The Forrest City times., 1899-08-11
At BriakIey.

sP ''SsoiicSs anu sot5 duedu mdklng record in the face of All corners. They have not played losing game this season, and small wonder-we have a strong. team. At Drinkley Tuesday our boys snatched a victory from the local team of that place by a score of lf to :, which is the second time this season that the Brlhkleyites have met defeat before our ball players. The excellent pitching of Willis Cook was revelation tothe Brinkley people, and many of them experienced that can ned-refrigerated. " which only comes to man when he makes his maiden fan" ;" They couldn't hit our darl. ing Procter." Cook is undoubtedly the coming pitcher of this section and he pitched mighty pretty game at Brnkley Tuesday.
 There is a game on tapis with Hele- ma for Monday. and the men are get ting in shape to make tile game one of tue most interesting of the season, Helena has t strong team and the To, CTS of base ball may expect something good, and in all probability the best and most hotly contested. game o: the season will be played at nlanton Park Monday. Mir. Webb hap proposed to give them . per cent os the gate re- ceipts if they win and twenty-five dol lars for the game. if they lose, which is most liberal proposition. Helena is one of the most enthusiastic towns over base ball in this part of the state and the games at that place have been exceptionally well attended this season, it being an ordinary occurrence to play to S75 crowds.
 MT. Frank Shepard, of Dyersburg Tenn, who is considered one of the finest backstops in the country will be here this week. and his preseuce on the team will strengthen it materially, The infield will be practically, impreg. nable and the outlield stronger than at any previous time this year. From a batting standpoint the home team will be much stronger and the aggregation should continue to win games. 3
 we understood the first of the week that the game between Forrest City and Helena was to take place the first ofnext week (Monday), and we knew our team would be in position to win [, on that date, but things got mixed up and in the events that followed our little air castle was torn down-the date was changed, and foi this fact the above picture loses some of it's brightness.
 The home team met the Helena team In this city yesterday and the visitors took the game by score of Is to ,. The attendance was good-the day was shot. .r
 This is our first defeat and it served to show usRery plainly the weak points in the home line uE. We have no ex- cuses to make. however. and will say that we cherish heafty desire to get at the Helena team once more, which we will probably do next week in that city, with all the weak points strength ened, it is to be hoped-we want our lanrels back.
 We are sore over the defeat,s and a 
 little raw about the decisions we got in the first inning.
 Spectators from Marlanna and Hele. ma were quite numerous in the crowd. and those from Marianna seemed to enjoy the defeat of the Forrest City team immensely. Now we would like awful well to get a game with the Plummerites. We all have our,off days and the game yesterday should not be taken as specimen of our ball playing, and both sides made iunumerables CT. TOTS. Prominent among the specta- tors was Mir. Tom Wood, of the Mari. anna Courier, and manager of the Pummerites. 4. There will probably be a gar.e Mon- day with Cotton Plant. Ths team is in good shape tdw, having recently strengthened themselves with sever good players.
 The game at Helena between Forrest | City and that place will be played about Wednesday, we suppose, and Il is expected good crowd from this city will attend. m