, 1888-09-04
A LIVELY EXPERIENCE.
Four Baseball Players Unexpectedly Meet
a Sheriff.

a Sheriff.
Bob Lawshe, Cap Craig, Dureu Key and
Will Turner arrived in Atlanta last night.
These are four of the boys who did their
level best to win the pennant for Atlanta in
the State Baseball league. They did not in
tend 20 return to Atlanta just at this date,
but the yellow fever and a sheriff with two
big pistols are responsible for the change in
their plans. A reporter for The Constitu-
tion met Bob Lawshe last night, and
his story of their return trip is rather
interesting. The boys left Atlanta about
two weeks ago under contract to play
ball with the Jacksonville club. They ar
rived in that city and played several games
there, leaving that city on Monday last, going
to Pensacola. At Pensacola they enlisted
with the state troops and went to the en-
campment at Magnolia Beach. This was the
best of the trip, in Lawshe's opinion, but it
didn't last long. In answer to a reporters
question as to what caused him to leave the
e~ncampment, Lawshe said:
"Well, the yellow fever scare got started,
and Pensacola quarantined against the en-
campment. That settled it, and we got or
ders to break camp on Thursday at 8 o'clock,
and got n notice at the same time that a train
would leave the beach at 4 O'clock
THAT was pretty quick work, wasn't itr'
Eyes, but we got on the train just the
odult- IL lIdlh WIS NdICDeu closely, and
when we got to Tallahassee guards were
stationed at the doors of every coach, and it
was impossible to leave the train"
ITO what point had you bought ticketsF'
"All of us had tickets to F~ernandina, but
the conductor put us off the train a few
miles from Callahan, and he would have put
us off there, but the train was too closely
watched
"What was his reason for putting you off
the train7'
81 guess he was afraid to carry us any
further, and he acted as though he was doing
the proper thing. When he put us off we
started to walk back toward Callahan, but
we changed our minds very suddenly about
that.n
"What changed your intention of going to
CallaharT'
1--WE met a sheriff with two big pistols,
and he pointed them right in our direction.
There was a health officer along with him,
but the pistols settled the matter. The sheriff
told us that it was eight miles to one station,
four to another, and sure death if we tried
to go to Callahan. He said we could take our
choice, and we did"
How far did you walk after the sheriff
had his interview with your
w were lucky after we got aT1v from
him, ard while resting at a water tank a few
miles from Callahan were picked I'D by an
engineer, who said he would take chances on
being discharged before he would leave us
there. So we rode to within about a mile of
Waycross, and walked around the town in
order to avoid the guard stationed on that
side. We got to the depot and bought tickets
to Jesup."
Did you have any trouble at that point7n
"Our only trouble here was in keeping out
of sight of the health officers till the train
started, and then We were all right. But 1
don't think any of us will want any more
Florida experience till they have a frost. It's
worse than getting beaten at baseball, and
l for one am glad TO get back to Atlanta. ~
Atlanta Constitution.