Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-07-24
To Tracy City on Cumber-
lands Breezy Heights.
SEQUACHEE LOSES THROUGH
WEAKNESS IN THE BOX.
Prominent Features Of the
PLACE Kind and Gen
erous People.

A
Last Saturday at an early hour
the Sequachee ball team or as much
of it as would go left iorTracy City
10 play game Of ball and see the
city. Besides the ball team Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Houts and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Curtis of Whit.
well, Will Burnetts Nark Martin,
NJ. 9. Canpbell aud Misses Louise
Hill and Thula Martin also accom-
panied the team, besides several
visitors from Jasper.
After a long, hot and dusty ride
Of fourteen miles which seemed
to be fifty we arrived in Tracy just
as the clock on the Shook school
building was striking the hour of
twelve, having been five hours and
a quarter on the road. We were
cordially met by Mr., Hall and 9th
er players of the Tracy team who
conducted us to the Stepp house
where a fine dinner awaited us.
After dinner the News reporter
in company with Mr. James Rust.
manager. of the ball team, made a
tour of the city and met great
many of the citizens, among them
Mr.. Smith, storekeeper for the /.
C. l. Co, very cordial gentleman,
and Mr.. Ashburn formerly, Of
Whitwell. and Mr.. ]. q. Gross, also
from this valley, who holds an inn
portant position in the company
store. Everybody seemed glad tC
see us.
At 1:30 all repaired to the dia'
mond and after q short practice by
both teams game was begun which
proved a walk over for Tracv Cit,
by the score Of Is to 4, Sequache
being very weak in the pitching
department, owing to the giVini
out of its pitchers. The Tracv Cit.
, boys batted the heaviest eve
known them, and the fine pitching
, of Hall at critical points also help
4 ed to keep Sequachee from maxim
runs. Double plays were numel
!, Gus, each team making two, and
! Tracy City fielder made a HON
i. run winning So thereby. Tw
n and three base hits were plentiful
: and the spectators had many clos
. plays to applaud. For a third
! the game the score was close, an
the seven runs made in the tourt
;, inning by the Tracy players we
/, not made by through errors of th
:. of the Sequachee players but /
!, hard batting on the part of TraC
- who Gifted" the ball all right. II
Tracy boys played their usual fiji
= game in the field, Shook at secon
= Andrigg at short, Rust at third al
:, Bynum, catcher, doing special go,
= work. A. Hall in left field for S
. quachee made fine running cat
of an almost impossible fly al
felded 1t TO Hill at first. maxi
:. double play. C. Martin at sh'
- for Sequachee and Byrd at seco
II 7, played good ball, and got in
80 double play.
The score:
''' Innings. 4 2S4567S9
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nd sequachee, 0 3 1000 600
i'll, Two much praise cannot be
corded the Tracy City boys
nS ,nS their gentlemanly conduct {
kind treatment of visitors. At
cry moment hey were anticipat
their slightest wishes During
on, game there was pandemOnil
d as which while good natured cons
1rSs 1rSs erably confused our players c,
'uts, ng from such a quiet place as
y oes is. The brass band rendered $,
pleasing selections during the g
and the spectators numbered s
500 or 800 people, the stores clio