The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-09-12

PARIS WINS THE PENNANT
Take Four Straight of Champion
ship Games from the Win
chester Aggregation.
OPPONENTS OUTCLASSED.
McKernan, a Second Winner, Is
sues Statement Praising
the Players.
OPPONENTS OUTCLASSED.

son or 1917, as result of the victory
achieved by the BOurbonites on the
local lot Sunday afternoon, when they
defeated the Hustlers by score of 9
to 6, making the fourth consecutive
game taken from the Coleman pennant
aspirants in the championship series. i.
McKernan took no chances on the
result, although from business stand.
point it would have been better for the
clubs and players to have the series
gone the limit of seven games, and
sent his men into the contests imbued
With the determination to make short
work of the first season champs, which
they did by taking quartet of games
without any apparent eXertion.
That the Hustlers were no match for
the BourbOnites is clearly evident by
the scores in the final series. In only
one game did they cause them much
trouble and that was in the first on the
Winchester grounds, which Paris took
after a hard fight by the close score of
2 to /.
In the opening contest Shears and
Burden opposed each other and again
in the third they met. On each oc-
casiOn Shears proved his superiority
over his opponent and came out With
two scalps. In the first game Burden
looked to be returning to his old time
form but daring base running on the
part of Harrell and McKernan with
MS ever ready hit put the star Hustler
hurler on the shelf. In the third con-
test he was easy for the locals who
pounded him to all corners of the lot.
Schoneberg pitched two of the
championship games for Paris and the
same success which has crowned his
efforts throughout the season with the
Paris CLUB was his reward. Although
he was wild and gave his opponents
more than three times as many runs as
Shears, his helpers hit the ball hard
and pounded in tally after tally.
Mckernan and his men deserve all
the credit that is to be bestowed upon
them. The series of the first season
should have been theirs, but fate de-
creed otherwise and by a very narrow
marign Winchester squeezed into the
first position, due to the efforts OF
Maysville and Lexington, but the sec
ond series found Paris very close
contender and before it was two weeks
old the locals forged their way to the
front and remained a safe distance
throughout, yielding the series to no
club in the league.
The contest Sunday afternoon was
played upon field resembling a sea of
mud. Rain, which began to fall shortly
before the game was to have been call
ed, put the grounds in a miserable
condition and it was fully an hour be-
fore the game could progress. When
Umpire Kane sent the men to their
positions rain was still falling but I'M
daunted by SUCH unfavorable con-
dltlons the locals Waded III and came
out with the long end of the score.
Scheneberg, who has a string of
victories almost too long to measure,
hurled the last game of the champion !
snip series, and while constantly under |
the care of physician, except when |
in the field, he won the deciding con-
test. He displayed considerable wild
ness and in one inning Jared badly, but |
thereafter he was on his mettle allow
ing the visitors to score but one run |
after the second frame.
The contest was a veritable slug
fest. The locals hit Friedley frequent
~ and with telling effect until the
fifth round when he settled down, but
he purpose of the Bourbonites had
1een accomplished and with Scheme
BERG and his teammates working well,
hey cOuld not overcome the lead ac-
CURED in the fourth.
Inspite of the fact the grounds were
n miserable condition and fast field
ng almost impossible, the game was
ull of brilliant plays. Chapman was
he star in the outield getting five
iifficult chances, and leading the team
n hitting, getting three safe drives
ut of five trips to the plate.
Owing to an injury in his hand in
he game Saturday, Manager McKer-
ian was out of the game, Maxwell be-
ng sent to the second station while
1auSer filled the position in the left
garden. McKernan directed the move
nents of his team from the bench, re- |
ulting in the victory which meant SO
much to the club and to the fans of ]
his city. 8
The efforts of Manager McKernan in ,
etairing the peLnant honors for Paris s
re OF exceptional merit. In 1910 with {
he star aggregation ne put the Paris |
Tub to the front early in the season ]
nd maintained the lead throughout.
winning the flag which has graced the ,
ennant pole In White Park since June I
0. when it was unfurled to the breezes :
With appropriate exercises. 7
The success of the Bourbonites this i
ear is due almost entirely to the
fforts of McKernan, who brought to- {
ether class of ball players without {
n equal in the league and through his G
apable management. He was secured ]
rom the Fayetteville, S. c., club by t
he Paris management and was very q
uccessful from the start. Since he r
as been in Paris he has made mary t
dmirers who share their congratu- b
atoms with he and his kteam. At the v
Onclusion of the agme Sunday McKer- f
an issued the following statement: C
At the close of the 1911 season | s
ave. in my estimation, the best ball
lub in the Blue Grass League. All of Fl
he players are Intelligent with plenty c
base ball ability the great essential q
hich all clubs that are successful a
lust possess, and that is gameness, O
hich is understood by the base bali t,
IN. "
81 don't think any ether club under. P
emit a season of hardship as great &c