The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-02
PULLED OUT OF The FIRE
IN THE EIGHTH INNING BY
BLACKS TWO-BAGGER.
One OF the Worst Played Games Of
the SeasOn-Mansell Makes
His Usual Muifs.

The game yesterday bgtwe'n Mem.
phis and Chattanooga was no. cslcu.
lated to inspire pr de in the local
team. Up 20 the beginning OF the
eighth inning every man on the
aud stand WAS thoroughly disgusted
with the way the game was going and
the loose way in which the locals
Played. Msnssll seemed to be eating
on Ihs laurels he won the day before,
and mutIed an easy fly in center field
in a way at a school boy would
have been ashamed Of, and even that
generally reliable player Black did
not play Mp to his usual form. Ia the
field he did virtually nothing but he
more than redeemed himself in the
eighth by brilliant batting and base
running. 1t is not too much tn say
that it is largely to Blacks long drive
to right field in the eighth inning tina,
the victory Is due. That inning is
really the only one that will bear ds-
scription. Toe score stood to
against Memphis. Sneed hit II se--
oud, made fist on the latter's tumble
and st Die h second. Manssll got his
b SO on called balls. Andrews got b
first on a tumble by HeinZmsn, Mau-
sell going to second and Sneed TO
third. Brough on hits to pitcher
and wss retired at first, Sneed SC ring
KTehmeyer waut ont ol a fly TO Ora
ham, which was fielded 30 gu ckly that
Mansell. who was at third, was unable
to come in. Black then came TO the
bat. two men were out, two on bsses,
and the sc re- to against Memphis.
A hit or defeat was the only
alternative. When Black made
his sppe arance tie audience
cheere1, feeling that the game
depended on him right then and
there. Bob was equal to the OCCASION,
and drove the ball to center field for
two bags, Ma sell and Andrews seor-
ing amid a storm OF cheers that must
have made Black feel rather bold, for
he actually hsd the auda ity TO steal
to Third while Tug Arundel held
the ball in his hand, and a minute
Afterwards scored on Fuss 3lbash's
two -bagger to left fl III. Fus elhach
himself himself was put ont trying to
make third on the hit. This itnirg
saved the eams, but ii was tight
souetza, as Chattanooga added another
to her score on the eighth ion ng.
Viewed in the light OF Yesterdays
events tie Memphis club is hardly en-
titled to the high position 1t holds in
the league, ald il more such
loose playing is INDUCED in we
may as we'll ditmiss all hopes Of get.
ting the psnnant. II Memphis wins
majority of games with Atlanta it
will be because the good luck that has
hung to he- club since is return
home still c'ings to her. But 1t IL
rank folly to depend on good luck or
anything e'se than good pail playing,
and the nine that does il is destined
to 90 to the wall. Can Memphis bs
depended on ID win games from
club like Atlanta whan her
center fielder drops such balls
as Mansell did yes erday. 1t is alleged
in Marssl's defense that his batting
abilities make up for his other short
comings. That's nonsense. The
country is full cf felders that can d 8.
connt Mapsell, and who are just as
Elective at the bat as he. 10 thai
class b 4lones Connolly, let, Of Macon,
recently released. Look at his record.
In four games PLAYED here he
m ,de three base hts, put out
five men, assisted three times
and made bui one error. OF the
hits msde two were of OLesry and
one of Kuouff. In those same four
games Mansell put ont two, assisted
one and made two eIrols If Con-
nelly doesn't discou1t him figures ere
unreliSble, but, whether it be Con-
nelly or Anybody else, we insist that
unless Mansell improves co 1tinuously,
without felliog back two pegs every
tina he advan 3es one, it will be sheer
folly to rstsin him.
Brilliant plays yes erdsy ol
our side vera 81 arc the
o1ly o-e being Krehmeyer's Up endi d
catch of a full fly to right field.
Broughton as usual caught KnoUtl
sdmiiably, and pro we'd himself an in
valuable man. For Chat nooga
Kent's work in left field YVES phenom-
email. One catch of his deserves spe-
cial me6t,on, Ia the sixth inning
Brought IN sent long fly to lett fl cid
near the foul line. Kent s'atted for
it, and after running about fifty yards
at the top OF his speed captured
the ball on the very edge of the line.
1t took speed, judgment, agi ity and
an eve like hawk TO get that ball,
and Kent got it, aud thu grand stand
came doWn as one mao in their APP
pause Of it. Nothing finer 10 the
way of fielding has been done bera,
not even by such rare fellows al
Hogan, Collins, Crowley, Gilman,
Gardner, Sneed, Black, Broughton or
Connolly, Barney Graham carried of
the batting houors, making a safe hit
every time he faced the pitcher. Bat
teries to-day: O'L'ary and Kreh.
meyer, Hart and Arundel.