The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-29
FOUR BIG BALL
GAMES this WEEK
SOME OF FASTEST TEAMS IN
STATE COMING TO DAWSON.
WIN THREE OUT OF FOUR.

Dawson defeated Souther Field
here Tuesday afternoon by score
of 5 to 1. The locals completely out
classed the visitors in every respect.
The feature of the game was the
twirling of "SaP' jenkins, former
Gordon star, who did mound duty
for the home club. "SaP' gave up
but four hits, three of which were
garnered by big Bill' Parsons, and
would have smeared the soldiers with
coat of whitewash but for an error
by Reddick in the second inning.
Emmett Pinkston, who leads the
locals in swatting, nicked Feagle, the
soldier hurler, for three hits out of
four trips to the plate, thus fattening
up his average considerably. Griggs
Miller, as usual, contributed his quo
ia by getting two singles, walking
once and grounding out to third in
four attempts at the platter. Red
/ dick hit two nice singles to left in
three tries with the willow.
Broke Even With Lanett.
The fast Lanett, Ala, team APP
peared on the local diamond Wednes-
day and Thursday. This club is made
up of college men and is by far the
best that has played Dawson this
year. They are nice clean bunch
of fellows and it is a great pleasure
both to the fans and Dawson players
to look forward to their next series
here, which is Thursday and Friday.
On Wednesday Frank Asbury, of
Tech fame, was on the slab for the
visitors, with his college mate, Jimmy
Wheeler, on the other end of the fir
Ii ing line. The former Yellowjacket
hurled great ball and was completely
invincible in the pinches. Ronald
Lanier, for the locals, showed the pill
across in great style, but the fielding
behind him on a muddy diamond was
uncertain and thus caused his defeat.
Mason aHd Wheeler divided the hon
ors for the visitors, while Emmett
Pinkston was the batting star for the
locals. The score was 5 to 2 in ia
vor of Lanett.
Thursday afternoon just before
the game a deluge flooded the dia-
mond and only after several applica-
tons of sawdust was the field render
ed fit to play on.
With Red Willis hurting an assort-
ment of curves that would make
Walter Johnson look like bush
Lacquer and Baby Bostwick, the Babe
Ruth of the home club, knocking the
apple to all corners of the lot, the
chances of the Lanett club were pref
| ty slim.
Willis whitfield eight men and gave
up but four safe blows. This auburn
haired boy has the hurting stuff II
gobs, and Manager Crouch after sew
eral overtures has finally secured hin
! for the remainder of the season. IL
the sixth inning the lone run of th'
game occurred Baby Bostwick tri
pied to deep left and scored on {
one-timer to right off the bat Of
Griggs Miller. The locals won this
game l to 0.
Albany was trounced here by the
locals Friday by a total of Is to 0
Sal jenkins held the visitors hitless
while the whole Dawson club went
wild with the ash. The game was
called by the umpire at end of the
sixth after the visitors had thrown
up the sponge.
DIAMOND DUST.
Red Willis comes forward with q
statement of his inability to pitch q
wet ball. Far be it us to say that
Red is "spoofing," but just the same
we'd hate to be the opposing team
on a clean, dry day..
McCorvey has the greatest desire
for punishment yet seen on the local
diamond. Only last week Mae STEP
ped in front of five fast ones, thus
drawing as many free trips to the mi
tial station.
With the addition of Baby Bost-
wick to the local field we claim the
fastest and best hitting outfeld in
amateur ball. Robert Pinkston, be-
sides playing great game in the
field, has been connecting with the
ball with regularity.
1t will be noticed from the batting
averages that Emmett Pinkston leads
the club with the willow This sor-
rel-topped lads pep and spirit has
won many a ball game for Dawson.
We now have ''Sal' jenkins, Red
Willis and Ronald Lanier on the ros-
ter as slab artists, and with this ros-
ter or moundsmen the local team is
going at the fastest clip of any anna
teur team in the state.
Now, fans, Lanett plays here
Thursday and Friday and it is need
less to say we must all turn out. The
team needs your mental, physical and
last, but not least, financial support.
How the Club Is Batting.
Following are all the available
batting averages of the individual
PLAYERS. This is not complete list,
but includes games with the follow
ing: Souther Field 2, Lanett 2, AL
bayn 1, Colquitt 1, Edison 2, and Ar
lington 2. The figures below are just
for ten games and will serve to give
the fans some idea of the teams gen
eral ability:
Games. ABB. H. PC.