The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-04-03
BRAVES VS. TIGERS
TOBEATFLORENCE
THE FLORENCE TIMES WILL
BRING TWO OF THE BIG LEA
CUE TEAMS THERE ON
APRIL Sth

Ty Cocc of w> divide fame al
Hank Gowdy to be seen in action on
Florence Diamond.
The Florence Daily Times takes
pleasure in announcing that 1t has
arranged for the appearance IN Flor
ence on the afternoon OF April 3, OF
the Boston National and Detroit Am
erican league base ball clubs in an
exhibition game. These arrangements
were concluded with a view Of Civ
ing the lovers of base ball in Florence
and surrounding country an oppor-
tunity to enjoy a genuine game OF
league baseball. with Ty Cobb and
Hank Gowdy in action. This is easily
the biggest base ball affair eve.
staged in this city and it is the cN-
pectation of the Tines that the at
tendance will break all previous 10
cal baseball records. The game vii
be played at The Pee Dee far
grounds park.
In this game actW,cn tnc Brave
and The Tigers, as they are known
in the base bah world viii be pre-
sentcd a5 o'utely The b'@%cst l:raw-
ing cards OF present day major lea
que base bail Everybody mas heard
'cf " Cobb Of the Detroit Club, him
SET q Goutherner from Augusta, Ga.
and everywhere recognized as in {,
class by himself. He vii play hi
usual position in the Detroit outficld
and wnen ever Cobb is in the line up
there iS sure to BE- something doing
almost any minute. Then there is
Hank GOwdv, whose wonderful PROV
ess with the bat in that memorable
worlds series of 1914 is not forgot
ten. But Gowdy has q more recent
claim to fame for he was the best Of
all the big league players to see over
seas service and for more than lS
months he was on the other side, ris-
ing to the rank of color sergeant
with the gallant Rainbow Division.
The third of this great trio of stars
is Rabbit Maranville, the diminutive
and peppery shortstop of the braves,
easily the best shortstop in the game
today as we'll as about the smallest
player in point of inches who has
ever made good in the company of
the top notcherS.
The contract calls for the appear
ance of all Of these stars and in ad-
dition will come to this city all Of
the other players of the two teams,
regulars and rockies alike, making
altogether a party Of over 70 ball
players to say nothing of managers,
attendants and a perfect horet of
newspaper men who are covering
this tour of the two clubs for the
Boston and Detroit newspapers. 1t
promises TO be one of the biggest
days this place has ever seen.
Four special Pullman cars will be
used by the Boston National and De-
troit American league base ball clubs
in transport to this city the 70 odd
players who will visit this city on
the 9Th of April, 1919 for the game
that is to be played here on that day
between these two clubs. The cars
were chartered to be used by the
party f-on tie time the two teams
leave Macon, Ga, on Sunday after
noon, April 9th until they part com
pany at Staunton, Va, on the night
Of Wednesday, April 18th. In the
mean time these Puilmans will be
really the home of the players for it
was found absolutely impossible to
secure suitable hotel accommoda-
tions in any of the places for the en-
tire party and it must be borne IN
mind that there are others who will
visit this city in connection with the
game in addition to the players of
the two teams.
In the first place there are the two
managers, each Of whom has one OF
the few much covered rooms OF the
Pullmans, George T.Stalling, who has
borne the title of the Miracle Man
Of base ball ever since he won the
worlds series with his Braves in
four straight games-a performance
never since equalled-is one of the
managers and the other is the ever
genial Hughey Jennings whose an
tics on the coaching lines have been
80 often careeature in the metro
politan papers. Stallings and Jen-
nings will fight out this series of eN-
hibition games with as much earn
estne5s as if a pennant and cham
pionship was involved, for with each
club representatives Of each newSpa-
per outfits home city and the fans
"up' North" are watching the result
of these games with keencst inter
est.
Not only is the appearance of such
men as Ty Cobb, Hank Gowdy, Rab-
bit Maranville and others guaranteed
but each team will use its first string
nitchers in order to have any possi-
ble advantage. With each manager
having his entire outfit Of thirty