anaheim-gazette 1911-03-02

BASEBALL WAR RAGES AMONG LOCAL FANS UMPIRE PERRY OF THE FOOT-HILLS STARTS THE FRACAS Designates Local Ball Players As Bunch of Knockers—Chilly Fisher in Hot Retort—Plays Game Over Again on Paper, Upholding His Contention that Perry Robbed them of Second Game—La Mont Demands That Umpire Prove Charges, or Take Water A fierce baseball war has broken out between Olinda and Anaheim fans, and charges and counter charges have been made by Umpire Perry on the one hand and Chilly Fisher, and Vic La Mont on the other. The teams have played two games, each taking one on its home grounds. The deciding game was in order, when war broke out. Umpire Perry started the ball by mailing to the Gazette a letter roasting Chilly Fisher and members of the home team to a frazzle. Thinking it no more than fair that Fisher should have a chance to reply, publication of the letter was withheld until the local magnate could be heard from. The correspondence follows herewith, including a warm reply from Vic La Mont, who gives Perry a call-down, following Fisher's chile-con-carne reply. The correspondence follows. Mr. Perry opens the ball as follows: A COME BACK FROM OLINDA Editor Gazette.—I guess it is up to the Umps to hand the Anaheim bunch theirs. I was in hopes that our manager or captain would attend to the matter, but they, like the same brand of stuff out here. After all is said and done, and the facts are known, the Anaheim team showed their true colors by refusing to play the deciding game on a neutral ground. Eighteen and five for you, you paltry bunch of yellow-backed knockers. The Ump., R. H. Perry, Feb. 9, 1911. Olinda, Cal. Chilly Fisher's peppery response is as follows: CHILLY FISHER AT BAT Has Something to Say to Mr. Perry Of Olinda To Umpire Perry of Olinda:— In your letter published in this issue of the Gazette you seem to want an answer. You say you were in hopes of your manager or captain to attend to this matter, but they, like the most of the fans at the game played on the Olinda grounds on January 22d know that you did "hand the Anaheim bunch theirs." Yes, let us play the games over on paper, as they were played. You came down here on January 1st (not 8th) and were beaten by a score of 8 to 1. Your alleged "true sports" came and placed a few bets, to be exact, $15.20. Did you not make a boast that you would bring a couple of hundred? Cold feet or yellow? Or, did the Olinda true sports? know that you could not hand out your raw deals and win for them? Did you have a "holler" coming over the game? Were you handed a bunch? We went to Olinda on January 22 with 300 fans, betting you say $300. Well, we did not bet that much — about a third of that amount was all the true sports? cared to risk. Have by taking the maze. You refer to "mule corral." Have you? Yes of a "horse corrall." We protect our ting. Do you? Of rooms where wash up after tha We have a good long-ear variety. Manager Feb. 23, 1911. (With apology to the Olinda team) La Mont pays foothill umpire in A WORD FRONT Asks Perry to PAY TAKEN TO Mr. Perry of Olinda In reply to your ing, published in Gazette, I wish to I think you are umpire you show judgment. You are sighted and a very Now, Perry, you strong statement ask you either to ment, or acknowledge wrong. If you fail ball fans will know true color is. Consider this I will pay you $25 that I ever receive Manager Fisher, or each Sunday for Mr. Perry, you eit as you say, "take will it be? The you will pull in y尔 lor for help A COME BACK FROM OLINDA Editor Gazette.—I guess it is up to the Umpis to hand the Anaheim bunch theirs. I was in hopes that our manager or captain would attend to the matter, but they, like the most of us out here, pay little attention to a "holler" from an opposing team. However, since the Anaheim team has "taken water" and refused to play off the deciding game on neutral ground, I can't resist the opportunity to give them a good roast. Let us play both games over again on paper, to give everyone a fair idea of the rivalry between the fans and players. We went to Anaheim on January 8th. A bunch of fans and true sports went along. The Olinda fans placed a few bets on their favorites and lost. Did they fill the papers with a lot of rubbish about being robbed? Not so you could notice it; but they all said, Take the Anaheim team out of that "mule corral" and they can't play fast enough to keep warm. On January 22d they got their money back with about 500 per cent interest. The Anaheim team with their loyal fans and dead game sports came out to Olinda and after nine innings, in which the Olinda ball players played all around their opponents, the Anaheim sports woke up and found they had been robbed. Yes, sir, held up, and the robbers got about all the Anaheim dinero, some $300, as there were 300 fans there from Anaheim, and figuring them at $1 per head. Now, it is up to the Anaheim nine to explain their defeat to their fans. Who beat them? Why, Umpire Perry, the robber. He's the kid that stole the candy. Therefore, Mr. Perry got his when the Gazette came out, and it was a dandy; the best piece