The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-06
JOHNSON BOAROERS
WON GREAT GAME
NEAT SUM REALIZED FOR CON.
FEDERATE HOME FROM YES.
TEROAY'S GAME.

Marching TO the battle song. "The
Bean Brigade and wearing The col.
ors "Turnip Green's" the bali teams
from the johnson and Bell boarding
houses went to Loreua Park yester-
day afternoon to play. what was ex-
pected to be. the greatest game of
ball ever played in the South. Two
or three hours before the game, the
rooters for each team were on the
streets wearing their colors and ring
ing the bells to notify the people -aat
the time was drawing near.
The greater part of tho crowd reach
ed the park about an hour before tic
game and watched the players warm
up"
Promptly Mt o'clock the game was
called by Dr Connolly. the umpire.
The Johnsons were first at bat. and
Catcher Wolverton. who was known
| in his palmy days OF hasc11il work
as Crazy Snake" because he "ot''
| 'em alive" was the first man up. He
got free transportation TO first. sttlo
second and was brought in home by
Sanders. who got real two-baggcr.
Gregg the ex-star. was the mex, meu
! up. He also got two-ba sge". as "a
/ Don Russell. His hit brought in two
more scores for the Johnson team
and the cheering from their rooters IN
| the grand.stand was enough 20 twn
! the head of most any player on r. an.
/ but DoS Is accustomed to such 'h,nrs
and only bowed slightly to the crowd
] n { In f,F
/ that kind were an everyday occur
/ renee Wooten. the next man up.
sent a nice one out to first, but there
was Bickle. the mississippi STAR on
/ first for the Bells. and he was on the
works. and 1t was out for Wooten.
! Then you should have heard the Bells
| ring in the grandstani. Pennington,
the next man up. got hit and made
and sent fly high up into space
and IL landed right on top of Holt,
but he had left his basket at home
and the ball bounded To the ground.
Clements landed fly almost over the
fence. His play almost brought down
the grandstand. Buchanan. the Tex.
an. who once refused to join the
Browns sent nice two-baggcr to left
fiorl The Johnson team made six
scores in the first half
Holt. the first man up for the Bells,
! puncturcd the air. but made II TO
first on Wolverton's error. Bickle got
a free pass to first on balls. but had
forgotten some of the rules of the
game and made hard run to first
on the advice of friends in the grand
stand Harreld, the next man up,
landed a two-bagger and brought in
Holt and Biclle; Critchfield hit lin
err to first. but Buchanan, with the
aid of a piece of plank. stopped the
ball ard the Jump" called "Critch''
out. The Bells securei five runs in
their half
Some features of the game were
the catching of Foster for the Bells,
who can handle ball almost as fast
as he can cake of ice. and Buchan.
an for the Johnsons. who caught a
fly without the aid of basket: In
fact, there was not man on either
team that didn't pull off some feature
work. Lack of space prevents full
description. The disappointment OF
the whole game. both to the teams
and to the visitors, was the fact that
Joe Ben Champion was unable to play
Joe Ben had been doing hard train.
ing for some time and Mrs. Johnson
was dieting him, he being allowed on
ly six biscuits at each meal and they
say that he was getting in fine trim
but he had urgent business at Guthrie
and while there almost bankrupted the
lone hotel and Is now confined to MS
room suffering from an attack of govt
some of the team are of the opinion
that he Is founlered and have advised
him to keep his feet in water for the
next few days.
Both the teams are friends of our,
and for that reason We will not give
the score. but the game went to the
Johnson boarders. For any other in
formation on the game. you may con
suit them. 4 good sized crowd was
ont to see the game and nice sun
was realized for the Confederate
Home committee.