The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-07-10
COLUMBIA HUk9lES
RUTHERFORD PR|DES
IN LAST TWO GAMES
LOCALS PILED UP TOTAL OF
TWENTY-THREE RUNS IN
TWELVE INNINGS.
sWIPED WHOLE SERIES GAME!

White, In First Game, Allowed Only
One HingIe, q Scratch, While Tol.
ley TwirIed the Last Giving w
Seven eafeties. ;
Captain Muck Blown and his
wrecking crew Of swatting demons
made it four in a row Saturday after
noon when they took the two Anal
games from the prides of Rutherford
county. The locals had on their swat
ting clothes, and piled up total Of
twenty-three runs foI thirty bases in
only twelve innings. They spent q
most delightful afternoon fattening
their batting averages and making
life miserable and otherwise uncom-
Portable for the visiting twirlers.
They lambasted the sphere for sim
giles, doubles, triples, and home runs
galore, much to the delight Of the
big crowd Of bugs, which was on
hand to see them work.
They got the Jump in the first in
ming of the first game, when they
jumped on Hall, Nashville city
Lacquer, for about Ave or six runs be-
fore an out was made. So fierce was
the slaughter that he was sent back
to the bench to cool out and Spring
field was called in from center field
to twirl. They took kindly to his Of
ferings, too, and gave about the same
treatment. After the first eight men
up had tailed, the run getting was
suddenly stopped by a pretty piece of
work. Hagan drove sharp liner to
the pitcher, who whirled to first and
threw Jones out, and from there the
ball was relayed to second, catching
White by large margin. They con-
tinued the bombardment in the Sec
!ond inning, when four more markers
were put over on a combination of
hits, errors and bases on balls.
Meanwhile, White for the locals
was twirling in great style. He and
Muck Brown, the Franklin battery,
were going like million dollars. The
Murfreesboro contingent was helpless
before the assortment that he served
up The ball was breaking a yard
wide, his speed was so good that the
batter did not see the ball right well
except when 1t was in his hands, and
he mixed 1t with a little slow ball,
which they could not handle at all.
The only thing in the seven innings
that looked like q hit was a little in
field tap, which Park might have
handled had White allowed him to &C.
cept the chance. AS it was, the bat.
ter was safe at first only by a frac.
ton Of foot.
The second game, which lasted
only five innings on account Of the
visitors having to catch the evening
train home, was marked by the down.
fall of the favorite son of old Lin.
coin county. On account of his hav-
ing beaten the locals in the first
game Of the Fayetteville series by q
score of Is to /, he was brought over
Especially for the last game. How.
ever, speaking mildly and softly Of
Mr.. Buchanan, it would have been
better both for him and his reputAr
ton as pitcher had he stayed in
Lincoln county after he had given
Columbia one good drubbing, and not
come back to repeat the dose. The
locals bombarded him until it was a
pitiful sight to see him trying to get
something over that they couldn't
hit. In the five frames that he work
ed, the locals got ten runs and eleven
hits for total of fifteen bases OF his
delivery. He was so easy that Lee
Tolley tried to literally knock him
out of the box. He picked out nice
one and smote it at him like shot
out of twelve inch gun. 1t turned him
clear round, came very near causing
Make Hoods downfall, and finally
bounced back into his hands.
The heavy swatters of the after
noon were Park, who got three safe