The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-05-18

Base Ball.
The BourbOnites won their first game
on the home grounds Friday. They
were pitted against the Frank forts. the
team that won the Blue Grass. Pennant
last year. O'Donnell was in the box
for Paris and pitched a steady game,
working his way out of several diff
cult places. The boys played with vim,
and set the fans wild by holding the
visiting team down to the one run
made IN the fifth inning. The game
resulted In score of 8 to l.
Saturday Frankfort and Paris again
crossed bats and the home. team met
with defeat by score of 10 to in favor
of Frankfort. "Goosey" Swearingen
was in the box for Paris and was hit
hard by the visitors.
Fleming was called on in the seventh
inning to pull Paris out ct the hole,
but the game had been won by Frank
fort. Errors were the feature of the
anne.
There were at least ] 800 people at
League Park Sunday afternoon to wit
ness the game between the Winchester
Hustlers and the home team which re-
suited in the visitors W inning the game
in the ninth inning by the score of to
3. Burton, one of Winchester's star
twirls was in the box and proved to
be an enigma for the Paris boys, al
| lowing them only three hits. Quinlan
was in the box for Paris and pitched
an excellent game of ball, although the
visitors got seven hits off Of him.
| I INN hod Of LoI1 IL
and strikes, Paris getting by far the
rawest end of the deal. The follow
ing is the score by innings:
2 8 5 6 z 6 9
Paris 80 0 0 l 0 0 0 2-3
Winchest'r0 9 0 0 0 0 IS
Hits-Paris three; Winchester z.
Errors-Paris 6; Winchester 2. Two
Base hits-Ingels, CombeI, Barnett,
Scott. Struck Out-Quinlan 3 Bur
ton 5. Base on balls-Quinlan 2
Burton 2. Hit by pitched ball-Quin-
Ian, Burton l. Umpire Rasch, time
Of game hour and 35 minutes.
NOTES.
Vernon Shaw and Bert McClintock
occupied box Sunday.
Fifty feet of additional bleachers
were built Friday and still there was
not room enough.
Felix, the new addition, secured
fromSthe Frankforts was prominent on
first with the locals Sunday.
About fifteen automobile parties
were in attendanceSunday among which
were number of the fair sex.
A special train from ,Cynthiana in
charge of Division Passenger Agent,
S D. Bush, of the l.. & N. brought
1913 to Sundays game.
The following composed an auto
party from North Middletown at Sun
days game: H S. Caywood, George
Wilson, Chas- Jones. Bert Rash, and
Waiter Thomas.
Paris goes to Lexington today anG
returns here TO play Lexington tomOr
row and Thursday. Friday will be sr
off day. Shelbyville will be here fol-
games Saturday and Sunday.
About 800 fans from Winchester at
tended the game Sunday among who
were noticed Messrs. w. r. Thomas,
Jas. Phillips, Charles Strother, j. O.
| Stewart, H. &. Butch. Woodson Moss
and Editor Perry.
1t was said by many that A. J. Win
ters big "Billiken" did the work for
the Paris boys in Fridays game. He
was percbed on one corner OF the
grand stand with the black and white
colors OF the club flying to the breeze.
I Cynthiana sent Up q large delegation
TO witness the game Sunday. This
crowd from the Sister CRY was pretty
evenly divided in the matter of choice
between the 'Hustlers" and ths
BourbOnites.
Hannigan got enc Of the three hits
off of Burton in Sundays game anC
scored the first run for the locals. His
misjudging of the fy was due to the
difficult sun field in which be was not
accustomed to playing. In the second
game with Frankfort he secured two
base and one three base hits.
VIM. Parrish, the first base man of
the Paris team who has been at the
Hattie Clay Infrmary, at Richmond,
since the terrible collision with catch
er Eigin in that city several weeks
ago, is now able to be up and was
AROUND MS room. lie VIII De aDle 70
leave the Infirmary in about two
weeks.
jeff Elgin has resigned as manager
of the Paris team and Henry Schmidt
has been signed to fill that position.
This will not in any manner affect the
personel of the team. Elgin will con-
tinue to catch without any reduction Of
his salary. The only changes that will
be made will probably be- in the
pitchers box.
Henry Schmidt, the new manager of
the Paris team. is an old pitcher of the
Brooklyn National League team and
manager in the Southern League.
This season he has been the official
coach for the Winchester Club and was
relesed by them Saturday so they could
get under the salary limit. Schmidt is
an old ball player and has pitched one
game for Winchester this season, los
ing by score of 2 to 0. He plays any
position except catcher. it is not the
Intention of the Paris Club to use him