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teir owntheir homtioii of fcl we'll'adaloser, e*p own Kara would h tbanks fo Straw ber that brig Now ii want to of aiind we are a they can Kaiae to and eact town he terinineigeneral tbem to their ki exhibit Burns. Iowa, I (and lo—Los throe i poatoffi'Jokes About Rube Foe Foster. Calls HimNMTrml-ftcific• thelinals iba is fur-Paul.sstera h all stock.will and a m offiom*ccord-fromern iu is re-iinary of the ig the nessoy oaci in option ^as ob-The C;The i probab tic to t; near fi local o nilicau and th the grione feithat it month will Ci one of world lan tic nor hi road 1 rock (lavingo takefor at that game ought to consider himself—Nofitainedi road uerger. Tneyears s run-tie Soo own as i tic. hasinentnlStates i to the rsiii to will be tory of petition ws and regula-have toNoi atten and i Mr Schu Mt of St last Et scbo Mling mot A ingcSt.wSchTant son iatImu thianadianaaporta-wings. in local that the i tryingfortunate in having the opportunity of seeing such an artist perform; the members of their dinky little ball team had nerve to attend the game without first offering, at least, to nay for tho privilege.The true reason for this impassioned outburst from one who would oo more at home describing a game of ttnch, is too apparent to deceive anyone who is at all acquainted with the facts leading up to this eame. -lust the same old story of the pickpocket crying“Stop thief.”To go back a little ways. Volga City and West Onion were scheduled to play the first game at the Favette County Fair and- the winner of the Brat game was to play Oelwein on the following day. West Union telephoned , to Dubuqne to get Nolden to help them jnninal I but the Volga City folks cut in on the Minne- liue and made Nolden believe that the tgo are game was not to be .played until the of the I following day. Tho result was that Nolden did not arrive and Volga City won the first flame.' 'The manager of their team then telephoned to Lux and wanted to cancel the game becaune he didn't think that Oelwein was strong enough to cope with their aw fully fastEveryone admires a good wintior, one that can wear his laurels modestly and gracefully, but the true sport and the one that is admired the most is the one that can lose just as gracefully, with no excuses but with a firm determination to win the next time. How hard a matter it ie to he the latter was strikingly illustrated in the lamentations of the Volga City scribe in his effort to describe the ball game at Strawberry Point in which the team representing that city was defeated by the Oelwein team. The article referred to was not a description of thQ gamo, but an effort to discredit the playing of the Oelwein team in goneral and the work of the peerless Rubo Foster in particular.Imagine, if you' can. this village dopster. whose base ball experience has probably been confiued to watching a few games played by their self-styled “Cyclones,” urged on doubtless by such members of that aggregation as ,j»ud Burns, “champion hatter of Northern erB of Iowa,” attempting to make BDort of it is the pitching of Rube Foster, acknowl-oubles edged to he the best pitcher in the country today. Why. every one of the Volga City people who were presentThis Awful Buret of Wit Arouses the Rustics to Side-Splitting Laughter-“ REUBEN THE UNBLEACHEDnyttewe Village Humoriet Gets off Some FunRN OVER AROUND VOLGAA BIG NOISE FROM
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Oelwein Daily Register
Oelwein, Iowa, US
Tue, Sep 22, 1908
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