The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-07-28
THE INDIANOLA VS. GREENyILLh
GAME IN DETAIL.

Editor ], G. Bennett gives the follow
ing account of the Indianola and Green
vile baseball game in this city on July
Goth, in the Grcenyille Daily Times OF
the 2lst inst, which will be read with
interest by our baseball "fsns":
: "It's an awful story, really too bad
to tell. Ridley pitched good ball, but
Grcenville folded uke-oh, WELT
sit was a hard game to lesc--harl
for Ridley, but his team mates lost IL
without effort. The inicld crumblcd
back Of Ridley, but the more errors
they made the better he worked, or the
harder, for he did excellent work from
start to finish, Some of the errors might
lie called excusable, but others were
made minus an alabi, and none Of the
fellows on the inner line Of defense
would take one.
Ridley. with nine big juicy errors,
held the hard.hjttiug Indianola team to
seven scattered hits, three of them
scratches, and one Of the clean hits
came after n bunch Of errors when the
side should have been retired without
hit or run. In fact, every score made
by the Indians was helped over by as
error, Ridley had everything and was
given the best of support by Lcgg, the
latter lending the Grccnville squad in
hitting with asdouble and single,
at was Il battle of the pitchers up to
the time the GrcCnvillc team went 70
pieces. The grounds were rough and
Roys came near being hit in the face
twice, escaping only by ducking out Of
the way, which made the inGclders a
bit timid of ground balls, hence the or.
rors.
''With two down in the third, Collins
hit safe and stole second. Chastant
fnmblcd Cargile' = grounder and Collins
went to third. Cargile stole second;
Wynno hit safe and Collins scoreo,
Cargile moving over to third. Wynne
stole aud FAINT ended the session by n
groundcr to second and out at first,
The Indians added another in the sixth.
Wynue was safe on McKinnon' . error;
FAINT sacrificed him to second; Griffin
was hit by pitcher and Austin hit safe,
sending Wynne over.
"Grcenville scored her lone run ia
the sixth. Noreott out, third TO first;
Roys out, SECOND to FIRST. Caldwell lam
bastcd one to right center for a pair Of
cushions and scored whom Collins fos'
zIed Bates grounded. Bates stole sec.
ond, but McKinnon struck out, ending
the inning. Greenville had one or more
on base in each of the secceeding in
nings, but Suggs was not as lavish with
hits aud passes as John D. Rockefeller
is with his oil profits, and the bipgle
that was longcd for never came.
"In the ninth tho infleld must have
made all the errors they expected to
make for several games, as no less than
five boobies were Tailed against them
in this inning, even Norcott breaking
into the error column with a wild
heave. This inning opened with Hair
ston up. He hit one to Chastaut, which
the old reliable tumbled long enough
for the batter to reach first. Then,
h~eaving late, he measured several feet
too high Cor McKinnon and the runner
took second. Suggs gave Roys a field.
er's choice, which he tossed to Propst,
Hairston scoring, McKinnon fozzled on
the play to retire Moore, who immc.
diately stole second. The throw to the
bag got into Noreott's territory and
he made u wild throw, allowing Suggs
to score; Collins was out, short to
first, but Cargile sent one to Roys at
short, while it took a bad bound and
climbed his shoulder and jumped of
the back Of his neck like a pet squir.
rel. Wynne hit to McKinnon and was
out"
INDIANOLA,
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