The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-10
THE FANS APPRECIATIVE
ARE PROUD OF RECORD OF THE
DAWSON BALL CLUB.
Saw the Team Has Advertised DaW-
son by Playing Clean, Winning
Baseball This Summer.

Baseball This summer.
The Dawson Baseball Association
deserves and has received the heart
felt thanks of our many enthusiastic
fans for the high-class of base ball
played by the Dawson team the en-
tire season. A. ]. Hin, president;
J. D. Weaver, vice-president; A. l..
McLendon, secretary and treasurer,
and R. G. Dozier, Dudley Cooke and
r. Carver are the officers of the as
ISOLATION, and their untiring efforts
and enthusiastic work succeeded in
getting together a bunch of players
whom Dawson was proud to claim
as it's own. We have a team that has
demonstrated it's ability to play win
ming ball against the South Atlantic
League, having just taken five
straight games from a picked team
made up of the best of the Macon
and Columbus pennant winning
teams. Our team is not only compos-
ed of players, but each player is a
perfect gentleman. They have adver-
tised Dawson far and near, and to
cap the climax will end the season
with the undisputed right to the am
ateur championship of the state.
The season opened May 31st with
Fitzgerald, and under the leadership
of Manager Colby we have already
played 81 games, winning 50, losing
13 and three games tied. Montezu-
ma, Cochran, Eufaula and Fitzgerald
and several other teams had an idea
that Dawson was easy, but they have
different ideas now.
Colby as manager as well as player
has demonstrated that he not only
knows the old ball game, but knows
the player of ability and how to get
the best there is in him.
J. K. Harper as catcher has shown
the fans that he knows his position
and how to play it. There is moth
ing sensational about Harper except
his home-run swats when they are
needed and produce the most good,
but he is a heady, safe and hard
worker, and has home with the
Dawson team as long as We can keep
him.
Dave Williams on first base has
played rings around every first base
man to stack up against us, while
his work with the bat has been a
great factor in Dawson winning it's
games.
Shorty Brooks on second base is
the only second haseman worth see
ing. He takes all chances that come
his way, and makes good most of the
time. His playing is a credit to the
town, and we are all proud of
Shorty.
Joe Lowe and zeke Erwin make a
pair of shortstops that out-play any
thing in their positions that we have
stacked up against. Joe has been
with us all of the season, while En-
win came over first to umpire game
and liked the Dawson team so well
that he joined us the last of the sea-
son, and has proven his worth as a
ball player worth having.
Zeke Erwin must have persuaded
Frank Manush, who has played third
base for us the last of the season, to
come over and join a ball team that
was playing ball. Manush has by his
counsel and advice been of inesti-
mable worth to the Dawson amateurs
and has made friends of the entire
bunch of fans,
The Thrasher boys, Lorien and Ike,
are prime favorites with not only the
players, but with the city as well.
What those boys can't do in playing
on third and in the outfield can't be
done, and when it comes to batting