The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-09-04
SUNDAY BASEBAE \
CAUSES TROU6,
IN A TEAPOT BUeBLES
OVER WITH MORE NOISE
THAN ACTION
LOTSO STREET TALK DECIDES NOTHING
After Week Of Turmoil and Discussion
Outcome Of Case Leaves Brook
inos Without Precedent.

Sunday base bail mas been having
an inning In Bookings during the
past two weeks. Several thousand
people have been viewing the game
and several thousand more are in
jured because they did not see the
game, because it was played on Sun
day.
A week ago last Sunday a game was
played south of the city and stopped,
we are told, at the seventh INNING.
Last Sunday another game was played
at the same place between Garretson
and Elkton. The former team mopped
up Elkton to the tune of 6 to 0, and
we understand that there was a lot
of disappointed people over the one
sided game. Who umpired the game
the Register reporter did not find out,
but nevertheless was given to under
stand that the game was played to
the finish, and If gate receipts had
been charged there would have been
something like a thousand dollars in
the pot.
The net result of these games, re-
CARELESS of the score, or who scored,
has been that on Tuesday a trial in
justice court was set at 10 O'Clock
a. m, with e. II. Carlisle as the goat.
The publisher of the Register was
dragged out of bed in the morning.
at an unearthly hour, by the deputy
sheriff and served with a subpoena to
appear in court as a witness over a
ball game he had never seen. and In
spite of the fact that he was trying
to perform the duties of three people
in the shop.
A technically in the papers dis
missed the trial and before dinner the
publisher of the Register was again
served with papers to appear at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon and was
obliged to leave his work and again
go into court. BY this time we began
TO take an interest in Sunday base
ball, but it was of the kind that was
not very friendly toward the national
game, played on Sunday or any other
time, so when we We're called to the
witness stand we were determined To
tell all we knew without any reserya-
ton whatsoever and let the chips fall
where they might.
we are not sure that our testimony
decided the case, but IL we made any
enemies by the stand we took while on
the witness stand, we will stand for
1t and stand by 1t just so long as we
are called upon to take a stand OF
that kind.
The trial proceeded until late in the
afternoon or until the last part of the
ninth inning, the score standing 0 to 0,
and vas adjourned to 10 o'clock the
next day when the attorneys again
came to bat with Judge Simkins as
umpire. There were a number of fouls
and fly hits, bat the final score regis
tered a mot guilty" for the defendant,
Mr.. Carlisle.
B~rookings Is ahead considerable adj
vertising over the event. Deacon Pratt
of the Elkton Record relieves himself
of the following:
Sour Grapes
That's Bookings, through and
through. She is noted far and wide
for playing hog" on her guests She
invited u ball team to meet the
Montrose team on her diamond, last
Sunday afternoon, and give her people
a fast ball contest. The visiting teams
met on schedule time and some three
thousand people were on hand to wit
ness the game. All went we'll until
about the seventh inning, when a
mossback, sanctimonious piece Of hu-
manity threw a bomb into the manage
ment of the game and cried: Hands
up! Stop the game! This is Sunday
Then ensued a melee, and the crowd
scattered. A few strokes Of the fists
and a lot of tongue clashing took place
prior to a few arrests. Well wait for
the Brookings papers before we go
into further Details"
Sunday Base Ball
The White Leader man says:
There was a base ball game-or a
portion of a game-played at Brook
ings, last Sunday, just outside the
corporate limits Of the city. The
Leader has no plea to make in defense
of Sunday base ball nor no comment
to make upon the responsibility or dis
responsibility Of the communities that
indulge in the practice and ATTENDING
Sunday base ball games. The gam
was well advertised and a large crow
OF fans was there to see 1t. 1t
not been customary to have Sunfd
ball games H. Rrookings. As She
~ the size OF the crowd there ubr
people living In BrookingR like Sd
ball games. No doubt fhara Ire
treat many people fhore&1ho.
|like Sunday ball, Howevsr.