of advertising I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Now, there remains one game to be played off, and needless to say, the Anaheim team will not come out here, nor will Olinda go to Anaheim. The two managers got together and made all arrangements to play the tie off at Santa Ana, on neutral ball grounds, with an imported umpire. Mr. Martin, the Olinda manager, went to Santa Ana and made arrangements for the grounds and for the man-boast that you would bring a couple of hundred? Cold feet or yellow? Or, did the Olinda true sports know that you could not hand out your raw deals and win for them? Did you have a "holler" coming over the game? Were you handed a bunch? We went to Olinda on January 22 with 300 fans, betting you say $300. Well, we did not bet that much — about a third of that amount was all the true sports? cared to risk. Have we got a holler coming? Let us play the second inning over again, as it happened: Carpenter hit through the pitcher's box and was safe at first base, but you called him out. Allan reached first safely. In trying to catch him off first, Etchandy threw high to Isbell, Allen sliding under Isbell, who fell on him. Safe, but you called him out. Huntington, the next man up, walked, which would have filled the bases, had you been square. Goddard hit safe to right field, which would have scored at least two runs, and there still would have been two men on bases. Schneider flew out, which would have made one out, but which retired the side, on your judgment of fair play. Take the fifth inning: When I hit for three bases, scoring Hendricks, you commenced to get uneasy and tried to call Carpenter out on your "new rule" because Hendricks ran behind the catcher in going to firstbase to coach. And you call this fair play, and we have no holler coming? How about your game at Santa Ana on Feb. 19? From the reports coming over, it was you who allowed the one run, when you called Cripps safe at third base.Take it at the different baseball headquarters in Los Angeles, and the same thing is heard, "For your rotten umpire, go to Olinda." How does this statement, made by your own manager look: "Perry will not umpire another game for me, if I can get another man"? Apparently he can't, as I see you are still umpiring. You say the article in the Gazette of January 25th was the best piece of advertising you ever got. In my opinion, a man who will take advantage of his position as umpire to rob the other team, would do most anything. It is men of your calibre that are a detriment to amateur base ball, and make it hard for country teams to get good city teams to play, as they take it for granted that the umpires are all like you. When arrangements were made to play Olinda a series of three games Now, there remains one game to be played off, and needless to say, the Anaheim team will not come out here, nor will Olinda go to Anaheim. The two managers got together and made all arrangements to play the tie off at Santa Ana, on neutral ball grounds, with an imported umpire. Mr. Martin, the Olinda manager, went to Santa Ana and made arrangements for the grounds and for the management of the grounds to get any good umpire they pleased to officiate, and when he came back and reported to the Anaheim manager that all arrangements had been made, the Anaheim team backed out and refused to play off the tie, this too, after they had made the proposition to split the gate receipts 60 and 40 after all expenses had been deducted. This shows what a yellow streak the Anaheim team has. Now, you dead game sports? howl your heads off about being robbed by the umpire. Sports, you don't know the meaning of the word. As one business man of Anaheim remarked, as he raked in a dollar of the Oil Well money, "Oh, we will get it all back again in time." Right, and let me say right here to the merchants of Anaheim. As for the third game hurting your business, playing the tie off would not have hurt your business half as much as calling the game off and taking water. There is no personal feeling so far as I know between the fans of Olinda and the Anaheim business men. As for the captain and manager of the Anaheim team, I will say that when you pay your umpires to win your games for you, make him do it, and earn his pay, but don't make the mistake of bringing him out to Olinda and think you can pull off the You say the article in the Gazette of January 25th was the best piece of advertising you ever got. In my opinion, a man who will take advantage of his position as umpire to rob the other team, would do most anything. It is men of your calibre that are a detriment to amateur base ball, and make it hard for country teams to get good city teams to play, as they take it for granted that the umpires are all like you. When arrangements were made to play Olinda a series of three games through the Spalding booking department, the first game was to be played at Anaheim, the second at Olinda, and if need be, the third at Anaheim. This seemed to be agreeable to both teams until the second game. During the second game, your manager spoke to me and said