Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-07-08
COLDF|ELD CHALLENGES
FOR A$1,OOO BALL GAME
Tribune of Southern City Defends Their
Baseball Team In Lengthy Article
Which We Reproduce.

city and claims that they are all
gentlemen and true sports. In a
headline that extends across the
front page they want to play for
$1,000 a game, or even more money,
il Tonopah should see fit to make
the stakes larger, and all they
ask is that the games be played on
neutral grounds. The Tonopah
boys depend on their livelihood
by working. They only play ball
for the sport there is in it, and
when games are characterized by
petty wrangling they thing it time
to quit and find some other form
of amusement.
The Tribune, in speaking OF neu-
trail grounds admits that Goldfield
can not be called such. The south-I
erners also boast of what was paid
to the visiting team in gate receipts.
A Fourth OF July game in this
city would have netted handsome
returns the same as it did in Gold
field but the boys were induced to
go to that city under a $3.50 guar
antee or a percentage of the gate
receipts and they deprived this
town Of a baseball game by so
doing.
The Tribune also makes asser-
tions about poor sports, hose team
backing down, etc. No one in au-
thority in this camp ever promised
that hose team would repre-
sent this city at that place and
they took it upon themselves to
print il upon their programs when
| tney knew this town was also Civ
ing contests OF the same sort and
| mad as good prizes, il not better,
| than their own town.
III speaking about quitters, the
about rounding any money to the
| peopIe who paid to see fake aero
pane flight. They advertised that
nan tine price oil admission would be
refunded If the machines failed to
| Hy. Ine machine failed to fly and
| the hall admission failed to be re-
turned, but, of course, this was in
Godteld and nobody expected them
70 keep promise.
Captain Hopkins in defending
his action in throwing away the
new ball given by the umpire has
a very lame excuse and try to
cite baseball rules. He says:
AS baseball game, played un-
der baseball rules, the ball given
the pitcher by the umpire should
not have been in play. The pitch
er'5 protest on the ball rightfully
in play was not rulable, as the
seams were not broken, nor was
the C"v~I cut Therefore, as cap
tain Of the club, looking after cur
Interests. threw the ball not right
fully in play.
Now for the edification OF
Spaulding, Reach and other authori-
ties, we would like to ask this
authority on rules Who puts a bal
in ''rightful" play? Does the UNI
pire, or is it the captain of the
other team.
Hopkins as a professional bal
player might be all right, but in
amateur games where the boys are
supposed to meet as friends anC
| guests, Mr.. Hopkins is very small
, in his ways.
The Tribune prints the following
! The Tribune would be the first tt
criticize crookedness or rowdy bal
playing. Inversely it cannot but of
! fer denial and rebuttal evidence t.
misstatements of so gross a char
acter.
e Taking the statements of the ar
r ticle in their order, let it be ad
mitted that Umpire Catalan is not
baseball oracle by any means. anC
he certainly made some putrid de
: cision-but actual count shows tina
. his reverse English favors' wer,
S equally distributed. He called
piness, usually without much mate
Y rial profit to themselves. The en-,
: that comes to them is as variabl
a as their paths of life.
: ~N.N~SN~o~~~~~~~~~s~.
: reputation of the scribe who Sc
: them down.
q Though seldom seen in societ.
= they are useful members. for, lik
r scientific investigators, they add
ie the sum Of human comfort and hal