The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-10
DYERSBURG DEFEATS
LOCAL BASEBALL TEAM
HARD LUCK SPOOK HAS PUR-
SUED LOCAL TEAM
However, Manager Reid Expects 10
Carry Rabbit-fOOt Out to Athletic
Field Today, Where Locals Clash
With DyersAurg Team.

| HAelU AOudy, WHere Locals Clash
With DyersAurg Team.
II there is the least bit Of truth
in the time-honored saying that a
bad beginning makes a good ending,
the success of the Covington base
ball club for this season is alreauy
assured, for the beginning of the sea
sons activities nave been anything
but pleasant.
The teams first hard luck hit them
On July l, when the Milan ball club
broke their engagement for three
games to be played in Covingtou on
July 2, and A. An effort was then
made to secure games for July and
A, and at the eleventh hour an en-
gagement was made with Hunting
don for games on those dates. On
July 2, Huntingdon pulled off Milan's
stunt and cancelled. A third attempt
was made to arrange a game for
July a with a semiprofessional team
from Memphis, but when the morn
ing of the Glorious Fourth arrived,
the Memphis bunch, in keeping with
the spirit Of the day, threw a bomb
in our midst, and calmly announced
that they could not fill their date.
This seems to be hard luck a-plenty;
but it is not all.
The club had previously arranged
games with Dyersburg, three to be
played in Dyersburg on July 7, 8
and 9, and three in Covington on
July 10, II and IL. According to
schedule, we opened in Dyersburg
Monday. But Manager Reid forgot
his rabbit-foot, left it at home, and
the Dyersburg bunch gave US a good
walloping.
We do not care to print the score
of the first game, because it hurts
our feelings to think about it. How
ever, little explanation is neces-
sary in defense of the team First
place, it was the first game our boys
had played eogether, and they quite
naturally had to get acquainted with
each other. Again, it was Kinney's
first game this season, and while we
all know that Kinney is good pitch
err, none of us expected him to come
back in one game, and especially the
first one that he pitches. The other
members Of the team showed up in
good style, and put it all over Overs
burg in their fielding and hitting.
We quote from Manager Reds tele-
phone conversation Monday night, a
part of which sounded like this:
"Tell the boys not to be discour-
aged We have the best team, and
all our men played like big leaguers."
We are going to take Mr.. Reid's
advice and forget the game Monday,
and expect better games and results.
We know that Manager Reid knows
baseball, and knows a good team
when he sees one.
The features Of the game Monday
were the fielding Of the home boys
and the home run Of Burns. Kirby
Smith, Maxwell and Seigler, Of Gov
ington, also did great work.
Dyersburg made it two straight by
winning Tuesdays game by q score
Of to 2. Bridges, who pitched for
Covington, made a good showing. He
is left-hander, has plenty Of "stuff"
and held Dyersburg down to seven
scattered hits, while Covington pulled
down nine hits off of Dyersburg's
crack pitcher. In one inning, with
the bases full, Burns, of Covington,
hit a long drive which came near
being another home run, but luck was
with the other fellows, and no runs
were made.
Wednesdays game was almost
repetition of Mondays game, though
not quite so disastrous. Marshall,
who pitched for Covington, for some
reason failed to deliver the goods,
and Dyersburg took the game by a
score of 7 to /.
Both teams arrived in Covington
Wednesday night for three games ON
Thursday, Friday and SATURDAY..
The Covington baseball club is or
ganized for the purpose of furnish
ing first-class baseball for the peo-
pie of Covington and Upton coun-
ty during july and August The
team is under the management of
Mr.. Will Reid, who. as everybody
knows, is an exDert in all things
tanning to baseball, and Mr.. Reid has
undoubtedly gotten together ball
team that will equal, if not surpass,
any team in West Tennessee or ad-
joining states, outside of the South
ern League teams. All of the play
ers are salaried men, and the best
that could be had, regardless Of ex-
pense. Three or four Upton county
boys have made the team, others be-
ing secured from nearby towns. It is
to be hoped that the people Of the
town and county will patronize the
Covington games literally, and that
they will boost the game.
The following is the lineup. as it
win probably remain through the
season:
Seigler, center field, Millington;
Reitz, second base, Memphis; Hovey,
First base, Memphis; Burns, short
stop, Memphis; Kirby Smith, right
field, Brighton; Harris, third base.
Maxwell, left field, Gar
and; Jacobs, catcher, Memphis
Kinney, Of Covington; McLister, of
Brighton, and Bridges, Of Memphis,
compose the present pitching staff,
With one other to BE- added the last
i the yeek.
The club viii open an engagement