that when the teams played off the third game, in Anaheim, he expected to see the biggest crowd of the season turn out. In a few days he came to Anaheim and called on me, saying the Olinda boys refused to come to Anaheim to play. He said the boys were willing to go to Santa Ana and play, the receipts to be split, 60 and 40. I told Mr. Martin at the time that I thought well of the idea, but would let the Anaheim team settle it. They refused to go to Santa Ana, saying there was nothing at stake to go traveling round the country, when each team had grounds of their own; and if Olinda did not want to come, there were other teams that would. You say we don't know the meaning of the word "Sport." I think if your meaning of the word sport was to be taken, it would keep the government busy building penitentiaries. As to your remark about paying the umpire to win games for us, make him do it, all I can say is, that you show your hand plainly, will come a shrewd who will be at once a botanist, and an en place of the present nursery will come implosion with which natural implements seem primitive; that lies will drive plows a dozen furrows each a field, and harrows on the earth more rapid horses could mellow storage batteries with the power needed or "I think the comedy Edison," "will be a beside a push-buttoners. The present trivial conclusion. We derful headway. To we knew almost no entific agriculture. ginning to get an insides that lie back on tion. We are also thing about the mett soil fertility. Simulation has brought aboutiments in farm machinery plows are now pulled es, and corn is cut machinery. It is ha with the latest things of farm implements. "The railroads and are largely responsible grass. They dig our laboratories and at stations, then send country, not only ther facts, but too use them. But we finitely greater program science of agriculture nural methods. Farms is destined to evolve business proposition, con business men." by taking the money and earning it. You refer to our grounds as a "mule corral." We have a backstop. Have you? Yes, you use one side of a "horse corral" for that purpose. We protect our fans with wire netting. Do you? We have a couple of rooms where visiting teams can wash up after the game. Have you? We have a good mule corral, but the only time we ever had one of the long-ear variety was on January 1st. Chas. H. Fisher, Manager Anaheim Team. Feb. 23, 1911. (With apology to Mgr. Martin and the Olinda team and fans.) La Mont pays his respects to the foothill umpire in the following words A WORD FROM LA MONT Asks Perry to Prove Statement or Take Water To Mr. Perry of Olinda:— In reply to your attempt at roasting, published in this issue of the Gazette, I wish to say, that as a man I think you are alright, but as an umpire you show anything but good judgment. You are, I think, near-sighted and a very slow thinker. Now, Perry, you make a very strong statement about me, and I ask you either to prove your statement, or acknowledge you are wrong. If you fall to do either the ball fans will know just what your true color is. Consider this proposition well:I will pay you $25 if you can prove that I ever received one cent from Manager Fisher, outside of 80 cents each Sunday for car fare. Now, Mr. Perry, you either make good or as you say,"take water." Which will it be? The latter, and I think you will pull in your horns and holler for help. MR. AUBURY MAKES CHARGES Accuses Supervising Architect of Discriminating Against California Structural Material San Francisco, Feb. 17, 1911. Editor Gazette.-The secretary of the treasury at Washington has not answered State Mineralogist Aubury's request for due authorization to inspect the plans and specifications relating to the public buildings that have been planned for California by the supervising architect of the treasury and Aubury wonders why. He has sent a second dispatch to the secretary of the treasury in which he explains why he made his request. The custodian of the building plans and specifications in San Francisco refused two representatives of the California state mining bureau permission to inspect the papers. These representatives were instructed to make extracts from the plans and specifications to show, on the testimony furnished by the supervising Architect's department, that many discriminations had been made against California's structural materials. The state mineralogist desires to cover the facts relating to each and every one of the public buildings planned for California in a series of years. He has the facts concerning half a dozen buildings, but he wishes to make a showing that will be conclusive in regard to all. He does not yet despair of getting the authorization from the secretary of the treasury, and therefore has made his second appeal to that official for an opportunity to inspect the official papers in each case. The following is the text of Aubury's dispatch: Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. Herewith, in the interest of the FIRST CLASS MECHANICS like to work with our building materials. With them they are always sure of making a quick and fine job. If you intend to do any building let us figure on furnishing the materials. You'll find out how really cheap they are when you see how quickly the building is finished and how long it lasts. Investigate. Griffith Lumber Co. South Los Angeles St. NEAR SOUTHERN PACIFIC DEPOT Baby Chicks And Setting Eggs T. IGAUE Sunset Tel. 1758 Anaheim, Cal. