The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-11
DIAMOND DUST.

DIAMOND DUST.
Watch 'em.
The Champions loom up like two
time winners.
There are but 50 points difference
between third and the occupants OF
the cellar according to the standing
today.
The Champions are 70 points to the
good and still going some in steady
grind that viii land the pennant in
Cairo. We told you So
Cairo's big center fielder, Shannon
leads the league in hitting up to
Tuesday, having a batting average of
.6S7.
And wider grows the gap between
the Champions and the Cigar Signs.
but we are not to be lnlled into over
sanguinity and forget TO play ball ev-
cry day from now until the end of
the season. We have read Aesop's
fable Of the tortoise and the hare.
The Champions will be the shoemak-
ers and keep pegging away.
The redoubtabie Patsy j. Hines
has been signed by the Browns, his
trouble with Billy Earle of Vicksburg
having been adjusted Patsy is play
ing the outfield now but may be sent
in to pitch later on. He has already
played four games in the outfield and
out of 10 times at bat made six hits
which gives him an average of 400
All the same. Patsy couldn't bat Cairo
before the opening of the season
while with Poplar Bluff.
Speaking of records Walsh Of Win.
cennes, is the only twirler thai pitch !
ed no hit game. and Gill Edwards
Of Hopkinsville pitched the best as
only one hit was made off him in six |
teen innings and that was home /
run by Wallace of Cairo, in the last |
and final inning. We are not quite |
sure, but believe that Kitty Girard |
was his opponent in the box The |
game was between greensboro and |
Hopkinsville. Wallace being then
with Owensboro.
Like Alexander we sigh for other
worlds to conquer. At the end of the
season the Champions will be taken
on trip TO Evansville, Springfield,
Memphis and Vicksburg for three
games each with the Central, Three
Eye, Southern and Cotton States
leaguers. Arrangements are now be.
ing made for dates. The purpose of
the trip will be to boost the Kitty
league and its players. The Cham
pions will more than hold their own
Sixteen men will be taken on the trip
the extra ones to be selected from
some Of the other Kitty teams.
Dummy Hughes holds the record in
the Kitty league for the greatest
number of home runs in any one
game. He put three over the Padu-
cab right field fence last year. In
the. game game Wallace planted two
in the same place while Brockett
slammed another over in deep cen
ter. II lies between Engle and Holy
cross as 20 who made the longest |
hit. The former put II over the left
field fence just between the big hat
and the foul line while the one from
the Iron Man hit In left center
on top OF board. Both these oc-
CURED at Sportsman's park, Cairo.
Sporting Editor The Bulletin: Re
plying to the statement In the Tele- (
gram OF last evening that only fifty
cents was collected for the pennant,
which was afterward returned by /
zone Of the best baseball authorities
that ever came TO Cairo" wish to
say that contributed one dollar
which was not refunded.
At the time. | labored under the i'm
preston that the Telegram stood
sponsor for the movement. as did
every one else interested in the mat
ter. as everything relating to il ap
peared in the Telegram without ref. :
ence 10 individuals.
Now, am not kicking about my
dollar. as ] stand ready 10 contribute
another. but ] thought the personal
pride Of the Telegram. since it has a
81 = /
would not permit il 70 let a subject
hat IT agitafed die Of hamilton. even '
h0ugh The proprietors has TO 90
iozn into their Jeans" 10 make good 7
! deficiency. Let MS have the pen
isnt. What's the matter with The
bulletin taking up The natter
q. G. C
The Bulletin did not aesirs 20 play \
be "porker. pFsierriIf 70 let the