The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-13

Larkin CIeveIand's Account.
Let this pernicious nour stand aye
cursed the calendar
The peerless Rubes went down IN
defeat last Monday before the hired
myrmidons of the Pensacola journal
The Peerless Rubes went to Pen
sacola and put up a game hgnt, Out
fate was against them and the Jour |
nal team again holds the champion
ship.
At the end of the fifth inning the
manager of the RUDE team, after con
sultation with Manager Mack OF the
Journal mob, decided to stop the game
to prevent further slaughter. wei
therefose threw up the sponge, along
with other things too numerous to
mention, and withdrew our battered
legions from the field of carnage.
The exact score will probably never
he known. Various estimates place
the score at anything up to 20 TO vi
i'll favor of the Journal. It is PROB
able that the score Of 13 to 8, pub
lished in the Journal the next morn
ing after the game, is as near cor
rect as anything the weeping pubic
will ever know. At least the Ruoes
are willing to accept these figures as
correct.
At o'clock Monday evening the
Rubes and invited guests, to the num-
Der Of about fifty, assembled at the
San Carlos. A splendid banquet was
spread in the main dining room and
the hungry Rubes and other invited
guests absorbed the following menu:
Our familiarity with any kind OF
foreign language is limited to rev
such expressions as PRO Bono Pub
lico,' NE Plus Ultra E Plurlous
Unum,' etc, etc, therefore the French
words of the menu were all Greek
n md fIIr tyuo oil fn We
non aux Champigions'' was a kind
of mixed affair. Part Of it tasted like
something or other, and part OF It |
| tasted like something else. 1t was all
as good as the very dickens, but as to
just which were the "Cnempignons,
which was the ''Filet'' and which was
the AUX" we are undecided. 1t
would have been useless to have
asked any of the Rubes about it, for
the reason that none Of them knew
any more about it than we did, and
| we hesitated to ask any one else. be-
cause we didn't like to expose our ig-
norance. We therefore chewed on
| our "Champignon" and nibbled our
Aux just as though we had been
raised on the stuff.
Mr.. Mayes welcomed the visitors
| in a hearty kind of way which took
all the sting out of the defeat at the
ball ground. The leader of the Rubes
responded for the visitors and for an
hour or two after the banquet various
after dinner speeches and recitations
were listened to and applauded by the
guests. Everybody was happy and
everybody had something to say when
| called upon by the POSTMASTER. Mr..
Hervey is receiving unstinted praise
a. the hands of the newspaper men
for the manner in which he looked
after the banquet and. while the
Rubes feel a little sore over their
defeat, they are extracting some grain
OF comfort from the fact that it was a
| Jolly good bunch of fellows who de-
feated them. The Journal bunch,
| from Mr.. Mayes down TO the little
gopher mascot, is hsn aggregation of
| tEoroughbreds-not a single "muzzle
| loader in the whole blooming outfit, |
| and it's a pity for the Ruoes to smash
| them as they are go.ng to do next
year.
| The Pensacola Electric company
| furnished the ball players a special
| car and an extra handsome conductor
and motorman to and from the ball
ground, and Fred Schad, the genial
proprietor of MaXent park, has been
voted a very prince of good fellws
| by both Journals and Rubes. Schad
umpired the game and the editor. of
| this fearless and aggressive publica
| ton is obliged to admit that we were
put out at first base five times before
| Fred finally had to call us out in or
| der to save himself from being mobbed
| by the boys of the Journal team.
| SChad did all he could for the RUDE
| team, but he had "beastly support"
After the banquet the newspaper
men adjourned to the palm room
/ Of the San Carlos, where the matter
of organizing a West Florida associa
| ton was discussed and the organiza-
| ton effected. Hub Allen of the Mil
| ton Gazette was elected president:
I.arkin Cleveland vice president, and
| @. NJ. Johnson of Pensacola secretary
and treasurer. Much interest was
manifested in the organization of the
| association, which comprises the ter
| ritory embraced in the Third Congress
| SIGNAL district. The next meeting of
the association is subject to the call
| of the spresident and Will be held at
| CCtfo0daIa.