White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-19
Painters Win
Baseball Game
pARTESDERs EMERGE SECOND
REST IN CLOSE CONTEST WITH
DAuBERS WHICH HAD AUDI
ExcE WREATHED IN SMILES.

This is no polished or Lottery tale.
This is no classy old ballad. This is
merely a plain. unvarnished narrative
of how the Painters smeared to
defeat over the mixologists at the
Ely baseball park last Sunday after
noon.
Several hundred fans were watch
ing and cheering them. The paint
ers emerged victorious in the seven
inning clash because they pounded
the Dill, when they needed the scores.
Careless OF boots, of cheers. of flat
terry tehy took the enemy into camp
with still one more frame to spare.
will not sing of every gink that
hit or slid. | will not chant of every
piay both good and bad. I will not
warble off the laughable antics that
we're pulled But you've got to slip
the laurels thick and fast to the
Clarence and Harlan Rowan. two
youths under sixteen. who wore a
daubber's uniform. Twice did Clar
ence saunter TO the plate and slam
the leather hard and straight.
In the closing stages he caught
RED Robinson mapping on second.
when the backstop for-the bartenders
thought the leather was In the pitch
er's mlti. Clarence raked in the APP
plause from all quarters as result
OF this play Harlan Rowan was
very much in the center of the cal
cium. thank you. and appeared to
good advantage on second. In fact
its useless TO deny. YOU gotta hand
IL to those kids.
Comieal stunts were frequent.
.'First Aid To the Injured" was in
evidence in inning four. Matt Her
ron. who Was doiag- the receiving act
for the bartenders. was struck on
the knee by foul tip. and oompell-
stretcher was brought into use with
out delay and the injured ball
player was carried off the field. and
how the Joyous ambkins leaped and
hooted.
You cant leave Billy Sergeant out
CT the picture. He connected with
a beautiful clout. and did a summer
sault that would have got by even
with the sells-Floto company. The
grand stands resounded with peals
CT laughter. as Billy walked to the
bench
The painters won largely because
they swung the willow stalk with
a vengeance The bartenders took
their whack at fate. but Frank
Thorpe, the hutler for the painters,
kept his benders around the shoulder
and these were thorns In the flesh
of the mixologists. Thorpe didn't
have any more stuff than Harry
Steele. who was mixing them up for
the bartenders. but the men who
faced him were striking at anything
that came their way.
But. say II was great. IL was glc-
rioas. battle brimming with thrills.
to make rooters uproarous. each
minute had pepper and vim TO It..
The game was in doubt until the last
moment. and you just had to glue
your glim to 1t until the last man
was out in the seventh.
The opposing aggregations lined up
as follows.
Painters--H. Rowan. second base;
Clarence Rowan, short stop; Chris.
Rowan. center field; Thorpe pitcher:
Mason. left field: Culp. right field;
Rigsby. first base; Smith. third base;
Farley. catcher.
Bartenders - Daily. short stop;
Maher, center field: Reese. first
base; Steele. pitcher: Chambers. right
Held; Herrin and Robinson .catchers;
Stebbns. second base; Breen. third
base, Geyer. left field.
umpire--G. T. Boreman.
Score by innings: