The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-08-11

sCooBA IND MERIDIAN LocE HORNS rs a
Serbs o. THRFR GAMES.

scooBA y MERIDIAN ocE ~ a
SERIES Oh THREE GAMES.
NoTR.-The following account OF the
recent baseball tournament between
seoobe and Meridian reached us too
late Tor publication IN last weeks isane
OF TIE HEgALD.-EDrroB.
Last Thursday morning there drifted
into town nine husky you,bs, who
claimed Meridian, Mise, as their home
eud baseball AS their long suit. They |
soon made it known that they were out
for business, and were more than will
ing 10 learn the local contingent some !
"stnnts' about ball playing that would
be useful to them in after life. The
Scooba tribe" is always ready to catch
on 10 new ideas, so about $50 o'clock,
adorned in raiueut Of various and FAM
tastic hues, together with their visitors,
repaired to the local diamond, where a
eoodly number of fan w%orshippere had
assembled, prepared to give honor
where honor is due. After a few pre-
liminsries, the following were mustered
in for service:
Meridian-Holiz, Lyon, Bryan, Briggs,
Pickett, Grant, Willis, Gully and
White.
s~cooba-Bryan, King, Gilbert, Hun,
D. Kerr, Nicholson, John Carter, A.
Kerr and Walter Carter.
Umpire-Tol Aust.
The game opened with Dan Kerr, for
tbs locals, in the box, spo Anthony
Kerr stationed behind The batter, to
take in anything hat might escape the
ravages of the visiting ~sluggers.
Dan used to be a very high-clsss
twirler, but he has seen better days-
used his arms too much in early life
and the way those Meridianites swatted
him was a pity. Eleven scores in two
innings csused the locale TO put on
their thinking cape. The reeult of their
cogitations was that Dan Kerr was put
back to his old place at short-stop, and
Nicholson wasput ID the box.
This was Mics maiden effort as a
pitcher, but there is where he shines.
Good at any place IN the diamond, he
out-does himself in this capacity. In
seven innings only three more scored
two OF them On errors. He had some
tricks with the ball that the guests
couldn't unravel.
Holtz did the twirling act for Msri>
dian. He is rather a fancy youth with
the leather, but the boys found him
dead easy-his out fielders were kept
busy taking in the long distance trips
that the little round ball was continu>
ally making. If Meridian's in-feld had
been as lucky as their out-6sld, a diff
ferent tale might have been told when
the score-sheet was examined al the
end OF the game. 1t showed II to IA in
favor of Seooba.
1t Was talked around that the visitors
had something up their sleeves for the
afternoon game, that would make Car
ter's crowd look like 80 cente, so at 800
O'Clock a good crowd gathered to see
what it was. 1t materialized that thjs
mystery was M Doc Payne-reputed
TO be the most fantastic twirler outside
of the Southern League, 80 considerable
interest was felt when he stepped into
the box. He seemed to have a very
fetching style-anywsy, his out-ielders
had to fetch the ball q good ways to
get it back into the game after King
would swat it, Twas a measly shame
the way the locals treated that little
twirler'e cinch. They pounded it,
stamped on it, and laced it around the
field til the visitors in despair trans
ferred the mighty Payne to 1st base and
gave Pickett the job of holding the ball
in subiugation. He succeeded fairy
we'll.
But it's another story when we recite
the doings of %''little" McCaakill, the
south.pawed twirler for the home team.
Hs is a "beaut of a PITCH" and that's
no fairy tale. The visitors didn't seem
to have their batting receipt along
anyway, it wasn't recorded that they
connected with Macs puzzlers but a
very few times in the game. 1t was
three desperate swipes through space,
aud a man out. 'Tis further recorded
that fifteen mon didn't touch the ball
during the game; but whenever the
visitors did make a connection there
was always somebody waiting to take
it in, The score stood 20 to ., in Scoo-
ba's favor.
The series ended Friday morning in a
FIVE inning b~out-which resulted in a
score of 4 to 4.
We noticed that the visiting team was
composed of nine very nice fellows
there were also three or four very good
ball players IN the lot. II they hadn't
forgotten to bring a pitch. or two, with
them, the games might have ended diff
ferently,
Howard KING hasn't foroaffoo 4ba