The Dawson news., 1921-07-26
MPI0NSHIP TO BE
DECIDED IN DAWSON
LOCAL TEAM TO PLAY CUTH-
BERT. FIT. GAINES AND SYL-
VESTER THIS WEEK.

Three ball games to determine the
championship of South Georgia. will
be staged in Dawson this week, the
fast Cuthbert club playing here on
Wednesday; Fort Gaines, with her all
hired team, on Thursday and Sylves-
ter, our old rivals, on Friday. The
Dawson and Cuthbert teams are even
ly matched and the fans no doubt will
see royal battle. Fort Gaines is play
ing an all-hired team, and is raring to
add Dawson to her string of victims
Our old rivals, the Sylvester lads, are
again after Our goat Shall we let them
get it? You bet we won't Fellows
you tell 'em, and be out to root for
the home club.
The Past Weeks Games.
On Tuesday afternoon Arlington
defeated the home club in fast and
interesting game of ball at Baldwin
park by a score of to 4. Stone, for
mer Mercer University STAR perform
ed mound work for the visitors, and
although he was hit freely he tighten
ed in the pinches and pitched invinci-
BILE ball. "EIi Pockets" Harris for the
locals also pitched good ball, but the
breaks of the game were against him.
Stone allowed twelve hits and Harris
ten. Hafale for the home club and
Sheppard for the visitors proved the
stars with the willow, while both clubs
generally hit the bali hard and far
Clements for the Arlington club per-
formed excellent work as receiver. Bat
Stone and Glenn
ents; Dawson: Harris and Pinkston.
Wednesday afternoon Dawson de-
feated the Cuthbert aggregation in
game being marked by the hitting of
both teams. Wade for the locals feat
ured with the stick, connecting with
one of Dorfan's slants in the third for
a circuit drive with two men on bases.
Cuthbert rallied in the eighth frame
and registered three runs but failed to
come through in the ninth. Batteries
Cuthbert: Dorian and Register; Daw-
son: Jenkins and Pinkston.
Thursdays game was lost to Cuth
bert by a score of to l, this game
having been scheduled for Dawson
but transferred to Cuthbert on ac-
count of heavy rains. 1t was one of
the best games of the season, and
proved to be a pitchers battle be-
tween Whipple for the. Cuthbert club
and Hammock for the locals. Cookies
home run in the eighth was the feature
OF the fracas, and was the only run
registered by the home club. Cuth
bert's tallies were registered in the
same frame when the Dawson infield
blew up, making three errors which
with one hit and Huie being hit by
the pitcher melted three scores. Ex-
cept for this one frame both teams
played air tight ball Wade for the
home club performed most excellent
field work, as did Robert Pinkston,
the former making beautiful one
handed catch of high fly in deep
center, and Pinkston stabbing a line
drive labelled a hit For Cuthbert HUE
was the star at fielding, this lad max
ing several excellent stops at short
and splendid catch of 4 fly that was
hit to short left. Hutchinson at third
for Cuthbert also played well. Bat
Whipple and Regis
ter; Dawson: Hammock and Pink
ston. Umpires Bond and Hafale.
Third Game Tie.
The game in Cuthbert on Friday
was delayed for quite awhile due to
heavy rains and was called at the END
of the sixth frame on account of dark
ness, with the score tied to e. Har-
ris on the mound for Dawson was a
trife wild to begin with, walking two
and hitting one in the sixth, when
Cuthbert scored their six runs, but at
ter that frame he was invincible. Daw-
son registered three of her tallies in
the third frame, two in the fourth and
one in the sixth, at the end of which
inning darkness prevailed with the
the score a tie. The feature of the
game was Wade's home run in the
fourth with one man on first, these
two being the only runs scored in this
frame. Batteries-Dawson; Harris and
Pinkston; Cuthbert; Sealey, WhiPple
and Register (Whipp1e relieving Sea
ley at the beginning of the sixth in
Ining). Umpires: Perry and Bond.