The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-09-02
LITTLE ROCK MOPS;;
STAGE FRIGHT AGAIN
VISITORS WIN A 100 SCORE AND
LEAVE FOR CHATTANOOGA;
CITY LEAGUE is GLAD.
BY Thomas Foote.

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Stage fright is small lot Of Ian
guage to describe two baseball games,
but we. think it the charitable thing
to put it that way, and for the sake OF
the feelings of our players we will let
it go at that. The way our feeders
stayed away from the ball yesterday
one not familiar with the composition
of baseball would think that they
expected it to explode and hurt some
one, and on this theory they were tax
ing good care of our boys.
The box score SHOWS eighteen hits,
but if the boys had played the class
of ball that they have been playing in
our city league games half these hits
would have been cut off. Holmes and
Anderson played baseball all the time
and deserved to make a better show
ing against the professionals than we
did, but at two or three critical times
our boys blew up and the score piled
up against us.
The game started off in great shape.
Jantzen first up after two strikes hit
through second base. Ward was out
Holmes to Allen, Jantzen taking sec
ond on the play. Messenger struck
out and Anderson caught Jantzen off
second and he was run down for the
third out. In our half Perry hit to
right and took second when Messenger
let it get by him. Potter was out
Baker to Covington and Perry was
held at second. A minute later Perry
was caught off second and tagged out.
Wilkins strnck out.
Little Rock scored one in the Sec
ond on base on balls, hit and error
and wild throw, after which our team
steadied and the next three men were
retired in order. In our half we had
another chance to score. Anderson
hit to left for two bases. Allen hit
through short and Anderson thinking
that it would be fielded was held at
second. Montgomery advanced both
runners with a nice sacrifice. Powell
flew out to first and Wilder struck out, |
ending another good chance TO score.
Little Rock scored four in the fourth. |
Messenger hit to right, Baker hit to
left, Messenger taking third and Baker
second, when Powell let it get by him.
Both scored when Potter booted Dow.
ney's easy grounder after hurry had |
struck out. Covington hit to left, |
Downey taking third and Covington |
second on the throw in. Hays hit an
easy one to Perry and everybody was
safe and Downey scored when Perry |
held the ball and tagged the bag in
stead of tagging the runner, Roth |
flew out to right ana Ward was out
Perry to Allen. After the second in
ming Hattiesburg never had another
chance to S core. Roth frightened and
his team fielded behind him and our
chances were over.
Little Rock scored one in the fifth
on three fluke hits,sand again In the
eighth when the boys blew up, and
three errors of commission, combined
with four of omission and FIVE hits
counted for four runs. which being
enough they knocked of for the day.
Little Rock got men on bases in
every inning except one, but never
scored in any inning when our boys
played errorless baseball. Only in the
innings that our team blew up were
they able to score, but this happened
in enough innings to win several
games. There were four reasons why
we failed to beat Little Rock Our
boys blowing up was one, Roth was
another and Baker was the other two.
Baker played baseball all the time,
cutting off everything that looked like
hit coming his way. In addition to
this he scored three Of their 10 runs;
got four hits and base on balls for
his five appearance at the plate. He
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