The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-05
snow CHECKS
DIAMOND MEN
IN PRACTICE
Easter Thundersto1m Fol
lowed by Cold and Snow
Flurries in This Section

Gniess the weather turns over
promptly tI1is Is not going to be a
Very good week for baseball and
great bunch OF baseball fans in this
section will be disappointed. Big
league teams appear in Clarksburg
two days this week, and the Varsity
opens up with Fairmont team Fri
day and Saturday at Morgantown.
However, it is a long stretch until thu
end Of the week and all's well that
ends we'll Here's to good luck.
Following a nice little April thun-
derstQrm on Easter Sunday afternoon
the weatherman took chill and to-
day we have the brand of weather
that baseball players often strike
when they so south for spring train
ing and also the same brand that is
the basis for the protest of many that
the big league seasons should be
started later each yea 1t is cola,
damp, raw, miserable. AZ IbRsebaN
game today would have GO be staged
With other than the regulation gloves
ami the play ers would feel very COM
Portable in a couple OF heavy sweaters
Wednesday Of this week the Boston
Braves and the Detroit Tigers will
come together in an exhibition game
at Clarksburg. The game is staged
under the auspices of the American
Legion and promises to attract rec
ord crowd. Ty Cobb will be on the
io5 in this game and this fact alone
will bring thousands to the contest tc
see the Georgia Peach" in action
against the Beaneaters from the far
east,
Friday afternoon in the Harrison
county metropolis the well known
Cincinnati Reds, champions of the
world, and the Washington Senators
who are not known much in baseball
circles except for the fact that hay,
had on their payroll for some years
Dne Walter Johnson, speed merchant
extraordinary will hook up in anoth-
er exhibition game. This game is un.
der the auspices of the ClarksburE
press club. Both games have been
widely heralded and II the weather.
m1n will only smile sweetly great
crowds will be present for the con
tests. AS we look out the window at
the pseseut writing the snow flakes
are whirling about as If to give us the
merry laugh for entertaining hopes
that these games cas- be staged, but
1t only takes an hour or two in this
section to make the jump from the
North Pole to the Equator, so we are
simply marking tint and trusting for
the big Jump to take place in time for
the games.
That low grumbling sound down the
river is Harry Stansbury cussing tho
weather After two weeks of almost
unbroken good weather and long prac-
tice sessions for the Varsity diamond
artists, Harry woke up this morning
to find left-handed conditions con-
fronting him Fairmont's fast indie
pendent bunch, will be in Morgantown
Friday and Saturday and the Varsity
wanted another four days hard work
before hooking up with this bunch, but
at least one day and perhaps more
viii have to be thrown into the dis
card.
The poor conditions today will also
halt the baseball and track sessions
of the local high school. The coaches
had planned another lively week for
the boys but will not have to wait for
better atmospheric conditions. This
Is no day for youngsters to be run
ming about the South Side ball yard
in abbreviated track uniforms.
Before the showers yesterday after
noon many county ball players took
advantage Of the balmy sunshine to
cut loose, and baseball sessions were
held on a score or more lots about
the city and county. But in the
twinkling of an eye late yesterday af-
ternoon dark clouds rolled up from
the west. the wind blew, the lightnin.
flashed, the thunder rolled and the
rain came down in the well known
torrents; then during the night it
grew cold and it is showing this morn.
ing. All of which reminds US of the
subject of a story by writer in the
American magazine: "How's Your Cll
mate-Do you Carry 1t With You?"
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