The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

travelling. So the sanity Saint, Guy
by the first name, was marched over to
the altar as a sacrifice to the Green
wood rams. All the grandstand aad
bleachers were busily predicting what
an easy time Saint would have with
the visitors, while a few Of the others
we're little dubious over the matter
as Greenwood bore an enviable rep and
looked strong in their uniforms of gray.
Manager Saunders as usual. sent out
Winding Ball to bite off the first hunk
and size up the batting strength of the
Clarksdale husky youths. "Rube" was
all smiles throughout the nine acts, and
kept this hard hitting bunch down to
five hits, according to the dope wired
Greenwood that afternoon. And these
were scattered. Never was there any
danger of a Clarksdale man edging
from third into home. No, Mickey and
Gus wouldn't stand for it. But Frank
Allen won the game. Saint pitched a
clever game considering what he was
up against. We only livened him up
for seven hits and they were scattered.
But in the second inning Frank Allen
hit one smack on the nose for four bags
netting the lone tally of the game. Dod-
inning, but was left on base. Mickey
hit for two bags in the seventh. At
tendance was fair.
The Second Game.
With large degree of over-con-
fidence and just a little under the
weather, we lost the second game to
the fast aggregation at Clarksdale. We
at Greenwood thought it was cinch
that Frank Allen would win his game,
but the wire that afternoon told diff
ferent tale. Allen pitched good game,
besides he made costly error in the
inning just when Clarksdale lad had
raped three bases. His wild throw at
this inopportune time sent Clarksdaie's
man in with their tally. The game was
a jam. up exhibition and greatly pleased
the fans present. Clarksdale scored
early, neither Allen or Veasey wasted
time and the game did not drag. AL
lens wildness gave little encourage
ment to the home lads. Veazy was al
most a puzzle to the Greenwood boys,
and he was in fine form. Our boys,
some Of them, nearly broke their backs
hitting at the weeping willow curves.
But Greenwood's errors is the real ex-
planation why we lost the game. Ben
ME Mitchell miscued one in the outer
garden, a thing which almost never
happens. This caused another of
Clarksdale's runs. Every run but one
was made of of our errors. Still they
touched Allen for seven hits, one or
two of them being long drives. But
our five errors gave the hickey to
Clarksdale. Clarksdale had the better
shade throughout the game, as our boys
from the errors they piled up, must
have enjoyed themselves in that city
the night before the game. Clarks-
dale's runs came in the first, fourth and
sixth innings, while our two came in
the fourth and sixth. 1t looked as
though every time we would ease in
one, Clarksdale would squeeze in one
more. The feature Of the game was
Con Welch's three-bagger, Alcorn's
stop over third, and Maxson's playing
and hitting.
N0body's Game.
After three hours OF wrangling, tuss-
ling, teething, grumbling baseball, the
last game between Greenwoo and
Clarksdale ended in a tie, very unsatis-
factorily to the large crowd present.
It was called in the ninth with the
score 6 and 6. The errors Of both
sides and the hits made off Saint and
Mitchell we're prominent. They were
both raped in pinchcs. Bennie was
relieved in the eighth inning by our
'Rube," who held them in check the
rest of the game. Rube is as good as
the best OF them, our best winner, and
his hackers should give him more en-
couragement than he receives. No la
voritism should be shown. and the en-
tire staff should receive the same con-
alteration. Anyhow, we outhit the
Clarksdale turtles. getting eight hits
on Of st. Guy Saint, who had the nerve
to buck against our line for the second
time in the same week. Bennie was
raped hard too. and yielded ak hard
hits. In tho first inning, - the result
OF two errors and . hard bingle, Cla,ks-
dale led Oh with two runs to the good
Every thing drifted lazily along until
the sixth inning when we both made i
tally, Gus Mcdonald getting ) home
run. But in that fatal seventh Green-
wood pfleasup Eve fnna. Wish tho baeea
ful Gus MoDonala sent ont : stineise
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