Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-27
BASE BALL SEASON
Opens in Augusta With In
teresting Game, Friday.
Cony High Crosses Bats With the
Bowdoin College Team.
Bow loia Wins. q 10 o. But Cony Makes Very
God Showing.

>'i itiiiilS OF the High ScnOOl and
Dana of Eowdoin, made all arrange
| mcnts over the telephone III the fore
! noon. and boys with placards Were
sent through the city to let people
| know there was goiE;s to be a game. If
| the event had come off. Fast day, and
! the weather had been fair, there would
have been a large crowd at the Trot-
tins park. AS it was quite a number
turned out to see the first game of the
season.
The game was decidedly onc-sitIed
but nothing else was looked for. Conv
cannot be expected to compete with Il
college, team with amy degree OF sue
| cess. She was out-claSSed but she
fought to the bitter end and at times
showed up brilliantly. Now and then
the black and white would get to send
ms them in a little too fast and fire.
GU"nt!y the playing of the Augusta
boys would become somewhat ragged;
then thcy would pull together and
things would go on sWimmingly until
Eowdoip took another squirt
The Cony team had on the new UNI
forms, yesterday. for Tire first time
They are far ahead OF anything ever
before worn 10y II" team. The suits
themselves ere blue whiic the jerseys
and stockings are striped with white
Many comments were heard on their
neat appearance. Manager Williams
certainly has a nltty looking aggrega-
ton and their ball playing promises to
be in keeping with their appearance.
| Everything points to stronger team
than ,ast year. II is early in the sea
no in,
| but later on. they will be heard from
RoWdoin put UP clean fielding
game. yesterday. making but one error
throughout the game In the size of
| its men Bowdoin has the smallest team
Of years. Johnson did some excellent
pitching for Cony but the college men
touched him up hard at times and sue
cecdcd in making l.. hits to their credit
The Euwdoin team is made up almost
entirely of new men but they have
every appearance of being ball players
| of the first water. Cakes, Bowdoin' $
| freshman pitcher. is no stranger to
those of the Cony men who played. last
| season, when they met him in the box
| for the Edward Little High school
| team of Auburn. He was Il stumbling
block in Cony's path. yesterday. and
only three hits We're made off his de-
/ livery11 Cakes is likely to make n valu-
able man for Bowdoin before he COM
tpietes his four years course.
1 Blanchard was the first man at the
bat for Bowdoin and hit one to john
son who threw him out at first. Stan
| wood reached first on an error, stole
/ second and scored on Pratt'S base hit.
Havey reached first on an attempted
/ put out and Pratt scored. Parker hit
n sky scraper to Kinsman who dropped
! it and Havey scored. This WAS the
\ first time Kinsman had been out this
season and an error or two was eXcus-
! able. He made some excellent catches
| before the game was done. Dana
reached first and eventually home
plate. Bly, hit safely and Purinton was
| out on foul fly. Oake5 sent a liner to
| small VINO captured it handily and
Bowdon retired with five scores to her
credit.
Cony was out in one. two. three or
dor. Craig popped a fly to second base,
| Either was out on n foul fly to Parker
ard Gordon sent the ball on an ex-
ploring expedition into left field where
it was taken care of by Purinton be-
fore it struck the ground.
| Cony took a brace in the second in
ming and Bowdoin scored but one run.
blanchard was out on a fly 10 John
son, but Stanwood had better luck.
knocking out hot groundcr that sent
him to first. Pratt was out on beau
tiful catch ny kinsman. Havcy receiV-
ed the bail in his back and walked ana
then Parker got Il hit scoring stan
wood Dana raised a difficult fly to Bi-
thcr, giving that gentleman chance
II make one Of his five handsome plays
of the day. Small and Kinsman were
ont on c-roundcrs and Williams came
ia tie bat. He made the first base hit
of the game for his team. but was
caught off first by Cakes and put out
, Not a Eowdo!n man saw first base
in the third inning. johnson pulico
: himself together and Bly, famed inc
air in a desperate endeaVor to MT ths
, ball. Purington hit liner I" raih
) who gobbIcd it up. Cakes tried 'fail
. on "A warm grounder and came To S'le'
, on first. Cony started the batting Ioi
. the Augusta boys by a fly to Ely. II.
was ont. Hanson hit the ball to oakes
4 and was out at first. Johnson followed
i suit.
; Cony got somewhat mixed UP in INC
J. fourth inning and n number OF eii'i'
=. were made Eowdoin scored one run
All the Augusta men at bat in INNS Nv
ming were speedily out, excepting '''
thor who made a base hit ana wa
left on base. rony again shut OUT DIV
dom in the fifth inning and Fed the''
crnonrnt down to one run in the S'N''
nut in the unlucky seventh the ~ ~
wick bows scored five runs ana ~, ."'
eighth they made eight runs, roi''"s
the score uD to q runs. t"nN. l
while. could do nnthin" WIN IN
and were unable 70 score. me w.
IA boys closed the game wei y!
allowing the college team to s'o'.' o..
after Bither. Gordon and Siia,i ' a.,
been put out the game closed WIN
score II to o in BowdOin'S favor
The result is nothing for tht -.
SCHOOL team to feel downhearteu
They made a good showing am ~,
trev plav teams in their own cia
result will be far different toa'h
ers was present at the game an
we'll satisfied. He says the aus
boys have n good team ana VIZ 1.bt
the other High schools fast P"NN