The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-01
The Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1922.
THE FRIDAY BALL GAME
CHRISTIANS AGAIN VICTORIOUS

The Baptists and Christians played
a fast game of ball last Friday, the
latter the winners by the score of 5
to 8.
1t was pitchers battle between
| Johnson and Parks, Johnson striking
out 13 men and Parks 8, the hard
| hitting club of the Christians only
making hits off of Parks and 2 of
those were infield hits by Carman
Parks had the Big Four of the Chris
| tian Church in his power house,
only one of them making hit off OF
him and that was Rankin, who hit a
line drive to right in the fifth inning
! for the first hit off of him. Rogers,
out of four times up, famed twice,
grounded out once and got sacri-
| flee fly, when Youngblood caught his
ball and threw to second instead of
third and let Palmer, who was on
second go to third after the catch
Rankin, out of four times up, ground
hit by pitched ball once, Nicely
famed twice, hit pop fly to short
and fly to center field l.. Johnson,
out of four times up, famed once, hit
a grounder to short, and two long
flies to center that Heppner caught.
The Baptists made one in the Sec
ond after Heppner had famed. Pru-
EFT singled to right and Parks
! doubled to center, scoring Pruett,
and they added one more in, the
fourth. Heppner doubled to right
and went to third while Palmer
threw out Pruett and scored on
Parks hit Rogers made a wonder
full stop of the ball, but Parks beat
the throw to first. The Christians
then went ahead in the fifth by max.
ing three runs. After one was out
P. Johnson hit a grounder to Nc
Clure, who fumbled it. Johnson
then stole second and went all the
way to third when Talley threw to
center field. Crenshaw walked, Pal
mer hit grounder to Semones, who
fumbled it and Johnson scored and
! Crenshaw reached third. Crenshaw
scored while Woodland threw out Rog-
ers and Palmer went to third. Ran
kin then singled to right for the first
hit, scoring Palmer Nelly ended
the inning by tanning. They made
one more in the sixth. Carman beat
out a hit to short and stole second
and third and scored when Lancer
missed P. Johnson's high fly. John
son then stole second and Crenshaw
singled to right, but Johnson was
thrown out at the plate. The Bap-
lists made one more and their final
run in the Sth after two were out.
Heppner singled to center, and Pru-
EFT also singled to center. Roper
threw the ball to third to get Hepp
ner, but Palmer let the ball get away
from him and roll into the crowd and
Heppner scored, Pruett going to
third. Parks grounded out. The
Christians then made one more in
their half. Carman beat out his sec
ond hit to short and stole second and
scored on L. Johnson's hit to center.
The Baptists threatened again in the
ninth. Youngblood started the in
ming by tanning. Osborne went in
to hit for Woodland and hit a ground
er to Palmer and he fumbled it. Will
liams hit for Lancer and flied out to
right field Semones hit grounder
to Palmer and he fumbled it also.
Palmer, who had been making his
debut at the hot corner for the Chris
tians, had been playing fast ball up
until this inning, when he singled
to center and Osborne was thrown
out at the plate by perfect throw
by Carman.