Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-05
THE FOURTH ATCARRIER'S
SPORTS ARRANGED BY Thu:
BAsEBAI.L CLUB.
John .. Pleasants, w. ID. Cash
aud Frank BIaCkwOOd Win The
BicvcIe Races, While The Blues
Defeat The Reds by Q tOa

Defeat The Reds by Q to a
1t seemed yesterday as it nearly every
body in Asheville observed the glorious
Fourth. Perhaps one-half of the stores
were open aud of course the clerks in
these did not celebrate. The day was
warm, but otherwise perfect, and every
body was in the happiest mood.
| The attraction of the day was the card
of sports arranged by the Asheville
Baseball club at Carriers track. When
the sport began there were over 500
paid admissions registered. This does
not include the boys who beat" in nor
the 100 or 200 people who saw the
| games from the hill without ntributing
The first race was between bicyclists
in the first class, half mile. The entries
were John Peasants, Eugene Sawyer,
w. K. Howard. ]. l.. Rich and J. S.
Moody. The riders got off on the first
attempt with Peasants in the lead
| Half way around Howard closed up to
the leader and it looked as if he nigh
win, but John wouldn't have it that
way and the race ended with Peasants
| first, Sawyer second and Moody third.
Peasants time. 1:19.
| The entries in the second-class bicycle
race were Thad. w. Thrash, Will Smath-
ers, c. E. Henderson, w. d. Cash and l..
| B. Alexander. The riders were well
punched for the first eighth with Thrash
and Henderson neck and neck They
fell behind, however, and the close saw
| Cash first, Alexander second and Thrash
third. Gashs time, 1:26,
Dick Gordon, colored, won the wheel
| barrow race, and the watermelon prize
caused a large fissure to open under
Dicks nose.
The third class bicycle race had as
entries John Baird, Joe Malone, Frank
| Blackwood and MacRae Hatch, and
was for quarter mile Blackwood
won, with Hatch and Baird second and
| third. Blackwood time, 50l2
This brought the program down to the
"crown" game of baseball, between the
Reds and Blues. On the Reds the
players were Young, 3 b.; Jno
Fletcher, 2 b.; Pittman, p; Will Fletcher
c.. Dougherty, S. $; Waddell, |. f.; Wynn,
! b.; Chandler. r. f.; Jordan, c. f. The
Blues played Morris, p., Garrison, C.;
Alexander, S. s.; Weaver, r. f.; Lindsey,
c. f.; Merrimon, |. f.; A. Rankin, 2 b.;
White, 1 b.; Carrier, b.
In the first, Blues to the bat four men
scored, after two men had been put out
The men who came in were Alexander
Weaver, Lindsey and Mcrrimon Rankin
| hit tor two bagger, but was put out
| at home. The Reds. through Young,
scored one in their half.
The second inning was goose-egg for
| both mines. The feature of this was a
hea ~ Il Il
| The Blues scored Weave in the third
while the Reds got another cipher. The
next four innings resulted in nothing
| for either side, Carrier making a fine
catch of John Fletcher's foul In the
eighth Alexander, Weaver, Lindsey and
White scored for the Blues and the Reds
went out one, two, three. The last half
| for the Blues saw three men go out
before they could go to first. In the last
| Reds half Will Fletcher scored, and the
game closed; Blues, 8; Reds, 2. Dur
| ing the game Morris struck out 10 men
| and Pittman 3.
Hoke Morris, who won the first
crown, presented it to Miss Mamie Gas
ton; Dick Weaver, second. to Miss Lottie
Johnson; John Fletcher, third. to Miss
Florence Corpening. Cam. WaddelI
| won the fourth crown.
he Judges III the racing were w. IL.
Pcnland, Geo. Henderson, ]. A. Conant;
timekeeper, A. Nj. Field; starter, E. b.
Atkinson. Alderman d. c. Champlain
of Biltmore umpireG the ball game.
The sports were entertaining
throughout, and the Ashcvillc Baseball
| club stuck another feather in its cap
The West Ashevlle and Sulphur
Springs railway handled the big crowd
very well and put several shekels into its
inside pocket bv so dong.