Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-30

The victorious Reds came back from
their successful trip to Atlanta Sun
day night at II o'clock. They, of
course, were in high glee, and feeling
in fine condition. The mines who met
them there, and one claimed the
championship of the State of Georgia,
or at least their individual members
did, were foemen entirely unworthy of
their steel. When they arrived in
Atlanta they found that the tc urna-
ment business had been miserably
managed. not one-half the people
then having heard of it. The news
papers had advertised it to come off on
three different dates, and. altogether,
things were In a bad shape. The
grounds, even, had to be laid off after
they arrived on the grounds.
The first game was with the Atlanta
Alerts. The Babies of the University
could have beaten them easily. Only
five men touched the ball during the
whole game; those four being, Sneed,
Lloyd, Hunt, Mcmillan and Houk.
Only five innings were played,
the Alerts giving it up
then. Out of the fifteen
men put out, twelve struck out, two
met their fate at first, and one man
popped up q little "pig-tailp fly to
short, which was taken care of. Score,
Is to 0. OF this game the Constitution
had the following: FL
''DuriDg the playing of the game
| the Reds were managed in fine style by
Mr.. 81. B. Branner. The men seemed
to be under perfect control, and were
decided in their movements. When
ever a ball was struck, Mr.. Brannel
| would call the man who was to take
| it. Their movements were as regular
as clOck-work, and to this may be
| credited much of hesnccess that they
have met with during the season."
The second game was with as self
satisfied set of men as.ever stepped on
| to a diamond. Loud mouthed were
they and noisy. They talked big
about the way they would beat ouI
boys; but, nevertheless, they did moi
| hesitate to take in the pitcher anC
thatcher of the Varieties, the lat
ter of whom, by the way, is former
Knoxville man and fine player.
For the first four in nings the Dixies
of Greensboro, did not smell the frs
bag. On the fifth they scratched in
two and on another inning two. /
the boys had not become careless
they would have been Chicagoed
Rain coming up, the game wa
cut short at the end o
the eighth inning. Out o
twenty.four men put out seventeen
" mashed" The Variety men mad
all the four runs. Score, 16 TO 4.
or this G anne the Constitution haC
the following extremely compliment.
airy notice:
"The Reds are, without doubt, on
of best disciplined clubs that we have
ever seen, and it was quite noticeable
to the Atlantians, their fine behavio
upon all occasions. The nine scenes
to be under perfect control of Captain
Condor, and q motion of the hand, o.
wink of the eye was all that wa
needed to close the mouth of an.
member who was inclined to disagree
with the decision of the umpire o
blame one of his fellow players TO
not attending to his duties. The min
is composed of some of the best youn
} men OF Knoxville, aud We hope tina
. this visit to Atlanta has been so pleas
ant that they will come again."
The young men of Atlanta wit
whom our boys became acquainte
were very kind, and treate
them white" All of them eDjoye
themselves immensely, and, barrin
the Encouragement, were fully sati
= fed.
This puts one more State in the Ret
hands, and two more games to the
credit.