The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-16
.HIGH-SIDERS
PROPER. THOSE
NEWS G|NKS
BUT THE JOURNAL TEAM OF
ALL-sTAR BALL TossERs WILL
GALL THEIR BLUFF AND BEAT
THEM TO A FRAGILE THURS
DAY, AUG. "a.

For famboyant, uncontrolled high
sidsdness that News bunch of near
ball players have got Fred Schad and
Ed Peake, the heretofore unrivalled
highs side combination. tied to the
starting post as fast as the steel rein
forcements are imbedded in the Amer
lean National Bank building. The
nerve of them guys-why, they've got
the terrible Teddy in his palmiest and
most strenuous days looking like tho
Ineekest inmate OF the old womans
home.
Z Their first offense we char1tably
overlooked inasmuch as out husky
braves could get out any day in the
week and beat two teams like them
before enjoying our morning repast,
but just for the sake Of our Unborn
spirit Of fairness we must this once
refuse to have a bunch of insignifi-
can't, spindle shanked, lowbrow min
now catchers dictate to US. It has
always been the custom for the chal
lengfng tean--to issue it's challenge
several weeks in advance OF a prospec-
tive playing date and then the two
team managers would get together
and decide on q definite day for the
great event. This year, however, the
newly born champions Of the high
side clan would not say one lonely
word about a game with the Journal
which they dictatorially set for the
game
Rather than disappoint its thousands
Of faithful hackers and delay their en-
joyment Of the usual slaughter, The
Journal hefties Off hand and agreed to
play ths unmitigated. unequalled var
let's of the king of insists, on the date
asked for and on their own terms in
every particular.
The sexual is history. The unbeaten
and unbeatable Journal Champs
walked over the lowly pollywogs
rough shod and left them stunned on
the field or gore, wig wagging for
water and the calf rope.
Now, because The Journals kingly
clan of unriyalled ball tossers allowed
the lowly ginks of the News to score
couple of runs in this years usual
slaughter they have taken on new life
and want us to given them another
chance. Just in purely humanitarian
and charitable mood did we ever allow
Of the admiring thousands our husky
beavers permitted a few of their moth
eaten runts to cross the pan. The
thing had gotten to be too much of
farce and we wanted to make 1t look
like a sure enough ball game even
If i was done out of pure goodness
OF heart toward the throngs who paid
their good dimes to witness a "ball
game"
But be that as 1t may, we refuse 10
let the heads IWin=t ails-you-1ose> bunch
of high siders put over another such
stunt on US, as they propose in their
near-issue of yesterday. They want us
to play them on Thursday of this week.
We could play them on Thurs
day, Friday, double header Sun
day, Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday and beat them every game
with as much ease as Jack
johnson could lick an incubator
just refuses to let us be handled any
such lump of unmitigated lemon pulp
as they are trying to hand US in trying
70 run us into game without notice.
Out Of real curiosity we would like
to ask you, you forehead sloping
knock-kneed, box ankled ditch dig
gers, why didn't you wait until Thurs
day and then get out one of your
great self-praised extras" about two
o'clock in the afternoon, telling us that
we are expected to play that after
noon. Then, while telling us that our
carriers would not be allowed to play
why not include the business Office,
the circulation department. the edi-
torial rooms and the composing room
forces. That would have successfully
let you out as the press room men
do not play ball against such excuses
for ball players and you could have
won by forfeit, as the honorable Jack
Carson is expecting to take a vacation
soon.
Under the circumstances, we will
not play you this coming Thursday
II you can hold your nerve together
long enough to play us on the follow
ing Thursday and then arrange some
later date for the third game, all we'll
and good. We will give you another
chance to show just how rotten you
really are on Thursday, August Gath,
then If you still have enough mutton
heads with nerve to show themselves
on a ball field we can arrange the
particulars for the third contest Eve
hate to call it that but do so just to
help the public believe we expect it to
such)
Get 1t now Don't get scared. Come
along and take your medicine. Try
to keep your mummyrunts together
and let us show you just how real ball
players do perform when they are half
trying.