Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-07-21
Carthage Wins a
Big 15-Inning Game

One of the liveliest and most excit- /
ing baseball games that has been play
ed in the upper Cumberland section in
many years occurred at Huntsville last
: Wednesday afternoon when the Car
bhage team met the strong team of
Franklin, KY. Carthage and Frank
lin each went to Huntsville fully de-
termined to win the affair and the fur
began to fly from the very beginning
and when the smoke from the ARRAY
had arisen the score stood 3 for Car
thage and for Franklin. 1t took all
of fifteen innings to tell the story.
Franklin used two pitchers, while
Archie Wright, who was in the box
for Carthage, went the full Is rounds.
The scoring started in the fifth inning
when Franklin put a runner across.
Then Carthage came to the bat and
tied the score in the same frame. The
battle went on with the core tied until
the sixth inning when Franklin put
a runner across, making the score two
and one. Carthage tied it up again
In the eighth. Baseball playing then
set up in good fashion by players on
both teams and the affair went to the
fifteenth with a tied score, when Car
thage came to the bat in the last
half CT this inning, and put the run
across that settled the game. Though
the heavy sluggers on the Franklin
team used the bats freely, the Car
thage gang gave Wright perfect sup
port and Franklin runners were
thrown out with apparent ease. The
fielding on the part of the Franklin
team was also perfect and tc secure
a score was indeed a difficult task. It
was a great game-one that will go
down in upper Cumberland baseball
history. Batteries for Carthage,
Wright and Hickman; for Franklin,
Mcclure, James and Hackney.
Carthage baseball team won a rapid
fire thinning game from Huntsville on
the local field last Saturday afternoon.
This was the fouth game of a five
game series with Huntsville, three of
which have been captured by Carthage
and naturally the affair created much
interest. For the first six innings it
seemed that no one was going to be
able to score, but in this frame Car
thage's left fielder nIisjudged line
drive by a Huntsville batter and the
visitors put the first run of the game
over. In the eighth inning, on a fiuke
play by the Rartsville infield, Car
thage put run across and the score
was then tied until the last half of
the eleventh inning when the Harris
vile center and left fields let fly
ball from a Carthage batter fall be-
tween them. The score resulted, 2
for Carthage and / for Hartsville
Batteries for Huntsville, Beasley and
Brooks; for Carthage, Richardson and
Hickman.
One of the best games of the season
is expected on the local field Saturday
afternoon when Carthage meets
Green-brier. The Greenbrier team is
composed chiefly of the Fisher boys,
formerly of Smith County, and their
ability to play baseball is well known
here A large crowd is expected to be
present and witness the game. The
Carthage Courier is in receipt of a
news item taken from the Ashland
City paper in which an interesting
tale is told of how the Greenbrier
bunch, which is composed of five Fish
ers, is the hardest hitting outfit that
has ever been in that section, and that
they got IA hits off the Ashland City
hurler who is outed as being one of
the best pitchers in that section of the
state. Looks like Carthage is going
to have some job to lick the Fisher
tribe, but we believe they will do it,
and you are invited to come and see
''the fur fly"
Carthage team goes to Hickman
Friday afternoon, July %, to engage
the boys of that city in a fast and
snappy game. A large crowd is ex-
pected to witness this game.