Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-07
KNOCKS THE sTUFFING OUT OF A LITTLE ROCK
 BALL,
But the Visitors Were up to Snuff and Tied tho Score.-
 A Game Worth Seeing.

The Dickinson Arms Base Ball club, of Little Rock, and the Pine City club again met yesterday after noon and they gave the public a rattling good game of ball. They played ball and ball only and played it for all there was in it. They play ed ten innings and finished each with a score of ten runs.
 The game opened beautifully that is for the visitors. Scott took up his dub and made up his mind to find that ball. He found it, and with q just as easy" smile upon his face, started for first. Unfortunately he knocked fly and Fuller heard about it. That settled it. Scott was out, for any ball that comes near that invineible third baseman is his. and no one dare dispute his claim. Pulley, Paschal and Slagle made runs while Hartman and Cros- by retired the side.
 Our boys next essayed 10 strike but struck not. They immediately had placed to their credit three as beautifully moulded goose eggs as were ever fashioned by an artists pen.
 The Dickinson men repeated their work of the first inning. scoring three times. Then it was that the Pine City boys lit their pipes and began to smoke up. Fuller went out.
 Something must be done, and Ben Franklin realized it as he stepped to the plate. He smiled one smile at the dear ones whose hearts he has always delighted and then faced the pitcher as if he had been appointed committee of one to annihilate Bill Mckinley. Sizzi came the leathern bullet and Benjamin met it half way. Crack went the bat and -i -i the last that was seen of that ball, was when it was trying to get through the woods somewhere in the vicinity of Star City. It was a home run worth recording and Ben jamin's journey from plate to plate again, was triumphant one. Don ovan went out, while Marshall, Vowell and Murphy each scored. Baldwin went out making the re- cord show I to , in favor of the home team. Then everybody went after their ''razoos" "and their pistols. In the third, fourth and fifth innings the Dickinson team worked the poul- try racket to finish. They got nothing but goose eggs. In the sixth Scott and Pulley made runs.
 Pine Bluff closed the last half in- gloronsly and the score stood s to I in favor of the guests. In the first half of the seventh. the Little Rock players made q, 0, 0. In the second half Franklin was the first man at the bat. Do it again, shouted the gang. He did it. The last ball he hit, left, it is supposed, on a journey Of inquiry to locate the whereabouts of the first that had been so uncere- mOniousiy biffed. His last home run was companion picture to the first 1t was the only run of the inning. In the eighth the Dickinsons, didt't do anything for themselves, but Vowell crossed the plate. Score 9 to to s; Pine City.
 In the first half of the ninth Little Rock $ cracker jacks forged ahead by one Hartman and Hutton crossing the plate. The roOters went wild. Pine Bluff enthusiasts were feeling "oneasy' until Vowell tied the score: 10 to 10. Neither team did anything in the tenth inning and the game was officially called a draw.
 There will be another game this afternoon between the same teams and the public can rest assured that there will be festival for base ball cranks. There should and doubtless