The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-04-19
SUMTER DEFEATS DARLINGTON
ALoCAL BOYS RETRIvE FOOTBALL
DEFEAT OF LAST FALL.
Game "A Good One ON Side of Locals
bit of Errors for Visitors--McGill
Stars for Darlington and Brown
and DuRant for Sumter.
From The Daily Iter,, April Is.

From The Daily Iteri. Ap,iI 1t.
In a game played friday after
noon for the most part in misting
rain the Sumter high school baseball
team defeated tie high school team
from Darlington. to the tune of Is to
2. The boys are highly elated over
, their victory and think that they have
In part retrieved themselves for the
sdefeat tina; ;hey slffered at the hands
Vf Darlington when the football
teams OF the two schools went up
against each other.
Another point over which the boys
have expressed their eiation was the
fact that they have somewhat re-
covered from the overy .hemling de-
feats which they nave so recently
suffered at the hands of the Porter
Military Academy team. The score
|0ftself. is to 2. sufficiently shows what
1the boys are capable of doing when
they get together as they did Fri
day afternoon. Despite he wet
grounds and the misting rain they did
not let up on their opponents
throughout the nine innings
The stars of the game were McGin
for the visitors and Brown for the
local boys. Every member Of the
home team did beautiful work, the
pitching OF both Brown and Des-
Champs being OF a nigh order. The
base running OF Durant. who starred
An every feature OF the game. Hayns-
worth. LeGrand and Reeves was ex-
cellent The other players did excel
lent work also. There were only two
or three errors to be marked to the
cliscredit OF the Sumter boys while
the Darlington boys did not do so
EXell. The team showed class. and
Rhey showed that. even though the
games In Charleston were bitter de-
fcats. they had not AIKEN their trip TO
Charleston for nothing. The Darling
ton boys worked hard. especially the
pitcher, but the game was against
them from the ver,' first and they
were simply playing against fate, for
at no time was there the least chance
for them to win after the first half Of
the initial inning when by a series of
safe hits and errors on the part of
the visitors the local boys crossed
|nAplate nine times. The boys have O..
~ra heart from this game, and. as t....
know nov what they can do.
now on they expect to make a maxl-
mum average.
There was only a small crowd out
to witness the game but this crowd
seemed to take up the spirit OF the
sam and cheerd vigorously at times.
although the cheering was not needed
TO bring In the winning runs. In the
beginning OF the sixth inning Brown
was taken out OF the box and Des-
Champs was put I'm for a trial. This
was the hrst time that DesChamps
mas been given a trial in any game
and he showed up strong in the box.
Three times while he was pitching
were the batters put out in one, two
three order and IN the four innings
that he pitched ,nly two hits we're
made on him and only one run
was scored. One run was secured
while Brown was in the box through
an error.
Batteries: Sumter: Brown. Des-
Champs and Nash.
Darlington: Jeffords and Muldrow.
Hits: Sumter IS; Darlington 4;
Score. Sumter IS. Darlington 2.
Hits: on Brown two In FIVE innings:
of Deschamps two In four innings.
Bristow and Langston made the
two scores for Darlington.
Umpire. DuRant; Scorer Bowman;
Time OF game l.3O