The Forrest City times., 1895-05-31
BASE BALL.
The Season Opened at Forrest
City with Three Games.

this week with three games. in which
the Forrest City lnvincibles gained two
victories.
The first game was with the Wynne
team, and was the "rockiest" ever
witnessed in this city on the part of
the home team. They PLAYED a losing
game from the sta-t. and all the root
ing" of sympathiZers was powerless to
wake them up. The score was 20 To 10
I'm favor of the visitors, and happier
set of fellows would he hard to find
especially "Dickey, ".wbose Irish mug
was comical, and afforded much merri-
ment for both players and spectators.
The attendance WAS fairly good. the
day Beautiful. and all nature seemed
to smile on our ball tossers. but some
how they WASN'T in it, The Wynne
boys pounded the ball, and had every
thing their own way. They even
famed David Copperfield. our.cham-
pion heavy weight slugger, who is
noted Tor his three-base-hits and home
runs.
Quite a large number of friends
came down with the visitors, and all
were highly elated over the victory.
We noticed among the Wynneites, r.
l.. Block and wife. Ed. Ham bleton.
Herman Block, Fl. Dickey. w. Seaborn,
IL. Murphy, j. Coleman, Z. Mulkey. F..
Coffin, Henry Goodman, p. NJ. Philbin.
j. ii. Wilson, Misses Bessie Dobbs.
Louisa Montgomery. Annie Sparks.
Myrtle Kennedy. and Paul Van Horn,
}. l.. Lyon. Ashley Murphy, A. w.
Moody. Joseph Block. f. b. Hotchkiss,
e. }. Badinelli, John Graham and L..
III. Martin
The game was pleasant throughout,
except olir boys played like lot of
KIDS. At sometime in the near future
however, we hope to letake the banner
of victory from Wynne's conquerors.
On Tuesday the Jonesboro nine and
few friends. acme down for A two
days stay. The party consisted of !
+. Wilson. }. b. Noble. NJ. A. Affair.
Lee Trice Rankin Ward. II. Grant. s.
Bandy. Gross, Tom Culberhouse
and viii Carmin.
The first game was called Tuesday.
and the local team won in a walk. the
score summing up 20 to at the end of
the ninth innins.n John Beck did
some good work as umpire. The at
tendance was not so large as on Mon
day. the falling off no doubt being su-
perlnduced by the tame game OF Mon
day. The score Tuesday was a SIR
prise and many couldn't believe it nat
ural. The interest in base ball. how
ever, took another turn. and the town
took "a half holiday Wednesday. the
stores closing. The weather was
threatening and no doubt prevented
many persons going out to see the
last and most interesting game of the
series, though it ceased raining. and
the clouds added To the enjoyment of
the game. 1t was in the fifth inning
Of this game that Cop" Webb made
his famous slide" to third.
The score by innings was as follows ::
Jonesboro 90 SOL 10 II
Undoubtedly the best game of the
series. and chief Of umpires. Chas.
Lewis. was called upon To make some
very close decisions, and several times
was surrounded by score OF PLAYERS
and spectators. all talking at once. but
when he repeated you're out. play
ball. that settled it. aud the game
progressed. The last score made by
the nome team. and which gave them
the victory, was by IL hairsjbreadth. and
was made by WestmOreland We un.
derstand the decision upon this run
caused some real dissatisfaction among
the visitors. for which we are very
sorry. and hope time will give them
another opportunity to cross bats with
our boys.
The prettiest play made during the
three games WAS made by Westmore-
land, who played Sd base for the
home team. The visitors were at bat
with two outs. i'm the 9th inning.
when foul ball went out to Ills right.
Tie game was tie mp to this point.
and the spectators held their breath.
No person perhaps. believed he could
reach the ball in time, but he made
Il play for it, running perhaps 90 or 60
feet, caught it,, and retired the side.
The crowd went wild. hats went into
the air, and they yelled themselves
hoarse.
Altogether the week has been one
OF much interest and pleasure to those
who like the game, and nothing hap
pened To mar its enjoyment.
NOTES.
The next victim is Mariana.
The Forrest City nine has won out of
4 games this season, and are sore over
their defeat Monday.
A lot of practice is what our boys need.
The Cross County Gazette says: 1.-The
Winnie base ball team defeated the For
rest City nine Monday. the score standing
30 to 10 in favor of Wynne. The boys
speak in the highest terms of the kind
treatment at the hands of the good people
OF that city. There is one thing the For
rest CitV base hall fannn nm u a l.