Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-22

made several fumbles and bad throws &c
first, which told in the score
1t is announced. tonight, that the
Augusta men will stay in town Monday
and Tuesday and practice with the acao-
envy boys daily.
4 Boston Journal)
The Academy team was downed by the
Augusta league team on the campus TINS
afternoon. to the tune of ID to q. After the
second inning the visitors forged ahead py
phenomenal fielding and opportune hitting.
while Exeter worked hard for few runs
1t was plainly evident that Exeter was
outclassed, but it kept pluckily on and
outbatted its opponents, while their in
field work, with the exception of Smith at
third, was far superior; he threw wild to
first. and five inexcusable errors must be
credited to him. Ladd and Ives pitched
a good game, and Scannell, who caught
for the first time this season, gave good
support behind the plate.
| Little Haley at short was in the game
from the start He was all over the
diamond and accepted every possible
chance but one. The only error that can
be credited to him was his wild throw to
the plate in the fifth inning which let in
one run.
| Gillespie did good work at second. con-
sidering that this is a new position for
him. The fielding of Gibbons was excep-
tionable. The feature of the game was
the batting Of Mccall; in five times at the
bat he landed four hits ut opportune
periods.
| For the visitors the batting of King,
| Doherty. Flynn and Bean was heavy. In
the outfield, King and Pickett made two
| wonderful running catches, which called
forth prolonged applause.
Exeter made one run in the fourth in
| ming on a handsome drive by Ladd,
coupled by heady base running, and fol-
lowed it up in the fifth by one run. In
the sixth inning Mccall, who had his eye
on the ball, sent Robertson home by a
pretty drive to centre. Smiths three
Dagger in the ninth sent in the last run.
| The visitors punched their hits scientifi-
cally, and ran bases with good Judgment.
They made six hits off Ives in the last five
innings, which were responsible for five
runs.
(Boston Herald)
In slow and uninteresting game on
the campus, this afternoon, the Phillips
Exeter base ball team was defeated by the
Augusta league team by a score of ID to
6. Tho academy boys were not in it from
the start. They outbatted their opponents,
but poor Judgment in running bases and
nervousness at critical periods of the game
kept the runs down. Smiths work at
third was discouraging to all. The fea-
tnro of the game were the batting of Nc
Call the fielding of Haley and the running
catches of King and Pickett.
Tho Augustus have been practising and
making up the team in this section for
the past two weeks. They will stay here
a few days and practice with the academy
boys on the campus.
The last of the above clippings pur-
ported to be Especial. but was, doubt
less, faxed up in the Herald office from
the regular press dispatch. 1t will be
noticed that the representative of the
Globe found Mr.. Burnham's team "a
strong aggregation, 'and that it's fielding
porter found that Burnham's team forged
ahead after the second inning "by pheno-
monal fielding and opportune hitting"
and that they punched their hits scien-
tifically and ran bases with good iudg-
ment." 1t remained for the Herald to
make the discovery that the game was
"slow and uninteresting" and also to
volunteer the information that "the
Augustus have been practicing and max
ing up the team in this section for two
weeks, =" although as matter of fact the
team came together for the first time on
April IS.
We have stated the facts at some length
because We desire the people of the Ken
nebec valley to understand the situation
SO far as the Herald is concerned at the
outset. Unless the management of that
paper calls Messrs. Stephens and Morse
down in their policy of disparagement
and suppression, the circulation of that
paper among lovers of the national game
in central Maine will not be very extensive
this season.