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SocietyKill tress .................THE OPENING GAME The opening game o£ baseball olColton States League season of 10|2 was in fact a gala day In Greenvillenotwithstanding tho general depression due to tho high water fight. About fifteen hundred of the bestlioopIc in the world saw the game and it was a game with all the thrillstho home fans could ask and theGreenville team won. Tho game was weii played, eiosu, and several times-a hit would have changed the result.The players were all gentlemen on the field and the crowd was intensely interested and rooted and rooted.The interest in baseball is greator than ever before shown in Greenville; Rielly Park is one of the protti-ost we have seen anywhere; theigrand stand is comfortable, being well protected from rain or sunshine.The opening game of the Cotton States League season of 1922 showed the people of the Delta interested in baseball and also showed that Manager “Buck” Stapleton and President Wheatley of the Washington County Baseball Association lmve gotten together a l)unch of fine fellow andgood baseball players.■M-5w: foclosed after any e is neecall 1 phone BairdHIE.G1W1IV?The Courier-Journal draws a comparison that leaves a suspicion thatItotdW»|LevfojCorner !“UmobilWill
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Greenville Daily Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Fri, Apr 21, 1922
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