The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-08-21
and DAWSON WON.
EORT VALLEY FALLS AN EASY
VICTIM.

Gone. Two, Three, Outv' Is What the
Umpire Sang. The MOnarchs Captured
Columbus.
Thirteen. That's an unlucky number, so
people say, and it proved so on Tuesday,
August 18th, to Fl. Valley baseballsts
and fnanciers. 4-11-44 is what is called
lucky combination, and Ali is what
the fans in Dawson declare to be a
voozy combination for Fort Valley and
lust the thing for Dawson. That was
tbe score. III, with the two digits be-
longing to Dawson. If it had not been a
wet day the score would have been at
the legal ratio of 16 to /.
For weeks past the friends of the base
ball clubs of Dawson and Fit. Valley Rave
been more and more interested in the
contest for the championship and a
purse of 500 that had been deposited in
q bank at columbus, where the battle
royal was to take place.
The rival clubs had strengthened their
teams at every weak spot. Mr.. Fred
Morris, of Marietta, the crack Varsity
pitcher of last year, than whom there is
10 better amatuer pitcher in Georgia,
came down to twirl the leather for Daw-
son. and Mr.. r. B. Nally, of Villa Rlca,
stood close up to the Tplate and pulled
the ball out of the ozone stirred up by
Fort Valleys heavy hitters, who would
fan the air. The Sandford brothers, of
Waynesboro, were expected to do some
fine work on the same line for Fort Y al
ley, but they didn't.
Dawson has also of late been enter
tanning other nerYy ball tossers, Messrs.
Gregory, of Harmony Grove, and Short
0fLexingtop,
Just here it is fit that THE News
should publicly say what everyone IL
Dawson says, and that is that no more
gentemanly young men to play ball
could be brought together in the state
We are glad to have had their services,
and we are still better pleased to have
had them as our guests.
Upward of 200 enthusiasts left Dawson
with the club for Columbus on Tuesday
morning, in the party being large num-
Der of ladies'. At Columbus Manager F.
/. Parks, of the Dawson club, had fixed
things in prime shape, and black and
red, the Dawson colors, were in evidence
on all sides. The players and club Off
Gals were met at the depot by Messrs.
John Walden, of Macon, and Henry
Kern, of Columbus, and seated in a
handsome drag debecked with black and
red and drawn by four high stepping
dappIe grays. Headquarters had been
secured for Dawson at the Rankin
House, and soon that elegant hosiery
E3s alive with Dawsonians and their
friends During the morning hours and
up to the time the game was called the
hotel lobbies were running over with
humanity.
The Fort Valley contingent, two OF
three hundred strong, arrived about II
o'clock headed a by big brass band
They levidently thought that they had
a soft snap. On every side they were
shaking wads of money in the face OF
every man in sight and bantering for bets
On the game, even going so far as tt
offer odds against Dawson. Not a single
man from Dawson sought any bets, but thu
EoIs displayed by the fruit growers were
promptly covered, while some blu1fer'
came off their high horses when calico
GOWN. As a result, our Fort Va'le!
friends returned home some 81, 5OO o.
$1,000 out of pocket.
Just before three o'clock heavy rail-
GEL IN and things looked blue for awhile
me Dawson nine were carried over t
North Highland Park in the drag Will
vAe drizzle, drazzle of the rain kept UP
Just before four o'clock this stoppe
~Iu Dir. Frank Peabody, of Columbus
+ t had been mutually agreed upon a
cue umpire, called ''Play Ball." Tn