The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-04-30
ANOTHER ONE.
Locals Cop From jefferson College By s-to-z
Score-Passes and Bunched BinssGRe-
ponsible for Visitors Downfall.
Vacherie Tomorrow.

Vacherie Tomorrow.
Last Sundays engagement at Cleveland
Park between the local Blues and the fast
Jefferson College aggregation resulted in
victory for the home guard by the score
of 8 to 2, the contest being one IF the
cleanest and most interesting Of the cur
rent season. Rhodes, on the mound for
the guests, pitched nice game and made
a far better showing than the score would
indicate. He unpacked an assortment of
curves and slants which were all to the
candy. and with the exception of the first
and sixth innings. when he seemed to
lose control temporarily, he had himself
well in hand and refused to permit the
local sticksmiths to connect with his
benders to arg damaging extent. His
support was gilt-edged, the collegians
fielding almost fiawlessly and in this re-
spect making a much better display than
their more experienced opponents.
Bunched bings in the first and sixth
periods, and three bases on balls issued
by Rhodes in the latter round. enabled the
Blues to pile up a total of eight tallies,
but the game was closely contested
throughout and at no time during the
pastlme did the locals have a license to
figure on the big end of the gate receipts.
The Jeffersonians perpetrated only one
bobble, wild pitch by Rhodes, and they
bifed the ball with vigor and vim,
Breaux's slashing three-bagger to the left
field fence being one of the longest hits
ever made on the local grounds. The
contest was free from wrangling or other
unpleasant features, the visitors proving
themselves to be set of clean, gentle
manly young players with whom it was a
pleasure to try conclusions.
The weather was not at all of the base
ball variety, being unseasonably cold and
blustery. For this reason the crowd was
not as large as it would otherwise have
been, but the 400 fans who braved the
elements and sat through the spicy mix-up
were fully repaid for their temerity by
witnessing a snappy and scientific exhibi-
ton.
AS is customary with the locals, they
started their run-getting right at the jump,
chalking up couple of tallies in the very
first period. Schultz, leading off, whitfield.
Roach sent single through short and
Higgins also connected safely. Wills
despatched grass burner to left. scoring
Roach and sending Higgins to third.
Weber singled over first and Higgins
counted. Johnston rolled an easy
grounder to Rhodes, who retired Wills at
third. Arthur Talbot few out TO short.
In the sixth the locals fell on Rhodes
and annexed six more tallies, completing
the days total. Wills. first up, prone
naded. Weber hit through short, advance
ing Wills to the difficult corner. The
Blues nifty young first-sacker had sus-
tanned quite serious accident Saturday
night by being precipitated from the ex-
tension ladder of the power plant repair
wagon and dragged for some distance,
and was hors de combat with respect to
travelling around the bases at faster
gait than painful limp, therefore
Schultz was put in to run for him. Johns
ton laid pretty bunt down the third-base
line and beat the throw to first. Wills,
who was summing himself at third,
started to slope homeward on the play,
but changed his mind and hung fire mid
way between the third pillow and the
final station. Schultz in the meantime
had ambled rapidly from second to third
and annexed standing room on the latter
bag. When the situation finally revealed
itself to the pair of runners, Schultz
gracefully gambolled back to the key
stone sack and Wills made dash to
third, beating Pitcher Rhodes throw to
catch him by the fraction of an inch.
Rhodes issued a pass to Arthur Talbot,
forcing in Wills. With the bases buls-
ing, Variant forwarded a slow one to
short and Schultz arrived safely at the
pan. Arthur Talbot hit to third and
Johnston died at the plate. Schultz drew
ticket, compelling Arthur Talbot to
cvacuate third and take a seat OH the
bench after perambulating over the count
ing-stone. Roach drove fast one to
first and Tearney threw Variant out at
home. Higgins laced out beautiful
drive to left for three bags, scoring
Schultz, Roach and Aldwin Talbot. Wills
awaited to short. ending the round.
The visitors set off some fireworks in
the eighth and got away with couple of
runs during the excitement. Carrerre be-
gan the display by uncorking skier to
right, which Variant pulled down.
Swartz widowed one tosecond and Schultz
was there with the Indifferent fielding
giving the runner life and liberty. Breaux
Ioa,oad INTO tho IimejiShf with a Scraam