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Show Youthful Players Quickly Routed could not deceive with his curves and he was pounded at will. Home runs, two and three-base hits were common com-mon with the married guys and the way they twisted them around the ini'ield and the outfield was amusing. We all know that "dad" frequently frequent-ly had to give the youngster a good spanking in order to show the wayward way-ward kid Lhe light way. This was what happened to a set of youngsters last Monday afternoon at the Gunnison Gunni-son ball park. And say, boy, the spanking was a good, clean and hard one and the young lads took the licking lick-ing i in fairly good shape, and only on a few occasions was there an outcry out-cry and only dry tears were shed. Characteristic of kids, and boasting boast-ing of their prowess, nine of them of Gunnison got an idea that they wore a little better baseball players than nine of their seniors, and accordingly according-ly a defi was issued by the single fellows against the married men. Of (Some) do ) (Music! Yoy W IKE- "0 Umpire Taylor On the Job. It was also amusing to see the little boys fumble and then excuse themselves. them-selves. It was amusing to hear them boast of their ability before the game and it was sad when they went down to defeat. But there were no flowers to offer for the vanquished. After having had a good lesson taught them and with the belief they can bent their seniors, the married The Boy at Third Base. course the challenge was accepted, and of course the married men won by the ridiculous score of seventeen to four. It was scandalous the way the married men had to work at running run-ning and it was shameful the way they pounded the balls that were passed over by the little fellows. But it had to be done and the lesson taught the youths was invigorating, indeed. Having compassion on the holiday crowd that had gathered to witness the chastisement of the little boys, only seven innings . were played, and j from all accounts it was enough for I all. The married men were run to I death, the sing-le boys were disgusted j with their own playing and the spec- You Call TH'S ; ( - A i6Aivie ON -(i . )CCGUWT OF ) PVeRxH If swotS lJA ( with vef ONLY FLY OVtR- JN The Wish f the Why the Dinner Got Chilly. ' len, there is strong talk of another ;ame soon between the contending actions and a challenge is soon to be issue-!. For th s benefit of those who failed lo see the hig game the score is here-vith here-vith published: Single .Men. R. H. E Ferre, 2b" 2 2 0 :Iug hHalvei-gon, p 1 2 1 Mewman, lb i 0 1 0 Wlllardson, ss 0 0 0 Beauregard, 3b;- 0 2 1 Tollestrup, c . . 0 2 0 Voorhces, cf . . i 1 0 2 11. Ferre, rf . . 0 0 1 Weis, If 0 0 0 Totals 4 9 5 Mar; :ied Men. R. H. E f'orenson, 2b .. ,. . 3 3 1 Edwards, If .. v. . . .- 2 2 0 Pace, Mb . . . . v 3 3 " 0 Vj Halverson, ss ...2 3 1 ! Hoff, p , .2 2 1 Jones, cf i 0 0 0 j Palmer, c -. . . ., 1 0 1 I Sanders, lb . . ,- -1 0 0 I Dr. Christensen,. r .. . . 2 0 ! Totals . ; . . 17 15 -1 tators were getting hungry and when the melee ended there was contentment, content-ment, and if there was any heartaches heart-aches and sobs at any time during the seven rounds, all was forgotten! I and the gate receipts, which went to the winners, was equally divided among the gladiators. I Hugh Halverson, who plays as catcher for the regulars, posed as the jboxman for the single boys. Hugh |