Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-22

nouncements were made by R. G.
Burts, secretary.-The State.
Big Game of Baseball in
Augusta.
Augusta, Ca, March 20.-The-
Committee of Fifty of the Board of
Commerce which was responsible for
the famous Augusta Community Bar
becues of 1920 and 1921, when u
900 Georgians and C%arolinians were
fed at one time under one roof, there
by establishing a record for the
South and, therefore for the county,
has gone in for baseball. This Com
mittee has arranged an exhibition
and match game for Friday, March
31st, between the Detroit Tigers,
managed by the Incompatible TY
COBB, and the Augusta team of the
South Atlantic League, which is di-
rected by Neal Ball, the first man in
the big leagues to make a'triple play
unassisted. Just to add a thrill to the
performance, Neal made it in a world
series game.
The Committee of Fifty is respon-
sible for the fact that the Detroit
team of the American League is
training in Augusta. Ty Cobb, who is
a resident of Augusta, was anxious,
to bring his charges to the city, but
there were no facilities at Warren
Park, the local baseball plant, for
his players. The Committee of Fifty
promptly got busy and found out II
they underworld a certain sum the
officials of Richmond Academy would
erect the necessary club house. Ty
Cobb then announced that he would
bring his ball tossers to Augusta, and
he did. The Committee OF Fifty is
now promoting the game to meet the
Indebtedness contracted in order to
make the necessary improvements.
It is seldom that Southern baseball
fans, even the largest cities of Dixie,
get an opportunity to see such an ar
ray of talent ~prancing around a ball
yard as will be seer at Warren Park
the day Detroit and Augusta meet.
There will be Ty Cobb, the immortal
Georgia Peach, who needs no intro
duction to American anywhere,
whether they be baseball fans or not;
the man who has made apparently
unbreakable records than any other
man can hope to make-the greatest
player the game has produced.
Harry Heilman, the champion bat
ter of the American League, will al
so be in the lineup. ,Heilmann is one
of the greatest stars in baseball, and
yet he is still young in the game.
Bobby Veach, a veteran of many
campaigns and still going strong, one
of the hardest hitters in the big
leagues, and with Ty Cobb and Sam
Crawford, a member of the most ia
nous outfeld trio that eve graced a
diamond, will also be on deck for &C
ton. Detroit's outield will also boast
of Johnny Mohardt, who has yet to
play his first big league game, but
who is one of the most widely known
men in athletic circles today. Johnny
halls from the Notre Dame Univer-
sity, Indiana, where he entered at
football to such an extent that sport
writer's rated him as high OF even
higher than Brickley, Mahan, Berry
and other stellar lights of the grid
iron in days gone by, and they do say
that there is one thing he can play
better than football, and that is base
ball .Ty Cobb evidently thinks so too,
for he is playing him regularly in
practice games and does not hide his
admiration for his ability.
A record baseball crowd is expect
ed at the game; the entire proceeds
of which will be turned over to the
Board of Commerce, through the
courtesy of Managers Cobb and Bell.
Admission will be one dollar. Parties
are being formed, even at this early
date, in towns scores of miles from
Augusta to motor up to the game,
and reservations are coming in in a
steady stream. Baseball such as will
be displayed the afternoon of March
31st in Augusta is scheduled but
rarely, and no baseball fan or admir-