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badin bulletin Page Seventeen DICK—THE DEPENDA'BLE Successful Season Team Made Strong Finish The Badin baseball team completed schedule of thirty-four games on ®ptember 18 with a decisive victory over C,ross Roads. This past season Witnessed several games which furnished good baseball as one would wish to Badin did not discriminate against team—games were scheduled with ^ atever aggregation had an open date. though Cooleemee came here for two Sames and Cooleemee was supposed to ave had the fastest team in North arolina—we were unable to arrange a game with Reidsville, which team also ^ aimed to be the best in North Carolina. Spencer had one of the strongest nines this section of the country, and would ^ave played Badin had the weather per mitted. The Badin team was undoubt- ® iy a more strictly amateur team than a^y of its opponents, yet games were scheduled with teams which carried high- salaried players. And in these games, 6ven though the home team was de bated, the fellows did not play such in- ej'ior ball. In fact, several of the games Proved, to the complete satisfaction of almost everyone, that the Badin players ^ould easily hold their own in this sup posedly faster company. The first game of the season was played in Kannapolis, where Badin lost 10 to 5. The next two games were home games, and resulted in victories. Erlan- ger then won from Badin in Erlanger, and the next week these two teams played an eleven inning tie-game. Out of the following seven games, Badin won four, defeating Kannapolis, Concord, Winston-Salem, and Albemarle. Erlan ger and Thomasville won their games. Beginning with 2 to 1 defeats at the hands of Kannapolis and Erlanger, Badin lost seven straight games. The seventh was played in Sumter, S. C., where the team played great ball, only to present the game to Sumter by one bad slip, .iv bonehead play by one of our base run ners. York pitched the best game of his life, and should have been entitled to at least a tie-game, if not a victory. This long losing streak was broken by a tie-game against Cross Roads, when the two teams battled for twelve in nings on Tallassee diamond, the game be ing called on account of darkness with the score two to two. That happened on July 27, and from that date until and including the eighteenth of September, Badin played fifteen games, including the two with Cooleemee, and lost but three of them! To end things right, the team won seven straight, thereby mak ing up for the disastrous losing streak. Among the teams which were defeated during this winning period were Albe marle and Cross Roads. Albemarle lost two out of three; thus Badin won the season geries by taking three out of the MRS.- THORPE five games played. Cross Roads was defeated three straight, which gave Badin three out of four, the fourth game being the twelve-inning tie. The final game was one which brought joy to the Badinites, for “Lefty” Wilson brought his team over feeling confident that it BADIN BASEBALL TEAM, 1920 SITTING T. Vann, D. Cooper, Kearns, Strathen;'■KNEELING—C. Vann, Yotk,'| Gamwell, Harris; STANDING—Quinlan (Coach), Sykes,LBlack, Shoe, Smith (Manager)
The Badin Bulletin (Albemarle, N.C.)
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