The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-18
Dust From The Diamond
By Blake Morgan

By Blake
Dawson defeated Cuthbert in that
city yesterday afternoon to. 0. The
Cuthbert team, while strengthened
considerably, is still not in our class
Tanner pitched his second shut-out
victory and his eighteenth consecu-,
tive scoreless inning. This lad should
be given chance against a real club,
as evidently he has the stuff The en-
tire Dawson team played well. The
two teams play in Dawson today Bat
ries-Cuthbert Holland and Irby;
Dawson: Tanner and Rawson
Last Tuesday afternoon we beat the
Cuthbert aggregation 5 to 3. Jack
Holland pitched for the visitors while
, Jimmy Lavender was on the hill for
the locals The Randolph county boys
got onto Jimmy's delivery in the first
frame for total of three runs and
four hits After the initial inning, how
ever, he was never in danger. Holland
was in fine form, and if he had fielded
| his position in any manner at all would
have tucked a victory under his shirt.
On poor fielding, bad control and
misplay by Catcher Stein we tailed
| five times and the contest ended with
| that score.
On Wednesday the Mosleyites again
| took the measure of the Cuthbert boys
| by a score of 2 to 0. Lefty Tanner
| did the stuff for the locals and acquitt
ed himself creditably. In fact he hurled
magnificent game, letting Cuthbert
| down with a quartet of bingles. Eddie
Rawson won his battery mates game
for him with two-bagger with two
on bases.
The Albany series began here on
Thursday with a notwithstanding
| crowd. We counted in the opening
chapter on a single by Poore and a
timely hit by Sullivan, who won his
own game. After this Brown Mule
Smith on the mound for Albany tight
ened up and was so stingy with his
| hits that the locals were unable to
get another safety. Sullivan was set
ting the Albany boys down in order
except in two instances, when great
work lat the plate by Rawson saved
the day. Rain started in the beginning
# the seventh inning and the game
was called with score one to nothing
in our favor. g
Friday in Albany, due to rotten
fielding, perhaps caused by our boys
| being unfamiliar with grass diamond
we cameron the little end of a four to
nothing count. Brown Mule Smith
again pitched for the Albany boys
and as on the day before the Mule
was invincible Jimmy Lavender was
on the slab for Dawson, and had the
infelds supported him he would have
unquestionably won a draw, but again
our attack was lacking and no pitcher
in the world can win unless his team
| mates give him runs, and Jimmy IS
no exception to the rule, though he
worked manfully for a tie.
We ask the old fans OF the city
what would be the result If just Tor
Ione inning the Mule had had to face
Mutt Rhodes, Ike Thrasher. Loke
| Thrasher, Rucker CHM, Lefty Viii
liams, Jim Kingery. or some OF those
old stars Understahde' it is not our
purpose to in any way talk i'll OF our
club. They are fine, clean boys out
! there trying every minute to bring the
bacon home But we just ask the ques-
ton above We have got to get a cou-
| pie of hard hitters-the fence bursting
| kind.
On the last day of the week Albany
came over for the deciding game OF
the series, and until the ninth inning
things certainly looked dark for the
locals, but in the final frame Tanner
batting fotsCox walked, Sullivan sin
gled, Cooke hitting for Brown advanc-
ed them both on hard grounder to
first. Then Bobby Pinkston came
through with c1out to center field
fence, bringing two runs and knotting
the count. He died at second, through
Dekle whiting Evans in short order.
This game was without doubt the
most thrilling ever seen on the local
| diamond. The two teams battled for
fourteen innings without either earn
ing a decision. Sullivan was getting
stronger at the end and the Dawson
hits were more frequent. Sullivan
struck out fifteen men and yielded only
eight hits in the entire fourteen in
nings. Below is the box score: