White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-21
Pitcher Breaks
Bone in Ankle
"RED" BIRD, ELY'S STAR HURL-
ER, MEETS WITH ACCIDENT IN
NINE INNING CLASH AT COP
PER FLAT SUNDAY.
tBy Fearless Dam
Manana=tomorrow.

Manana-tomorrow
We didn't win at Copper Flat last
Sunday. as you may have already
heard. yet. Faith twas Draw bat
tie. the score being 9-5.
It's becoming more and more ap-
parent each year that the only way
that Ely can get on an even basis
with All Star" Hicks Is to dissolve
the county league and organize a new
circle. leaving the pencil pusher from
the Veteran entirely out of it.
The chunky first sacker from the
regions where the red metal is plen-
teous annoyed the Ely curve artist
to such an extent that made 4 prac-
tioally impossible, not to say imprac-
ticabie for him to lead the delega-
tion from the city of courthouses to
a glorious triumph over the porphyry
1iggers. which was his firm inten-
tion.
In fact Hicks was largely instru-
mental in Ely not triumphing a sin
gle lick gloriously or otherwise as,
six of the nine marks registered by
Copper Flat were the result of the
personal activities of said Hicks.
Pause in our Hicks enthusiasm, we
have almost neglected to mention an
other hero of the occasion there
We go offending sensitive minds with
that slang stuff What We meant to
say was that we nave slipped the
once over on Red" Bird. the fence
busting kid. who was engaged in
making his little bow to the citizen
ry. There was nothing TO cavail at
his doings. He served the fast ones
that hop and the slow ones that do
the Salome.
The husky voice of the umpire
crying the name of unknown pitcher
for visitors had hardly ceased echo
ing thru the grandstand and the peo-
pie were still specializing on the iden-
tity CT the mysterious hurler, when
the Ely players realized that the jinx
which had been dogging their foot
steps since the opening of the sea-
son. had not been successfully Gre
mated.
While sprinting up the stretch like
a scared policeman. Bird eollided
with Workman's front porch home
ward bent. and cracked a bone in his
snkle This tumble has crippled one
of the best smoke artists ever seen in
this neck of the woods for at least
a month.
Lefty Wilson. the latest addi-
ton TO the contingent from Harris
burg. Pa. was on the firing line for
the locals. Wilson is the same Lefty
who used to be on the hilltop for
the Shops team in the Twilight
leagne. and he is still pitching with
his left arm Ely opened on him as
early as the first inning, and garner
ed fourteen hits off his delivery. His
support was gilt edged.
Vincent Schmittroth. recently of
Twin Bridges, Montana, was given
chance al second and proved his
worth to the Ely lineup. He han
dies himself nicely. takes his time on
fielding balls. and his throw is made
easily and accurately. He bats well
too. getting brace of his for him.
self.
Lack of space prevents me from
giving further details of a game in
which Ely received second money.
Local filberts are beginning to sus-
pect that Hoppels wreckers let Ely
have that first game for the same
reason those shell men permit pa
tients TO win their first bet. Beat
ing the enemy is getting to be such
common pastime that II has ceased
to be a sport