Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-08-02
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The encampment Of the Memphi;
Chickasaw Guards near the mouth
of Red river is a source of Interest
and gaiety to our people at time
of the year when things are gen
orally dull. Their drills are fire.
quently attended by large crowds
from the city, including carriages
thronged with handsomely dressed
ladies; and the drilling is really
well worth seeing, being simply
perfection. We have seen the old
Nashville Rock City Guards,
Quorum pars magma fui,
when they were at their best; we
have seen the West Point Cadets
when their raw recruits were ex-
cluded from the drill we have seen
reviews of the British army in Hyde
Park, but for precision and rapidity
in the execution of the most COM
plicated maneuvres we have never
seen the Chicks surpassed, and
when the bright eyes of the Clarks-
vile beauties are there to witness
their efforts, under such inspiration
they fairly surpass themselves and
achieve sheer impossibilities, or
rather impOssibilities vanish before
their skill and proves.
Then, to vary the fun, they some
times join our boys in a game of
baseball. Now, it must be borne
in mind that the Chicks do not put
forward baseball as one of their
strong points; nevertheless, they
have some very fair players among
them. Anyhow, on Saturday last
our town boys got up a nine and
tried their. mettle. 1t was a scrub
nine, to say the truth, only one or
two of our best players being on it,
but it served as an experiment, and
our boys got badly beaten, the score
being eleven to three against them.
1t became manifest that the Chicks
would not do to fool with, and that
if the GAINESVILLE boys were to cut
their combs they must put up their
best game stock against them; so
they determined to rehabilitate
their brag nine as it stands when
the College is in session. The two
Pickerings came in from the coun-
try, and Gather Herring for one day
left his pestle and mortar for the
pitchers stand, and in short, the
brag nine, with the exception of
Cosby, stood on their native heath |
ready for the fray. The Chickasaw
boys claim that they did not have
their best men in the field, and in
deed made some substitutiOns in |
the course of the match, but it was /
of no avail; they suffered a COM
plete defeat, the score, at the end of
the sixth inning, standing twenty
two to nothing. The Chicks went
to the bat for a seventh inning, and !
did at last succeed in getting two of
their men in, but the tap of the
drum broke up the game, and the
score had to be recorded ON even
innings, as we before stated it
to nothing.
Spite of this disastrous result, we
urge our Memphis friends not to be
discouraged. They lack practice,
and they have nothing to do all
this summer; we hope yet to see a
match in which they will make a
better record.
We cannot refrain from COM
nending the play of our own boys,
however. We believe that not a
single error in play was made by
hem, with the exception of one by
Ernest Beach after he had seriously
lurt his knee and could not move
asst enough to reach the ball prop
erly. Special commentator is due
o the two chickering's, to G. Her
ing, pitcher, (his batting also did
great service) and especially Jesse
Howell, whose play on first base
vas a source of admiration and per-
1lexity to his antagonists. Gar
'otty's batting was also superb.
As we said before, we are not
yOing to take this match as a critic
ion of what the Chickasaw's can
10; we want them to practice and
ry it again, putting forward their
)est men; and our GAINESVILLE boys
will always be glad to give them
he opportunity of doing so.
loo Cranu, aud Chinese lanterns