The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-11
Opening Game Of Ball Played at
Wallace Park Yesterday.
Hopkinsville Boys Won From Padu-
cab BY n Score of Seven
to Three.
OF THE

Tho Wallace park league grounds
were formally thrown open yesterday
afternoon and the frst professions!
game Of baseball of the season played.
The Hopkinsville league team and the
local professionals were the opposing
teams and the former won over the lat
ter by a score of to 3.
The game was called about O'Clock
and the grand stand was well filled.
The lines about the grounds were
packed with those who had not bought
grand stand tickets. There were 1850
people out, a good crowd considering
the threatening weather.
There were errors made by both
teams, Paducah losing principally by
bad throwing The lienup was as fol-
lows:
Paducahs; Kenney, right field
Plumlee, center field; Murray. left
field; Sexton. third base; Simcox, sec
ond base; Clifford, short stop; Perry,
catcher; Lloyd, first base and Morgan
pitcher. Mackey pitched the last half
Of the ninth inning for the Paducahs.
Hopkinsville Street, catcher; S.
Morris, center field; Houston, second
base; +. Morris, third base; Atkisson,
short stop; J. Morris, first base Watts.
left field; Mullen, right field; and Egg
gleton, pitcher.
Goose eggs were features Of the first
two innings
In the third inning the visitors
scored one and Paducah retaiiated by
three runs, the only inning in which
scores were made off the visitors.
Hopkinsville made one score in the
third, one in the fourth, four in the
fifth and one In the sixth. Street, s.
Morris, Houston, Atkisson, Watts,
Mullen and Eggleton made the scores
for the visitors while those made for
the home team were marked down fol
Kenney, Sexton And Simcox. Kenny
Murray got two three bagGers, the fea
ture batting Of the game, and simco'
played a faultless game at second
Perry made several bad throws bal
WAS i'll Throughout the game. Murra,
was at the bat five times ard mad,
four safe hits bringing in two of tn,
scores with one.
Lacy Dunn acted as umpire. The 10
cal boys worked on Pitcher Eggletor
hard and hit him with pleasure. Nor
gan seemed easily found also and the
home boys were kept busy cleaning
the diamond while the visitors wer,
at the rubber.
Hedges will pitch this afternoons
game and the local sports feel conf
dent of winning out. Yesterdays game
was the first game played here by the
local team which was handicapped by
short stop L. Complies illness, ecessi
tating n changeup. Mackey, who
pitched the last inning for the home
boys, made good play from the DO,
putting out a runner at second. He il
quick man and has an invincible de
livery.
Lotion Plumlee. a well known Padu
cab amateur, aid good work in center
field for the home team, and also bait
cd we'll.
The Y. NJ. G. A. baseball team de.
feated the Alden Knitting Mills team
Saturday afternoon at the fair
grounds by score of IA to 5, Bishop
pitched for the Y. NJ. O. A. team and
did excellent work. The grounds are
not in the very best condition which
accounted for the many errors made.
Another game will probably be ar
ranged between the two teams for Sat
urdsy afternoon.
The regular baseball season OF the
X. I. T. league will open at Paducah
May 81 with GAINESVILLE. The sched-
ule has at last been arranged, and will
be shortly announced. Paducah will
play away from home as follows:
At Henderson, June 8, 8, z, August
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