The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-31
nAWSON LEADS IN
FIRST WEEKS PLAY
liter HALF OF THE SOUTH
IN GEORGIA CIRCUIT BEGAN
ON LAST MONDAY.

n,,,son won the deciding game
tte series from cambridge here
u, 1,esdav afternoon by count OF
Ne0',SS 10th teams had their batting
10 an. total of "a safe blows
CDs'- made by the two clubs.
O'PPsd Wosely pitched for cambridge,
H' tll old stager was hit hard be-
anu heing accorded miserable sup
Sul his team mates chalking up a
Po'ji n eight miscues during the bat
nc ,1r;,-an for Dawson, was off form
- WAS relieved in the latter part OF
t a,a game by Grunt Lucas, who tW1rl-
Cd shut-out ball. :,
''Tbr whole Dawson club hit well,
uot+;np II base knocks off the senile
5,i;yer, OF old Red Mosely. The To-
u si, also plavedswell in the field, max
S sa brt two errors on a bad diamond.
p5t5 teams seemed to lack much life,
a pgJ' ram falling intermittently during
abe contest also served to slow the
sa Pero Webb, playing his first game
f.. Dawson. showed up in fine style.
10. i many a hit left yet in the
LIZ Ia' rlrb that this lad carries.
'lRatfcries-Bainbridge: Mosely and
4 r;bson Dawson: Sullivan, Lucas and
Powson. Umpire: Prof. Mosely.
Called Account of Darkness.
Dawson and Blakely battled to a
.srer 10 seven tie here Thursday at
tsrooon when Umpire Lightfoot call
aJ thp came in the eighth inning with
t" u ont. a man on base and Rosen-
te,d at the bat, saying that it was too
lark 10 continue, when they could
& have casilv finished the inning and
oi,rrd another if it had been peces-
The players, those representing
Rlakelv especially, were Wrangllng
with Lightfoot throughout the game,
who allowed them to tread on his toes
Il and shake their fingers in his face on
every close decision.
George Thrasher, recently of the
dairnct Cotton States League, was
Il tbe main umpire batter of the Blake
Z " club. Just like any. other bush
s league player who has pastlmed
n awhile in a class D organization, he
thinks he knows more about the game
than the men who wrote the rules.
Il He wrangled and argued with Light
B foot all the afternoon and was never
taken from the contest.
4 The Blakely boys hit Hines freely,
making three home runs off Dawson S
star forkhander. Morris. for the viSi-
3 tors was a puzzle until the eighth
i inning. when the local team came in
TO the bat with the score I to ! in
4 Bhkely's favor
Alter the smoke had cleared some
i what Dawson had scored six runs,
/ had a man on second and there were
4 but two outs Lightfoot and Jenkins
I had been the principals in a pugilistic
. encounter. and after holding his
watch in his hand for five minutes
after telling Blakdy to either play or
. he would forfeit the game Lightfoot
called the game a tie and did not let
q Dawson finish her turn at bat.
1t was the most sensational rally
Z ever participated in by Dawson club
& and one that will go down into the
annals of local baseball history as the
most desperate effort to win a game
4 here yet recorded, and then with the
B contest within grasp to have it called
by an umpire VINO Was ledlly 81 up
h in the air that he didn't know what
he was doing: .,
Lightfoot is in reality a clean and
air-minded chap, but the eternal
wrangling of the players got him
& clearly out of line with the ball game
! and it was evident from the first that
he was going to have trouble by the
B way he let the players talk to him
and argue with him when each one
should have been put out of the game
at once. no matter which side he rep
E Resented
Rosenfeld, Daniels and Marquard
were the batting stars OF the local
team. Daniels coming up in the last
q Inning with the cushions loaded and
kissed a fast over the right field
wall for the circuit. They don't make
8 them better for the pinches than this
boy Time and again he has dem
frustrated his ability to hit when hits
meant runs. and through it all he has
the same calm, unrufled demeanor
that is admired alike by players and
Fans.
Enthusiastically: Morris Coch--
ran and Fincher. Dawson: Hines and
s RaWs0n. ITnpire: LiphtfoOt