FROM DAYS GONE BY June 13, 1919

June 13, 1919.

Wrightsville is well organized for baseball this season. At a spirited meeting in the office of the Dixie Cotton Company, last week the company has perfected and the organization put over in old time pep style and it looks now like the city will compete for first place among the teams of the surrounding country during the season. It was deemed advisable for the team to remain as it has always been apart from a league but will be glad to arrange games with any towns in reach.
Mr. W. H. Lovett was chosen manager, I. R. Tanner, assistant manager; H. C. Tompkins president; R. H. Rowland vice-president; E. E. Daley treasurer and C. D. Roundtree secretary. The Board of Directors are R. E. Butterly, J. M. Cook, E. A. Lovett, J. B. Williams, H. B. Sanders, L. A. Lovett and W. E. McWhorter. The club has a capital stock of $2500, with most shares selling at $5 each. A nice ballfield has been prepared at Idylwild where home games will be played.
The team is receiving state-wide attention on the diamond. East Georgia hasn't a better team than Wrightsville. The line up of players are Eddie Rawson of Athens, catcher; George Clarke, Waycross, pitcher; Philip Bedgood, Harrison, pitcher; Edwin Culpepper, Homerville, pitcher; Johnnie Easterling, Montezuma,center field; S. M. Johnson, Wrightsville, right field; Clarence Rawson, Athens, first base; Clio Johnson, Wrightsville, second base; Shellman Martin, Wrightsville, short stop; J. L. Watson, Vidalia, third base; Curtis Cox, Gainsville, left field.
In recent games Wrightsville beat Swainsboro 7 to 0 in their first game. Wrightsville lost the second game of the season Friday to Eastman in a pitchers battle of 14 innings at Idylwild by a score of 1 to 0, the lone run being made in the 14th inning by Eastman. Then on Saturday afternoon at Eastman Wrightsville roared back with a 6 to 0 win. Monday afternoon we beat Midville 5 to 1 and on Tuesday beat Midville again 3 to 1. In Tuesday's second game with Midville, Wrightsville received its first shut out by a score of 4 to 0. During Friday's game Grayson Rowland was sitting watching the game and was hit by a stray ball, being dangerously hurt for a few minuites, the ball striking him just above the eye on the temple.
The first cotton bloom of the season was brought in by George Hunt, a colored farmer on C. H. Moore's plantation. Mr. W. H. Lovett will have a nice 63 acre field of cotton if it keeps growing. It is now waist high and is calculated to beat the boll weevil to it, so early has it grown and fruiting. The Boy Scouts have sent off orders for a dozen tents to be used on their scouting expeditions. Mr. R. P. Hicks is doing all he can to make the scouts a success.
Mr. & Mrs. Lamar Moss had a big boy born on June 8th. Miss Carrie-Belle Wilson and Mr. Ernest H. Hamilton were married at Harrison. She is a daughter of Mr. C. L. Wilson. The groom is son of John Hamilton and is a skilled mechanic for L. A. Lovett Ford. Vernon A. Burns, aged 34 years died in a Macon hospital. He was severly injured at the Case-Fowler Lumber Company. He had only been working a month, coming from Wrightsville. His parents were Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Burns. He had six brothers and three sisters. He was buried in Westview.