Sunday Baseball in Everett
A weekend series at Robbins' Park between the local Moose and the Monroe team ends in a split, featuring some questionable officiating and some 'cheap' fence-jumping fans.
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The Moose tangled with Monroe last Saturday and Sunday at Robbins' Park and divided the spoils, Saturday's game going to the visitors by a score of 9 to 7 while Sunday's game brought home the win to the home crowd. The Saturday game was an overtime affair, taking eleven stanzas to decide. Bunstine caught both games for Everett and speeded up the whole team. Andy Le Beau held the indicator and his work was good on the whole. Monroe players howled their heads off over two or three decisions, one of which looked yellow to the grandstand. The boys are playing pretty good ball and deserve encouragement. One thing about the games that looks cheap—mighty cheap. That's the stunt some young men, and older ones, too, are performing of scaling the back fence and beating it into the grounds. If anyone thinks the game isn't worth two bits they might better stay at home than try to gumshoe in.
“Come out and get your money's worth of the cleanest sport the little old Star and Stripes waves over.”
Amateur baseball was a vital pillar of early 20th-century civic life, serving as both entertainment and a test of local pride. The complaint about fans sneaking over fences to avoid paying 'two bits' shows that even a century ago, maintaining the economics of local sports was a perennial challenge.
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