Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-30
WATERVILLE.
WATERvlLLE HIGH, 9; coNY, 8.
A Great Game and Pulled Out by Home
Team in the Sixth.

in a hair-raising game on the college
field, Wednesday afternoon, the final
score being 8 to 8. A balloon set sail
in the sixth inning with the visitors
for passengers in just about the way
it did in the Colby BoWdoin game, last
Saturday. 1t was the same inning,
same half, and it may have been the
same old balloon, but it did the work
and when the cony team came down
from the clouds Waterville was one
run to the good. The visitors fought
like heroes in the ninth to redeem
themselves but only succeeded in maxi
ing the score a little closer and when
ii was over WaterVile still had one
to good
This was the first really tough propo-
sition Watervlle has been up against,
this season, and no one knew what
the team would do. A sure defeat was
the way they looked at it over at the
old barn, as they call the High school,
and about the only hope was to keep
the score within reasonable limits. For
the first few innings it looked as if
this View of the case would be cor
rect. In the first three innings Water
vile took but one little single off Hall.
ed ball netted the home team one run
and the supporters began to- console
themselves with that 1t was the first
error for Cony, while Waterville had
made five, a great plenty for a whole
game. Then Cony had a run for ev-
cry error made by Waterville and had
whanged out four good singles and a
home run. The latter was a good one.
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nasium. Cony was fielding clean and
fast and batting hard, while Water
vile was fumbling in all sorts of ways
and making all kinds of blunders and
not batting at all. Under these con-
ditions it was natural to pick Cony
for the winner and by Il big score at
that. Neither side did anything in the
fifth. Kinsman started the sixth for
Cony by putting one out by Colby and
getting as far as second Then an er-
ror put him on third. Little reached
first While Hoxie was having troubles
of his own with the ball and Kinsman
scored. Little stole second, passed on
to tthiIdton an error and scored on q
nice single by Bither. Then Bither
was caught while trying to steal, but
an error landed Kingsley on first Tuell
struck out, Smith singled and Sanford
struck out Farnham showed his met
tie right here and pulled out of Il hole
in Il way that reminded some of Long
john" who doubtless had shown him
how to do it. But the two scores made
in this inning made it to l, handi-
cap that few teams would care to face
or would have the courage and grit
to stand uD under.
BY this time Cony's confidence be-
gan to grow and this may have had
something to Go with the balloon ride.
But they had good grounds for con-
sidering the game as already theirs
as Waterville was certainly not play
ing in a way that could be called dan
gerous and the lead was big enough
TO win almost any kind of game.
But You can never tell in baseball
Getchell started the inning for Water
vile with single Warren knocked
out an easy grounder that was fielded
with poor judgment. No error i'm
handling was made but it was slow
work and he was safe with Gctcheil
on second. Just about the same thing
happened to Mason and Getchell, and
Warren moved round a peg. Then
O'Donnel used his eye and got walk.
forcing Getchell across the plate. You
could smell balloon gas by this time.
Wilson, who had replaced Colby in left
field in the eighth. came next and flied
out to center field Then Farnham
whanged one cut to Bither, who played
hide and seek with it while Farnham
passed on around home for a run. War
rem had already scored on Wilson'S put
out and Farnham drove in Mason and
IoDonnell ahead of him. The balloon was
just now leaving the grounds and Water
Vile was delighted and withali consider
ably surprised. Five men had been round
the square when McAlary came to the bat
and gave Tuell one that he couldn't ham
die, then stole second. Hoxie drove one
out to Little who had evidently been left
behind when the balloon sailed, for he
felded it clean and sure. But McAlary
scored on this putout and WaterVile Was
jubilant for the score had been tied.
With two men out and the bases empty,
Winters got walk. stealing second Then
Getchell whanged out 4 nice double. add
ing one more run with Winters. Warren
popped up little fly that fell in Halls
hands and thence to the dirt and Getcheil
went to third. But Hall took a reef in his
trousers, pulled the valve and let the bal
loon down with a duh thud by striking
ont Mason. The score was now to I in
Waterville's favor.
Hall started the seventh well for Cony
by taking n single but was neatly doubled
with Clifford. and kinsinan put ont
handsome fly that dropped right in Ma
sons nit. This reduced the chances of