The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-08-22
|RATIiESBURG WINS
JUICY SWATFEST
Fifteen sinsIes at Timely Moments
Result In Victory over Meri-
dian crippies.

4 yesterdays game between the Wood |
peckers and the remnant of what was
7nce formidable aggregation of ball |
piayers from Meridian, Miss, was |
swatfest of the swattenest variety,
with the Wodpeckers out-swatting and
outplaying the. visitors at every stage
Of the game. The home team was new
or In the least danger and sewed the
game up early, scoring eight times in
the first four innings, two to the in
ming, just to make the score read
smooth on the board, and those two
talfies four in a row made pleasant
reading especially when four goose
eggs were evenly hung beneath them.
The Woodpeckers annexed total of
nine runs, easing up after the fourth,
to keep the visitors from saying they
had no show, but Bagby was full of
sprints and came across the rubber
In the sixth with his third run of the
game. Bagby played third, in the alb
sence of Gondolfl. and besides looking
after the work at that station in good
style he connected with the spheriod
four times out of five up.
Blackwood and Smith were the op-
posing slabmen, and the former was
touched up for a total of fifteen hits
while Smith yielded thirteen.
!. Smith pitched good bali however,
and the number of hits recorded
against his delivery would have been
considerably less had it been necessary
for him to work harder and his support
to have been more jam-pu. The eighth
inning was bad one for Smith and
the only one he had. Four hits, one
Of which was home run by Sorrells,
resulted In four runs for the visitors.
Cruises work In left field was the
feature Of the game. His catch of
Lauzon's long fly was one of the best
seen on the local diamond this season
and was well night sensational The
drive looked like fourtimer to every
one but Cruise, who fell in with it and
pulled it right OF the right field fence
high over his head His throwing to
second base was splendid work, sew
eral times holding runners on first on
hits that looked good for two bases.
Another feature Of the game, If it
may be called such, and something
that featured every inning and every
mOment of the game. was the per-
1ormance Of that person, Lauzon. oh,
no, he did not do any sensational
stunts Of baseball nature; Tar be 1t
! from anyone TO accuse him Of that, but
the cavorting and continual loose-jaw-
bdness Of one 30 far advanced IN years
was, to borrow that gentleman's own
Lauzon is a genuine apostle Of good
cheer and his antics are well worth
the price of admission to any game
Loud of mouth and full of fun he kept
the crowd in good humor throughout
the game. Taking liberties with his
umps that would have gotten a young
man benched, he took it for granted
that he was bigger than the indicator
person, and had more to say for the
jumps than Billy Earle did himself. AT
ter purloining the second sack, not
stealing base, and secreting same in
the tall grass in the center garden, he
was made to return the bag to its
r1ghtful position end deliberately took
on jumps sky piece and busted the
Keystone, returning the buster to
jumps bean with considerable force,
and nary word or rebuke eminated
from the call box of his jumps Tt adds
lots TO a game to have a Lauzon to per-
form, and the pity of it is that anoth-
6r season is liable to see him Osleriz-
ed or pensioned for old age, unless his
antics are indication of second child