West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-07-09

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Some Rafting Good Games On The
Fourth.

Fourth.
Over at Rowlesblrg last Saturday
Function put up u pretty good game
against the RIVER City Club, which IL
conceded Ia be the best in the county,
although Masontown Is after their
scalp again this year. Messenger, for
Tunueltion anl Swallwood for Rowlcs.
burg, pitched pretty fair ball, still the
score was too high, standing Tito 81 i'm
favor of the home team. The Tunnel
ton boys made four OF their scores i'm
the eighth inning. DR. w. NJ. Siyey,
o. Function, made the best hit and
Knocked the pg-slSin into the Wind
ing River Cheat" Capt. C. G.. Dawson,
umpired, aud is one OF best in the
co1nty. There was n large crowd
present.
Here in Kingwood two games were
advertised, one in the forenoon with
Austen and our club aud we were on
the ground all ready, with crowd
present, but no Austen club showed up
nor no word of any kind from them.
We could have called the game aud
claimed IL to o, but we don't want
any games without earning them. III
the Austen club officers have any ex-
PLANTATION or apology to offer, we would
like TO have IL. Otherwise they stand
in IA bad light Here is their letter,
written in red ink. Indicating that they
were for blood" and after our scalps.
Austen, w. Va, June %, 1895.
Manager OF the Kingwood b. - c.,
Kiugwood. w. Va.
Dear Sir Can you give us game
on July tn? We viii play you on
your own ground and play in the morn
ing or any time IL suits you. This is
the only loaf day that we will have for
some time, and would like 20 play you.
; Let us hear from you mt an early date.
] Respectfully,
Austen q. Il. Club,
! j. G.. SHAFFER Captain,
Is Il. RENsHAw, Secretary.
We replied in the next mail that we
would play them in the forenoon and
/ to come on rs we would advertise the
game and depend on IL sure and II any
thing prevented their coming TO be
sure and let US lSnOw, as we heard
nothing from them, we supposed. of
course, they would cone, bat they
didn't.
In the afternoon our club crossed
bats with Masontown and played "A fair
/ game, but were badly beaten The
boys played in hard luck and several
times had the bases full on the third
man out. Both Dent and Cobun
| pitched a splendid game, but the for
mer didn't get the support he deserved
Dent famed them all out but one even
Lon Cobun, the famous pitcher and the
backbone of the MasOntown nine.
CobuD hated that worse than IL he had
lost the game X Jenkins played bet
ter than he ever did in his life and bat
ted the ball all over the diamond The
only hitch in the game was caused by
Orr and Cobun coming together, the
former trying 10 field the ball and the
latter running the bases. Each claim
ed that the other interfered with his
operations and the rag was chawed
around for some time over IL, but the
f. game finally proceeded and ended in q
score OF TO In favor OF Masontown.
There was good crowd present. The
umpires were JAS. W White and Miles
Cobun and the score keepers were Ed.
&. Manown and Cameron Elliott
As the game was an exhibition game
and each club got half the gate receipts,
IL was not - return game for the one
our club played out az Masontown re-
Gently. That game will be played on
the grounds here ia a short time The
Masontown players are the heaviest
batters ia the county, and they field
well too, and back mp the bases in good
shape. The ball park here Is in good
condition now, plenty of seats for
everybody free, players and scorers
benches. grass moved with machine.
etc. Here is the score Tor Saturdays
game.
u ~ q.