The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-06-14
Defeated But
Not Vanquished

Herald'B readers but the sport re-
porter can conceive OF no other sit
uation which will Just tit the position
hc found himself In when he made
inquiry about the Weed flasco TO the
members OF the local team Sunday
night and Monday forenoon.
The third degree" defiant atti.
tude was maintained all day long
until--a garrulous fan appeared on
the scene and he said, "Hoss In hoss
cows is cows and pigs are pigs" The
whole story came out-and there was
no reason OF the locals part to be
so reluctant about chattering n little.
The locals died with their boots on
need anything else be said7 Uf
they had taken them off, wo never
would have forgiven them!")
The potent reasons for the loss of
the game to Weed lay to many rea-
sons. one OF which was that the 10
calls played for the first time upon a
real honestto- goodness diamond.
(thc fastest field on the coast) and
one that Weed should be proud Of.
According TO the versions told, the
inner field was like q billiard table.
smooth and hard rolled. while the
outfieid was a dream for a fielder,
when a batted ball hit the inner dia-
mond-it went, and went with vim.
Quickness OF eye was necessary TO
field the pill and catch the runner,
anyway the diamond was the real ar
ticle. The next weakness developed
when players failed TO show for
duty. closely followed by the fact
that six hard hours OF riding over
roads that Billy Sunday could put
sinners into Fords and then shake.
(whoaD well, who could play ball
with your kidneys in the place where
your brains belonged7 And who
your brains belonged "Blackie" Nc
Donald. master of smoke signals and
voodooism. would have been mere
nonentity TO that link! Going on q
little further, who had the nerve to
flash ivory down there during the
game? mot African golf or pool
baiis--if It had been the first. only
the police would have saved Weed
from bankruptcy
The boys went into that game han
dicapped and knowing we'll they
were. like good sports, played n
sportsman's game and took defeat
like real American boys, Klamath
Falls boys. game to the core.
The famous Anthony was no ter
ror to the fellows for eight hits were
collected off his delivery. Clark pick
ed n two bagger. Callaghan a triple
and Gay. complete circuit, so the
almighty" was not such n world
beater after all. But II was that first
inning when eight Weed men each
collected a bingle and chalked up
eight runs-that was the blow that
killed father. Just what allied Cook
has not been found out-somebody
let his goat get loose up here In kla-
math and-oblivion. Sharkey Hutch
ins then took the mound and tried
desperately hard to retrieve the fall
en- fortune OF his teammate, but TO no
avail. The Weed team were run
crazy" and hobbling would have been
the only means to prevent their max
ing the circuit. (They were regular
village cutups in their own home
townD
Nuf sed. Weed won and that bunch
OF Weed players were good winners,
white to the core and bunch OF all
around good fellows. Even IL they
did win the game.) When Umpire
Pool made a rank decision in favor
Of Weed. Captain Cramer OF the
Weed team, was the first man over 10
apologize and state that klamath
Falls could select another umpire.
On another "phony," the same thing
happened and the balance OF the
Weed team did not approve of the da-
cisions. and told the local boys at
the time but who could outtalk an
umpire? He honestly tried to be fair
but he forgot his specs, that's all,
The Weed organization are fast
playing, well trained bunch, on their
toes all the time and Captain Cra-
mer, an all around man. He stood
out from all the rest For the locals,
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want It to be on the winner-take-all
basis. 1t wouldn't be money that ia
be fighting for" That's good. Then
he wouldn't be disappointed when
he got none.
Dempsey beat me with . lucky
punch" We didn't see the fight,
but friends of ours who were there