Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-12
OAKLAND. 2; FAIRFIELD, l.
Tables Turned and Score of the First
Game Reversed.

Oakland turned the tables on Fair
field very neatly, Tuesday afternoon.
| by winning by 4 score Of 2 to |, this
being the exact score of the first game
when Fairfield won. 1t was rather bit
ter medicine for Fairfield to have the
| crack team doWned by the little Oak
landers and it Will probably he some
time before they hear the last of it.
The ground was wet and the ball
slippery as there WAS a fine misty rain
falling most OF the time and these con-
ditions were against fast ball, but
barring the kicking it was a good game
to watch and the small crowd got its
moneys worth all right. If the man
ayers Of the teams in this vicinity eX-
poet to make good with the crowd anG
: have the support they need they mus
cut out the SenSelesS kicking at once
1t was bad enough. to be sure. in Sat
urdays game and the people were
pretty we'll disguised, then. but it was
worse if anything, Tuesday. One of the
most tedious, aGgraVating and cXaSper-
ing kicks of the afternoon was made
by Fairfield on the slimest Of grounds
II did no earthly good for the point
was finally lost and the sympathies OF
the crowd were turned over to Oakland
and that seam enthusiastically backed
for the remainder of the game, even by
many OF the warm Fairfield supporters
The unpiring was not up TO the pro
fessonal standard ny any means anG
sometimes was even excuse enough fol
kicking, however honest the intentions
may have been. but it was pushed be-
yOnd the limit all right and the crOwd
would have felt better had Fairfield
taken the decisions in grim silence anC
made up for them by harder playing.
The grand tangle happened in the
fifth inning. Fairfield had two out and
the bases full. Allen on first, Rawson Or
second and buchanan on third witt
Havey at the bat Buchanan was play
ing off pretty we'll when WormwooG
with one of those now-you scotland
now-you- don't contortons for which he
is famous, shot the ball over to third
ard "Buclt" found himself engaged ir
= Gee SOW. IT got pretty hot and Raw
son dashed in by the bunch and touched
$40 plate. Fairfield soon had q frenzieT
Lowing match going, claiming ball
ans that was rather doubtful, so much
50 in fact that there was scarcely
ground for 4 kick.
i?ut The claim that Rawson's score
should count was about the weakest
thing ever nut up for a kick on any
diamond. Tho funniest part of it, how
ever, was that the umpire was made tC
soc it Fairtield's way and told the
scorers to count the run. This natur-
ally made Oakland wild and scramble
WAS mad" for the rules. Nothing spec
itic could be found to meet Fairield's
contention and the chew went on.
There would be a little playing until
some Oakland supporter found some
thing in the rules that seemed to apply
and then there had to be an argument
until Fairfield succeeded in having il
ruled out There was enough of this
sort Of thing to completely disgust the
crowd.
Tie umpire plainly wanted TO do what
was right but showed his unfitness for
the business by not knowing at once what
was right But Oakland finally convinced
him that the run could not be counted
and ne had it taken off the books II
will pass all right for a clear case OF
batting the umpire. but not as serious
kick There may have been difference
of opinion as to the balk, as Worm