The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-27
tiattiesburg Showed UP Well For the
Short Practice Had and Look
Good.

Fan fever rose high yesterday ana
Joy was everywhere rampant-even
If the Hattiesburg recruits did fail |
to take the game from the Tigers
But everyone who attended the first
anti-season game we're fully repaid
for the time and money spent, and left |
the park with the opinion that when
the wedding out process has been
gone through Hattiesburg will have a
team to show the way for the rest of
the Cotton States league and set a
pace 1t will be hard to keep up with.
Taking everything into considera-
tion--the very short time the boys
have had to practice, several of Hat
tiesburg's known. quantities not in the
game, and the fact that Detroit has
spent several weeks in practice work,
the local aggregation did remarkably
we'll against the faster company and
had the score been piled up twice as
high against them. they would still
be deserving praise. The game from
local standpoint was used principal
" to give new and untried men an
opportunity to show their offerings
and was not gone into with any high
hopes of winning. With few excep-
lions Cap'n's team looks powerful
good and their is no dearth of mater
ml from which to fill the weak spots
rhe outfield was as good as if they
were playing in mid-season and out
classed the Tigers in that department.
Smith at short looked mighty Madden
ish, was right in the game and after
everything that went his way, and got
+. two of the locals hits, leading the
team in batting honors. Danna show
ed up we'll at short, but was handi-
capped by reason of a sore arm, his
fielding being rather slow on that &C.
count. Danna made two hits with one
swing of the willow by making clean
single to right on the first ball pitch
ed
Five pitchers were used by Cap'n
and it was difficult to get a line on
them in the little work done. But
Redding, who pitched the first three
innings worked the Tigers like ma
jor He had speed, control and allow
ed but one hit while he was in the
box. The felines thought, during his
( incumbency, that they were in for an
other shake-up.
Blanchfield showed Mr.. Dubuc up in
a shabby light and almost stampeded
the "bull". when in the fourth he four
timed lallapaloosa betwixt the papa
cows horns and came home in storm
of old-time cheering. Blanch was also
the particular star in the field. Be
ing N center he caught the Cap'n spir
1t and the latter had better take hin
out right now if he expects to hole
that job. Welt and Miller in left ant
right respectively were up to theil
old form and played faultlessly.
For the visiting Yanigans, thei
pitchers deserved credit for the vic
tory, with the exception of Remneas
NJ who was not near as much of puzzl
as his cognomen. Dubuc and McCory
both of whom are expected to max
the regular Tiger team, had the stui
that entities them to the berths. Wit
and Baumann each raised one owe
for the circuit. Davy Jones was nuri
ing Injuries and the ancient Marine
II Joe Sugden, held down the first sac
IN his place. Uncle Joe did well an
got one of the Tigers 10 hits. an
& haltingly scored one of the 9 rum
The score was Detroit runs, 10 hits
Hattiesburg runs hits.
Wild Bill" Donovan umpired to tt
satisfaction of everybody and if an
thing gave Hattiesburg a shade IL
best Of the decisions, two of whic
we're very close and he could ha,
called them either way with a Gle,
conscience.