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Mountain Echo · Yellville, Arkansas · 1905

Ben Ward umpired the ball game and refereed the fight at the same time

Four-line newspaper item saying Ben Ward says it takes a good man to umpire a ball game and referee a fight at the same time, but that he did it last Tuesday.
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Mountain Echo, 1905. View the original

Small-town officiating in 1905: one man, two contests, no further questions. The Mountain Echo gave it four lines and moved on.

The whole item: “Ben Ward says it takes a good man to umpire a ball game and referee a fight at the same time; but that he did it last Tuesday.”

That is everything the Mountain Echo felt its readers needed. What the fight was about, who was in it, whether it was related to the ball game, all left to the imagination. The paper trusted that everyone in town already knew, and it was probably right.

PlaceYellville, Arkansas
Year1905
NewspaperMountain Echo
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