The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-07-10
'PROFESH"
TAKEN IN
BY GEAR
TANNERS
BY PETER STERLING.

the last two days. Every color. shape
and variety has been thrown upon the
screen. starting with the little farce
comedy presented by the Professional
men and the Gear tanners Thursday
evening and ending up with the two
cloutfests between Commercial League
teams and the Crews-Beggs aggrega-
tion of Pueblo on the national holiday.
But | want to tell you about the
fasco OF Thursda, night. It was SO
comical that it will put you in good
frame of mind for the shocking news
that I must relate in a few minutes,
namely to two defeats that were hand
ed to the Stars and the Diamond
Bricks by crews-Beggs II to Z and.
to S respectively on the 4th-
That razor-back exhibition Of Thurs
day eve certainly has ShapesPeare's
COMEDY OF Errors" backed on the
map. 1t concluded after seven rather
rugged s.a=zas with the Grease Heads
in the lead two points. 1s to IL
For the Profeshes Tommy Smith
elected to oaptapalt the pill and Paul
Bartlett contracted to juggle it, And
Paul was there with the pose. If with
nothing else. While preparing to re-
ceive Smiths offering he always knelt
on one knee like Grecian slave pay
ing homage to his master He always
pulled OF this stunt with poetical
rythm. If you could call it such. rather
than with mathematical precision
But somehow Paul managed TO
clInch the sphere whether IL came like
a balloon or whizzed like a grass cut
ter.
From the start the carburator Cut
ups found Tonmy's weak spot and
banged bis delivery like boiler makers
And these slams gave Tommy's sup
port a chance TO show what profes-
sion they professed TO profess Dea-
son on first clammered after the ball
as II he was peddiing the Rocky Noun
tain News and you might lay stress
on the Rocky. Thomas on second. you
would think. was drawing up a suit
for divorce, especially as he invariab-
" managed to divorce himself from
the ball. Reiter went at It like a
thunderbolt and managed to show Us
how hard II must be TO pull a tooth.
r. Taylor at short always happened
TO hit like a barrel of sauerkraut but
got what he went after Just the same.
A. L. Taylor In left field kept asking
for a change OF venue because the
ground in his garden was not soft
enough to fall on. Mcdonald in center
always had to solve n problem in ge-
ometry to ascertain the angle OF the
nies coming in his direction before he
could start after them. Spangler in
right field. being high school boy
played with enthusiasm but seldom
with the ball.
The Tire Pumpers opened up their
cutouts at the start and made a noise
like a 1906 model henzine wagon. II
was said that the umpire had some
difficulty in making them keep their
automobiles on the field. they insist
ing that they needed them 10 run
bases. They we're constantly troubled
with biowouts while making the cir
cult and one or two stripped their
Eears- Peanut Bunten couldn't get up
steam enough at times and protested
because he was not permitted to bring
bis Stanley steamer out into center
feld. The Profeshes made an effort 20
get writ OF injunction against Bur
don Sheriff. pitching for the Grease
Heads because his balls seemed to be
fraudulent. They never turned out to
be what they appeared TO be and the
lawyers wanted him ousted ON the
ground OF Misrepresentation. But he
got away with his spirals and was
never hit more than seventeen times