The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-08
BALL CAMEL!
The HardscrahhIs "Glunts" Crosses Bals with ths BlngvIIIs "GIadlatsrs' and as a Result There is a Awful Battle and Numsrus Folks Gets Used Up

Last Satterday Bingville was the scene of wild excitement in this town from which some of our most respected citizens will be long time recovering ] and as result of what took place there lis at present more enn1ity between this town and the pusilanimous one-horse village of Hardscrabbie than there has ever been before, if that is possible to say nothing of several broke noses and bunged up eyes and confused heads and other injuries too numerous to ment- chion.
 Ever sinst last spring the Hardscrab- ble baseball team which calls theirselfs tue "Giunts" has been pestering the Bingvile boys to play them matched game of ball. Bingville ain't got no reglar baseball team this year, but we have some baseball players who don't take no back seat for anybody when il comes to ball playing. We'll, there come one challenge after another but some how or other Bingville didn't organize and respond promptly until last week when the Hardscrabble team sent over word that the Bingville baseball players was all towards and poltroons and was scairt to play. the Hardscrabble Giunts and of course this was insult and could not be ignored.
 Hank Dewberry and Seth Dewberry his brother who is also our lion hearted town constubble took up the. challenge and went to work organizing Bing- vile baseball team espeshial for the occashion in order to give the Hard scrabble Giuuts sich licking that they never wouldn't want to play baseball again as long as they lived.
 Finally after considerable work Hank and Seth got the team made up and they begin to pracktise Hank he was captain and Seth said he would umpire the game Follering is the posishions of the Bingvilles which calls theirselfs the "Gladiaters":
 Hank Dewberry, pitch; Hod Siocomb ketch; Brad Hinsley, first base; Lem Brown, second base; Lige Green, third base; Bug Homans, right field Snide Petersby, left field; Brent Williams, cen ire field; Plutarch Stone, extry, and Seth Dewberry. umpire.
 Well soon as the Gladiaters had prack- tised couple of times they sent word to the Hardscrabble Giunts that they was ready for them and to come or over Satterday and play the match if il
 
 and so the Hardscrabbles come and ar rove in Bingville about 10 o'clock last Satterday forenoon and Cy Hoskins put them up at his house and give them dinner charging them 25 cts. each for the meal which the Giunts thort was a turrible price to pay for all they got tc eat which consisted of doughnuts, five kinds of other cake and mashed potaters
 The news of the ball game spread like wild fire and folks come from mile: around Bingville to witness the orfu battle There was also most hunderd come over from Hardscrabble purpose to see the game.
 We'll, the game was begin prompt al 1 D. m. on the baseball diamond in Cy IIoskins pasture back of his barn and when Seth Dewberry the umpire hollerd to "Play Ball' the struggle was on.
 The Hardscrabbles went to bat first Hank Dewberry he struck out two oi the Giunts right off amidst loud cheer:
 from the Bingvile folks Hank ht throws a powerful swift ball. Zink thC third Giunt who comes to bat is one oi the best ball players Hardscrabblc hal got. Hank he went to throw inshoot | at Zink which Zink struck at and mist but the ball didn't miss Zink-it hit hin crack on the left ear and glanced of and hit Hod Slocomb, fletcher, awful wallop in the eye Hod, like fool wa: so exsited that he forgot to put on hil