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Show I FOOfi.BUYS. st Ruffians. Tben Babies, Is tlio Payson tt?o.rd , - J Editok Demociut: It in a raattor of groat surprisn to Xtd tho scurrilous attack upon tho provo base balPtcittu and tho Provo peopta over tLe ouicomo of thn bnso bull niuuo July 23 In tho Payson Globe-Beader. Globe-Beader. which ordinarily Is regarded i decent and and reputable news piper. It Is u matter of surprise that Editor Jackson should permit tho publication of so dirty and libelous an tttlclo. ' , To begin with tho Payson boys were bet on their arrival In Provo, their pintphernnlla taken caro of, wero Introduced In-troduced to people entirely too good lor them and wero told that everything required was nt their seiylce. Tho members of tho Puysop club person illy assured, members, of tho 'Provb club that Iholr treatment was all tbat could be desired, The Payson team did not arrivo nt lit urounds on schedule time and kept the game wnltlug so that -no possibility possibil-ity existed of finishing the ga.ulo.in time for the evening traluV- , - Fara the start several mombers of the visiting team demonstrated thorn Hires to be common ruffians, and when they saw they couldn't play ball, at templed bluffs and throats of pursonnl violence, which wo are sorry they didn't carry Into effect. Three deliberate attompts'woro made by Tayson base runners to foul Provo ;asu men, and in fact tho visiting toam demonstrated that thuy wore neither bjjl players norentlnmen. Wilde, tho Payson umpire, Is not rwponslblo far that team's losing tho jiuie, us h'e 'shut his eyes and gave them everything he dared. The Paynotu toam did. pot wait for ibelr gate money,, but hurried from iho truuuda so rapidly thai no opportunity wis given fur a settlement. No one rtowed upjpnUQ Street until the next icon, when three members hove In right and stated that they had been fut with "friends" until four o'clock to tho morning. Perhaps It was expected ex-pected thatjthp Provo boys would wait until fourpcdock.uTh6piurnnK while car visitors werVseelnVthelr'1 friends," but it would Imvo boeu. inconvenient. tf Now as loathe" sb'ofoV"'Tho Globe-Header Globe-Header says It whs "20 to 6. That lUtoment Is an unmltlgatod falsehood, u every member of tho Pnyson toam knows. r The scorer for Payson hail It 40 to 6iat-ih6 olo8Q' of tho game and personally so gavo It to the writer,. Tbescoro was correctly given 'In tho Provo papers by Ipnlngs. ' U'iti Plateu. |