The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-05-04
ALL THE FANS MUST
PUT IN APPEARANCE
Dunnellon and the Home Team VIII
Cross Bats Tomorrow On. the
Ocala Diamond
(L. T. L.

Dunnellon and 0cala will cross bats
on the local diamond Thursday after
noon at o'clock. Dunnellon has Sc
lected all the men they need from the
left-overs of the Florida State League
and hear has seven men from that
source who are hard to beat in ANA
teur baseball. 1t viii be all we can do
to beat them, but watch 0cala win.
Dunnellon played Leesburg for 10 in
nings last week Score: Leesburg 2,
Dunnellon 1. Come to the game.
SOME GOOD ADVICE
During the second baseball game in
Palatka last week Ocala was three
runs ahead when Palatka came to bat
in the last half of the ninth inning.
The Palatka fans decided that they
wanted the old ball game so they
started a last desperate panic of root
ing. You never heard such a noise in
your life. The several hundred peo-
pie in the grand stand stood up and to
man started yelling Qadies tool.
There were only three or four cars
inside the grounds but they started
their horns going and then a man with
a Hudson super-six started his motor
and opened the cut-out. Then he raced
his engine and / fully believe that
man won the ball game. I have asked
several of the 0cala players what i'm
pressed them most in that last inning.
Every answer was that d. Hudson
airplane. Now Ocala isn't Palatka,
and / don't want to hold Palatka up
to you fans as an example of what you
ought to be, but compare those peo-
pie and their actions on Wednesday in
Palatka and then take a look in at the
funeral out at our diamond the next
day. There must have been fifty cars
in the park. The grandstand had fewer
people than Palatka but the people
were at the Ocala game in at least
twice the numbers that they attended
the game in Palatka. Honestly, you
fans ought TO join q Chautauqua cir
cult and specialize in giving enter
tainments before the inmates Of deaf
and dumb institutions. You cannot
give as an excuse that 0csls was los
ing because we were ahead for the
greater part of the game When
Clements famed three men with three
on bases and none down, ! really be-
lieve did hear one horn blow and one
lady's voice give a weak little yell.
What's the matter. folks? Haven't you
any life about you at all? / firmly be-
lieve that 0cala would have won that
game last week il you folks had
shown the least sign of life when we
had batting rallies both in the eighth
and ninth innings. Don't you know
that Lepper would have blown up just
as easily as our men did in Pa1atka If
those fifty odd cars had turned loose
their horns and those 200 fans had
yelled until their throats were sore?
Were you all like one girl who attend
ed the game and thought all the time
that the Palatka boys were the Ocala
boys? The Ocala team feels like the
people are not behind them. / heard
several of the boys say that II looked
like they we're playing TO an empty
field so far as any appreciation was
expressed by the fans. Come on now
Either show a little life this time or
stay at home. Who wants to die at a
bali game?
FOLLOW SUIT
Franks store closes every Thursday
afternoon from now on. Who viii be
the next to start and help the bah
team that much?
A GOOD SUGGESTION
A suggestion has been made by Mr.
Milby Lloyd which / viii pass on to
the merchants without comment fur
ther than to agree with Mr.. Lloyd
Last week We had game with Palat-
ka and needed big crowd TO pay ex-
penses. Through the kindness of some
Of the fans a petition was passed
around among the merchants asking
them TO close for the game. This is
hardship on the merchants and the
management of the team does not ike
to make that request Soon now the
stores viii be closed every Thursday
afternoon anyway, but we expect this
summer to have a number of games on
Wednesdays and Fridays Mr.. Lloyd
suggests that each merchant tell his
clerks that he win let half of them on
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