Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-21

The Chronicle club and editor of
the CHRONICLE took a pleasant
DAYS recreation in the country last
Saturday 9th inst.). The occasion
was a match which had been ar
ranged between the Chronicle club
and a picked nineselected from three
country clubs. The location selected
was an opening in the woods little
way from the Nashville pike about
ten miles out Of town, near the res
idence of DR.. Moody, who is de-
votee Of the game and acted as UNI
pire on the present occasion.
Shortly after our arrival on the
ground we were invited to neigh
boring school house where, in good
time, was produced capital cOun-
try dinner, which was served up
under the superintendent of Mrs.
and Miss Pickering, the youthful
wife and sister of one of the play
ers. We tender the ladies and the
families who contributed to this
feast the grateful homage of salts
fled appetite for their hospitality at
once abundant and daintily admin
istered; the general recognition of
this entertainment took the form of
Othello's gratitude:
ave greet your love
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance
bounteOus."
The acceptance, indeed, was eX-
tremely bOunteOus-sO much so that
we began to fear that our young
friends were taking in a little too
much ballast for the good of their
sailing qualities, but the capacity of
youthful digestion is wonderful,
and they carried their burdens with
no perceptible difficulty.
We now adjourned to the play
ground. According to etiquette the
country boys, being at home, took
the bat and scored one run, and then
went to the field and white-washed
the Chronicles. This operation was
repeated three times, the score stand
ing at the end of the third inning
Chronicles 0, Country 3.
The country boys and their friends
were jubilant, and we noticed GER
tain bright eyes radiating triumph
ant CALCULATIONS on them from
carriage close by, which made US
wish for the time we were a country
boy. In the fourth inning the tables
were turned little, the country
boys being white-washed and the
Chronicles scoring too. Fifth-Coun-
try white-washed again, Chronicles
scored l, making the match even
bright eyes clOuded with anxiety.
SiXth-Chronicles 5, Country 3.
Country, therefore, L ahead. Sew
enth.-COuntry l, Chronicles six
we, the editor, here arose shouting
invOluntarily, Chronicles 4 ahead.
As we did so our eyes met those
bright ones, now suffused with sad
ness, and we wished we hadn't done
it. From this point the Chronicles
kept slightly ahead and won the
match by final score of 10 to 10;
true to their rule oflosing in the first /
four innings and then coming in
ahead on the home stretch.
On the Clarkeville side the honors
of the game are unquestiOnably
due to VIM. Lemons, whose eXcel-
lent pitching went a long way 10
wards winning the game; DeSiu9 ee
which the best score was nlaoe 0l-
his bat.
The country pitcher, r: Plekei
no, did good service too, DelIs So -
; r5t o o GOOD if not better than Lem Lem
ln rs' % b,SSf he did not hold out as %9 f
}lls ;i pu. l GtIacided symptoms OF Ola Ia
' J! ,I,S5u;,1or fhe three last lnhlnSa,
While Billy was good ~ -
f II had been require, oame. both
r. was a fair, honest r. ,,6sSihIo
~ ,t; m'I resolved to WIN = posslo I
oar 1 .e lake take their whipping good
ma mo, tnoradIy if not, and they parted
lumlo sE'5;onds. hoping to play many :
soo othar game hereafter. Is