Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-26
SLIM RELATES HOW
ATLAS WON BALL GAME
Says Team Which Gets Most
Runs Usually Wins, Even IL
All Como in Ono inning.
sporting Editor. Dear Sir:


ON account of not seeing you at the
big game Friday Mite and KNOWN you
would no doubt appreciate regular
wrlteup not meanin understand that
you aint no regular baseball writer.
but at one and the same time, KNOWN
my own ability longside them same
lines--now don't think for one little |
minute that I'm tryin 20 boost myself |
az n sports writer cause 7 amt and |
goodness nose I amt trying TO cop |
your job or anything like that, cause |
I'm busy bee these days a loolsdn af- |
tor n lot Of young and ole players on
this here Atlas club.
But 10 get back TO Friday mites
game. You remember I wrote you q
couple o'days ago about the cup seri
Gus Atlas and Hercules was gonna
play-wel this first game is win by
Atlas with an ole man name Porter
doin the flingln and oh baby he might
not have no arm like Jimmie Harkins
remarked but he had bettern that he
had a he'd and he used IT, course ]
don't wanna TAX any credit but ma ybe
didn't talk 20 this bird tween lnnlns
and then as I sed in my last letter,
usually wins. well these here Atlas
boys gets wise to this dope and what
10 they do but make II up monget
theireelves to get all there runs In
the second innin go a guy name george
horns In with a slashin three base
clout to start this frame and afore
they gets the eide out Atlas ecores
eleven runs.
They must n thnt that was enuff 70
win cause from that time on they
don't get no more runs but at one and
the same time these Hercules birds
can only get six runs so you see Atlas
| could n spot them few more and still
! breeze home a winner. hercules starts
pitcher name Mck9y-well the only
| way YOU could know hes pitcher is
| because he stayed out there where a
/ regular pitcher usually stays. all the
| boys kept callin him ~. / don't know
| If that's his name or not but I know
| II had been managin the other teern
ia tyed him all right you bot hands
and feet, moetly hands, even II he
did only use one of them 10 pitch with
they Sod before the game he was a
right hand pitcher maybe he was but
done no worse II he'd pitched with his
4 other hand they Certuaily was big
croud out TO SEQ tho game. In fact
they was only standing room when
got there at least everybody seemed
to be standing and that must beer
tho reason.
Hercules come all prepared 10 los,
gueae. they brot oil their bats and
broke IT before the game il over thor
when Atlas wasn't uein there Ches
perteCtor why Hercules had one Il
use. they didn't practice before IN,
game cause Atlas didn't think TO brinl
out balls for them guys to use. rnay-b,
tho when the next game Ia playe4
these birds will remember that the,
had oughta furnish some Of the stuff
20 play with also ut one and the sam,
time a little opposition. oh yes fergo
10 tell you about the police dept. callii
up count Of so much noize which wa
! In the secon innin. they thot # was
. gang OF bandits shootin up the tow
:. but course 1t was only the noize r
Il the Atlas bats knockiu the horse hid
to all parts of the field. Hercules ha
r "A golf player in the right field. part {
the game. they tell me ne used to h
; on the keeth curciut- believe
J. cause no certainly was some iugle
well old egg Cud write for a weak a bo,
this game but putin all Jokes lingsid
n and gettin back to normalcy / ati
contend the TEEN which gets the mo.
runs usually wins even II they do 2,
them all in the one innin. they is
n couple more of these games schedule
= in this serious and surely hope va
Q can see them. the mkt ono Ia the 81,
;, at vsnburen and 18th street ground
4 till then oletimer, adios.