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TAKEN FROM MAY 9 1953 CLARKSVILLE LEAF CHRONICLE
WILDCATS LOSE TO CENTRAL 1 - 0
BAGGETT GIVES UP 5 HITS, FORD 4 IN 12 INNINGS
GIVING UP ONLY FIVE HITS GENE BAGGETT PITCHED HIS CENTRAL INDIAN TEAMMATES TO A 1 - 0 VICTORY OVER THE CLARKSVILLE WILDCATS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT MURTLAND
TERRY FORD WAS ON THE MOUND FOR CLARKSVILLE AND HE ALLOWED ONLY FOUR HITS AND ONE RUN.
BOTH TEAMS WERE HELD SCORELESS UNTIL THE TOP OF THE 12TH INNINGWHEN THE INDIANS SCORED ON TWO HITS AND A WALK.
CENTRAL GOT ONE HIT IN THE THIRD INNING AND ONE IN THE FIFTH AND THE WINNING TWO IN THE 12TH. GENE BAGGETT LED OFF IN THE 12TH WITH A SINGLE AND THEN WENT SECOND WHEN DANIEL BATSON WAS WALKED. THAT IS AS FAR AS BAGGETT GOES THOUGH, AS FORD PICKED HIM OFF ON A THROW TO MCGUFFEE. THE NEXT BATTER STRUCK OUT BUT WHEN VERNON HITE CAME TO THE PLATE, HE DOUBLED TO LEFT FIELD TO SCORE BATSON. FORD THEN STRUCK OUT THE LAST BATTER.
THE WILDCATS ONLY THREAT CAME IN THE SIXTH INNING WHEN JIMMY BROWN LED OFF WITH A DOUBLE AND THEN TO THIRD ON CHALES GAMBLIN'S SINGLE. WHEN MCGUFFEE HIT TO THE SHORTSTOP BROWN TOOK OFF FOR HOME AND THROWN OUT AT THE PLATE.
BAGGETT WAS THE LEADING PITCHER FOR CENTRAL THIS YEAR.WINNING FOUR GAMES. HE PITCHED 33 INNINGS GIVING UP NO RUNS, SEVEN HITS AND STRIKING OUT 55 BATTERS
JIM DAVIDSON
WITH A RECORD LIKE THIS I AM SURE IT WILL NEVER BE EQUALLED OR BROKEN BECAUSE BASEBALL HAS CHANGED SO MUCH OVER THE YEARS. AS SLOW A RUNNER AS I WAS I GOT A PUT OUT AT FIRST TIME. WE HAD NO BACK STOP BACK OF FIRST AND THIRD LIKE THE DO TODAY.. THE CATCHER WAS RESPONSIBLE TO BACK UP THROWS TO FIRST BASE. THE BATTER HIT A GROUND BALL TO THE INFIELD AND DID NOT RUN IT OUT. I WAS BACKING UP THE THROW TO FIRST AND IT WAS A WILD THROW. I STOPPED IT AND OUT RUN THE RUNNER TO FIRST BASE AND CREDITED WIT H THE OUT.