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WERE NOT IN IT.The Cullman Giants Pulverize theHolly Pond Amateurs.The iirst game of the season betweenPone! and the Phoenix of this was played at Base Ball Park1 :30 p.'I'he Holly Pond hoys proved no mated) whatever for the Cullman Giants, and the end of the* ninth inning the scorestood ‘2d to 3 in favor of Cullman.llolhcity, Wednesdayafternoon atinCast year they wore railed “babies, and this year they have* been dubbedmanner mthemselves in* *l)e‘‘hams, They elese rve no such appellations, evidenced by thewilled) they handledWednesday s game*.Hendrix, who did the* twirling for the visitors, is an easy, graceful pitch- I el rr, and is as coed as an old veteran. He* handles himself with perfect ease, and lields his posit ion well, lie ree*eiveel thephysical and moral support of the* team behind him, for the* players, be-sides helping him all they could in the* way of put outs and assists, had the encouraging weird of the “King KoeterM every few minutes.Owing to a misunderstanding as to t lu* time t In* game* would lie* railed, our I 11 reporter eliel not arrive* until the* gamewas in goeiel headway, but on hi?ar-rival tunnel that a strange scene was being enacted—standing in tin* center ed the diamond was a well made young fed low with a sandy moustache engaged in the* husiimss of starting halls on1 heir course towards the* catchei. Mostof the* time though, that eemrse* wasnever completed—it was ruelely interrupted by I he man at the hat sending tlie* ball sailing hack into the outfield, while base-runners literally gushed over the* plate, and the Holly Pond rooters were as solemn and glum as thehired mourners in a funeral procession.The Pheieiiix did not play theirusual snappy game—each one realizing the* fact that they had a “good thing,got careless and thus allowed the visitors three runs, otherwise they wouldwhave gotten a large sized goose e*gg.A shut-out emu Id have* been easil v a el-ministered but for three or four fielders swarming around a pop-Hy like flie sarounei a sugar howl, and mdiody getting it.It is unneccessary to give tin* game* in detail—the* score does that, anel is :viitirlt;elhVllrtd(itceCullman1 2l : oHolly Pond 0 ! 0 0 1 01n1 oitt
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Cullman Mountain City Gazette
Cullman, Alabama, US
Fri, Jun 26, 1896
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Dan S.
AL, USA 09 Nov 2022
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