Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-14
COLBY BREAKS EVEN.
She Wins and Loses a Game
to Bates, Saturday.
First, Colby, 8; Bates, I, Ten Innings
--Seco ID, Bates, 10; Colby, 9.
Class Of '98 Leads in Colby Field Day Exer.
cises 1900 Second.

Waterville, June 12.-(SpcciaD.-
broke even with the boys from the
Spindle City" and that is all we can
say about it, except that there was
some pretty hot ball playing for cold,
wet day. We had no idea that we
should have a coed day, we have long
get over looking for such thing in
base ball, and so we were not disap-
pointed when the heavens opened and
shut. letting floods of water down on
our devoted heads at each open and
shut. 1t meant something to us to win
a game, today, and so when the mists
had cleared away and we found tnat
we had won one game and lost another
we were tickled half to death. True.
there was only a small crowa in at
tendance, but that was an enthusiastic
one from start to finish. Up on the
bleachers. which by the way did not
bleach to any considerable extent, was
hung placard. written in red. which
said, Colby Must Win, Today" Under
the leaky roof of the grand stand We're
several dozens of co-eds, willing 20
sacrifice their feathers and frills and
crimps and feelings, to lend enchant-
ment to the scene and to encourage the
boys and cheer them on to victory. 1t
was to be the game of the season for
the Colbys and everybody knew it.
In the first inning. Pulsifer was the
first man up and he hit little one tc
Bobby Austin, who threw him out at
fret ha II cin at.1
Quinn took a three bagger, scoring
Burrill, Quinn scoring on the put out
of Purington at first. Slatterly went
down on H. Putnam's error. Johnson
got his base on balls but Bennett re-
| tired the side by flying out to V. Put
nam. In our half, Cushman got sin
gle and V. Putnam a base on balls and
| that was all we did get.
In the second, Bates was shut out,
and so were we. In the third, we shut
each other out and sort of squared
things. In the fourth. we did not sivs
Bates a smell. but we hooked onto
three tallies through three singles, a
| base on balls and an error We mopped
| the earth up with Bates in the fifth
| and they made marks of us. In the
sixth we showed them that they could
not play in our yard, while we corded
up three runs on two singles, double
and an error.
| Oh. no, the game did not go off With
out some kicking at the umpire We
| would not recognize game if 1t did
net contain that very necessary fea-
turc You see. the collegiaEs from the
| city of cotton mills had brought our
4 r,.;a Il I'd pit do thr
| Judgment act for them, but Tom was
here to do it for all concerned. He may
have erred, but it is matter OF
| knowledge that the most of us do err.
| 1t was noticeable, however. that the
crowd and the players did not depart
| from the usual practice of bowling al
the umpire when the decision was
against their favorites, and as both
teams did much of the kicking business
| it was plain to be seen that neither IN
| ltended to be outdone in that line by the
other. We noticed that Colby was
very willing to allow Mr.. kearins to
umpire the second game, and by TIE
| time the supper bell rang everybody
| was satisfied that he was not TO be
charged with favoring anybody.
| But some more of the game. In the
seventh the Bates boys scored twice
on hit by pitched ball. an error ami
| a single We only sent three men VI
and that was all that was necessary
| 10 retire the side In the eighth theN
scored twice on q base on balls, a
double and two singles We didn't III
the ninth we shut each other out and
quit that inning with the score To D.
| In the tenth Pulsifer was retired by
| Austin to II. Putnam, Burri1 got a
single. Quinn went down on an error
burlington hit little one to I'll. Putnam
| and was retired, but Burrill scored
| Well, things began to look interesting
from a Bates stand point, and we
| were far from being disinterested, you
NAV depend upon it. For Colby, Hud-
son was the first man up ana ne was
retired by a foul fly to Quinn. Scannell
got a single and so did V. Putnam
Gibbons went down on an error and
Scannell and Putnam scored wen,
Won NAV imagine the rest.
The score
COLBY.