Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-05-04

in Pine Buff al this time. who mad
the run which Won the game or wn,
DATED IL the run, but every one feel
! con1ldent that every man on the team
/ was just as anxious to score in ever.
inning as the man WHO did cross Ia,
plate in the fifteenth. 1t is this hInt
OF playing thai wins pennauts and /
| Is this kind of am that the arden
nirels q the gam in Pine Bluff vii
gay theig money to sec.
Everybody who Las seen the out
field Of Of the Pine Bluff team has ez
! pressed an admiration t5l the Uaz
die men work, and there is not a man.
ager i'll the Cotton States league We
would net be willing L. rad Win
! Manager Blue for any man III tEt
! bunch or all of them together Whc1-
ever a fy bail is pat N4thiA tie feae5
OF either CayeAder Gfrorer or Muir
[,phly. the fans have n5 feeling & u
easi1os, as to wat those feRIers VII
90.
Howard MuIphey i. the right gar
ten Was rated as tho best ba1ljns
fielder i'll the Cotton States league last
year, and had few supe. iors IN the
fielding line IL finished the sea sca
18th Bason Rouge. the pennant win
nelss. and was largely responsible for
- tha, teams winning the pennant
..'ul ply was always fayolite in
Pie Bluff and the fans expires ssed
much satisfaction when it was known
that he was to play here Murphey
has not yet struck his batting pace,
but he is hitting the ball square On
the nose and the hits must go safe
after a time His batting record
last season was .291 and his field
ing record .935. For his first season
in professional ball he did remarkably
we'll in both batting and fielding but
will do better this year Murphey
was a member Of the famous Chicka
saw team of Memphis, probably the
fastest erai.profeSsional team in the
south in its time.
Ollie Gfrorer was secured over the
center garden early in the season and
is covering it to the complete salts
faction CT all concerned. He is prob
ably the best rungetter of the Lum-
bermen, and there is nothing about
the finer points Of baseball that he
G,oes not know. Baseball with
Gfrorer is profession and he goes at
it with the deter mination to make
just as ready to make sacrifice hit
in order tc win game as he is to
knock a ball over the fence for
home run, and this makes him invalu
able when men are on bases. Gfrorer
played right field for Memphis in the
season, but was released to New Or
leans later in the season and finished
the season with that team. In 81
games. he batted but 1873, and that is
probably the reason he is with Pine
Bluff today. In the Cotton States
league, he is expected to do better, !
and his average will show at the end
of the season that he has done better. !
He fielded for an average CT $50 and
got everything coming his way. !
When it come to genuinely pref /
ty fielding Dred Caender, the left |
fielder for the Lumbermen, has no
equal in the Cotton States league any
where and Cavender covers world CT !.
territory. Sometimes he drops fly.
but when he does so. the fans start ).
with astonishment and the dope I
keepers are at loss just where to
put the error. Thele is always some
excuse in the minds of the fans when
Cavender drops fly ball, and they
generally charge the error to the UNI
pire. Cavender feldad last season
with an average of .919. but nearly all
CT his errors were ~ ground balls,
partly due to the extreme roughness
Of the field last year. Not only has
he practiced this year on stop
ping ground balls until he can
play in the infeld with credit but
the condition of the playing field IS
much better, and the errors placed to
his credit this year will be few and
far between. In batting there is no
comparison between his hitting this
year and last. He had n average
of .215 last season, bu5 will hit over
500 this year, if he keeps up his pres
ent gait, Cavender came tc Pii1a
Bluff from Texas, and it will be a long
time before he ever gets out Of a
Pine Bluff uniform, unless it is to 60
% some big league.