The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1921-08-10
DROP BOTH GAMES
TO PATTERSON ON
SATURDAY, SUNDAY
First Game is Fiasco But
Sunday Contest More
Exciting
OPELOUSAS FIGHTS
BUT LOSES SERIES
Last Game Required Ten
Innings to Decide the
Winner

Patterson's team, owned by Million
aire Williams, won the two games
from the Opelousas team Saturday
and Sunday, though the last of the
two was a hard-fought contest and it
required ten innings to show that
Patterson had the better team Of the
two, the score standing one to no
thing when the winning hit scored.
The locals left home Saturday morn.
ing for the long trip by automobile
to the st. Mary parish town. The dis
tance is slightly over ninety miles
and it is estimated that the tire
some ride had much to do with the
poor showing they put up that even
ing. Besides, the famous Opelousas
shortstop, Comeaux, was called away
at the last moment by the sudden
death of his brother in Mississippi and
his absence weakened the team.
A large crowd assesmbled at the
splendid park in Patterson to witness
the game, the motion picture actress,
Marguerite Clarke, wife. of Million
aire Harry Patterson, being in the
grandstand to root" for her hus-
bands team. A large crowd from
Opelousas also motored to Patterson
to root for the home boys and they
we're much disappointed because of
the home teams defeat, the score
standing II to 1 against the opelou,
scans.
When this news reachd Opelousas
late Saturday evening the crushing
defeat cast shadow of gloom over
the fans who could not go, but they
perked up after the first effects Of
the defeat wore of and they said
Just watch Sundays game" and
promised there would be a different
story to tell when that contest was
pulled off.
And so it was, for the result was
l to 0 and it took ten innings for
Patterson one of the strongest in the
state and made up mostly of profess
sionals, the teams owner, Williams,
not sparing expense in securing the
best players for his aggregation,
something the average small-towa
club can not do.
The first news that reached here
of the game had things "balled-up,
in that the report said Opelousas had
won the game 1 to 0. The home-stay'
ing fans let out a mighty howl of de.
light when they heard that Opelousas
had won, and the disappointed was
keen when the team returned at q
late hour Sunday night and set the
record straight. They were enthusi.
astic, however, about tthe tight game
the locals had played and feel sure
that they can still beat Patterson
and it is generally understood that
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another run for their money within a
very short time, as the Pattersonites
evidently are not altogether satisfi'
ed with the way things went Satur-
day and Sunday, the first named
game having been lost through the
physical WEAKNESS OF the Opelou'
scans.
1t was reported that the locals
would go to Welsh and play three
games, Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday, and then return home for
a three-game schedule with Lake
Charles, Friday Saturday and Sunday
but this is denied and it is said that
the Lake Charles team is playing a
series OF games this week in North
Louisiana and has no open dates to
play with the locals just now. Cap
tain Thompson and the manager OF
the team, however, are arranging to
fix games with different teams and
they promise that the fans will not
be disappointed for the sport will con
tinue to the end of the season.