The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-17
BASE BALL AT SUMMERTON.
Summerton Nine Came Out Six
Aheld-'I r. Gets There With
His Sweater,.So Does Pat
and His BlOOmerS.


Aheld-sI K Gets There With
His Sweater,.So Does..Pat
and His Bloomers.
Suumerton, June 1G.-Well, I
guess Your base ballists have &C.
counted to you fully b. this time the
many reasons and circumstances
which combined to give them
thrasiiug Oh last Friday. That's
natural; I have been whipped at it,
too But really il wat hard on our
sister town to get such drubbing.
Both teams were little out o: trim
and Summerton had to pick up two
men, one from the 3rd nine who had
not yet cooled off from the previous
game.
The only unpleasant feature of the
game was this: Manning objected to
>ummerton taking on a man to fill
vacancy, simply because at a game
played some two years ago, this man,
who was then playing regularly with
Summerton. had u dispute with q
Manning player. The man in qaes-
ton was out of practice AMI had a
sore thumb to boot. Summerton had
as much light to object to the Man
ming PLAYER as vice versa. But that is
net our boys plan. We play who
ever comes, and beat them, too.
The score was disgrace to both
mines and it will not be named here,
but will simply say that our boys
came out six ahead. At one tame the
Summerton nine got badly ratified
and were whipped, but they recov-
cred and gave the rattles to the other
side.
H. NJ. McCollum and ". S. Rich
bourg c; ne to Summerton's rescue
at the critical moment. AS each
went to the bat the bases were full.
They cleaned them up aud scored
themselves.
If Manning would take a rib from
Galloway and Pat and put in the
other players the nine would play
better.
The last play made was hot one
and fitting conclusion, Joe Cantey
catching q hot liner at short from
McLeod's bat.
a running catch by Galloway in
in centre field was the prettiest play
made.
"Coot" Thames on first was ver-
liable snap-turtle.
q X" Applet and his sweater! but
that is not what the Summerton
rooters called it.
Pat Mcleod and his boomers!
Who would have thought that Pat
would become SO Len.pecked as to
have compromise on bloomers!
Among the visitors from Manning
we noticed Misses Sallie Stukes,
Nellie and Lizzie Nelson, Messrs.
Conyers Horton, Horton Rigby, Ed
gar Dickson and Walter Harvin.
The crops are all growing nicely
now and everybody is laying by corn.
The cool nights are putting honey
and lice on the catton. Everybody
is reporting blooms on their cotton.
Mrs. Isaac Ingram, of Sumter, re-
turned home on Saturday after a
visit to her sister, Mrs. B. N. Badger.
Miss Lula Badger will leave for a
visit to relatives III Sumter and Barn
well tomorrow.
NIr. and Mrs. R. B. Keller, of Or
angeburg, spent last week at DR..
BURGESS. Mr.. Keller was over for a
weeks fishing at Princes pond.
Rev. Mr.. Watson has gone down
to your city to-day.
Rev. Mr.. Connors, the new Baptist
minister, delivered his first sermon
on Sunday He created a fine i'm
preston on the people and we wish
him long and pleasant stay among
US.
Miss Bertha Hays, OF Dillon, is on
a visit to her sister, Mrs. ]. D. Ellen.
The Summerton Library Associa.
ton ordered over a hundred books