The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-02
by Lawson Fieldsl

On last Wednesday Marietta
crack ball team wandered up into
the mountain Businesses of Cherokee
1.-The home of more ex-governors than
any county in captivity-and with
out noticeable difficulty lifted the
scalps of the Indians of that pleasant
vicinity. Consequently the Cherokee
rose dallies in the breezes in humi-
I1ation and no victorious warwhoops
reverberate through those far-famed
hills and lovely valleys
The beautiful and ever placid Etc
wah flows by with many murmurings
disconsolate. Even the red old hills
which nestle Canton upon their top
most crest, have shrunk up and beck
on no more from their lofty emin-
ence to the lowly hills of Cobb Yea,
verify, there is no merry laughter
of happy children in Canton there
is no boisterous hiliarity among the
grown-ups; the loudest noise there
stone factories. It's the deserted
village
However, business is gradually
getting back to normal-the stores
are opening one by one and prob
ably in thirty days the Queen of the
Mountain Towns will resume her
former place of hustle and hustle un-
on the map of industrial activity.
But
That was some game of baseball
alright, alright.
Score; Marietta 6, Canton s
However, the score does not in
dictate the goodness of the game by
any means. 1t was big league ball
and there was no loafing from the
first crack of the bat until the last
Canton Indian expired in agony in
the last half of the ninth. In fact.
to man up tree, it looked like
anybodys old game until then.
Marietta got away to a flying
start and managed to hold the lead
by comfortable score until the sew
enth, when Rucker, of Canton, Maps
nephew lay up against one of
Kemp's fast ones for bags which
scored three runs, putting Canton
within one run of a tie-up. Things
looked oIoOpnv i,,st boro g., a., n,
Boys. So new battery was rushed
IN to stem the tide, which it did
with some eclat.
Parker and Jenkins was the bat
terry and they came through for the
remaining two innings with unblem-
ished 'scutcheons.
This jenkins boy is a cousin of Asa
Gambler and he is just as successful
behind the bat his big cousin is in
the world financial By the same
token, this young sprout Parker has
1T pinned all over Alton B. by at
least six pleas
The Marietta bunch journeyed
hence in special train of two
coaches which were comfortably fill
ed, about It's going up from herr.
Woodstock, Holly Springs, Toonigh
and other outlying districts.
A part of the Gem City Band bows
accompanied the team and discours-
ed sweet music (please use advised
ly) on the way up, during the gam9
and on the return trip.
Tom Wallace led the rooters and
had the time of his young and inno-
cent life. If his face was closed
from the time the train left Mari
eta until it returned that night no.
body noticed it. And by the way,
Pauline, you are dead wrong, Tom
has ample brains to scramble with a
humming birds egg. Ask him about
it. He can give you the dope.
At least a thousand people wit
messed the game, Canton turning out
en- masse. A third of the crowd was
made up of the fair sex who acuuit-
ted themselves admirably, if they did
consider the foul balls over the
grandstand cutter than the fair ones
which sailed out and away to the
fields for good, honest hits. Put us
down as being strong for the ladies'.
The Scribe" made no notes of the
game, not knowing that he would be
invited to put the pastime in black
and white. Hence the lack of de-
tail. Just take it from him. how
ever, that it was as pretty game of
amateur ball as one would care to