The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-07-16
BALL AND HOT AIR GALORE.
Game Between Princeton and Cambridge
Last Sunday a Rag Chewing Affair.


Game Between Princeton and Cambridge
Last Sunday a Rag Chewing Affair.
The game of ball Sunday afternoon
between the Cambridge-Spencer Brook
merger and the Princeton Milaca con-
solidation was without question the
noisiest, hottest rag-chewing contest
and most exciting game of ball played
anywhere for a long time. 1t could
hardly be called a game of ball, as
there was more scrapping and kicking
than there was playing and there was
no excuse for it, though it must be adj
mltted that under the circumstances it
could not be avoided.
The Cambridge team got an early
start from home for the Brook where
they played the Brook team in the
forenoon and lost the game by score
OF three to five, the Brook boys scoring
four in the first inning on account OF
errors made by the Cambridge team.
When the Cambridge team left the
Brook they added Jay Smith of the
Brook team to the list and played him
at second. The Princeton nine was re-
enforced by Mcclure, Peterson and
Faucht of Milaca and Mergel of Blue
Hill. Sambo Shaw who recently Sc
cured a position at Babb's livery in
Cambridge was with the nine from
that place and was placed in the
akward position of having to guy some
OF his old base ball comrades. But
base ball blutfing is all from the tongue
and not from the heart.
There were two incidents that married
the game. One of these was the
naming of Editor Kienitz of the Cam
bridge Independent as umpire, and the
other was the injury Faucht received
in the second inning by being hit in
the head by ball while at the bat.
He was unable to play the remainder
OF the game and O'Brien of Milaca was
substituted. When Mr.. Kienitz took
his position back of the box the trouble
began. rs that the fellow who UNI
plred at Green Lake?" and us that
the fellow who roasted the band boys?"
were the frequent inquiries, and some
OF the young lads soon discovered that
the umpire was the party who roasted
the band last winter very dark brown
and then poured black gravy over the
roast. The game had no sooner started
than kienitz became the target for all
kinds OF guying and roasts, and in the
trst inning when he shut off Princeton
from making score with best of pros
poets Tor one or two more by calling a
ball nit by Peterson a foul, there was
blood in the eye of many. Princeton
had two men on bases and Marshall
was at third, so that when Peterson
struck the ball Marshall came in safely,
and after the decision of the umpire
was announced Peterson went to bat
again and famed out. Of course this
made things look different. Cam
bridge went to bat first and Jay Smith
was out at first, and then Snyder and
Babb each in turn monkeyed with the
ball and never got away from the plate.
When Cambridge came to bat in the
second inning and started off in good
shape there was bad taste in the
mouth Of the Princeton crowd, as they
telt very sore over the ruling of the
umpire. Shaw made a good hit and
then Carl Cravens hit a two bagger,
Smith followed with q healthy hit and
Sambo scored The next man famed
out, but the next man to bat was safe
on first, and thus the ball began
to roll, and Cambridge cot three scores
IN this inning. Shaw, Carl Cravens
and Smith scoring. The decisions of
klenltz did not satisfy the Princeton
boys and their friends and the game
progressed only to be frequently inter-
rupted by noisy and very demonstra-
tive rOOters who protested at many of
the decisions. Young O'Brien went to
pieces in the fourth inning over one of
the decisions and sat down like a balky
horse. The diamond became the seat
OF war The air was rent with bowls
and cheers, groans and gibes and the
marshal was obliged to enter the arena
of anger and turn loose the dove of
peace which Immediately became ter
ror stricken and left. Order was
finally restored but not until Mr.
Kienitz retired from the field amid
wild cheers and shouts. Sidney
Cravens took the umpire's position and
peace and quiet reigned, Cravens' de-
cisions going without protest.
In the fourth inning Cravens and
Peterson changed positions for the
balance of the game, Peterson catching
and Cravens played at second.
Princeton never scored until the
third inning when Claggett got around.
In the fifth Mare h oil coocoI o,,l =, H. .