The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-23

BY Mariana Times Courier.
- Lafayette, Ind, Sept IL.
Managing Editor Journal, Pensacola.
Fire the whole team Hire some
Wagner, Cobb and some others on my
return. Wen fix the Rubes.
FRANK L. MAYES.
The above terse message shows the
extreme measures the Pensacola Jour-
nal proposes to take in order to keep
In the race for the baseball champion
ship of West Florida, which was SO
ruthlessly wrested from them by the
relentless reuben editors of the country
press of West Florida on the Journals
home diamond last Monday, by score
OF to which was probably so close
only because the Journal burlesque ag-
gregation made his jumps q promise
of special attention at the banquet at
the San Carlos rendered the victors by
the vanQuished on the night after the
conflict
and dazzling pitfalls which beset the
course Of the average unsophisticated
cracker" when he is seeing the sights
and ''rubber-necking' in q city--which
the Journal force were in hopes would
completely upset and awe the rubes
into coma and then they would prove
easy victims-the country editors, ac-
.
and rooters, and led by Hub Allen Of
the Milton Gazette. invaded Pensacola
Monday and proved to the nincom-
poops that galley slaves on a morning
rag were pigmies from the remotest
corner Of the dark continent when it
came to vying with the herculanean
specimens of Florida physical perfec-
tion-the rube editors along the p. &
A, and a more perfectly trained col
lection of athletes CD than Hub Allen
led onto the ball diamond will never
be found IN any section of the United
States as small as West Florida
That their training had been such as
to best equip them for participating in
the national game 1t is only necessary
to enumerate a few of their multitude
nous duties which are their daily
tasks: Chasing the festive news item
on day when there is nothing doing,
equips them for handling all scatter
ing hits; capturing the elusive dollar
occasionally flying by from delinquent
subscribers is fine practice for garner
ing in all high flies; pacifying an irate
reader when q hickorynut- headed
printer has misspelled the name or got
the destination wrong on a few hours
visit into an adjoining village, renders
him one of the most suave kickers who
ever contested a decision of the UNI
pire; splitting stove wood to heat Of
nee during occasional cold snaps with
a very dull axe gives him such conf
dence in his ability to hit any kind Of
a ball that even the mighty Mathew
son (whom MayeS brings him down
for the next game) can not fan him,
and last but not least he gains prac-
tice while a barefoot boy throwing
chunks and rocks at every specimen OF
animal life that he has to die to forget
how to throw. And then to think that
when the Times Courier made the sug-
gestion of game with such a team
as this, and the winners OF the Journal
News game, that the Journal was
chump enough to fall into the trap.
That the game was enjoyable is
shown by the way the boys were
treated, both sides were heartily
| cheered and everything possible was
done to make the trip pleasant. after
the game a banquet was served to
| the visitors by the Journal at the San
| Carlos, Pensacola's million dollar
hotel, at which covers were laid for
| thirty-two and which wound up a most
| pleasant day.
The Times Courier editor was I'M
| able to get away but was ably repre-
| scented on the diamond and especially
| at the banquet table by Walter Davis
| and Tom Conely, Jr.
Here's hoping for another chance
next season 70 prove to the world the
| invincibility Of the country editors ir
| a ball game, as that is the only place
] in the wide Forld that anyone has the