METZ SPORTS TEAMS

Metz, Missouri

 

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	These Metz Tigers look like a serious bunch of ball players!  Click photo for a larger view.  Photo courtesy of Virginia Peterson.  The small print at the bottom of this postcard photo says: "King & Hood, Pub., Metz, MO. Baseball Team, Metz, MO."   A reprint of this photograph in the 3 July 1955 Nevada Herald Newspaper identifies these men as the 1905 Metz Tigers team: 1  George Pryor 2  Charlie Charles 3  Inman Noble 4  Dan Frames 5  Henry Hamilton 6  Claude Frames 7  Charlie Regan 8  John Boyd 9  W. L. Charles 10 Harry Compton 11 Harvey Caster 12 Bob Stinson 13 Walter Cox
	The Metz Tigers.    The Metz Tigers, our base ball team, is one of the very best in the county.  The past season the boys won 14 games, lost 4 and tied 2. L. A. Robinson is the manager, the the line-up follows: Claud Charles, c. f.; Marshall Dulin, r. f.; Walter Cox, l. f.; Connie Allen, 1st b.; O. W. Waggoner, 2nd b.; L. A. Robinson, 3d b.; Claud Pryor, s-s.; Chas. Ragen, c.; Chas. Charles, p.; Inman Noble, ut. The Metz Times, Metz, Missouri; Friday 1 Nov 1910.   The 1911 Metz Baseball team (left) identified as 1  Dutch (Roy) Tough 2  Len King 3  Harry Compton 4  Claude Pettit 5  Lloyd Kleen 6  Walter Ellis 7  Rex McCormach 8  Con Allen Photo and identification provided by Virginia Peterson.  Very small print at bottom edge of photo reads: C.[?] Hood 1911.

 

     One of the meanest, dirtiest and low-downedest tricks ever played on any person or persons in Metz was that played on the Metz Tigers last Saturday. The Tigers had matched a ball game with the Sprague nine, to be played at Stotesbury. The boys had gone to considerable expense in advertising the game and making other arrangement and expected to have a big game. When about ready to start for Stotesbury a telephone message was received from that place stating that the Sprague team would not be there. Not till late in the afternoon did the boys learn that some disinterested person here had telephoned the Sprague boys that the Tigers would not be on hand. The Sprague boys then telephoned Stotesbury that they would not be on hand, then Stotesbury in turn advised the Tigers manager that Sprague would not be there. Of course our boys were sorely disappointed when they heard they could not play. The Sprague nine went to Stotesbury and claimed the game which, according to rules, was given to them. The Tigers are aware that they have some enemies, but they had no idea any one would stoop so low as to play them such a trick.

The Metz Times, Metz, Missouri; Friday 25 September 1908 page 1.

 

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