Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-07-18
St, FRANKS AND AMBOYS MAY
END WAR;; ALERTS WANT GAME
Pfau Ready to Give Game to
MuIlen'S St. Franks in Aug.

Reliable information received by
the EVENING NEWS in the past two
days points to the fact that within
O few days announcement Will be
made of a big city series between
Billy Pfau's Perth Amboys and Joe
Mullen's st. Franxlins. The dates,
terms and conditions are uncertain,
but 1t Is likely that the series will be
started before the first Sunday in Au-
gust, as the Amusement Park sched-
Ifle for the next two weeks calls for
state championship games against
Keansburg and the Newark Stars.
This is a funny baseball world. At
the start of the season the st. Frank
Inns had a black list out on Amuse-
ment Park and the boys said that
none of their players would partici-
pate in games at the park this year
and they discouraged their friends
from attending the games. Billy Pfau
was just as determined that the st.
Franks wouldn't get game and said
he would starve to death before he
gave them game.
All these determinations have now
been forgotten The st. Franks play
ed to a crowd of from 1000 to A.
500 at the Copper Works Sunday, but
most of the rooters were equipped
with Tad's "one way pockets" lined
with fish hooks and the collection
from this vast throng amounted to
about $26. The winners got seventy
FIVE per cent of the grand total and
the losers twenty five per cent. The
St. Franks boys like to spend large
Sunday evening with their best girls
boys diseoSergd the most issSl'S' 1nss e. lid I
spend would be the. evening.
On the other hand the Amboys
a Ut1d n xud ~ a{ A
Thent Park Sunday and from this
small crowd received q gate of about
1925. After paying all expenses Pfau
WAS ahead about IS. Previous to the
Railway game Pfau had been dipping
down for losses until the total reached
in the neighborhood of $500. Billy
loves baseball and likes to provide the
fans with a winning team at the park,
but there isn't much fun for one man
to pay from $50 to $40 for the gleas-
ure of a baseball game, even though
regularly supported by 250 fans each
week.
The game between Railway and
Perth Amboy Sunday, although lost
By Amboy, has been the talk of the
town and has done more than any
thing else to recruit rooters for the
Aplboy team in the future games. At
the same time the St. Franks so
easily disposed of the Acmes that the
former are once again entitled to
heavyweight senior consideration.
The logical spot for Sunday baseball
hereabouts seems to be Amusement
Park, so there seems to be nothing to
do but to match the Am boys and the
st. Franks up for a series of games
The opening wedge for city series
came when the St Franks sent in
their account of Sundays game to
the EVENING NEWS Monday morn
ing. The st. Franks asked that IL
Billy Pfau wanted good attraction
at the park why wouldn't he book the
ST. Franks for q series. The appeal
was seen by Pfau and he said he was
as game as the St. Franks. The only
thing to be done now is for Billy and
Joe to get together and come to q sat
isfactoTy agreement These two
young men are not as bitter enemies
as newspaper controversies of the past
winter would indicate. Therefore the
final announcement is due within a
few days.