectators
left the stand because the game had
become too one-sided, he let down and
allowed the Fighters to score on an
occasional wild pitch, while Moriarty
and Zan and Woodside, who alternated
behind the bat, also mercifully allowed
an occasional Fighter to score just to
make the game interesting.
Following is the official score and
summary of the game:
R. H. u.
Press Boys ....1 ss 81 az ~ 0
Fighters .....O 1 0 - 10 IA
Batteries-Press Boys: Guernsey and Nor
iarty, Woodside and zan; Fighters: Carsey
and Flynn and HUFF and Leahy. Alleged
umpires-Berry and Eyton Time2:oO.
sGame called because Fighters quit.
An attendance of about 250 persons
netted close to $50 for the Elks enter
tainment fund. Quite good sprink-
ling of women was in the grand stand,
there being about 250 paid admissions
by the males.