The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-07-11
BASE BALL MATTERS.
Winston Defeats the Oxford and DAN
vile Clubs.


vile Clubs.
| The Oxford baseball club came III
last week and played two games witt
| the Winston team on the Fourth, on.
in the morning and one in the after
noon. A large crowd of spectator.
was present on each occasion.
At the morning game the clubs were
| very evenly matched. Jones pitched
for the Winston club for the first two
or three innings, when he gave way
to Ellis. When Ellis went into the
box the visiting club had &C lead of 3
runs, but the home team finally over
took and passed them and had a lead
of three runs in the eighth inning
But the Oxford team braced up in the
last inning and won the game by the
score of 10 to Is.
The game was spirited throughout
and was a much better one than the
score would indicate-the ball having
been knocked over the fence two or
three times which resulted in the scor-
ing of or runs. Walter Hays, OF
the Winston team, made the only
home run.
In the afternoon our boys cleaned
up the Oxfords without trouble, the
score being Is to 8. Taking the two
games together, our boys got the
better of their opponents.
THE wINsTON-DANvILLE GAME.
The most holly contested and, TAX
en- altogether, the best game of the
season, was played last Saturday af-
ternoon between the Winston and
Danville clubs, resulting in the defeat
of the Virginia boys by the score of
IL to IL. The home club did not
play it's half of the 9th inning.
The visiting team started out by
making 5 runs in the first inning, but
they did not score again until the 9Th
inning when they made one run, the
home club shutting them out for four
successive innings and again in the
eighth inning.
After the first inning the home boys
went to work manfully and piled up
twelve runs, the score standing at the
beginning of the 9th inning u to z.
In the ninth inning the Virginia
boys made 4 runs before their side
was retired, making the score stand
II to IL. AS the home club had thus
won the game by one run it did not
play it's half of the last inning.
There was some discussion of the
result just then, the Danvilles claim
ing that the score was "tie," II to
IL; but the official scorers announced
differently and thus the game ended.
FooT-NoTEs.
Jones pitched for the Winston team
in the Danville game and proved
himself to be an especially fine and
swift pitcher. The Virginia boys
couldn't bat his balls worth a cent
the diamond.
Ellis pitched in the Oxford games
on the fourth, and demonstrated to
all that there are no flies on his balls
With Ellis and Jones, Winston has
two splendid ball tossers.
Shem. Meredith's superior as a first
baseman is not to be found in North
Carolina.
Nothing short of a first-class race
horse or a locomotive can outrun
Walter Hays.
Roberts did some fine catching in
the field on the fourth, and Henry
Hays did good work with the stick
In fact all our boys show marked
signs of Improvement, and are now
ready to contest games with any club
in the State. Had Oak Ridge been
the opposing nine last Saturday they
would have been beaten instead OF
enjoying "pic-nic" with our boys
as they did earlier in the season.