Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-08-04
AMERICUS Is VICTOR IN
HARD FOUGHT BATTLE
Albany is Beaten By Score
Six to Five.
Game Yesterday is the
Greatest Yet Played
Here---Great Crowd
Cheers Players.

Eleven innings Of fair ball tossing.
with the contest nobody's game until
the final wind-up, was witnessed on
Dudley Field yesterday afternoon, and
nearly seven hundred fans witnessed
the return of Doc Wilson's "goat
which he lost at the beginning of the
AlbaNy-Americus series. The little
yeGOW jacket was in great form, ami
after Robinson lad been batteI ouC
of the box in the seventh he went in
and literally won his game by his owa
playing. His was the mighty arm that
put a sop to numerous bingles beiue
garnered by the Albanians, and his
was tie steady drive that squeezed
in the winnig tally in the last half Of
the eleventh, when with one man down
lit meant the winning of the game
and a failure meant another tied con-
test
The game opened with Robinson
and Douglas on the slab for their re-
spectiye teams, but the timber WELD
ers of both aggregations We're out N
force during the afternoon. and both
these twirlers were retired before nine
inings had been played.
Robinson lacked control in tie early
innings but lack of proper support CON
trbuted largely to the five runs piled
up on his delivery, before he was re
lieyed by the mighty Doc in the sew
enth and took his place in center.
Peddy's costly error at shC,t and Nc
Gregors failure to handle Holders
drive to deep center, both contribuL-
ed to the total of tables garnered By
Albany, but after Wilson went into the
box there was no more fumbling, the
cld time confidence was restored, aud
the Champs proceeded to bat victory
out after defeat had loomed high upon
tie horizon.
In the seventh, with two men down
and a man on third Doe Wilson land
ed an easy chance to third, whion
struck the ground in front of the
pitcher and bounded high into the
air, leading Newkirk to believe it was
an infeld fly, and the latter after hav-
ing the sphere in plenty of time to tag
Wilson, deliberately walked off the
field and the runner on third scored.
tieing up the result. The play on the
part of Newkirk was one of the worst
ever witnessed on the local diamond
and utterly without precedent in the
history of baseball
Albany got one run in the first, one
in the fourth, one in the fifth and two
in the seventh, and after this were un-
able to tally.
The Champs began the run getting
in the first and garnered one run on
an error, sacrifice and Cooper's
double to center
Two more tallies were gotten in the
,1iTd on pass, Wilson'S safe bunt AMI
Cooper's double to center, which
should have been easily handled BY
Holden.
In the sixth, two more talIies were
earned on McGregar's single Heath
sacrifice and Vibert's single through
pitcher. McGregor scored on Lang
fords Wild throw to third and Viberl
romped across the plate on a passed
ball.
In the ninth, with darkness fast ap-
preaching, Heath was first up and sin
gled to left, going to second on a fuke
by Colby, vito attempted to catch him
off by dropping the bail, the play mis-
carrying. Vibert followed and was out
from third to first, Heath going to the
keystone ON the play. Wilson followed
and his hit to second scored the wiu-
mig tally.
Heath, the new catcher secured yes
terday, worked for the first time ana
he made a good appearance. His work
beneath the willow was. good and with
the stick he is good