Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-12

game will be attended by great
crowd to see the champion nine play
its last game of the season. For the
past three years BoWdoin has sue
cceded in defeating Bates in the Ivy
day game
This successful close to the baseball
season is very gratifying to BoWdoin
men, for it gives them an undisputed
claim to first hon0rs in all branches OF
intercollegiate sport, this spring. In
field and track sports the college won
more points at the field day than the
three other colleges combined, and IN
the intercollegiate tennis tournament
it won the cups in both singles and
doubles. But baseball is the great
spring sport and in it centcrs the most
popular interest, so that outsiders az
well as college men have closely FOL
lowed the contests among the four col
leges. There has been particular in
tnrnst in Maine college baseball, this
spring. from the fact that all four col
lcges were represented by exceptionally
strong mines. Faster baseball was
never seen on the Maine college dia-
monds. and so the winner has an un-
usually good right to be proud of its
victory.
Rowdoin did not open its season in
very promising fashion. 1t lost the first
two games it played, being beaten by
University of Maine to /, and by
Colby 10 to 6. But it stopped losing
right there and has since won every
game, heating Maine to 4, and to A..
Colby to 0, ana to 3, and Bates to
o. and IL to 3, with one game remaining
t. be played with Bates, as stated
above, which cannot affect the general
result. In it's games with teams out
side the State Bowdoin has not been
as successful as in some previous years.
1t has played eight such games. win
ming three and losing five. Three of
these games We're lost by single score,
Dartmouth winning 10 to y, ana to A,
and Columbia ; to !. Harvard won Z
to g. and Amherst 8 to l. Exeter was
defeated II to 8; Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College 10 to /, and Williston
Seminary to ). Thus to date, 16
games have been played, of which nine
have been won. and seven lost. Bow
dom has scored 1909 runs and it's oppon-
ents "A. Since the opening game or
played its Maine rivals, in every game,
it's fielding being sharp and speedy, and
it's batting effective against such strong
pitchers as Vail, Coombs. Frost, Mitch
ell. Doe. and Towne. Several of the
games We're uphill contests, but the
nine was always steady and played it's
best when in a hole. Thanks to the
coaching of the old national Lacquer
John Irwin, it probably knows more
INSIDE" baseball than any team that
ever represented n Maine college. This
has been made particularly manifest
in its base running. and in the manner
in which runners on the opposing mines
have been caught mapping.
In its captain, the nine has been par
ticularly fortunate. Andy p. Havey had
the unusual honor, of being made cap
| tain. in his Junior year, and he was
unanimously reelected in his senior
year, and he has the unique distinction
of twice bringing the championship to
, Bowdoin. First base is his position
i though he went to short stop last year,
to strengthen a weak spot. He is a
heavy hitter, and during his whole
course has either led the team, or been
very near the top of the list. Capt
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