Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-07-19
WHAT PRICE B~ASEBALL?-

1t looks very much as if the relations of the Plentywood
and Scobey baseball teams for this season are to be terminal
ed IN untriendiness, with each aggregation hurting accusa-
tions at the other of unfair treatment. Burley Bowler in his
Daniels County Leader of last week, makes some rather
bold statements regarding the conduct of some of the play
ers of the local club the last time the teams PLAYED at SEQ
hey. He further states that P~lentywood refused to play any
more games with lom Cowboys al[stars because they
(Plentywood) were not satisfied with the division of gate
receipts. I
The editor of the Herald would have liked very much
to interview the management of the local club and thereby
get both sides of the proposition, but everyone who can talk
with authority seems to be with the team on a trip. We
doubt very much, however, if the proposition is a one-sided
affair, or that Plentywood refused to complete its schedule
with the Daniels county team without due cause. The UNI
fortunate part of the whole misunderstanding is that the peo-
pie of Plentywood and Scobey who get behind the manage
ment and make it possible through heavy donations to put
teams in the field which would look good alongside any of
the lneups in the big show, are to be denied seeing about.
half the seasons schedule OF games just because of some
petty quarrel between the management OF these two teams.
The class of baseball which has been furnished in Plen-
tywood and Scobey when semipro teams have been engaged
has been of a calbre which, while costly enough, has been a
big advertisement for these two towns, but the canceling Of
the remaining games to be played on account of a squabble
over gate receipts, umpires or whatnot, ISM going to set so
well with the financial hackers of the teams, and unless some
definite assurance of a complete schedule can be given, might
make it more difficult to secure support another season.
1t really seems hard to understand that players who
have been up and are undoubtedly familiar with the strict
est kind of discipline in ball games-knowing that such man
agement is absolutely essential to a successful season-come
out to oCO5ey or FlentyWOOd and seem to think that any
thing goes We can't see why it wouldnt be a good thing
to have a board OF arblters or managers selected from the
two towns at the beginning of a season, then this board to
work out a schedule and the rules under which all games
would be played; each team could put up a bond before
starting the season, guaranteeing the completion of the
schedule as agreed on; players then should be submitted to
rules of conduct during the games to which they must be ac-|
customed; in other words, is j it not possible that the trouble
lies in the fact that the very players who come to these towns
are not playing under the rules to which they have been sub
jected, and do not appreciate their freedom Of action1
What the business men of Plentywood and Scobey are
paying for is high class baseball, but conducted in keeping
with clean craftsmanship, and to this they are entitled. 1t
would be hard for us to believe that the fault all lies with the
Plentywood management. We believe the men responsible
for running the team here realize the drawing power at the
gate when Scobey Y is the opposing nine, and it would be fool
ish for them to start an argument which would result in cam
ceiling the schedule without some very good reason.
So far as Scobey claiming the championship of the two
TOWNSHIPS is ridiculous. Number of games won and lost,
total scores-any way percentages or standings could be fig
ured, would give Plentywood an undisputed right to the
claim of the better team.