The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-07-06
Union Defeats Whitmire

surprise into Whitmire's camp Tues
day morning when they defeated
Wh'tmire's big nine to 2 in one OF
the fastest and best games seen in
TINS part of the country this ycar.
When Unions little team took the
field and it was announced that Ort
Fowler would pitch for Union, the
stands moaned, "Poor fellows" but
after few innings of Unions scrap
ry playing was reeled off the fans
ook notice. 1t was three up, three
down for Whitmire five of the nine
bats that they had.
The outstanding feature of the
game and fundamental cause of Whit
mire's defeat was Fowler's superb
pitching. The little twirler held the
By batters to four hits, only two of
which should have been felded. Un-
icn's first tally came in the second
when Thompson doubled, stole third
and came home on an errored attempt
to catch him at third. The third was
Unions big inning. Epps doubled,
Ward walked, and Cheek got on by
short stops error, filling the bases.
Then Harold Sullivans timely single
to center, coupled with catcher's er-
ror, cleaned the bases excepting the
batter.
Whitmire scored one in the second
and eighth. They threatened in the
sixth when they got man on first
and second and nobody out but fast
double play by route of Arthur to
Ward to Epps knocked this rally in
the head. Things looked bad for Un-
ion when Whitmire filled the bases
with one out in the eighth but the only
serious damage that came from this
was one run which was not serious
enough to hurt Unions lead. A catch
toy Cheek in right for Union in the
first was thriller. Cudd and Watson
did the umpiring and were very salts
factory to both teams. Unions fight
ing spirit is to be admired.
R H E
Union 013 600 OOO-t Z 2
Whitmire 01O 600 01O-2 4 3
The afternoon game, played on
wet field in cloudy, threatening wealth
cr, was horrible affair. Whitmire
came back with the determination of
getting revenge on their morning su-
periors, and they did it to the tune
Of IL to 8. The first five innings were
fairly good, both teams pulling off
some good plays, but the big batters
got to Murphy's stuff and tapped him
pretty heavily until Fowler relieved
him in the seventh. 1t was while the
sides were changing after the fourth
inning of this game that one of the
Whitmire players remarked of Union,
"Well, they've got a baseball team"
Three times during the first three
innings of this game disagreements
occurred over decisions on batted balls
and the catchers had to be consulted
for the proper decision. Whitmirc
opened up on the hit-and-run in the
second game and got off two pretty
ones. They didn't much think that
Union knew what a hit-and-run was
until Union began to play for them
and broke up three attempted hit
and-run plays. Union got off one
pretty hit-and-run, scoring the run
ner from first on the play. Rhine.
hart got home run with two on in
the sixth. Arthur and Sullivan, j.,
for Union and Singleton, Lomaneck
and Malone for Whitmire each col
lected two hits.
On the way down there yesterday
morning a Union player read in the
rule book that the first game of a
double-header was always the schcd-
uled game, the second, exhibition. SO
Union won the real game, Whitmire
the exhibition game. Union went
down there to try to win both games
but the boys were so tired from their
morning victory, from the walking be-
tween games and the participation in
the races, and had eaten so much bar
becue that they could not seem to
catch nor hit the ball in the after
noon. Whereas, on the contrary, the
food and rest between the games
seemed to refresh the Whitmire play
ers great deal. Union hated to dis
appoint the fans who went down for
the second game after they heard of
the morning victory but it couldn't
be helped. They won the game that
both teams wanted so badly, the first
game, and played beautiful baseball
in winning it, Buffalo's pitcher, Mos
ley, pitched the second game for
Whitmire.
r Fl F.
Union q. . 002 010 600 8 6 6
Whitmire O2O 033 3Ox-11 10