The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-08-14
SPORT IN UNION CITY
ON THE BASEBALL FIELD
Old Timers and Many New Ones
Turned to Fans.

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dam sports are still here, and it is a
hard squeeze il they miss game. II
you are pressed to answer to the best Of
your knowledge and belief it is proba-
BILE that the charges against Harry Rob
inson for making the biggest noise
would be sustained. Harry loves his
wife. of course, but next he loves the
game. and he will take chance any
day when there are two out on the
home side and three men on. But it
must be said TO his credit that the game
must be good one. He knows base
ball. He ought to, for he has been a
subscriber to the st. Louis Republic
and reading the baseball dope for APP
proximateIy fifty years.
And then there is Henry Stanfield.
All the old timers remember Henry.
He was here in the heyday, when such
lights as Geo. LeFils (now numbered
with the absent ones), Walden and Sam
Woosley, Frank and Will Watts, Max
Lane, Jack Verhine, Jake Levy, Dave
Lowenheim and others wore the Harry
Robinson brand OF clothes and used
baseball slang while Officer Sam Brat
ton was trying to keep them behind
ropes. It wasn't on account Of the
Jokes, nor yet the baseball repartee,
but the umpire couldn't tell a foul from
fair ball while they were crowding the
diamond where they could see the la
dies. Henry was there with something
to say and a smile like spreading sor-
qhum. He was a member in good stand
ing. He was entitled to it. And from
the Troy bunch, erstwhile pitcher Bill
W. Smith can now be seen looking on
and thinking OF the days Of early base
ball in Union City. He was Wander
bilt ball player, when Judge Cochran
was the catcher, and afterwards divided
time with Hunt in the box for Union
City. They all 60 to the game. They
can't help it. Misery loves company
and why not fans.
But taking leap to the games that
are now being staged by Watts aud De-
Graffenreid. The Brownsville combi-
nation was here last week for three
games. The first game was loss to the
visitors OF IL TOT, with Rawlings, Davis,
Douglas, Bradford, Tanner, Howell,
Covington, Bacherig, Gillespie, the lat
ter ia the box. Our line up was Mes
play, Payne, Mercer, Maynard, Berry,
Fentress, Lind, Shaw, Rankin. Rankin
and Morrow pitched. The second game,
Friday, the score was 8 to 7 in Union
City's favor. The game was much
better one. The visitors were in better
shape and the crowd enjoyed the game.
The third game with Brownsville on
Saturday resulted in a score OF Z to
ii favor OF Union City. 1t was not
feature game, but some good work was
done.
Monday the Union City, Humboldt
series opened with the following entries;
Humboldt--E. Jones, Pigue, Elliott, |.
Jones, Butler, Ball, Peck, Wilmatz,
Hicks; Union City--Mesplay, Halves,
Mercer, Maynard, Johnson, Fentress,
Hurt, Shaw, Morrow.
In one OF the fastest games ever
played on the local diamond Union
City defeated Humboldt in the first
game OF the series by the score OF 6 to 4.
johnson, for Union City, practically
sewed the game up in the first inning
by hitting for four bases with two men
on. Humboldt made two more runs
in the first half Of the ninth inning and
the third out was made with two men on.
scoro-- R.H.E.
Union City--SOI00200 *-6 9 81
Humboldt -00010001 "a q
Batteries Hicks and PecR; MORROW
and shaw. Umpires Head and Adams
Union City took another game from
Humboldt Tuesday with score OF 4toS.
Sinclair was the star performer OF this
game. Passing the first inning, IN which
Humboldt made her runs, the pitcher
struck out thirteen men.
Maynard also featured with his hit
ting and fielding, This, the ninth
straight winning is the standing OF the
home team.
$50 R.H.E.
HUMBOLDT -8O000OO00-3 2
Union City 2o0O200o o. 10 q
Batteries Ferguson and Elliott; Sin,
clair and Shaw. Umpires Head aud
Adams.
BY hitting Woods Freely throughout
the game Humboldt took the last Of the
series nom Union City by the score Of
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