Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1911-01-07
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Time of the year when the
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kA II annual start
E :! AZ On the good old riCkety wat r
q Busy as all git-out just now,
Loaded with work and yet, somehow,
A fellers thoughts will sort o swing
70 the state of Huck'' Firms wing,
And we re prone to fall for that siren call
Play ball Play ball
"All over the country the base ball
managers are holding meetings and for
mulating plans for next season.
Here on Georges Greek we generally
wait till the season is far advanced be-
fore we do anything TO keep the best of
all games going.
Just now, however, everything looks
good for fine base ball year. With all
the mines working full and few. if any,
idle men around. if the proper move
ment is made, base ball is sure to enjoy
a great boom, and next season one of the
best ever play ed on Georges Creek.
nowhere are there better prospects
than right here in Frostburg. With our
Park almost in town and the many good
players at hand, the old town ought to
have the strongest and best aggregation
of home talent ever assembled here.
Cumberland is sure to have good
there in many years. And just so long
as Cumberland is factor in the George 5
Creek baseball contingency and there is
rivalry between that team and Georges
Creek teams the game will be ii success.
"However il has been i'll the past and
possibly VIII be i'll the future. the bas"-
balls fans of the county-Seat want some
thing bigger than the teams from Frost
burg, LDuacunlug, Piedmont or Midland
They get that big feeling and somehow
they always set the good old game back
several seasons. Last year they had an
elegant team-one that played good ball
and gave many crtdltahle exhibitions
after it got started. 1t was Il success
financial ly; promoters aud managers
made some money. They can do better
this year If they have Il team anything
like as good.
"Frostburg had a season fairly good
aud a good team. 1t is true, it didn't
win great many games, though 1t al
ways made the other team hustle, and
the winning margin was generally small.
So many new players were tried out at
the several positions that in many games
Frostburg's season looked like one of
perimentation rather than a regular
lineup series.
cit will be different next season, and
the management will be there with the
standard goods at the call of play ball.
Homecoming will be stronger than
last season Manager McGinty is sure
to man all the points of the basel ball
compass with good players next season.
Last year the team played 80 per cent. of
its games away from home, owing to a
disagreement with the Athletic Park
management. That handicap will be
removed and Homecoming fans and
rooters' will enjoy many close contests
on their own grounds in nineteen-eleven.
''Pledmont, putting forth some effort
last season to break into the game, will
certainly come back this season with
fast team. Manager Cuthbertson Is 'on
the job, and can talk more base ball i'll
a given time than The Man in the
Woods can spin about what he will see
when he and Roy McCardell take each
other to the Philippines. Besides, the
twln-town territory has an abundant
supply of native players who know and
play the game according to Ty Cobb,
and are sure to cut some figure on the
great old Creek this season.
Midland people will stand pat on
their team of last seasonal bunch that
certainly went some in nineteen-ten,
and expect to eliminate the grass from
all competing parks in nineteen eleven.
A big meeting is called for one day next
week at the Bowen Hotel of the Park
Association and Club. Plans for extern
slve improvements of the Park will be
formulated. Many more bleachers' will
be erected; the grand stand enlarged,
new seats put in, and everything else
done to make it one of the best base ball
battle fields i'll the county.
"With the addition of one or two local
players the team will be the same as last
season.
Nov, if the managers and promoters
will get together sometime before the
vale of Georges Creek looks like can
yon' of the Emerald Isle and perfect ar
engagements to the end that every game
will be ii championship contest. we will
have tirst-class baseball, and plenty of
it. so may it be- is the wish of all the
fans and rooters' here. '-krn".
William Roach, of the New York
(Americam team spent a few holidays
with his brotherin- law-William H.
Morgan, Broadway. He is the short
stop with a successful record