Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-26
PLAY BALL
The CRY TODAY
OPENING GAME AT RECREATION
PARK OCCURS WITH STAR
PERFORMERS.

A treat is in store for lovers of
baseball who attend the opening
game of the season this afternoon at
Recreation Park w. C. Hunter has
rounded up a bunch of collegians,
put them through course of sprouts
and will have them on the diamond
facing a herd Of Elks. There will be
no admission charged and there is no
doubt of there being large num-
Der of rooters ON hand, both male
and female, to encourage the players
in doing their best. Game will be
called at 2:sO. The lineup will b.
as follows:
Collegians-P. ]. O'Hara, catcher.
j. Peck. pitcher; Charles Osgood, LIT
base; L. N. Bailey, Sd; c.. E. Staurt,
I'd; w. c. Hunter, short stop; James
Force. George Jones. w. B. Alexan-
der and A. L. Kelly, outfield.
| Elks-C. c. Rogers, catcher; H..
P. Herd. pitcher; w. Agnew, 1st
base; C. j. Mullen, I'd; B. l. Hoxie,
Sd: L. L. Mushett, short stop; HarrT
Crockett, left field; R. E. Bower. cen
ter field; Ed. Powers, right field.
Oh, what bunch. Get on to their
records!
P. ]. O'Hara has record in seven
cities. forty-seven towns, lie vii
1 lagos and 500 pastures. Has pre-
deliction for fowls. Is known to have
eaten six chicken dinners in one dav,
Furnished at church sociable.
| J. Peck was raised in the wilds oil
Borneo. Fought and killed thirteen
Zulus in single-handed combat with
a boomerang. This is the reason tho
lsphere passes over the plate, return
ing to the hands of the pitcher, cauS.
Il ing the umpire to register a strike
for every bali thrown.
4 Cy Osgood, known to college ath-
letes as the man who pitched 9
twenty-four inning game on diet q
strawberry shortcake. An unseeml,
Il fight followed this feat. between twe
rival sororities, each of whom con
tended they had furnished the cake
Cy threw up the sponge-not thu
cake-and became a son of gun D
a rollicking mining engineer.
Newt Bailey has nick in the hal
of fame Swatted ball in game witt
2 Stanford that hit professor of astron
: omy in eye. which led to the discov
ery of new plane.
c. E. Stuart Record in athletic
! is hazy. Said to have posed once a
/, Atlas bearing the world Tor was j
! Hercules?l. AS the world is roun'
, and a ball is round, it is assumed
? that this is the way he batted int
the game.
Il w. C. Hunter. He is married nov
? and we refrain from publishing hi
record.
George Jones. acknowledged ath
4 lete, little bit out of form, but ha
y been chopping kindling wood for tn
past two weeks to enable him t
] handle the stick-some people wer
unkind enough to say that he wa
, getting in trim to build early morn
ing fires.
!, w. B. Alexander. Here's wher
: the Eiks come to grief. How ca
they hope to escape-dost remembe
Alexander the Great, third king Q
Macedon. who developed under tn
tutelage of Aristotle, pre-eminent i
horsemanship and all athletic accom-
plishments land the office devil say
! '.Wot. is he de duck wot playe
marbles wild Caesar?'')
A. L. Kelly. Well, how we do e,
pect to hear Slide, Kelly, slide.
Played with the Chicago Nationals
Likehellhedid.
Jim Force, alias Sunny Jim. Nam
] to conjure with. Holds record fc
] something. eve have lost ou
Worlds Almanac Sporting Ed
! tori
+, As to the records of the local celei
rites, a great deal will depend upo
the outcome Of the game.
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