Oxford eagle., 1916-05-25
BASE BALL Byh. E. Bradley

Tuesday in Clinton Ole Miss lost her
first game TO Mississippi College by
the score Of to S Both teams hif the
ball hard but Gaines outpitehed Me
Kay. the Clintonite= getting twelve
hits OF his delivery while Gaines was
holding Ole Miss IA six Ole Miss host
the game in the first three innings
when Miss. College scored seven times
ON a combination Of long hits aud
errors by Ole Miss infield. The hit
ing of Anderson, Allen and CAssihry
were responsible for Ole Miss scores
Allen and CassibrY hit home runs Tor
ole Miss aud Brock pol.-i one ont lor
the Preachers
Batteries, Oh. Miss Mckay and
Anderson.
Miss College Calme-, Jones ana
Tate.
On Wednesday Mississippi ColI,ge
repeated her victcry Of the DAY before
by againg beating the University hy
the score 3 b. I.
Ii was a much better played game
than the one the day before and Ole
Miss should have won a. Hicks out
pitched his opponent clearly but the
breaks all went 10 Miss College. The
umpiring was also bad Miss College
was leading until the ninth BY the score
of four to the two but Mclnnis came
up in this inning with one on and poled
out a long home run, tieing the score.
However the Chntonites came back
in their half Of this inning and won
out Brock singled and Anderson hit
a long three bagger over the center
tielder's head scoring Brock with the
winning tally Allen and Mclnni- hit
ing featured the contest.
Batteries, Ole Miss HickS aud
Anderson
Miss. KangstOn and Hartman.
The Ole Mss scrubs ran away with
the Oxford town IN farcial game on the
University field Wednesday by the score
Of l6 10 3 The scrubs pounded ihs
offerings Of Baxter Sparks who started
the game 70 all corners Of the field ard
ms co-woTssrs gave him very little sup
port in the ninches. Kyle. a little eft
hanosr hsio the town boys safe all the
way. Slsk pitched very good bail after
he vent in for Oxford but the damage
had already been done
Lewis and Johnson played the best
ball for Oxford Fields led the scrubs
IN hitting by getting 1--WE hits. Farmer
also. got four safe drives. O'Mafa caught
good game.
Batteries. Scrubs-Kyle and O'Mare.
0xford-Sparks. Sisk and Dunn.
Ole Miss dropped the final g.son of
the trip to Millsaps at JACKS VI on
Thursday by the score Of l. HALL
man and Holmes were the opposing
pitchers and As usual Holmes out
/ pitched his opponent but errors be-
hind at critical times beat him
Ole Miss got men on bases in nearly
every inning hut were unable 10 de-
/ liver the punch necessary to bring
them across. Only in one inning, the
second, was she able 10 score. Two
doubles By McInnis and Scarborough
bringing aT0Tss 6is Miss sSsssssss Is
Millsaps' big inning was the second
also In this inning they managed t.
bunch three hits, pass and
couple of errors and convert then.
into three tallies which were enough
TO win. Wick scored their final tally
in the sixth ON home run drive.
Batteries, Ole Miss Holmes and
/ Anderson.
NIillsaps, HaIlman and Pearce.
Scores
Millsaps-0 3 COOL -
! Ole Miss-0 0OOOO O0-l
Summary: Home run viek Tive
base hits Knight, William, Allen,
Scarborough, MeInnis Sacrifice hit
Carr Base ON baIls-Off Hallman /
of Holmes 2, Struck out By Hallman
9, by Holmes Z. Hit by pitcher Bethea
Umpire Steele.
Ole Miss defeated Sewanee on the
local field Friday in a hard fought
game by the score of 5 to Ii was
an uphill fight all the way for the
University a. Sewanee took the lead
early in the game and were never
headed until the last inning when
Mississippi spurted and ran across tive
when they were one behind and won
the game.
Mckay started the game for Missis
ssppi bat after the first two men that
faced him singled, Coach Robins der
ricked him in favor of Capt. McInnis
VINO pitched good ball for the remand
er of the game. Captain Riner was
U OAA nlOHAA AhA
and although he lasted the whole
game, he was hit hard and opportune-
iy.
Sewanee scored her first run in the
initial inning ON hits by Bowded and
Ellerbe and couple Of stolen bases
Herring scored again for them in the
third when ne nit q sharp groundel
thru the infield that the outfield muss-
ed up and allowed him to 20 to third
from where he scored on Bowden':
bunt. Three more runs came across
in the next inning. After Bruce and
Wortham had singled, Leftwich clean
ed the bases with three base drive
and scored himself ON Cochran's bunt
The visitors made their final scores
in the fifth on hit, two stolen bases
and couple of errors that allowed
them 10 mark up two more TO their
credit, which brought their total TO
seven for the day.