The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-06-25
THE OCALA BOYS IN SOUTH
FLORIDA
PLAY ball?

they just up and did it. So there,
now! If anyone has any doubts along
this line he should have been at the
new ball ground Monday afternoon
and witnessed the daylight pyrOtech-
mics that were lit off. There certainly
was something doing when the Ocala
bunch of ball tossers locked horns
with the Sanford bundle.
The weather was of the quality that
makes the tallow drip, and the at
tendance of fans and fanniebelles was
of the kind that encourages good ball
playing, and tends to make the game
interesting. The game itself was a
sort of dOuble-headed surprise TO ev-
erybOdy in more ways than one. The
knOcker was relieved of his little ham
mer, and the doubter had to go way
back and occupy a seat in the shade
of his thoughts. OF course, every
body who brOwses on celery at a well
appointed dinner, wanted to see the
home team win, but from the way
things had been going since the sea
son opened, some had misgivings
True lovers of the sport expected to
see the boys put up a winning game,
and they were not disappointed. 1t
was a big crowd, a motley crowd, that
greeted the players when the umpire
called play ball.
Up TO the seventh inning the OCala
gentlemen had displayed their gen
crosby to their Sanford friends by
presenting them with six beautiful
large-s;zed swans eggs of royal pedi
gree. At this stage of the game the
Sanford players stopped long enough
TO take an Esquimau lunch Chat is.
they took up an extra hole in their
BELTS, respectfully declined with
thanks any more delicacies for the
thine being and proceeded TO help
their appetites and in the next inning
they helped themselves to five more
nice juicy ones, and took one more
nibble in the ninth, which evened up
the love feast. Then came another
display of magnanimity on the part
of both teams. Nice fresh swans
eggs were handed out freely up to the
end of the fourteenth inning, when
Sanford grabbed another run, and won
the game, which the score said was
s to Z in favor of Sanford.
Then everybody went wild with en-
thusiasm-big and little, old and
young, white and black-all stuck to
it that they knew our boys could play
ball if they had a mind to.
1t was a good game all the way
through; in fact, it was the only real
Ily interesting game played on the
home grounds this season. Costly er
rors were made on both sides, but the
few brilliant plays that were made
helped to offset them. For once the
home people had no just cause for
knocking. There was no wrangling or
high kicking, as often happens at ball
games: the decisions of the umpire
were accepted good-naturedly. 1t was
good ball playing, and the best of it
all was that the players conducted
themselves as gentlemen.
Paul Kelley and DR.. King did the
umpiring.
Following is the lineup:
Sanford
White, ,; Pennington, s; Fox, I;
Beardall. ,; Stevens, 3; Mansell, 8;
Chubb, (; Worthington, 6; Rogero, 1.
Ocala
u. Dodge. ): ". Dodge, 6: McIver
1: Waller. ,; Harris. l; Galloway. s;
Davis. 3: Izlar. 4: Bullock, >.
Time of game, 2:40.
Tuesdays Game
And they did it again.
Chubb and Beardall did the bidding.
The second of the series between
the Sanford and OcaIa teams was pull
ed of on time. and was a repetition of
the first. only on a smaller scale. The
crowd was there. the players were
there. 50 was the enthusiasm and the
result. The usual egg courtesy was
extended. but the players were out
foraging for runs and Sanford gather
ed in the lions share. leaving the
visitors TO do the wOOl-gathering.
Good all-romd team work brought re-
suits. and these were i'm demand. for
they demonstrated that the home boys
could play ball. and that the results
of the previous day were not haphaz
yards. but genuine, well blanched,
heightened groupings. Several times
during the game the pitchers were in
out. Four TO two was the hand-writ-
the quicksandS, but good work on the
part CT their team mates helped them
ing on the wall when the feast was
over.
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