Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-05-16
WATERVILLE.
LOCAL BASEBALL NOTES.
Games to Be Played by Local Teams,
This Week,

The High school comes to the front
in baseball, this week, on the home
grounds. The team will play Lewis
ton High on the college field. this af-
ternoon. and Edward Little, Saturday
afternoon. These two teams are both
considered very dangerous in the In
terscholastic League and will give Wa
terville royal. After their victory over
the strong Coburn team the High school
boys have good courage for these
games and will go in to win. If the
two can be defeated q big step will
have been taken towards the cham
pionship.
The Coburn team left, yesterday, on
its trip to Aroostook county. The
Houlton local team will be played. to-
day. and Kicker Classical Institute,
Saturday. These are two hard games
and If the boys win both of them they
viii do unusually well. Little has
been heard from the Houlton local
team down this way. this year. but the
aSgregatio sent down, last year. is
well remembered. 1t is expected that
Coburn VIII be up against pretty
tough proposition, today. Kicker is
somewhat of an unknown proposition,
but it is understood that the team is
Il strong one.
CODY VIII go TO lewiston Saturday,
to have try at the strong Bates team
which has been showing championship
speed. The team passed through the
city, Wednesday evening, on its way
home from Orono, where it had been
defeated by the L. of NJ. team by the
, close Score of 2 to l. The boys We're
feeling rather sore over their defeat,
not because it was not all fair and
above board, but because they blamed
themselves for it. They believed that
they might have had the game just as
well rs not if they had played just
bit different. 1t was the turn of the
wheel Of baseball, just 4 bit of hard
luck such as every team has to suffer
occasionally. One of the Bates men
declared that Colby can trim L. of NJ.
in the next game and its up to Colby
to do il.
A victory over Bates 1T Lewiston,
Saturday, is not expected. But the
supporters OF the team want to see
good game and if they don't there1l be
such /; howl go up as has never been
heard before. If Colby plays her game
and is beaten it will be al right, but
if she cuts any monkey shines, therell
be a pretty warm session in camp. Her
chance for the championship is as good
us that Of any team, for she has but
one defeat in a championship game be-
hind her. The supporters of the team
want to see it settle down to business
and play ball from now out.
Not very much is being heard from
the local team at present, but there
are indications that the buck saw is
ut work. There have been some signs
of life from down the river of late
that are somewhat encouraging. The
chances for an Eastern Maine league
are good and over in Bangor and VII
cinity they don't seem to be thinking
much about including WdterVille or
any other team in this vicinity. But
there still seems to be a good pros
pect Of forming some kind of a league.
The semi professional league seems to
be all the fashion in the State, this
year. when there is no straight pro-
fessional ball and this section of the
State will doubtless be in the fashion
with the rest.
A game has been arranged between
the local team and Colby for Wednes-
day afternoon, May 81. A team has
been gathered as an experiment and
this game will be a ''try-out" for the
new men. A new battery has been Sc
cured and will be in the game. The
exact makeup has not been determin-
ed as yet but it is believed that there
will be a few good men in the bunch.
Colby and the High school played n
practice game of five innings, yester-
day afternoon, which resulted in n cold
shut out for Colby and four scores for
the High school. All sorts of expert
ments were Of course tried with Colby
and the men changed around great
deal. but the High school played a fine
little game just the same. beauti
full running catch was made by Ware
and some beautiful plays by others and
then, too. there were some very fool
ish plays. But the High school is Il
very foxy little team, you can tell the
neighbors. and is going to make Lew
iston go some, today.