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

Says the chipIey Banner.
Quite good size order for job print
ing which came in at the last minute
prevented We editor from going to Pen
sacola and taking part in the Rube-
Journal ball game Monday, as he had
anticipated doing. We regret our in
ability to be present, but the interest
and accommodation of our patrons Is
to be considered before our pleasure
In other words, our business is more
important to us than a ball game. even
IL 1t Is the Rube-Journal game. -"
veni Vidi Well The country editors
of West Florida went to Pensacola
Monday and engaged the Pensacola
Journal ball team in a game of ball.
OF course the rube editors won. and
the Journal NUTS were so completely
vanquished, and disconnected over their
defeat that they were unable to get
we suppose they were, as the Journal
failed to arrive that morning.
Larkin CleVeland's Paper Says.
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. IL.
Herald, DeFuniak Springs, Fla
I led the Rubes to victory. Six to
five.
HUB ALLEN.
The above and foregoing instrument
was sent us late Monday afternoon by
our trusted first lieutenant Hub Allen,
of the Milton Gazette, leader of the
''rube" team in the game with the
Journal boys.
We were just closing our office when
the telegram was handed us by the
messenger boy An day we had been
in sickening suspense over the outcome
of the game. As soon as we read the
telegram and gTasped its full purport.
the relief was so sudden that our over
taxed nerves gave way. There was a
roaring in our head accompanied by
| the sound Of many waters. During the
period of our swoons it seemed that
every heroic deed recorded in the
worlds history fitted athwart our per-
turbed and representative brain. We
saw Joshua with his army of dollar
and forty mine cent Hebrew soldiers
marching around Jericho and the walls
falling; we heard the ringing address
of Spartacus to the gladiators and saw
| the streets of Rome running red with
| the blood of her leading citizens and
her rld-power shaken by the crush
| ing onslaught OF the Goths; we saw
Napoleon at Lodi spring from the back
of his charger and flourish aloft the
| colors Of France while the Austrian
shot and shell ripped the bridge into
kindling wood; we heard the fearful
! cry of "Sauve qui peut" and heard ii
answered by the demoniac cheers OF
| the victorious English and Prussians
on the field OF Waterloo; we saw g
| double battle line Of Confederate SOL
diers sweep up the hill at Gettysburg;
we saw Meade's cannon tearing great
| CHASTITY gaps in the ranks Of the
| bravest army ever led to glorious de-
| feat; we caught a heeting glimpse OF
the town council of DeFuniak Springs
repeating the Cow ordinance"-and
| then we woke up" Earl Work was
| tanning us with an "em" quad and our
devil was wringing his hands and cuss-
| ing the luck for not collecting his pay
| last Saturday.
| Slowly we collected our scattered
| faculties, and by the middle of the next
| day we were able to control our emo
l tions and to speak of the game calmly
1t seems that the "rubes' just liter
| ally walked all over the Journal boys.
as witness the following exchanges of
1 kilograms Immediately after the game:
Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 9.
1 Col Frank L. Mayes, Lafayette. Ind.
RolIicking rubes ruthlessly romped
on runts. Score six to five. Wire in
/ structions.
HAYES.
| Lafayette, Ind, Sept 9.
/ Managing Editor Journal, Pensacola,
/ Fla
Fire the whole team. Hire some pro-
fesstoEals. VIII bring MathsWson,