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May 21, 1909: Back to Baseball
More baseball trash talk from the Edmonton Bulletin!
Transcript:
Tonight Calgary plays Lethbridge, the lowest team in the league, and Edmonton plays Medicine Hat, the leaders in the league. Wouldn't it be a great line if Edmonton won and Calgary lost. T'would be the beginnin gof [sic] the end, but oh the though[t] is too horrible--for Calgary.
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May 11, 1909
The team has finally arrived in the city from Toronto, and the first Edmonton vs. Calgary game of the season is coming up. The Edmonton Bulletin is being extremely normal about it.
Transcript:
The Calgary fans have had their ears to the ground for the past few days and the sounds they hear from the capital are calculated to make them sit up and take notice. The fat roll which they intended to wager on the opening game still reposes in their pockets and by the time they size up the Edmonton bunch tomorrow morning they will probably transfer it to their socks and say nothing.
Note that the new team manager, Dinny McGuire, had some previous ties to Toronto, which the Bulletin is also being sooo normal about.
Transcript:
Dinny Burnt His Bridges. Take heed, oh ye cow-punchers, and read aright the signs of the times. On Monday morning Dinny McGuire brought his braves in over the C.N.R. and burnt his bridges behind him. If you don't believe this go down to Lloydminster and you will soon find out. This can mean only one thing. He has determined to never turn back in his triumphant march for the pennant. After a few games it is probable that Charlie Crist will take pattern after Dinny and burn all the bridges over the Bow and the Elbow but with the team on the inside, and then sigh for sweet oblivion to make him forget what might have been.
The Bulletin also has a few choice words for the Calgary Albertan:
Transcript:
"Dopester," in the Calgary Albertan, is still trying to delude himself and other fans in the dry belt into the belief that tomorrow's game will be a pipe cinch sort of an affair for the Cowpunchers, with a score of 20 to 0 or so for the home team. "Dopester," has shot wide of the mark so often this spring however, that the Calgary sports have a right to be little dubious. He it was who said that the name "Dinny McGuire" meant stormy weather. So it does--for Calgary. Dinny arrived in Edmonton on Monday morning and yesterday and today the weather has been ideal. If it rains in Calgary tomorrow it will mean that the elements are weeping for Calgary and are trying to put off the evil day.
Edmonton Bulletin: May 8, 1909
Transcript:
FIDLER'S PIPE DREAM. The Calgary paper said Alf. Fidler had gone back on his own town and was now as tick [sic] as thieves with Dinny McGuire and others of the gentry class at the Capital ought to go way back and sit down. Fidler is just as much a Calgary man as ever but his residence in Edmonton has broadened his outlook in life. He realizes that the Cowtown is all right but there are others that can make it go a few. The Old Hoss has doped out a pipe dream as to Calgary's baseball future which sounds good and may come true about the year 2009. Just to show that Edmonton papers and Edmonton sports are not knocking Calgary, and to give the baseball fans in the west a chance to consider the proposition Fidler's dope is published below:
As much as I am always pointing to the fact that the Battle gets reduced to sports rather than its larger causes (more on that when I get my shit together to talk about 1905 more, among other things) the sports columns are a veritable goldmine of prairie boosting and knocking in 1909.
Take this article "The West Backs Regina" on Regina's lacrosse team from the Edmonton Bulletin, April 28, 1909, which starts out as a kind message of support before devolving into "see we're even supportive when Calgary wins at... what do they win again? Plowing?"
Transcript:
"Here's hoping the Bonepilers will bring back the Minto cup with them. Eastern papers have been knocking the efforts of the Regina club all spring, but if it is any satisfaction Regina may rest assured that they will receive the hearty sympathy and support of every town from Manitoba to the Rockies at least. There may be some antagonism among some of the towns in the West, Edmonton and Calgary for example, or Moose Jaw and Regina, but it is no more than a healthy rivalry. Edmonton was glad to see Calgary win-let's see, what championship have they got-the plowing championship, and certainly Calgary did not show any jealousy when Edmonton made a trial for the Stanley and Fit Reform cups. Gird up your loins and go forth Regina and rest assured that the whole sporting fraternity of the west will eagerly await the news of your victory at the Coast."
ganbatte Regina!!!
Edmonton Bulletin, April 27, 1909:
Transcript:
Calgary Herald--"A Winnipeg despatch says that four G.T.P. survey parties have been lost somewhere in the great lone northland. They will be discovered some place in an Edmonton suburb." Edmonton is the Mecca of the West. Calgary Albertan--"Edmonton has no rocky fastness, but it isn't afraid of any war. With its gallant 19th horse soldiers, and its 101st feet force it believes that it can keep anything hostile from coming in from the outside, just as by its political armament it has prevented anything valuable inside getting outside."
I love how the first one the Bulletin retorts "fuck you everyone wants to be here" and on the second one there's no notes "yeah thats us!"
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a time honoured sporting tradition from The Edmonton Bulletin, April 15, 1909 from the column on baseball:
Transcript:
...It is a pretty safe bet that Edmonton will be somewhere in the first three at the finish of the league and if any of the sports in Calgary or elsewhere in the west are carrying around a nice fat roll that they wish to lose on this proposal they will find plenty of takers in Edmonton. ... Even should the extremely improbable possibility come to pass that Edmonton should be lower than third place there will be one consolation anyway. Calgary will be lower still. The team from the cow town plumbed the lowest depths in '07 and the word baseball was tabooed in the dry belt. They are very game, however, down south and selecting an old Edmonton player as manager of their team they determined after considerable cogitation to try again.
The problem with having a cast of characters who are not only motorists but have a serious interest in vehicles (namely, Red) is I cannot fake enough knowledge or interest in makes and models beyond the surface level and stereotypical to actually match everyone with the right one.
The boys are all very easy because a lot of the surface level machismo in trucks is something i see day in and day out just existing here, so like, in my mind it's very obvious (Mac gets the souped up RAM 3500/4000/whatever with smoke stacks and lift; Ed gets a cutesy second hand truck that he doesn't need a stepladder to get into, Cal has the basic bitch ever popular Ford F150 that is, of course, red to make it go faster in the 4 blocks he uses it to commute even though he could save So much on parking)
but Red??? who actually knows shit about vehicles and is super picky? nope i just have to heavily imply that she is driving a vehicle without ever actually depicting it until I get a realistic vision from someone who understands, hahaha.
was no one going to tell me that the building on calvins apartment block that i drew behind him in this comic was the Calgary Labour Temple where the One Big Union that kicked of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was founded or
