The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-08-13
10. THE POOR INDIAN
SILENT AND GRIMM
Came Proudly with Feathers
to Show us the Game.

But "Red" Holt and LINING gave
the ball such spinning,
That the Indians and Live Oak now
look much the same.
Green's Nebraska Indi MS a semi
professional aggregation of baseball
players from Lincoln, Nebraska, tour
ing the country with baseball as their
only visible means of support, her.
aided throughout the west and south
as "phenom's" in their particular lin,
ard with a record before they entered
Palatka of series of thirteen unin-
telrupted victories in Florida, and the
loss of but dozen out of the ninety
games played since leaving home in
the sweet spring time, came to Pa
latka on Monday for @ couple Of
games with the local team.
These games were well-advertisad
with the result that not only did the
people of Palatka turn out in great
numbers to see them, but many came
from all parts of the county, from
Hastings and st. Augustine.
On Monday afternoon the Indian
visitors were formed in line, followed
by the Palatka Military Band, which
in turn was followed by the Palatka
tall club. The band played "Mothec
Don't you Chide me When I Come
Home Beat" and other supposedly ap-
Epronriate airs on the way to tie ball
grounds.
The visitors, their heads circled
with band of tail feathers, walked
proudly erect like a company CT fore
ordained filibusters featuring sure
victory.
1t was an attractive sight. These
Indians were the real thing; they were
tall, erect and magnificent specimens
of the genus homo; they bore them
selves proudly as only those who are
able to trace their lineage back to
Charley Dirtvshirt and Hiawatha
Hugmetight can; they were the real
American aborigines with high cheek
bones and long, timber noses that he}n
or cooperate with an air of healthy
hauteur to attest fathers faithfulness
to firewater before the government
poked him with prohibition.
Palatka people looked once and sue
cumbed; they said we have no bust
ness a goin' agin' sich. Our own
players oozed modesty and helped to
fool the fans.
But, the game!
Holt and Chapman constituted the
Palatka battery; Chief Cleanlegs and
Sweet Grass did ditto for the Indians.
1t was a great game from the Palat-
ka standpoint. The Indians couldn't
Lit Holt, but the Palatkans hit the In
dian pitcher all over the damp field.
That was the feature of the game
the heavy hitting of the Palatkans;
also their fielding; another feature
was the supurb pitching of Holt, and
another was the especially heavy hit
ting of Brinson, Spitznagel and Ed
mondson. The first named and the
last named made home runs with one
en- bases. The score was II to 1 in
favor of the modest young men from
Palatka.
The Second Game.
The game of Tuesday was a superb
game of baseball from any way look
ed at. The Indians played better bait,
The pegging TO second of Sweet Grass
the Indian catcher was a work of art
to be classed among the exact scienc-
es. The fielding of Spitznagle of Pa
latka also caused much favorable
comment Innings pitching was
grand and that of the Red man who
heaved the ball for the aborigines
was like unto it. But Palatka, whose
ball club always comes up to the ex-
pectations of the people in an emer-
gency that counts for something won
again by a score of 8 to /.
The Indians were good loosers, bet
ter than one had any reason to expect
from an aggregation who had bumped
against but little of it in long sea-
son of travel. They went over to St.
Augustine from here and will soon
leave for Nebraska, the home of their
soul. When they get there and have
time to reflect on the mutability of
baseball and other things, they will
remember some Palatka palefaces;
we know it.