Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-22
l.. H. S.
BATES

Lang, IF. ................ rf., McCarty
Parsons. 3b. ................. D., Iunt
Dean, lib. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. h., Mahey
There was a meeting of the Athletic
Association, at II O'Clock this noon, to
further discuss the matter of whether
the track team should be allowed $I5
on appropriation. No action was taken:
consequently the vote remains as it was
first taken. and the track team is al
lowed the $75 for suits, equipments and
other necessities for the work on the
field.
The great trip of the season for the
baseball men will be taken, this week.
Tomorrow morning, the team will take
the boat for Boston and arriving there
will take the train for Cambridge
where they will play the Harvard
Varsity. at O'Clock tomorrow after
noon. April %. Remaining at Harvard
until the 3d. the men will go to Wor-
cester and play Holy Cross on that
afternoon. The next day, Thursday,
they will play the Amherst Aggies at
Amherst, and return home, Friday
April %. Never before has Bates been
on a Massachusetts trip so early in the
season, and never before has the team
been favored with a game of baseball
with the Harvard Varsity or the Am
herst Aggies. The college is greatly
indebted to Manager Wall for his eff
forts in securing these games, and as
the trip is so early in the season, if the
team shows up well, as of course it is
hoped it WILL the reputation and name
of having been on such trip Will
bring a large crowd toi see the Bates
boys play the rest of the games at
home during the remainder of the sea-
son which has now just started in.
Towne, the regular pitcher for Bates,
who has twirled the ball for the past
two years with wonderful success and
who played a great part of last summer
on the Lewiston league team, will be
in the box at Cambridge to do his best
in the face of the far-famed Crimson
batters. Besides Towne there are for
pitchers on the Bates team, Doe and
Buchanan. but Towne, although he is
a little wild at times and although he
frequently gives the batters free passes
to first base. has far more speed than
either Of the other two and is consid-
cred by all means the fastest pitcher
on the college nine.
Doe. the pitcher from Hebron, who
for the first time is playing on a college
team this season, will pitch the Holy
Cross game. Doe pitched the game
played with Hebron Academy, last Sat
urday. and pleased all the Bates men
who were interested that he should
prove to be a successful twirler. He
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speed and the best of control, which
together with a good head for seeing
the batter's weakness makes him a
skillful man in the box.
Buchanan will pitch the Amherst
game. His regular position is in right
field and he is a star in that place, but
last year he pitched several games to
relieve Towne, and with good results.
He pitched winning game for Bates
with Boston College, last May. Buck
nam has rather more speed than Doe
but is not so steady. He lacks Does
control but equals him in ascertaining
the batter's weak point. He has pecu-
liar curves and mixes up the slow and
speedy balls SO that it puzzles the man
at the plate to get a fair hit. Buck
nam knows baseball to perfection and
is one of the fastest batters on the
team.
BY having Doe and Buchanan pitch
the Holy Cross and Amherst games
Towne will be left in a good condition
to pitch the Bowdoin game, which will
be played on Garcelon field, the day af-
ter the return of the team, April &c.
The following is list of the men
who will go on the Massachusetts trip,
together with the names of the posi-
ton which they will play: Manager
Wall; Assistant Manager Hunt as
scorer; Stone, catcher; Towne and Doe.
pitchers: Buchanan, pitcher and right
fielder; Dean, first baseman: Allen, sec
ond baseman; Clason, short stop; Pa--
sons. third baseman; Moody, center
fielder; Maertz, right fielder; and
Lang. substitute.
One of Bates greatest games for the
season, will be played, next Saturday,
with Bowdoin, on Garcelon field. This
games means a great deal to both col
leges. 1t is thought that Gates has as
good or a better team than she had
last year. Bowdoin showed plainly that
her team was strong when Colby, the
former champions of Maine, was de-
feated, last Saturday, at Brunswick.
From these facts it is evident that there
will be much rivalry between the two
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