Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-15
WATERVILLE.
THE COLBY BALL TEAM.
A Brief Summary Of What It Has Accomplish
ed. This Year.

There is no doubt about Colby being
base ball champion of the Maine coli
leges, this year. She has played six
games and won five of them. The one
defeat at the hands of the University
of Maine is the one regret of the sea-
son. for with little better luck and
management Colby could have won
that all right and closed the season
with straight string of six victories.
But it is pretty good as it is. Colby
has proven herself the superior of the
other college teams in the State with
out any possible chance for dispute.
1t is always interesting TO compare
the work of a champion team. and
especially this year, as Colby was I'M
usually strong. Every player has
made a fine record and some of them
have been unusually good. The stick
work has been uniformly good and the
fielding gilt edged. The outfield has
been especially strong and well-nigh
invincible. Few indeed have been the
flies that have fallen there untouched.
Thus in the six college games played.
but two errors have been made by the
outfield with % chances. OF these
error and Saunders 10 also without an
error. Meserve has two errors cred
tied to him, but they We're on ground
ers rather than flies. Saunders and
Leighton played all six college games
without errors. OF these Saunders
pitched two. thus putting him in the
inficld and making his errorless record
all the better.
The infield players completed the six
games even in the error column.
league. Pike. Allen and Rice each
having five. But their chances are so
much larger that it puts them about
on IA level with the outfield, and makes
Il remarkably good record.
Cowing has a remarkable record be-
hind the bat. He accepted. in the six
games mentioned and which are taken
for a basis for this reckoning. 81
chances with but one error and four
passed balls, and this in his second
season of playing. He has 46 putouts
to his credit. His work a the bat has
been of the same high standard. out
of rs times at bat he made 10 hits and
scored runs. The stolen base record
has not been kept accurately in all the
games but there have been very few
on him. Thus in the BoWdoin game
with total of 46 times at bat for
Bowdoin. but three men succeeded in
stealing a base. This is probably the
best record in college base ball for a
freshman catcher.
A large share of the work of the sea-
son has fallen on the pitchers. New
cnham and Saunders. AS already
stated. Saunders has pitched two of
the college games and Newenham four.
Newenham may we'll be proud OF his
last season with Colby and as her cap
tain. Much OF the success of the team
has been due to his steady. hard work.
His record in the box is good. In the
last game with Bowdoin he was batted
probably as heavy as at any time in
his career. II hits with total of 25
bases. But even then it was not SO
very bad. In the four games pitched
he struck out 2S men and gave but
three bases on balls. In the six college
games he accepted IS chances with but
one error. At the bat he has a record
of coming up % times, getting 10 hits.
scoring II runs and making two two
base hits and three three-base hits.
This record. with that of past seasons
entities him to the honor of being one
of tho best pitchers ever seen III Maine
college base ball
Saunders has played most in the left
field in the college games. He is a close
second to NeWenham outside the box.
Thus with SO times at bat he scored II
runs and took S hits. lie is a good
strong base runner, as his record
shows. In the two games he pitched
he struck out Il men and gave two
bases on balls. With two such pitch
ers it is little wonder that Colby won
out
The records of the men in the six
games is remarkably uniform. This
fact shows that the strength of the
team was not so much in a few I'M
usually good players as in a good av-
erage for the nine. This made good
team work possible.
The record of the team outside the
college games has also been good. on
the Massachusetts trip three games
were lost and one won. A fine showing
was made against Harvard in the first
game ever played between the two
colleges. Tufts was defeated in very ,
close contest by a score of 5 to 4. En-
eter and Andover both won. but by
small margins. the former by one score
and the latter by four The Water
vile local team has been defeated
twice aside from yesterdays game.
Fort Preble and team from Lewiston
once each.
Not only has the team fine record
on the field but also off. There have !
been no disagreeable wrangles or dis |
putcs but every game has been played ,
in a clean. gentlemanly manner. Every |
where the gray uniforms have APP |
peared. this year. they have won |
friends. The team on the whole is I'M |
dOubtedly one of the best in every re- |
spect that ever represented the college |
on the diamond Colby now promises |
to be strong in base ball for several |
years. She has good material to de- |
velop' and enough old players will re-
main for foundation Of the team.
The following table shows what each
of the men did in the six games played |
with Maine college teams:
Alb. r. II. Pc. \. +.
Saunders 80 IL Ct
NeWennam. .-..3 Il 10 > Il
3eSerVt' .....-...S
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