Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-03
PROGRAM
OF SPORTING NOTES
MGR. O'TOOLE
HERE OFFERS
A CRITICISM

Manager John ]. O'Toole, Of the
Marion A. C.baseball team, seems to
take exception to an account Of last
Saturdays game between the Won A.
G. and a local team, as published in
the NEWS on Tuesday last. The &C
count told how some county seat
folks Iabored under the idea that
it was the Danish Sociable Athletic
Club team that lost, 2 to l, and went
on to prove where 1t was only a pick
up team brought up by Stephen
Christensen, a member of the D. S.
A. c. Here is Mr.. O'Toole's criti-
cism:
"Sept, Q, 1910.
Sporting Editor,
Dear Sir: Having read your
writings Of the sporting column in
Tuesdays, August 30th, edition,
about the game between the Danish
A. G. or (scrub team as you called
it. and the vons of New Bruns-
wick, I wish to state that it was poor
judgment On your part for writing
an article such as you did. l was a
spectator at the game last Saturday
and what l have seen Of the game,
1t was well played on both sides.
Gray, who was catching for the local
team, made a couple Of errors; he
could have done better. but being
out Of practice in hat position, did
fair. Parsons pitched an excellent
game and received good support.
The game was lost when Petersen, Of
the Danish team, who was playing
left field, failed to get his man go
ing home very slow fielding). I
think the players deserved more
credit than they got and 1 suppose
If they had come home as the win
ners, 1t would have been the Danish
A. O., instead of a scrub team. Two
weeks ago I brought a team owe to
South River under the name Of the
Marions. All / had was three main
players, the rest were ~Franklins, Ma
tionals and Puritans. We lost the
game, s to 6, and there was no scrub
team given as a name when We lost.
so 1 hope you will stop to consider
hereafter what class these players
reign in, instead of CHASING them as
scrubs. Probably, if you had been
at the game you might have had
something different to say, and judg-
ing from you way you wrote your ar
tfcle, you could not have seen the
game. You can print the above If
you wish.
"Yours in sport,
JOHN J. O'TOOLE."
/ am indeed sorry that my second
day brief on the game should have
so aroused the ire of the little man
ager, but must herein state, that he
is entirely wrong in his assertions. 1t
is very apparent that q vital spot
was touched somewhere in his anat-
omy, by the statement that five men,
| bers of the defeated crowd were Ma
rion players.
It Is an undeniabie fact that the
team was a scrub or pickup nine.
assembled for this one occasion, and
it is doubtful that they will play to-
gether again this season. Five OF
them were Marion players, three of
them ID. s. A. C. members and the
other a Lyceum F. C. player.
The team was assembled by Ste
phen Christensen as the result Of an
unsuccessful attempt made by the
Won management to meet the regu-
lar d. s. A. C. team. This club sell
dom plays ball on Saturday and
could not ON this occasion. For that
reason Christensen volunteered to
bring up a team, with the under
standing that 1t was not the D. 8.
A. G. nine. He got the members
together and the game was played.
For the want of a name, Christian
sen called the team the "Au Am
boys" Some called 1t the "All
Leaguers of Perth Amboy," and
there anne divers names.
It appeared that the victorious
side wanted 1t known that they had
beaten the D. s. A. C. team, recog-
nized as one of the best teams in this
city. and the county seat papers
came out with stories to that effect.
1t was 'fn reply to these erroneous
assertions that l write as l did on
Tuesday. Now the irate Marion
manager comes out at this late date
and wants to make us believe that
1t was not a pickup team, but the
Danish club that lost, no~twithstand-
ing the fact that the greater part of
the team was composed of Marion
players.
nNEP