Cedar Poles vs. White Collars: A Ballgame to Buy the Firemen Beds

Interest in baseball in Newport is getting back into its old form, and as the home team is to be away Sunday an amateur performance has been billed. W. G. Chaney has issued a challenge on behalf of the men engaged in the cedar pole business to the business and professional men of the town. T. J. Kelly has accepted the challenge and lined up a team as follows: E. I. Jones, A. R. Tiss, A. E. Reid, C. B. Turnbull, D. R. Morgan, Geo. Neff, Gene Weimer, L. Kirchan, S. J. Appleman.

Chaney has rounded up the following, who claim to be pole men and past masters in the sport: R. P. Scott, Geo. Piatt, Gus Appel, Ed Appel, Lute Rowell, K. McKenzie, George Hynes, R. S. Anderson and himself.

An admission fee of 25 cents will be charged, all the proceeds to go to the Newport fire department. The department has secured permission from the town council to partition off a part of the city hall and install sleeping rooms for unmarried members of the company, so that they will be at hand to respond to alarms at any time of the night. To get money to furnish these rooms this game will be played.

Nobody has much of an idea that the old timers listed up above can play any kind of ball, but their appearance on the diamond is sure to be productive of lots of amusing situations. As they offer themselves as martyrs to perform in a good cause, let's all go and see them cut up.