Ben Ward umpired the ball game and refereed the fight at the same time
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Mountain Echo, 1905. View the original
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.
| Place | Yellville, Arkansas |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Newspaper | Mountain Echo |
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