The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-04-06

Chalmers Military Academy PLAYS
two games here next week, April 18th
and l4th- Come out for practice, boys.
and let's have full team ready for
them. Jake had a phone message
yesterday morning and arranged the
games
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH
The baseball fans of Ocala went
sound asleep on the post of duty and
let the fastest shortstop available 60
laundering by on the main line when
they should have shunted him into
our sidetrack. Jackson waited about
a month for US to sign him up at
$50 month and then signed up with
Lakeland. of the Florida State
League. Lakeland had the money in
sight and we only had promised
about half of what we needed.
Jake is working under a terrible
handicap now in trying to get to-
gether a winning aggregation. He
cannot make any definite promise to
any player because at this date we
only see money enough ahead to run
the team about a month or a month
and half. Can't you fans see that
you are blocking the whole game by
not helping Jake out with a healthy
donation? Send Mr.. Sage a check.
Jake says he is going to embark
on another cruise of extraction this
week. When he anchors in your har-
Dor and sends in a landing party,
come across in the style BETTING a
true baseball fan who wants Ocala on
the baseball map.
So much for what hasn't been done.
Now if you want to know what has
been done as a start for the team I'll
tell you what / know about it. First,
the park. Thanks to the kindness of
Mr.. Rose. the City, Chief Raymond of
the o. F. D., Ted Lancaster and
others the infield has been reclayed,
scraped, packed and sprinkled and is
IN the best shape it has even thought
of being in since the day it was first
built. Yesterdays practice showed
more real baseball interest than has
been shown since the movement was
started over a month ago. There
were ten men out practicing and all
of them were full of pep and ginger
from start to finish. Fred Luffman
was on third and said he hadn't felt
ball since last fall. but just about that
time a hot liner went tearing out over
the third sack and Fred shot up into
the air like he was on springs. Up
went that trusty left hand of his and
down came the pill. OF course, he had
to take off his glove and blow that
tender little paw of his for a minute
or two but what tickles me is that ne
can still reach those skyserapers-
Hansel got tired behind the bat and
tried a few on third. He dared me
to knock a hot one through him, but
haven't yet gotten one by.
Joe Brooks said was too little to
drive one "too hot to handle" so he
attempted to move Hansel of his
perch. Hansel is still there and Joe
has that haunted look Of one who has
seen a ghost. He doesn't see how a
third baseman can be alive and stop
some of the stiff ones he sent down
that way.
Dick Stroud was stepping lively on
short He thought he could stop
them all but drank a chocolate
matted milk on him.
We had on second travelling sales
man whose name / don't know, and
he showed that he knew what base
ball was. Benny Borden was also
stopping all that came his way at
second. Joe Brooks>is trying out for
first Joe got in front of everything
in reach yesterday and Is making
good at the initial sack OF course
Hansel was determined to make Joe
chase one since Joe had tried 50 hard
to run him to the left field fence.
Hansel cut loose a hot grass cutter
that moved a path all the way to
: where the right field fence ought to
be and since there was no fence TO
: dispute its right of way 1t ambled
out on Orange street Joe called for
another to chase at the same time, 50
Hansel took another ball and sure
enough sent another one IN about the
same spot All Joe could do was to
grin and chase the two balls, but be
lieve me Hansel had better look sharI
this afternoon, for Joe has been Of
from work all morning practicina
hard hitting to the infeld and he il
determined TO make Hansel take q