The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07
Columbus Wins the Game.


The ball season of 1903 opened |
auspiciously for Colu m bus.
When the first game of the sea
son ended all too soon last Fri
day afternoon at the ball park
victory perched on the Column
bus banner and the home team
had started winning gait which
all hope will give them the non
league championship for 1908.
The game was between the A. q
NJ. College and Columbus. Last
year, it will be recalled, a match
game was played and Columbus
lost the game so this year the
victory was doubly sweet, giving
the Colum bus contingent the
long waited opportunity for re
venge.
The weather was beautifully
cool and pleasant. and lured by
the prospect of seeing a fast ex-
hibItion the grand stands were
filled to oYerfowing with a crowd
which greatly enjoyed. the sub
sequent sport. The College
rooters were on hand with their
trumpets. bells and horns and
even their valiant work could not
land a victory and the boys in
red went down in defeat before
Yeates and his crew to the tune
of five to three. The grounds
were in good condition and a fine
exhibition was presented, the
game being the fastest and
shortest ever played on the home
grounds, being finished in one
hour and twenty minutes. 1t
was anybody's game until the
last half of the ninth, the first
half of this fateful inning enab-
/ ling Column bus to score two runs
clInching the game It opened
as prettily as any national league
contest was ever played and with
the exception of one run which
the College scored in their half
of the first there was no run
made until the fifth when Stark
vile scored another and it began
to look and feel badly for Column
bus. In the sixth, however. our
opportunity came. Hits aided
+ by errors on the part Of the visi-
4 tors enabled two men to cross
/ the home plate. The score was
tied in this inning being two to
two and from this point to the
finish of the game the interest
was sustained at fever neat. Co
lum bus took the lead in the
eighth making one run and in
the ninth scored two more. All
the College could do in her half
of these two innings was to get
one man across the plate in the
last half of the ninth inning, Civ
ing Columbus the game by a
score of five to three.
Yeates was in the box for Co
lumbus and that he is in old time
form is shown by the fact that
he never gave a base on balls
and struck out several men. On
the other hand Carter for the
College did good box work and
not a man was sent to first by
wild pitching. Cox and Norris
were the catchers and filed their
positions we'll The following is
the lineup of the game:
Columbus E., short stop;
Cox, W. E., catcher; Coleman, J.,
second base; Yates, w. c., pitcher;
Robertson, J., third base; Harris,
E., center field; Morgan, J., first base;
Il IdtIGEs ~ liz III uGlu " OllOINs 4Clb
field
A & NJ. College-Morris, catcher:
Metts, second base; Carter, pitcher;
Taylor, center field; Styles, right
field: Lilly, third base; Station, left
field; Clisby, first base; Aston, short
stop.
The lecture on last Monday
night by DR.. Francis E. Clarke,
of Boston, was a most delightful
one. DR.. Clarke is a man of not |
only national but world wide |
reputation, being the founder of
the Christian Endeavor Union,
little band of people working
for good in far off Massachu-
setts town sowing the seed of
love, praise service and good
fellowship, until the Endeavor
Union has extended around the
the world.