White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-14

GAME AND WEATHER WE'RE
BOTH OF THE ORDINARY, AND
RAAIN STOPPED PLAY IN THE
NINTH INNING.
by Fearless Dan.

tlOn party. Only WI hours Oh IT,,
into which was crowded rain. chilly
weather. some baseball ard numerous
pitchers. The consistency and energy
with which Messrs. Kerr, Workman.
Spahr, and Murphy walloped the ball
Sunday afternoon tells u considerable
part of the defeat of the Mill gang.
The consistency and energy With
which the mill didn't wallop the BAT
tells the rest of it. The few of us
who were on hand withstood the col |
heroically, and didn't make any re.
monstrance when the proceedings
were halted one inning short of full
measure.
overcast sky and a raw chilling at,
mosphere, the weather man was kind
enough. There were about fifteen
or twenty drops fell in the first of
the ninth, and Umpire Fulmer turn
ed and proclaimed after Copper Flat
had registered one run Il call this
game on accoun of rain"
You will ind the details of the as
sault and battery case in succeeding
paragraphs in the paper this morn
ing. That being. true. We will dis
cuss only the strange game of base
ball committed in Ely by the miners
and the faded mill men from MeGiil.
We We're about to gibly ejaeaiase
that as a result of this game the con
tending teams now gaze down upon
the rest of the county league from
proud pinnaeles of first place when
score was Il to : and can't figure
anything in that to be very proud OF.
And after weighing carefully all
the evidence in the case 1t mus be
admitted that the miners did not
produce quite as much ivory as the
mill. So many things happened in
this wet. weird and wicked contest
that are scarcely worthy of mention.
One of the strange incidents for
which there Is no scientific explana-
tion is the fact that George Murphy
got two hits. He is doing as well rs
could be expected under the circum-
stances.
Having proceeded thus far, your
humble scribe pauses to reach for his
cloak 10 assure YOU that Ii was really
cold enough for him-he will pause
10 remark that he isn't going to dis
cuss Sundays weather. The reeo.-
lections of a pail game like that is
sufficient sorrow in itself. and the
weather may thereby be forgotten
but not forgiven.
Copper Flat rid the landscape of
the handsome Eddie Lundahl in the
first frame. after -four runs had beer
%garnered off his delivery. Manager
Fberle let himself In just enough TO
be credited with the defeat. The mill
wound up debating matters with oEc
Willard Scott.
Copper Flat was emphatically hay-
ing its day, ana the players were Ger
tainly adding all the gifted projee-
tiles that came their way.
The afternoon had two bright
points, the hitting of Reuben Kerr
and Dad Workman. They poled,
cuffed and otherwise promulgated
four "a. count emf hits. each of
which some declared brought on tile
rain.
The steam shovel artists were the
first TO register, this having no ref
erenoe to a steam register. A graph
ie account of inning n is about as
good a history of the game as can
he obtained for one cent at a news
stand. Before 1t commenced the hap
penings at the Ely park closely re-
sembled a ball game with doubts in
minds of the spectators as to which
team would win. After the inning
closed there was no doubt as to the
result and the resemblance to a ball
game had shrunk somewhat. Five
men crossed the pan before hostili-
ties ceased.
The mill staged a feeble comeback
in the second and third innings and
scored twice In the good intentions
column. Copper Flat had begun 10
thaw out a little in the fifth. getting
four more runs. In the sixth and
and eighth they seemed to be con-