Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-05-05


section was pulled off yesterday af-
ternoon between the amateur teams
composed of the Fats and Leans
business and professional men, of the
city. The prominent features Of the
game were the number Of runs, hits
and errors, the number of fine plays
that were not made and the costumes
worn by the participants. The Leans
| went to bat first, and Mr.. ]. A. Fa-
bacher was the first to face the
doughty and invincible CD Ben
Holmes. who undertook to make a
noise like a baseball pitcher, and
came to grief at once. ]. Kearney fol-,
lowed and after hitting two flies, sent
single down to third base, and the
fielder being unable to avoid the ball,
stopped it and got it over to first in
time to head off the runner. Mr.. Cum
ningham followed with safe hit to
Left field, but was caught IN an at
tempt to steal second. One hit, no
runs.
| Matheny was first up for the Fats
and sent a-two Dagger down into GEN.
terfield and went to third on Holmes
| sacrifice. Toomer followed with
grounder to second, scoring Matthew
and landing on first himself Rich
! followed with grounder to third,
which Baxter managed to avoid, and
went to second, Toomer scoring on
a wild throw from left field. Bon
slagle came to grief, leaving Rich on
third. Two hits, two runs.
Greer sent high fly to short stop,
which was muffed, Chandler hit safe
to first and Baxter sent a high fly to
right field which was muffed, scor-
ing Greer and Chandler. Cameron
flied out to second and Hyde, who
went to first on an error, was caught
in an attempt to steal second, retir-
ing the side. One hit, two runs.
Trait put one over the left field
fence, but being so fat was unable
to get further than second on 1t. Has
sell went to first on short stops error
and Trait scored. Kennedy was given
his base on balls, and Potter put
line drive to center field, and went
around to third base on it like he was
driving to a fire. Two men scored.
Matheny went to first on a hot
grounder which the shortstop just did
manage to dodge, and Holmes went
to first on the pitchers muff of a pop
fly. Toomer hit to shortstop, who
threw to second, putting Holmes out,
but allowing Potter to score. Ma
theny worked around to third and
managed to score a tally before Rich
sawed out. Two hits, five runs.
In the first half of the third Fa-
bacher hit to left field and went to
first before Bonslagie recovered from
his surprise at having stopped the
ball. Kearney flied out to catcher,
which was the first pretty catch in
the game. Cunningham sent high
fly over left field for home run, scor-
ing Fabacher. Greer was given a pass
to first, and went to second on a
passed ball and to third on catcher's
error. Chandler sent fly to center
fielder, who could not get near 1t.
and went to third, scoring Greer. Bax-
ter went to first on short stops error
but lost in his try for steal to his
happy home. Chandler scored. Cam
eron hit safe to first but died on
Hyde's bag. Two hits, four runs.
Bonslagle saws. Trait gets a base
on balls. Hassell hits to center for
one bag. Instead of Kennedy's hit
ting the ball, the ball hit him, so he
sauntered down to first. Potter flies
out to left field Matheny beats out
bunt, and Trait scored on it. Has
sell scored on Holmes liner to short
stop. Kennedy went to sleep on sec
ond base, and when Holmes sent a
liner to short, forcing Matheny, Ken
nedy found himself without a place
to stand. Two runs, three hits.
Hassell was put in the box for the
fats in the first half of the fourth
inning and they went down before
him like ciaff. Kearney got as fal
as third. No hits, no runs.
Toomer came first to bat for tn,
l fats, and tried to knock the ball owe
the water tower. He failed How
ever he got it past the pitcher an,
went to first base. Rich put ground
er past the pitcher, short stop, sec
ond base and center fielder, and i
the scramble to see which one coul
come the closest to 1t without actr
ally getting it, went to third bass
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