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Show Ghost Game Causes Dispute lo League By Buster Zogbaum The score was 25 to 7 for Mt. Pleasant's ball players. Their opponents were the much vaunted Iowa Ghosts. As someone said, the Ghosts were mere shadows of their former selves. Statistically Mt. Pleasant's victory was overpowering. over-powering. Harrison struck out 18 men or Ghosts. Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant had 4 hits. The Ghosts got 10. Harrison gave only two bases on balls, the Ghosts' pitcher gave 9. In the Seventh inning. Mt. Pleasant's team had 14 men at bat, one at a time, that is. We're indebted to Mrs. B. A. Smith for the above mass of information. in-formation. She said she could hardly write fast enough to keep up with the men going to homeplate for their bats in the seventh inning. There was only one hitch in Sunday's game ' for the Mt. Pleasant aggregation. They had a leaue game scheduled with Fairview on the same day. Here are the pros and cons as we understand them, but its anybody's any-body's scrap, so if you have a different version send it in and the Pyramid will publish it for free. yet. Fairview says Mt. Pleasant i must forfeit the game it was supposed to play Sunday with Fairview, since it was a regularly regu-larly scheduled league game. Meantime, when Fairview learn- ed that Mt. Pleasant wouldn't i play them Sunday they Lned up ' a game with Manti who had drawn a bye. Mt. Pleasant savs it was all a mistake that they got sched- 1 uled for a league game Sunday in the first place, since they j had arranged for the game with the Ghosts several weeks before the league schedule was drawn up. Mt. Pleasant says they tried td arrange for a makeup date with Fairview when the mixup was discovered, but got turned down cold. But as we said, anybody can get into this scrap. What's your angle? And how can we figure a league standing? |
