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Show TROLLEY CIS 1 . SCEK OF BATTIES i j Orange and Athcl Baseball Fans Are Hard to Get Along With. I ; A yarn taken from a Cincinnati paper ; and contributt.'d by Pat Moran, the won-; won-; flr man of the Cincinnati Redd, will ln-' ln-' terest fans generally. The clipping follows: i "T'ii'-ro ha vf been some a wf u) baseball ; fends," says Pat Moran, "but if I'm not j niisnahi-n, the worst of all exists between I the towrm of Orange and Athol, Mnss. j These cities hate each other in baseball j only worse than Home and Carthage, and i too struggles between them are sorne-, sorne-, thing terrible to talk about. The strang-i strang-i est thint-' about this rivalry is the fact that the lighting doesn't, as a rule, huppen at tiie sanies. The games between Athol : and ('range are played with only the usual amount of scrapping, hooting and bottle pegging just y bout as mueh as always ; happens at such intertown affaire but i after the game good night, Eido, The j trolley cars running- between the two I towns are rolling lunatic asylums, and ; the combat is incessant nothing but fly-j fly-j ing fists on every car. "The ball players long since learned not ! to get involved in these battles; thev ; never us thu cars. but siip quietly ; tnrougii the woods and hoof it home. As to the umpires well, can you Imagine an j ump taking a chance on one of these trolleys? They siip up side -streets and j take scheduled trails. On the cars the fight last for hours; the fans of Athol smash the fans of Orange; the fans of Orange smash right back; the car crews are powerless and are usually in the thickest of the fighting anyhow, being hot fans and the battle lasts till the police at either end of the line callect all the fans they can capture. "One of the first games I ever played In about twenty-five years ago was between be-tween Athol and Orange, and I still remember re-member seeing the cars pull out with everyone hitting everybody else on the nose. And it's been so ever since the feud never gets cold. A business man of Athol may have the most confidential relations re-lations with a business man of Orange-may Orange-may trust him with any sum of money j but if the two of them board the same trolley car after one of those games, they'll be found at the end of the line I rolling in the aisle and clawing each other's gizzards. That's real baseball I with real fans to help it on." |