The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-09
WITH THE BLUE soX CLAN.
Dickson's Dreadful Drop During
Double Decker.

Double decker.
Contest in No. 2 in the bunch plucked
for Dickson was opened up by Connors.
A narrowly averted farce was the re-
suit The visitors swooned stone dead
at the first pop; and had it not been for
the intervention of the higher elements
the affair would have gone as rotten as
old saw-dust The lad with the
smooth system Of arm-spinning started
in with such commanding zeal to COB
Bile up the foe thatyth chalk stated 6
to 0 before the first inning was scarcely
over. Then the cloud-burst descended
and the fans hocked to shelter, Mr..
Ump hollered quits and a double-decker
was announced for the following even
ing.
The lid was taken off No. l b. nigue.
For some unknown reason disastrous
effect succeeded and the boy with the
neat knack was called forward to pull
the clan out of the mire. The change
cast an awful slump over the opposing
force. The result was steady loss for
them and before the ninth came around
all the favor of the II and Z score was
with the locals.
Pigue had gotten his bearings mean
while and appeared in better form for
the next round. His old established
work took fresh hold; and the clan, of
course, raked in another one. The
chalked marks stood II to 6.
The collision of the 81 variety aggre-
CATION and the Blue Sox bids well to be
called tolerable in all but one spot.
The Dickson crew was weak as can be
easily deducted from the last two con-
tests they had here, and we surmise that
they we're Just as weak from the be-
ginning as they were in these two con-
tests. Now the unknown quantity IS,
how did they ever get ahead of the clan
IN that first bout at Sunny d el Il?
The answer is hard to get at when you
stop and think, considering in the in
terim the past work of the aggregation.
Without any question that first game
should have been carried off. The
action on both decks was competent
and capable of raising interest, but ac-
cording to observation it should have
gone further
The concluding count in Saturdays
big battle with Mckenzie was 6 to 4
with the favor for the clan. With AL
Ian at the wheel and Wight in smooth,
elastic working order the aggregation
clapped the gradual clamp down upon
the enemy and pulled them out the
other end of the sausage grinder in an
extremely minus condition considering
the material they rushed down and put
into the limellght. lhe visiting crew
began the set-to in very rushing and
enthusiastic manner, and local support
suffered a slump when they sent three
runners over the plate and settled back
on their launches preparatory to taking
another bite out of the clans rep. But
just then Allan put on steam and began
to smoke. The visitors were the first to
start the tanning. Tigue, a brand-new
cIansman, got to first and prepared to
give free exhibition of his base-run
ming He got around safe and the
winning vein was struck. From there
to the eighth the score was neck and
neck. The locals came to bat for the
ninth and got two men on base when
Connors came to bat with two lost.
The first one flew on level to safe
location between second and center
field, and the runs counted, in as much
as Tigue was on first when the hit was
made.