The evening times., 1911-06-16
P|CKETTS PLAY
C0[0RED G0PHERs
Bobby Marshall's Team viii
Play Here Saturday
and Sunday

Baseball may be the great Amer
lean game but there are other ma
tions and other races that know
something about it besides the Amer,
lcan fan, who sits In. the bleachers
ana exudes from his system q con-
glomeration Of baseball slang that
would drive the shade Of Noah Web
ster to suicide.
Inc Japanese sent a good repre-
sentation here on Tuesday and We'd
nesday and it was apparent to all Of
the rooters and rooterettes that the
little yellow men from the orient
know the game and know it mighty
we'll.
The latest novelty in the baseball
line to be introduced into Grand Forks
is Bobby" Marshall and his Colored
Gophers Of the twin cities who will
play here Saturday and Sunday.
Nearly every fan in this section Of the
hemisphere knows or has heard Of
Bobby Marshall and his trope of min
strel players.
Bobby Marshal is a cull'ud
gen'l'man, who has in the past six
years Of his varied existance made a
name for himself that will live in
the annals Of the University Of Mime
sofa and will never be erased on the
dusty archives Of that institution. He
has starred both on the baseball and
strated his ability.
For the past few years Marshal
has been playing professional ball
during the season and has picked up
q bunch Of negro players who have
won g. name. for themselves They
will play in Grand Forks on Satur-
day and Sunday, June II and 18.
The Colored Gophers have been
touring North Dakota for the past
two weeks md have had good sue
cess. At Valley City. where the fans
and fannerines think that they have
the only ball team worth mentioning
In North Dakota, the dusky ones went
down to defat twice in the same day,
one on 20 to score and the other
by a 3 to / finish. This made Valley
City little more noisy over their
team and it is now up to the Pick
etts to turn the same trick on the
"Ebonoids" as the Highliners did.
Since the revised edition of the
Picketts has been put in the field the
locals have been changing the maps
of the games at the Pickett park in
merry style, the ornate feature of the
pastime being the work of Curvist
Leigh. He has been putting over
some that will make the African
dodgers green with envy and as for
connecting with his rushing messen-
{o{& hnS
poor luck. It is expected that Nor
ton Of Cavalier, who has won from
Park River and Grafton and has held
Devils Lake to tie, will do the slab
work for the Picketts in one of the
games.
Bobby Marshall has much the same
lineup this year as he had last, when
the Colored Gophers stuck the Pick
etts for two games. Johnson, Davis
and Scollard are his fiinging squad
and it was johnson who held the
Picketts from doing anything startling
In the game last year. Binga, who
adorns the short position, binglea
out few every time he gets chance.
He put two over the right field fence
Last year and is looked upon as the
heavy hitter from Slugsville.
The Gophers are going after the
animals Of the Pickett outfit and are
going to make as hard a. try as though
; chicken dinner depended on the re-
suit. It may be that the Gophers
will make the Picketts look sick but
from the Pickett side Of the fence II
Is the concensus Of opinion that the
Gophers will be hunting their holes
about the fourth inning. Both the
Saturday end Sunday games will start
promptly at 8 o'clock in the after
noon.
The lineup Of the two teams will be
as follows: