The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-27
Paducah Team and Amateurs
Play First Game of Season.
A Big Crowd Went Out to the Park to
Get a Line on the
Men.
GAME REPLETE WITH ERRORS

The first public appearance Of the
local professional X. l. 7. league base
ball team was made yesterday after
noon at Wallace park when 1t defeated
the independents, . local amateur
team organized for the purpose of
playing tine professionals a practice
game. The game was one -sided from
the start but the bad playing was not
confined to the amateur team alone.
There was large crowd present,
probably numbering $500. and much
interest was manifested in the profess
sional team. Several players did not
make the best showing but this is ex-
cusable taking the new ground into
consideration and the few times they
had played together. The profession
ais used all three pitchers, each pitch
ing three innings. Hedges pitched the
first three, Morgan the second and
Mackie the third. Hedges made the
best showing of the three. The Inde-
pendent team used two pitchers,
Dicxe pitching six innings aud Plum
lee three The lineup Of the team
was as follows:
ependents-wilkins and Irwin,
catchers; Dicke and Plumlee. pitch
ers; Pruess, first base; wilkins, second
base; Davis, third base; Andrew, short
stop; Plumlee, right field; Overstreet,
centerfield; Gutenberg, left field.
League team-Perry catcher; Mor-
gan, Hedges and Mackie, pitchers
Lloyd, first base; Sexton, second base
Clifford, third base; lie Compile, short
stop; Kenney. right field; Sweeney,
center field; Murray, left field.
Dioke had poor support or would
have made Q better showing. The
amateurs were at . disadvantage in
the fact that they had not worked to-
sether much. Piumlss's pitching FOR
the amateurs was excellent, the pro-
fessionsls getting only two clean hits
of him during the three innings he
pitched. The street car company did
a good business yesterday and handled
the crowds admirably on the return to
the city. There were about one hun
dred and fifty ladies out to the game
and seemed well pleased with the
sport.
There were several visitors from
neighboring cities present at yester-
days game, among them being news
paper man from Cairo who had come
up to see the sport and investigate the
strength of the team. He stated that
he thought Paducah had good team
but inferred that Cairo would be fsr
superior. "Ball players are coming
in on every train" he said, "either in
the box car or on the bumpers and we
have over thirty-six to pick from" "
News from the other cities show a
slowness in organizing teams but Pa
ducah has organized and ready for
PLAYING.
| Several sportsmen and newspaper
men have been working on a schedule
but have not yet arranged successful
one.
The game between the Y. M. O. A.
team and the X. !. 7. professional
team, which had been set for Satur-
day, has been postponed until some
future date to be decided later. Mr..
weiIle and Manager jackson, Of the
baseball association, did not want the
boys to work too hard on the start and
will probably play no more until Sun
day unless a game is secured for the
30th.
The Centrals, the 10. baseball team
defeated the Sterlings at the railroad
boys' grounds on the rear of the shops
yesterday afternoon by SCORE Of 10
to 8. There were not many grand
stand plays on either side bus Jerome
Smith, of the victorious team, made
several three bsggers ana home runs.
The batteries for the Centrals were
Smith, catch err; Barney and Sutherland
pitchers. For the Sterlings Brahic
and Brahic, catcher and pitcher aud
Hays, catcher and Russell pitcher.
The game lasted several hours and was
practically a smuggling match.