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer Furniture, Bedding. Repairing done Phones Pacific M93, Home 1062. A. BELTRAN J. FIGUEROA Beltran & Figueroa ment, or acknowledge you are wrong. If you fail to do either the ball fans will know just what your true color is. Consider this proposition well: I will pay you $25 if you can prove that I ever received one cent from Manager Fisher, outside of 80 cents each Sunday for car fare. Now, Mr. Perry, you either make good or as you say, "take water." Which will it be? The latter, and I think you will pull in your horns and holler for help. One of your own fans on the first base line made the remark to me, "Gee, Perry sure is raw today; why don't you hand Olinda the same." My reply was, and always will be, "If Anaheim can't win without my aid, then let them lose." Remember, I was not afraid of your fans, as they are fair minded and saw things as they really were. Answer me just this one question: How much does the Olinda team pay you to help win their games, as from your letter they certainly pay you, and they make you do it, too. This will be about all, as I think I've wasted enough time and space on you already. V. W. La Mont. Feb. 23, 1911. Los Angeles, Cal. FARMER OF THE FUTURE Thomas A. Edison tells a graphic story in an eastern magazine of the wonderful world directly ahead of us. He looks into the future twenty years and sees many changes. These affect the farming classes as well as manufacturers, and are worthy of perusal. Edison is confident that a great shake-up is destined to take place among the farmers. He says the farmers need to be shaken up; that they are "shy of brains"; that most of the brainy farmer boys go to the cities, notwithstanding that nowhere else are brains more needed than on the farm. Edison believes the present type of farmer and the present methods of farming are destined to disappear; that in place of the present farmer will come a shrewd business man who will be at once a soil-chemist, a botanist, and an economist; that in place of the present farmer's machinery will come implements in comparison with which the best agricultural implements now known will seem primitive; that storage batteries will drive plows that will make a dozen furrows each time they cross a field, and harrows that will mellow the earth more rapidly than ever the horses could mellow it—in fact, thatcerning half a dozen buildings, but he wishes to make a showing that will be conclusive in regard to all. He does not yet despair of getting the authorization from the secretary of the treasury, and therefore has made his second appeal to that official for an opportunity to inspect the official papers in each case. The following is the text of Aubury's dispatch: Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. Herewith, in the interest of the producers of structural materials in California, I request, for the second time, that you will instruct custodians of plans and specifications for public buildings in this state to give me access to such plans and specifications freely and without restriction or reservations. You have requested me to furnish particulars in support of charges that have been made by me against the supervising architect of the treasury department in reference to habitual discriminations against California producers of structural materials. These I am preparing but, that the work may be full and complete, I desire to have my report cover not only buildings that I have cited as instances of discrimination, but also all other public buildings erected by the federal government in California since the order was issued by former Secretary Carlisle, to prevent discriminative action. I applied through representatives to the custodian of the records relating to public buildings in San Francisco, but he declined to permit me to examine the records. I then appealed to you, but although some time has elapsed, I have received no answer from your office. In the interest of fair play and that the forthcoming report shall be so ample as not only to cover all past happenings in this regard, but shall serve to be the basis of a ruling by yourself that shall finally put an end to an abuse from which this state suffered, this application is repeated. California is very much in earnest in this matter. Organizations from one end of the state to the other have put themselves on record in a demand that discriminations shall stop. I appeal to you to give an order for free inspection by me of the plans and specifications. In them there is unquestionable evidence furnished by the department of the supervising architect, in support of the contention of California. Lewis E. 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