Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-08-15 | Page 6 | Machinists and Carmen to Meet

MACHINISTS AND CARMEN TO JEET The long deferred game between the machinists and carmen of the Southern Pacific shops is going to be played at least, there seems nothing now to hinder the contest from being pulled off. The machinists' chanticleer chanti-cleer challenge, of which the lathe lenders have not ceased to crow, has been accepted by Captain M. C. Elake-ley Elake-ley of the car finishers The proposed match has, for the past two weeks, been stranded on a grouch carefully cherished by the members of the carmen's team since the shop outing at Iagoon. This grouch has been losing form and drifting away during the last few days and it now looks as though there was clear sailing toward a final settle-icent settle-icent of the two teams' supremacy. "We've decided to accept the challenge chal-lenge of the machinists." said Sustain Sus-tain Ttlakeley this morning "The carmen's team has been practicing row for several evenings ami we are In the pink of condition for the match. We are going to take along a nice fvcsh bucket of white paint aud, after the game, present it to the machinists n a brush We think thev will need It. "Personally. T would prefer that the game be played Just in a spirit of u iHllincss and without anv mone placed 1.11 the outcome by either team, but the machinists seem to want the gpreo on ii wacep and if they demand a side bet we will have no trouble to cover any amount that they plank down. I exnect to see Captain Ike Fife of the machinists aud comolete all the necessary arrangements for. the contest as none of the preparations prepara-tions for the game have been made. r is likely that the contest will take place within the next two weeks." The machinists claim that their team is in better shape than ever before be-fore aud anticipate no trouhle In de-defeatlng de-defeatlng the carmen. The team is not doing a great deal of practice, but it Is likely from now on, the players play-ers wl!l devote more evenings to the diamond than they hae been up to this time.