The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-04-19
SEASON OPENED.
w. U. p. falls before the local
iadt on the diamond.

Game was slow at some stages Some
tall scoring done by the visitors IN
one inning Ten scores rolled up BY
the Varsity food showing for Arst
game-Who made the best plays
LiBe up--Another contest In prt
Rress,
The baseball t6eson was openeu
very auspicsously on Saturday an.;
a VI tory was pulled down by the Ia
cal boys. They went on to the iii,
mond with the weakese team the,
will have this year and dei.ai,a.
w. U p. of Allegheny, Nits.at
much trouble The scssea vas TIN rs
five.
The game was slow one and the
crowd soon lost interest. Ho&&vt,.'
it was the first game and neither OF
the teams Rad had any practice to
speak of and it was fairly creditable
in this light
A tolerably good crowd saH the
game but they AID not warm up a
great deal over the plays. Some of
these were very good The hitting
at times was heavy but the balls fell
into the hands of the fielders and
the score does not show how often the
ball collided with the bats
Cooper did probably the best all
round playing for the University al
though Deming covered his field
we'll and batted above the average.
Hagerty played great game and
was the life of the visitors. He
started the scoring in the only In ,
ming in which they made anything
by interfering with the ball twice on
his way around helped two other
men to get start. They came in
with the aid of these and several err
fors together with couple of hits.
At no stage of the game were
they dangerous and the game re-
suited in a score of ten to five In ia
vor of the home team. The batting
order wasl W. U. P, Barclay Sd,
Mason l. f., Hagerty sss Cuilers 3D.,
Earl 1st., Bdfk ff, Ficher c., Dephy
CT, Kalloc p., W. v. u, Anderson
1st, McWhorter 3d., Dickey CT,
Cooper S., Printz p., Dent IT,, Shell
by c., Deming r. Grassland I'd.
Umpire Shanks. Time Of game
two hours.
Another game was arranged for
this aftern Don and it Is now In pro-
gress on the University grounds.
The batting order will be the same
for both teams. Dent and Printz
will change places this afternoon
Dent going into the pitchers box.
The second game with w. U. P. re-
suited as the first one did, in victory
for the home boys by very good
score. They made twelve runs while
w. U. P. was able to make the cir
cult of the bags only twice. The
game was witnessed by fair crowd
on whom more could have said their
way If there had been fence around
the athletic field.
The contest was uninteresting as
far as the visitors were concerned
They did not get into the game at all
and at no stage of 1t did they look
like winners, Several rows over al
legged rotten decision delayed the
game somewhat.
Dent went in to the pitchers box
in the place of Printz who took Dents
position in the field. Dent struck
out fifteen men which Is not so bad
for the FIRST game of the season before
he gets his arm limbered up. or
course after he gets down to it few
more will be boiled over in each
game.
Deming played good ball and batted
as usual, The rest of the players did
not greatly distinguish themselves
but all played good safe game.
They showed great improvement over
Saturdays game and will make a
rattling nine with little more prac-
tice and experience.
W. U. P. carried off the palm with
errors having nineteen of these to their
credit. 1t is thought that some were
not counted owing to inability on the
part of the score keeper to keep track
of them they came so fast.
The next game is with P. G. on
Friday afternoon and after that Seneca
will be played on Saturday Fridays
game will be hot one. Plttsbufs
College always has first class team
and they are in the fight this year
with both feet. Those who attended
this game will see what is likely to be
the most interesting one of the year.
Several years ago we succeeded in
winning from the Pittsburg boys at
Uniontown butl it tookthe hardest
kind of playing and it will require the
same thing to do it this time.
The batting order on Monday was:
w. U. P. Barclay, 8; Mason, RI; Hag-
gerty, IS; Cullers, 2; Earl, 1; Sleepy,
CT; Burke, RI; Fisher, c; Kalloc, p.
w. V. U. Anderson, Ii McWhorter,
8; Shelby, C; Cooper, IS. Prints, CT.
Deming, IF. Dickey, If. Grassland, q;
Dent, p.
Runs w. V. U. Obs 20Ox12.
w. U. p. 0001 100 OF.
Umpire-Shanks. Time two hours.