Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-21

vision of hOmeSpun and rugged nom !
esty contending with guile and big |
league craft and other ridiculous
parallels drawn by the Iacile if not to
say trenchant pen of friend j. H. But
why, Orestes, prolong the agony?
Read what our oracle has to say. It's |
rich:
TWAS EVER THUS.
(From the Platteville News.)
We are marking time as road
builders. The downpour last Sat
urday night compelled the opinion
that the roads next day to Lancas
ter would be too muddy to travel
and that the new baseball diamond
would be unfit to play on. The
contrary was true. The roads were
as hard and dry as bone and ex-
cept where some madly dashing
milk train running on wild sche-
dule had cut through early in the
morning, there would have been lit
tie necessity for the patrolman's
service.
Blanchardville was advertised
for the matinee performance at
Lancaster Sunday, but the manage
ment got into an argument with
Ruth Mobiles over the amount OF
salary to be paid him for pitching
against Lancaster and they funk
ed on their date. RUDE asked an
even $1,000 to pitch but the Blan-
chardville manager informed him
there was only $999.75 in the treas
ury and RUDE left in disgust.
Well Lancaster is not far behind
this stuff much as it may appear as
a joke. Platteville was asked to
set in Sunday afternoon against
Lancaster. Earlier in the week the
million dollar aggregation Of dia-
mond stars assembled by the fam
Gus Ringing Bros. Of Lancaster
! baseball fame had trimmed Shulls-
! burg 13 to 0. Mt. Horeb braced
with mainstays and guy wires fell
over also, 5 to 3. Then came Oar
lington with Chappie on the mound
and they were summarized in mid
| ocean and sunk Is fathoms deep
And not a marker to show where
our heroes lie buried,
With this record to the credit of
the Lancaster baseball club, know
ing winks were passed around what
would happen to Platteville, would
be sufficient. But before that past
time had progressed very far, the
whole Lancaster conglomeration
was hustling to hold their own and
not by any manner of means is it
!. ! good playing on the part Of the
Lancaster team that won for them.
! Platteville did not load. It car
ried its unsalaried bunch Of ali
home spun Platteville boys into the
fray with the exception Of On ton
Keyes, the new coach for the Nor
NAL, who played second, and by
gum that boy can play the key
stone sack. He vas every where
and conveyed the big idea that
team work is the team for base.
ball player.
Armstrong was on the mound for
Platteville. Your scribe after the
strenuous nine chapter affair con-
suited brother ur1ps and was in
formed that there was no choice on
pitchers. That Armstrong had far
better curves than Delaney, just as
good control and good fast bali
while Delaney had a fast ball with
Little hop to it and that it gave
him the advantage in mixing deliv-
cry and keeping the batters guess
ing. Delaney is one of the beauties
imported from Iowa recently but
the "made in America" stuff is
good enough for us and mainly
good enough for anybody if treat
ed right.
Platteville grabbed off one hit in
the Revue, blow by Keyes in the
fifth setting, and that was all for
Platteville.
Bell, an Iowa cracker-ma-jack