The Delta independent., 1916-06-16
WhiteWashin8 the Public

nacle? Listen to this from the Mont
rose Enterprise:
Delta claims another game.
Montrose outplayed Delta at
every step, but his jumps from
Delta Didn't See It"
Claims" another game. Did you
pipe that? You bet your sweet life
we claim it; we didn't see anyone
else there to claim it excepting few
cheap guys who haven't
even the first ingredients necessary
to the makeup of a good sport. Yes,
Mr.. Enterprise, no doubt you did ex-
perience some of the tortures you as
cribe to the Inquisition when you saw
the favorite team about which you
had been doing so much unnecessary
blowing, turned down. We regret that
we didn't have time to condone with
you on that occasion, because we were
so busy enjoying the sensation for
the third time consecutively.
Quoting again:
While we do not sanction the
action of Paonia last Thursday,
we can realize how they felt if
they thought the decision was
deliberately unfair-which the
writer does not-but in this game
with Delta yesterday the deci-
sions we're so AWFULLY FAIR
to Delta-that one can not help
feeling that they were intention
ally So
My. my.
Strange what differences there be
'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-
dee"
And did you ever notice how it is
the umpire for the winning team that
always makes the unfair decisions
Who ever heard of the umpire of the
losing team discriminating?
"Greenbank was called out at
the home plate when he had been
q sitting there for many moments !,
before the ball reached the
pitcher
Heaven save us, what a travesty on
justice? Sitting, Pray what was he
sitting there for? Was it that may
hap he might hatch out a pencil
pusher who could report the ball
games with visiting teams with some
degree of truth in them. If so, it is
with sincerest regret we note that he
was not permitted to remain sitting
there the customary three weeks.
Now. as matter of fact the ball
the catcher several seconds
not minutes-before the gentleman
in question arrived, and he was stand
ing-not sitting-there waiting for
Mr.. Greenbank The gentleman in
question agrees that he was fairly out,
so now what are you bowling about?
This is about on par with several
other statements made by his nibs OF
the Enterprise which time and space
forbid our calculating upon.
The Montrose Press says:
He tthe umpire) went to sleep
at one time when Montrose had
perfected a double play. and for
the reason that he was not watch
= ing the runner at first, called him
safe"
The fact of the business is that our
man McCarty was leading for second,
batted a short fly which was
fielded by the shortstop close to the
second base. He threw the ball to
first SO that Adams was fairly out,
when the first baseman returned it to
second, but McCarty had landed safely
on second base The decision in this
particular case was called by the
Montrose umpire, declaring Adams
safe. although the ball reached the
base when he was five feet away, and
declaring McCarty out Whatever
were made in this instance,
it was Mr.. Montrose Umpire who
took snooze" instead of our poor
despised Cartwright. However, we
and thank him for this mutual en-
change of favors
The resume of the game as given in
the Montrose Press Is so grotesQue as
to elicit nothing but ridicule. There
are nine paragraphs. a senseless con
glomeration of bouquets and brickbats
a hnut ayan1v dict rihuted Thay are
poor losers and when they feel their
empty pockets and look up all the
hand bills they have distributed tell
ing how they were going to clean 'em
up" they burn the babbit metal out
of their typewriter telling the dear