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A LITTLE SPORTING DOPE
"Field Day," September 14, at Ante
lope Park, is going to be some ath
letic stunt, believe me! When we
gave our Mr. Despain blanch mange
to go the limit on the field day busi
ness we were wise to what we were
doing. Not only did we relieve our
selves of a lot of work, but we passed
the buck to a gentleman who is al
ways there with' the industrial exhi
bition. Taking advantage of our gen
erosity Mr. Despain has spent enough
postage stamps to keep a university
student supplied with means of writ
ing home for money, and the result of
it all is that he has got the whole
western hoop wrought up over the
stunt. When the great day comes
there will be enough stalwart athletes
on hand to break up even a suffragette
convention, and the exhibition they
will put on will make Ringling Broth
ers' show look like a "Ten Nights in a
Barroom" date on the kerosene cir
cuit. Even President Tipup O'Neil
has paused in his search for the rot
tenest umpires long enough to issue a
proclamation calling attention to the
meet. Stranger still, Pa Rourke seized
his jealousy of Lincoln by the throat
and throttled it long enough to per
mit him to affix his mark to the bot
tom of a little note saying he would be
here with a few choice specimens of
his aggregation of relics of the pale
zoic age. All this is the sort of stuff
that makes us pat ourselves on the
clavicle because we were clever
enough to tell our Mr. Despain to fix
his own limit, ind then go to it.
Denver dopesters may oppose the
salary limit clause all they want to,
but it is coming, just the same. It
will not be any little old measely
limit, but it will make it impossible
for a city like Denver to sacrifice the
interests of the whole league in order
to gain a selfish end. Denver can af
ford higher salaries than the rest of
the cities in the league, but Denver
can not afford to break up the league
if it would continue in organized base
ball.
Funny how long a fool story will
keep going, even after it is branded as
false. Gagnier has not been "repeat
edly tried out in the majors." He has
never been tried out at all by a major
league manager. Comiskey secured
him last fall, but turned him back to
Lincoln without a tryout, having w.nat
he deemed a good enough man for the
position. If Washington is wise
enough to give Gagnier a fair show,
we'll bet a couple of two-dollar cats
aganist any man's four-dollar dog that
he "sticks.
Mr. William Holmes is to be player-manager
of a team in the North
western league. We hope the cooler
weather of that region will serve to
protect the fans of that section from
the effluvia of the language we were
once wont to hear in this section of
fandom.
We have been following this base
ball game for something less than
forty-eight years, and we opine that
we know a little bit about it and about
players. So opining we desire to re
mark, openly and above board, that
the dope writers of the St. Joseph
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dailies merely make monkies of
themselves when they fill up their
departments with stories about the
rowdy tactics of the Denver team"
and the "roughneck actions" of Mana
ger Hendricks. We have seen .every
game between Lincoln and Denver on
the Antelope grounds, and at no stage
of any game, nor before or after, has
the Denver team, its manager, or any
individual player given the slightest
indication of being either a "rowdy"
or a "roughneck." And we've sat in
the granstand and watched the Griz
zlies lick the Antelopes to a fare-ye-
well. Manager Hendricks impresses
us as a clean sportsman who can win
without letting his head swell like a
boiling of rice, and take a licking
without acquiring a case of mully
grubs. Naming ho names, but we've
seen one St. Joseph player exhibit
more "rowdy" and "roughneck" symp
toms in one game than all the Den
ver players have exhibited in all the
games played on the local lot. And
at that we've several times felt like
arising on our rear underpinning and
hurling anathema upon the Grizzlies
not because they were not playing the
game square, but because they were
playing it too darned well. The St.
Joseph dopesters ought to take a
tumble to themselves.
A short time ago we tipped it off to
our Mr. Despain that there was a pos
sible pitching phenom down in Au
burn, by name Hirsch, who served 'em
from the thumb-hand side. Whereupon
Despain puckacheed , to Central City
lieus of Auburn and after sleuthing on
the trail of Mr, Hirsch for a time took
him into camp. Having thus started
Mr. Despain purchased t Central City
and became impressed with the sweet
ness of, the pitching stunts performed
by one Earl Laub, who serves 'em
from the sta'bb'rd side. Laub former
ly played with the Cheyenne Abori
gines. He won twenty games out of
twenty-three pitched. Mr. Laub was
Snared. Also, too, likewise, one Mr.
Duryea, a la'bb'rd hurler of Arcadia,
who is touted as being some f linger by
traveling salesmen who are bugs on
the national pastime. This trio of
promising phenoms will be given a
chance to show what's in 'em and
we're hoping to find that we've opened
real prize packages.
Washington management that Eddie
Gagnier was just the man needed.
There's an awful lot of ballyrot flung
out about the enmity existing between
teammates.
And Marty O'Toole the $22,500 prize
beauty a hefty proportion of it be
ing stage money made good in the
first game he pitched in the majors.
Perhaps the files , of the Lincoln
papers will not show it, but there was
a triple play ' unassisted pulled off in
Lincoln during a ball game away back
in the late '80's. We've forgotten the
date, but we saw it pulled off. The
'Cuban Giants," a team of negro play
ers, were pitted against a local team
on the lot known as Antelope park.
LaMountain, if we remember the
name rightly, played second for the
giants. He was about 6 feet 6 inches
tall and almost a-s thick as a hoehan
dle. There was a man on first and a
man on second, nobody out. The man
at bat hit a high line drive that looked
good for a safety. The man oh first
and the man on second started at the1
crack of the bat. LaMountain gave a
running jump and caught the ball, tag
ging the man trying to reach second
and hen diving to the second bag fce:
fore the other runner could get back.
; The race for place in the western
loop still continues to be neck and
neck. 1 Wednesday night St. Jo
seph, Lincoln and Pueblo were piled
up in a heap. Pueblo could hop to
second by winning two straight if Joe
town .and Lincoln lost two straight.
Joetown could go to fourth place by
losing two straight while Lincoln and
Pueblo lost two straight. Lincoln
could go to second place by winning
while Joetown lost. Believe us, gen
tlemen, that is what we call some con
test.
All those stories about the enmity
existing between- Ty Cobb and Sam
Crawford remind us of the supposed
enmity between Unglaub and Gagnier
Local fans who have seen Unglaub and
Gaghier ragchewing on the diamond
would naturally suppose that after the
game they would "hike out behind the
back fence and fight it out. Not so,
Pauline! Washington, Unglaub's old
team, needs a shortstop for next year,
and, wjis Unglaub who told the
The Antelopes will be with us again
Sunday, and it's us for the Capital
Beach lot to do some ground and
lofty rooting. Come on, boys!
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