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THE WORST EVERWas the Ball Game Lafct Sunday,but Orleans Won 9-7.The much advertised and once postponed game of ball between the Bedford Cubs and the Orleans boys was pulled off last Sunday evening amidst the hoots and jeers of about two hundred fans who became disgusted at the wangling that marred what might have been an interesting game. The Bedfoid boys were chaperoned by Oscar Collier, who last year was one of Bob Bryant's Stars. When they arrived here it was found that fourteen of their fifteen players were white and one, their backstop and mainstay was a “gentleman” of color. The home boys have no serious objection to playing a team of colored boys, but one on a team sounded too loud. The color line was drawn and the ebony son was barred from participating in the game. This took the starch, if they ever had any, out of the Stone City lads as he was the only man who could successfully play the partof receiver-general for their pitcherwho had stlt;am to let. Time and again, they sent an injured player to the bench in vheir efforts to get the “nagur” in the game, until in the fourth inning they had exhausted their cotorie of fifteen and they had no catcher. Sambo was putting on the breastplate and mask when Manager Roberts most emphatically informed them that the colored “gem-nen” could not play. Then this bunch of “Cubs” with Sambo in thelead started to leave the park. Better counsel pievailed and they re-turned and finished the game.Aside from the wrangling it was
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Orleans Progress Examiner
Orleans, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 18, 1912
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