The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-08-05
A WALL OF WOE.
EUFAULA IS VERY BUSY EX-
PLANNING.
Sore Over Her Recent Crushing Defeat
and Inability to Play Ball. The Rec
cent Games.

and Inability to Play Ball. The Rec
cent Games.
At the close of the recent series of ball
games here the Eufaulaites went home
in bad humor over their crushing defeat.
and have harped loud and long over it
since. Their grievances are best set forth
in the following from the Eufaula
Times:
1T is not worth while, of course. to
talk now of how Eufaula lost the last
game with Dawson. 1t hurt us very
much to lose the last one. And the boys
account fer it very readily. Dawson had
number of professional people, from
q five to seven. Eufaula played only one.
4 We depended on our pitcher to defeat
Dawson, and we could have done it, so
] the boys say. Dawson understood that.
The gentleman who pitched for us has
been pitching in the southern league.
He has pitched in every southern league
town and under every southern league
umpire. He thought he knew the re-
quirementB. But the young man who
umpired for Dawson did not think he
did. He undertook to show him. He took
hold of him and placed him and the
Eufaula contingent were much amused,
He was placed so that he could only toss
the ball so that niDe-year-old could hit
1T, x Yesterday morning an offer was
made by wire to play Dawson next week
the same two teams, with an agreed
HupOn umpire, on the Eufaula diamond,
for 81, 900 side.'
That ola saw about the umpire de-
serves no attention. 1t was expected
~ that he would be mathematical for do,
Wing his duty. His decisions met with
general approval and Eufaula can't
hide her inability to play winning ball
behind him. To an unbiased public.
leaving out the eleven errors made by
Eutaula, it is at once apparent that 25
hits against would lose any game. That
is the record, and it is one that tells the
whole story.
But while it is always the privilege of
thel defeated to explain, and this we
would not deny Eufaula now, the Times
makes one or two statements that can
not 60 unchallenged. Dawson did not
play from five to seYen professionals.
NOnly one of her team-Short-h
played in the league; and this must have
oeen known to he visitors, if their minds
We're IN condition to receive and retain
knowledge while here. Daw son PLAYED
no more outside men than did Eufaula.
either, and it requires much gall to com
sDIain on that score.
AS to the challege 10 PLAY for 81 OO0
the manager of the M0narchs tells ms
chat he received no such proposition,
lie did receive challenge. though. for a
game this week, but no such DAZZLING or
magnificent sum was put before him as a
tempter His reply was that Dawson
] could not play this week. but wonId
make dates for game later No reniv
70 this was received from the neonla Tho
8appeared to want to come at the Mo-
archs again until Monday via,
our players from abroad had 70
turned home, and as the business saason
rs now at hand it will be imnossihlo -
GET the same team together again
The Times says the Daws5n Too, -.o.
given go per cent of the gate rece f1 " 90
Eufaula. This must be misto1-ap Pc 20 'SO
o; I uui ooys are positive they got no free
S 0aig IA ChaI town. Their expenses were
pau, out they most certainly did NOT
'"1oi0 any hufaula dollars or dimes.
THE RECENT GAMES.
"A a lew e weeks ago an engagement was
l -o,,Ie oy the Monarchs to play series of
IaneS win Eutaula. At the last minute
~ IVA, was round that some of our best men
v Guy no. not GO The fans of Dawson adj
j FiSeG t the team not to go, but thew dis
n rrAsa me idea of breaking an engage
+ HonI "hen the game was SO well adver-
, olSeu' AS result they were beaten two
fba E The challenge was returned to
o one Eufaula team to play here. They
tbs sfP @So ana went to work to get team
s sr,%c ' ne thought was Invincible-Hahn
a dIGI mo mobile to pitch two games, Fred
o 800 W pltch another, Sweat from Mont
sV~ery' sullivan from South Carolina