The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-07-13
]. PLUVIUS RAINS
OUT SUNDAY GAME
WITH BUNKIEITES
Visitors Come Overland in
Autos but Weather Pre-
vents Playing
PATTERSON AND LAKE
CHARLES COME NEXT
Locals Still Have Team
frightened Up and Ready
For Fray

Last Sundays ball game with the
strong team from Bunkie failed to
materialize because of weather condi-
tions. The team from that town ar
rived here, coming in automobiles.
and they experienced hard drive in
negotiating the fifty miles over roads
that are not any too good even in the
best Of weather. One car came down
Bayou Boeuf and arrived here after
some four or five hours OF Juggling
with the red, sticky mud that lines
the banks Of that famous waterway.
The other car left home to come by
way of st. Landry station and Vile
platte and it is reported that it never
reached here.
During the early forenoon the skies
looked as if there wouldn't be any
thing heavier than a sprinkle and the
homes and spirits of the players and
the army of fans began to "perk up,
and prospects of an exciting game at
Giron park appeared excellent Then.
almost without warning, the big rain
clouds from the southeast began 10
roll over and a veritable flood began
falling in sheets, the water running
down the streets inminiature torrents.
That killed all prospects for game
for as the torrents continued to fall
everyone knew that, the park would
be a sea of mud and that a game was
absolutely out Of the question. This
fact brought much disappointment to
players and fans alike but there was
no helping matters or changing the
situation and the game was abandon
ed. The Bunkie players returned
home after the rain,
The strong Patterson team and thu
strong Lake Charles team are the
next ones due here for games with
the locals. There has been consider
able rivalry between Patterson and
Lake Charles and the two teams have
played several series, Lake Charles
winning most Of the games. 1t is
stated that the Pattersonites claim
luek was not against them but that
the Lake Charles umpire was their
Jinx. The opelouseans claimed the
same thing as their experience at
Lake Charles was just the same as the
Pattersonites claimed Both teams
state there would have been an entire,
~ different story written Of the affair
If the games had been played any
where else but Lake Charles.
However, all that be, it is conceded
that Lake Charles has real strong
team and has won more games than
ii has lost, and when it faces another
strong team the latter will have to
play ball to win. The locals were
beaten three straight by the Lake
Charles outfit a short while ago on the
latter's grounds, but the opelouseans.
claim that in point Of real playing
hitting and running bases they had
the Lake Charles bunch beat off the
boards. They said that the Jump"
was against them and his decisions
were so rotten it was impossible for
any visiting team to beat Lake
Charles. They expect to retrieve
their lost fortunes when the Calcas
leu outfit comes here for the three
game series soon to be played.
The two games played with Eunice
resulted in putting the locals in pref
~ fair shape. Gate receipts at the
game played here last Sunday week
ago and the receipts at the game play
ed in Eunics on the 4th totalled over
seven hundred dollars, and as the
winners received sixty-five per cent
and opelousas won both games, cal
culating the amount added to their
bank account is easy.