The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-09-28
BRUTAL TO ADEoREE
Great, 6'g' Fat Men Pitched Onto Few
0yspeptlcs and crppIes.

Nineteen great. big. hurley fat men
set upon seven pnny dyspeptics and
four cripples at the base ball park last
Tuesday with intent 10 do the little
fellows great bodily harm but il was
necessary for them 10 exert every ounce
of strength they possessed to secure
the assistance of professional battery
and two umpires to get away with the
swag and at that il didn't amount TO
much. just one score TO the good was
all the big fellows could crow about In
a 4 to bill that brought a gate Zee of
about $50 and lot OF mirth.
The affair was the annual game OF
base ball between the fats and leans.
The fat fellows had f. ID. Ball and f.
II. Edyvean. professions ball players
as battery; professor Hughes. whose
renown as an athlete extends far and
wide; Chas. Carter. ball player who
annually turns down offers from all the
big league teams Sam Jacobs. cham
pion wrestler and all around athlete
with reputation as far east as the
Red .Sea; Cha. Robinson. recently
under contract with the Niagara
team; DR.. &. +. Larson. a professional
athletic instructor in the schools and
Robert Wilson, renowned as promot
er OF athletic exhibitions and man
who keeps constantly in training for
base ball and other athletic sports. In
addition there was congregation of
big, husky fellows like Tony Kraus,
VIM. Fraser, ''Rube Gunther. Her
man Holmes, Will Richards. S. j.
Goodney. W. j. Richards. Nate War
shawsky, W. II. Rein. S. A. Sorin
son. Arvld Bjork and John Erikson.
In contrast with that beefy array
the shadows" had Ira Odgers, q fell
low who scratches his back bone and
his stomach with one and the same
movement, behiud the bat John
Klesges. dyspeptic butcher with his
fingers chopped off for a pitcher Will
Jacka, clerk as slim as his pen hold
or ON first Tom Brooks. another pep
sin tiend on second Thos Conlin. a
poor. wizened up editor whose diet is
stovewood and carrots compassionately
furnished by his rural subscribers
Ernest Munns who stacks mp very poor.
ly against the smallest bat used Jim
Vivian whose physical build is so small
that his digestive apparatus had TO be
cast ON bloc; Ben Neely who is con.
fined 20 liquid food for the reason that
bis tiny frame will not stand the shock
of good big mouthful of bread all at
one time and Herman Buenger renown-
ed for his light weight. In addition
there was "Si'' Jacka and Fred Hooper
both so lame they had 10 have crutches
and John Bauer, and Ed. Pengilly a
couple more cripples. That's the ar
ray the leans put up.
When you recall that the iats only
beat this aggregation of thin men by
one score you realize the gritty fight
that the little fellows put up.
And then, the fat men were provided
with the best OF every thing. SentI-
nels, rubbers and assistants of all kinds
were on hand to do their bidding. Ar
MICA bathed their bruises and milk and
honey stilled their inner cravings while
the poor slim man rubbed his injured
finger against his stomach and let the
pain in one sympathizes with that in
the other
The umpires consisted OF X. b.
Webb and Prof w. d. Hill Where
the consistency came in none OF the
thin men could make out. Not until
Geo E. voos took the place OF Mr..
Webb was one crumb OF compassion
thrown shadoward.
A crowd OF about 400 men. women
and children congregated to see the
contest It seemed tnat their amphi
theatre like arrangements OF the new
grand stand begot in the audiences the
spirit OF the Romans in the amphi-
theatre for every time fat man was
wrosted thumbs were turned up while
the lean man was invariably greeted
with thumbs down
In fact the lean men did well 10 get
away from the grounds with their
shadows SO great WAS the rage of the
giants as the close run made by the
little fellows
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