Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-24
Season Opens at Colby.

The second class in base ball stood up
for Rotations ON the Colby campus,
Thursday afternoon, and the catechism
was superintendent by the Colbys. Our
''big uns' were powerful careful of hurt
ing the feelings of the little fellows and
so did not draw many sharp differences.
but the result of the letter will be of
great benefit to both classes. The ball
team of the Maine Central Institute. sit
uatc in the town of Pittsfield, a burgh
made famous recently by its numerous
startling occurrences, came down here
to fill an open date. and of course Colby,
always oblging, was willing to accommo-
date them. When the visitors landed on
the platform at this station, they did it
in Zip bang. BIN style. They at once
shot off a string of words that to the I'M
initiated had no meaning except that it
was a school yeii, and they did it very
prettily, too. There We're pillows of
echoes in that yell. and the boys We're
feeling first-class. thank you. That they
were outclassed in going up against the
Colbys was an acknowledged fact from
the start. but they are manly set of
young men and they Were a valuable
temporary acquisition to the Evergreen
city. 1t was plain to be seen that the
visitors We're Snappy and full of life at
the start. but it was also plain that they
lacked the hardness that the Colbys had
through a perfect course of training. The
NJ c. |. may well feel proud of the team.
for it lis the opinion of those who at
tended the game. Thursday afternoon.
that before the season closes they will
make some of their own class perspire
freely under the chin.
At once upon taking up the cudgel they
showed vim and in the field capered
around lively, but their strength played
out about the fifth inning. This was par
ticulary so with Josselyn. His manager
and captain allowed him to sling the ball
in at the rate of 16 per minute. and he
wore himself out He is a good one in
the box and will be better when he gets
hardened. He has an outshoot like the
clipped corner of Putnam's cigar store
and at the outset had considerable speed
Loder, who replaced Josselyn in the sew
enth inning. was not in any kind of form
as the record of his part of the game in
dcates plainly. Furbush. the catcher of
the visiting team, has the making of a
star in him. He is an earnest and con-
scientious worker and some of his stops
were marvellous. We expect to hear from
him again this season. Fully 700 people
saw the game and adjudged it to be very
fair for an opener, considering the posi-
rions in which the two teams are
casSed
M. c. I. went to the bat first. Buker
dropped one into V. Putnams hands and
vert to the bench; Felker got a base on
balls and was caught mapping at first by
Scannell to H. Putnam; Buck rapped a
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the field. For Colby, six men went to the
bat. Scannell went to first through an
error by s. Smith, stole second. went to
third and home on a passed ball. NJ c.
!. got two hits in the second but failed
to score. They got three hits in the third
and scored twice. Colby did not get q
hit until the third. and that was a little
|three-cornered one by young Put" At
the close of this inning. with the score G
to against the visitors, the latter were
still in the ring.
1t was in the fifth that the Colbys set
about for a little sharp work just to see
lif they were still awake. At this stage
! of the game they sailed into the little fell
lows as follows: Scannell hit for two
bags, Brooks. Cushman and II. Putnam
for a single each, Young Put banged II
for three corners. Austin got a single.
Gibbons a double and Desmond a single
| netting six runs.
1t will be seen that M. c. I. did not
score again, while Colby scored once in
the sixth on three singles, twice in the
seventh Sc, on two singles base on balls. a
| wild pitch and two passed balls, In the
eighth. Loder got wild. giving four men
bases on balls, forcing in two runs, which