The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-05-29
MAGNIFICENT
GAME OF BALL.
Mooney Team From Murfreesboro
With a Seventeen Year-0ld Boy
Pitcher, Makes Our Sluggers
Look Like Thirty Cents.


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Many post mortens were held on the
streets Saturday night, excited rooters
telling how and where Columbia lost
the game, who lost it, etc Some said
the umpire did it; some said it was bad
errors in the first inning; others said il
was failure to hit the ball and bad base
running, and still others had other ex.
plantations, some of which were anus
ing and some worth considering. The
real explanation, however, of Column
bias defeat was the beautiful exhibition
of the pitchers art, as exhibited by
young Mr.. Faucet, MONEYS twirler
Thereby hangs the whole tale. Twelve
men struck out, one scratch hit and one
error behind him which did not cos
anything was the record of the straw
berry southpaw from Murfreesboro a.
the opening of the ninth inning. HI
had Columbia at his mercy and made
monkeys out of the boys. There wa:
never any chance to beat him. W.
couldn't hit him and there's the story
Nickens, too, pitched beautiful
game, allowing only seven hits and fan
hing eight men. He had excellent
control, not single man walking tt
first. La the first and seventh innings
however, Mooney punched their hits or
him and won the game With any sort
of batting at all behind him the game
that Nickens pitched would win eigh'
teen games out of every twenty.
The game began with Mooney at the
bat. Smiser struck out. Muse hit
safe. He played too far off first and
Merrill threw to Thomas to catch him,
but the throw was bad and the ball went
past Thomas. Muse went to second on the
error. Bridges lined out two-bagger
and Muse scored. Brown followed with
another two Dagger, and Bridges scored.
Brown tried TO take third on his hit and
Watson threw the ball over Clapp's
head, Brown scoring. Campbell and
Faucet then went out on flies.
After this Nickens steadied himself
and was invincible until the seventh
inning. when the visitors hit him again
for three Dagger and two singles. In
the second inning he sent the first two
men that faced him to the bench with
six successive strikes over the plate.
In the seventh, Mr.. Faucet, the
cause of all our troubles, laced out a
three Dagger to right center. White
field sent pop-up to short, but Hender-
son connected safely, and Faucet
scored. Henderson stole and scored on
Hamilton safe hit. Smser and Muse
then flied out to the outtield.
Columbia scored her only two runs in
the last half of the ninth. In every
but the much needed hit never came.
In the ninth Clapp. the first man up,
sent corking single into right field.
Then there was something doing in the
grand stand and bleachers. For eight
long weary innings they had seen our
best batters fail before the puzzllng
Blenders of the freckle-faced young col
legian, and when Clapp caught one on
the nose and pasted it good and hard for
a safety, a great cheer shot up from the
throats of the fans. There were such
things in base ball history as a few
games batted out in the last half of the
ninth, ana visions of Garrison finish
began to float before the eyes of the
anxious and excited fans. Soldier
Phalon marched up to the plate There
was something in Phalon s eye that
BODIED no good to Mr.. Faucet, and
when he rubbed his hands in dirt the
urcnins hanging on the top of the fence
10 left field and sitting in the willows
and sycamores along the river bank
knew he was going to do some business.
Zone strike, shouted the umpire, but
Phalon only smiled. The next one
suited him and he hit it resounding
whack which sent it bounding between
first and second. 1t looked good for
safety, but Henderson, who was playing
off his base, made chase for it and
picked it up and threw Phalon out to
Faucet, who had covered the bag.
Things did not look so good. but still
here was Clapp safe on second, and
ust one man down. Then there march
ID out to the batter's box Jim Thomas.
He had gotten one hit; maybe he could
ret another one, and the rooters' hearts
umped up in their threats as Jim
'wung his bat upon his shoulder.
There was desperate CLEAN in his eye,
which plainly said: 1--WE shall not be
lisgraced with a shut out" He caught
me Of Mr.. Strawberry's curves and
ent it screaming past third for a
,ood clean single. Out into left
ield the bail sped, and toward the
'sll came Whitefield. anxious to cut off
Jlapp, who had turned third and was
caring for home. Whitefield picked up
he sphere and shot it toward Muse,
rho was sta nding right over the base.
The throw was straight as an arrow but
/ was low. The ball hit MUSES. init on
he short bounce, and the big catcher
Missed it, the ball bouncing over his
cad, and Clapp crossed the rubber
nth the first run of the game for Co
lmbia Clapp was caught by ten feet
y Whitefield's throw and IL Muse had
cid the ball Faucet would have had
'ell learned shut out to his credit. In
he excitement and chagrin incident to
,lapp's score, the visitors, three or four
whom had run 10 to back up Muse,
ere slow In picking up the mutfed ball |
nd Thomas ran around to third. Tan
err then struck out and Watson sent a
ow bounder to Faucet, which went
trough him, and was then fumbled by