The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1913-06-08
LAWMAKERS PROVE
TO Be EASY PICKING
TOMORROW TO Be LADIES' DAY
Hereafter Games viii be Called
at Z MACK Graham Ar
rives to Assume Manage
ment Of Discoveries.

TO pilot the DISCOVERIES. promises
to prove not only a good manager
but a mascot for the local team.
He made his first local appear
ance yesterday afternoon, and Co
lumbus copped the contest by a
score of IS to4.
From a scientific standpoint the
game was not a brilliant one, hav-l
ing, in fact. been so slow and
school-boyish as to be farcical,
but no contest in which the home
team secures and steadily
strengthens a lead which means
ultimate victory is without interest
to the spectators, and there was
unmitigated joy both in the grand
stand and on the bleachers.
Lunsford was on the local
mound, and pitched great ball up
TO the seventh, when he weaken
ed, and gave three passes. In
fielding a batted ball he threw
wild to third, enabling Jackson to
make her first score, and a ball to
left which was caught by Parker
but which he failed to throw home
furnished opportunity for a sec
ond Jacksonian to cross the plate.
Chenny started in to pitch for
jackson, but was taken out in the
third, having given place to Den
mis-. Both men were in bad form,
having together yielded twenty
five hits during the progress of the
game.
While Graham appeared in the
game yesterday, he will not as
sumo his official duties as mana
ger of the Discoveries until to-
morrow. He comes well recon-
mended, and it is hoped and be-
lieved that he will pull the team
out of the hole.
Tomorrow will be ladies' day,
and members of the fair sex will
be admitted free to the game with
Penacola in the afternoon.
Beginning tomorrow, games will
be called at 4 o'clock instead of
$3.50, as heretofore.
Columbus is scheduled to play
in Clarksdale Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, but proposition
has been made to transfer the
games here in exchange for three
which were transferred to Clarks-
dale last month. President Flynn
has the matter under considera-
tion, but has not as yet announc-
ed his decision.
The game scheduled to be
played between Jackson and Co
lumbus at Lake Park Thursday
afternoon was not played, having
been prevented by the fact that
the train on which the visiting
team arrived was several hours
late.
Two games were played Fri
day, one in the morning and one
in the afternoon. The result was
a dog-fall, Columbus having won
the first bout by score of 7 to
5 and Jackson the second by 4
to 0 score. Each side worked
two pitchersi in the opening game,
Harris and Lunsford having both
been on the local mound. while
Faircloth and Dennis tWirled fol
the visitors. Columbus sewed
the game up in the fifth, wher
punched bingles. coupled with
two costly errors on the part Of
the visitors enabled five Discov.
erers to cross the pan.
jackson won the Afternoon
game with ease. having taker
the lead when Steele knocked /;
home run in the second inning
Two singles followed, and anoth
er Jacksonian found his way Il
the home plate before the sid
was retired. Steele not only star
red in the stick work but pitche,
a fine game. having kept bis bin.
giles well scattered. Cooper wa
on the local mound. and alIowe'
the visitors to bunch their hits.