The design of athletics in educational institutions is to better the physical development of the pupil and to teach him manliness, sturdiness and honest competition, to be able to meet the trials and vicissitudes of life and always come up smiling. The high school boys, no doubt, would have shown themselves bigger than the game had it not been for their athletic director who refused to let the boys play longer, thus showing a weakness as an instructor and a mighty poor example for any young man to pick out to guide his conduct throughout his future.
May 22, 1919 Baseball News Collins Gazette
Well, well, well Nevada came down and got theirs handed to them as we have handed it to the rest only it was easier done. About all that Nevada looked at good was beefing, rag-chewing and quitting. They are real stars at this. it is easy to see how they have won their games if that object they had with them here did all the dirty umpiring. He could not make it work here, it would not stick, so they got sick and they did what was expected of a bunch like that, they quit. It that mutt is an umpire I am an Attorney General. The game started and finished just as I figured it would. Collins had them outclassed and off their feet from the word go and they were yellow and quit. Well, Nevada, you will have a team, maybe, in the next two hundred years but the first hundred will be hard sailing for you.
Say boy! That old machine of Collins was working great Tuesday. Old Hank Duesbury (Henry Duesbury – p) had everything on the old pill this day and made them look funny. Tom (Tom King – c) plays the game from the jump, Hank Gowdy had nothing on that boy. I wonder where that old leaguer on first base (Dwight Patterson – 1st) came from. He is the real stuff and has his head working all the while. Baily you are fine. O, the peach on 2nd. Say, he is the real article. He has a fine peg and holds them right on the sack all the while. Carver, (Lowell Carver – 2nd) you are magnificent. Now, the rabbit Maronville (Harry Stier – ss) on short is a real shortstop. He got some that you could not see, he’s a bear. Old Don Carlos (Don Titus – 3rd) on third is a fiend. He eats them up, yum, yum, yum, and how he does murder the old pill. When he comes up you can figure on great things taking place. Oh Mister, that old field is worth a cool million. Bonaliaus, Cooper (Lee Cooper – rf ) in right is going fine, he plays the old game in great style, gets better all the time. Say, if you want to do well and have no bad luck, don’t by mistake drop any over around center field for that is the home of Big Joe and they can’t get by that party. Joe (Vern Holland – cf) you are a perfect jewel. And that old reliable left fielder, don’t build any castles in the air if you figure on putting any over there for you will go home talking to yourself. Oswalt, (Lowell Oswalt – lf) you are great. We have the best club in the league by a large majority and we have an umpire that knows the old game from start to finish and does his duty just as he sees it and believe me he sees all. Pederson, you are the best there is. A Fan
Game to Collins After Leaving Field Because of Poor Decisions. Scrap Narrowly Averted
In what was supposed to be one of the deciding games in the county league schedule between Nevada and Collins Tuesday, Nevada forfeited the game to Collins in the first half of the eighth inning. At the time of the game was called off the score stood 9 to 8 in Collins’ favor with Nevada going like a house afire for a win.