Evening journal., 1922-05-04
THIS THE Way
GIANTS DO |.
Atlas Strong Men Win Owe
Zapon, Then Jibe Entire
Outfit
RATHER SEVERE
ON MR. UMPIRE

The following article Is an acoourl
sent in for publication IN The Evo1
ing Journal sport columns OF N!
opening Of the Atlas Baseball Leasu|
on Tuesday,
Dear Gus-Just FEW lines TO tel
youse all about the Atlas Leagl|
Dustin open their baseball seaso|
last mite at Baynard Field. EighI
teenth and Van Buren, street. w
| mington. Del, u. S. A First of Il
the two teams, Giant and Zapol
marched across the diamond II
, they reached second base. II the'
had had a flag pole they would
raised pennant It's easy to Sd
pennants, but not so easy TO get fisD
poles. Anyhow. they marched bac
to home plate. By the way. son
of the boys must a been in tht
mans army for noticed lots of o
army shirts In the lineup. But
get back to the ceremonies A fe
low named Larrimore was selecte
as umpire. I'm told he is ons
the Atlas Company's auditors
certainly was a grand idear getti
him to oficiate on account of hi
bein' a good counter. There WI
times though when he didn't look
good to me on account of not beir
able to count up to three strikes
=.
times it was two strikes when It wa
three, and three balls when Il wa
four. l know this to be actually Il
fact cause I kept count myself ar
while maybe I amt no swell audit9
or accountant I can count up
three and four.
Excuse my gettin' of the stol
about the game. but I think a g.
oughta be told especially one tn
says he knows all about umpiriI
Anyhow, this Larrimore had a goo
voice and he introduced the be
teries and Mr.. Richards, who thre
out the first bail. OF course, ever
body there, and they wasn't ovl
10000, at that, knew who the ba
NbA4Eb MtACF AA0M Aoo -1As ANAEA-e~-
him being e director and vice-pres
dent of the company, but still thin
has to be done according to Hoy
or Judge lands. so as I have a
ready said. we had the introducuo
Well, Mr.. Richards he wound
and threw the first ball 10 Booke
who was receiving for the Zap
team. and instead Of throwing It
Chairman Backus OF the basebf
committee. who was to present It
Mr.. Richards as a souvenir. this 81
Booker heaves Il on what he thin
will be a swell throw TO second bas
which It was not, but It was beau
to centre field and then some. Thd
finally returned II and hand
it to Mr.. Richards, but Backus "
cheated out Of making his usual
appropriate kindly remarks, etd
and so forth. 1t certainly was OF
swell ball game. A long geared 81
named Briggs, who is built on u
narrow gauge. two by twicet pls
threw over for Zapon. He was pret
good most of the ways, but as
only had a nine-run lead, IL wasr
enurf, and the Giants who locke
like dwarfs in the early stages, a.
ally came through and lived up
their name and won out IN y
final fraim. You can see from Il
box score which I am attaohiI
heretoo, that It was q swell game
right, also incidentally, that Il
committee had a pretty good idei
Of the scorekeepers Requirement
when they got regular big leagl
score book.
Horty. the scorekeeper, Gays
thinks he got It all down, but IL
had a had one of them minor
bush league books Il wouldn't nev
have held It all. The next game
mite. same place. II
schedule I sent you shows games
home and games away, all at Il
same place. I don't quite unde
stand this, but maybs it's like q
'ellow who was IN too place at ono
when he was IN London and hon
sick too at one and equally
same time.
Well, Old Egg. hope you VIII
N town some time again soon as
want 10 look some of thess bo
over. With best regards, am
Yours