Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-08
COLUMBUS PLAYS
LOCALS TO A TIE
In a Pitchers Battle Be-
tween Daley and Lamar.
Game Gale d on Account
of Darkness at End of
Eleventh Inning.

Eleven innings of big league ball
was played on Dudley Field yesterday
afternoon, when Big Jim Daley, the
Birmingham boy, made his first ap-
pearance in an Americas uniform,
and that the game was not witnessed
by larger assemblage of fans was
the only disappointing feature of the
afternoon. The Columbus aggregation
is certainly fast bunch, handy with
the willow, and although seventeen of
the visitors swiped at wide ones off
Daley's delivery, three o-baggers
were also sarAered by them, and the
final result of the playing was dead
fall, the score standing four and four
when Umpire Davis opined that the
darkness was too near for a centin-
uance of the play.
In the first Columbus showed Nick
Lamar, an Americas sport, within the
enchanted square, with Geisling be-
hind the bat, and the work of the
pair was fully up to that of any bat
terry that has appeared on the local
diamond this season, the excellent
work of doc" Wilson and ooh, You
Tommy Hooks not being excepted La
mar was fast throughout the game,
and his delivery was sufficiently de-
ceptive to retire ten of the Champs
who famed the ozone, when they
thought to land the timber on the
horsehide. ~~
Neither side was able to score until
the ending of the third, when Ameri-
Gus scratched a lonely tally over the
rubber it being a case up to that time
OF three men up and three men down
before each of the mighty hurlers of
the opposing teams, with five strike
outs i nthe first two innings credited
respectively to Daley and Lamar.
In their half of the fourth, however
the visitors seemed to get into con-
nection with the spit-fiings of Daley
and gathering three hits at timely
periods during tbs round of play they
managed to pile up three runs and
the playing suddenly grew more inter-
esting than before-for the score was
then three to one with the Champs
holding the light end of the log, and
the boys who placed their quarter,
kopeks on the counter each afternoon
don't like to see the score that way
the rooters got busy and
in the next round of play the Champs
got after few runs themselves, and
aided by a pass, pink and two hits
one OF them as three bagga", three of
the muchly wanted tallies were gar
nered by the local sprinters, making
the result slightly different, in which
condition it remained until the sixth
in which with one man on second and
another on first Lamar managed to
connected with one of Daleys speedy
ones for drive over right field fence
the sphere clearing the wire prettily,
and bringing one one run home. Big
Jim then began to work his comet
drop on the batsmen of the visitors
and there was nothing further doing
in the way of run getting for them,
although once of twice it looked as if
the fatal tally would be squeezed over
the rubber
Burkhalter, the South Carolina lad
who comes heralded as a great kero
of the slab, played his first game yes
terday in the right garden, and with
one exception, made good. His un-
pardonable muff of that long drive to
his division of the playground could
not be excused by the local fans, but
he is expected to do better in the
box when he appears this afternoon,
and until then it is best that judg-
ment be suspended. He also showed
up weak with the willow, tanning eY-
cry time up, with a single exception.
But this was nothing strange in view
of the action of the other members of
the locals who failed to connect when
hits were most needed. He was pinked
once and gained first on this error Of
the oposing slabman, who also hit one
more of the Champs, besides G. D.,
who as usual garnered the first bag
by getting hit, instead of getting a
hit.
Tommy Hooks, who worked behind
the bat with DAILY, was up to his us
ual standard of play, but in the tenth
had the misfortune to have his thumb
struck by what would have been a
wild pitcn by the Birmingham boy
but for his action, and painfully in
jured. He was game, however, ana
finished the game as though nothing
had happened.
1t was pitchers battle throughout,
with able fielding on both sides VIXEN
needed, and the two twirlers acquit-
ted themselves with full honors.. Da-
ley failed to be credited with a single
wild pitch, while Lamar delivered one
too high for handling by Geisling, and
both the spit-flingers issued two passes
Intentionally or otherwise. Lamar
'pinked" two, but Daley was always in
in control of the sphere, and not once
did the visitors garner a base by get
ting their bodies into connection with
the horsehide. Three two bagers APP
peared among the eight hits given uI
by Daley and of the six safeties de-
livered by Lamar, one was good far