Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-12
A CLEAN SHUTOUT.
Coburn Takes Fine Game from
Rents Hill, 5 to O.
4 Pitchers Battle With Lufkin Taking
Hoaors from Newenham,
Though Latter Keeps En- from Scoring When
ltlooks Lie Runs.

WaterVllle, June ll.-(SpeclaD. we
expected to win anyway, but if Capt.
Rowell had delayed starting the game
a little longer we would have been late
to tea. When the hour scheduled for
the game to being arrived we found
the same old clouds obscuring the sun,
the same old rain falling in the same
old way, downward. Then old Sol
pushed his nose through the mist and
beamed upon US as of old, and in fact
there were a good many old things
aboard, this afternoon. We went up to
see the team from the seminary on the
hill give our pets shaking up, the like
of which they had never received be-
fore and we came within one of seeing
just that. 1t was the general deduction
that it was to be a pitchers game from
start to finish and such it proved to be.
Horace Newenham was in the box
for Coburn, and Maurice Roderick
started the game for the seminary boys
but at the close of the third inning he
had got enough and old man Lufkin
went in to put them over. Both New
enham and Lufkin pitched great ball,
with the honors in favor of the latter,
for had not Newenham had the fine
support that was given him, Kent's
Hill might be running bases now. CO.
burn only took four hits off of Lufkin
in six innings while they pulled that
number of Roderick in three innings.
The four hits taken off Newenham
were kept well scattered, two occur
ring in the second, one in the fifth and
one in the sixth.
Mason for the visitors had left his
license to play at home and his two err
suffered in consequence. His two err
rors were responsible for two runs at
least. In the second Mason juggled a
slow one from Rowell and allowed that
batter to reach first, Rowell going to
third on a double by Rice and scoring
on double by Allen. In the third,
after two men were out Rowel got a
single, Sproul was hit by the ball. ad-
vancing Rowell and Mason tumbling
all over one from Rice filling the bases,
then Tozier was given his base forcing
Rowell to the plate and to score we
| can see we think where the score might
have been only three to but for
Nasons lack of activity. But with all
their faults we love them still for they
gave us a pretty good and stiff game OF
ball.
Coburn went to the bat first and tho
! first three men that came were TIE
last three men for that inning for all
hands flied to the waiting paws of the
visitors. The visitors were retired IN
one. two three order, and the first six
men up terminated the inning only ii
balls being thrown in the direction o.
| the plate. That looks like good ball
playing. doesn't it? Weary" McFad-
den, Frank Alden and couple of
dozen ether Colby students, with I'M
| provised megaphones tore the atmos-
| phere asunder in their efforts to cheer
| on the teams, the encouragement being
| about equally divided.
| In the first of the second, Coburh
scored three times on an error by Ma
| son. two two-baggers and a single,
Coburn scored once again in the third
on single, hit by pitched ball. an
error by Mason and a base on balls.
Kert's Hill never saw the light of day
for the whole game although it did
look one time in the ninth. as though
A. Mederos, who, after two men were
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| second and third, would cross the
plate, but Farwell struck out and the
game was over.
| Three times things began to look
favorable for the seminary boys GET
| ting a score but Newenham got in his
work and pulled us out of the hole
amid a perfect din of megaphone SOLOS,
me gaphone duets, megaphone quartets,
megaphone sixtets, and megaphone
double male uua1tets. AS usual, on the
Colby diamond, this year, there was
considerable fault found with the UNI
nire Mr.. Flood started in well and al
tines we were led to believe that he
knew what he was about. Then there
were other times when we were con-
WINGED that he had lost his good eye
We do think that Rowell was out on
that second base decision and we don
think that third base decision was just
I'D to snuff, but there, we umpred
game on that same diamond, last year,
and perhaps we had better not say any
more.
We do not think that any of Mr..
Floods decisions effected the score.
Kent's Hill was generally weak at the
hat and the errors that have herein
heen pointed out and which will appear
in the full score, were to a great ex-
tent responsible for the visitors being
so badly beaten. The seminary boys
are a good, clean looking set of fell
lows, and we like to have them come
over here and play ball and-be de-
feated.
outside of the general all-around good
~f,x IN the Dart OF the most Oh the
men. the only feature of the game was
that of the hit by Sibley. Two balls had
come to him and he was preparing FOR
the third which came along before he
had got his feet placed. Sibley did not
intend to do it. but he did. He swung.
sIipped, staggered. almost fell kept on
swinging until the bat met the ball and
he made the cleanest single of the game.
The score:
COBURN.
ABB r 1B Pc A E
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