Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-28
TWAS, FARCiAL.
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naonIo it seemed as if they all went
against Waterville.
In the second inning Josselyn had
given PheIan bad fly and made him
I'm so hard for it that he could not
bold on. He got as far as second on
this and hits by Joyce and Rawson
scored him. Joyce was on first when
p.wson banged out little one that
looked good for ~ sacrifice and which
landed Joyce on second all right, Raw
son being also safe at first. Then
Ioyca started to third on the play and
Merritt shot the ball over TO stop him.
y uos caught and held all right ana
was pretty close, but looked out to a
LOT of people. But he was called safe.
Then Allen poked out another little
one to Hafford and he threw to Lake
to stop Joyce at the plate. 1t was
another close call and again a lot of
neople expected to hear him called out,
but if was safe again. Rawson same
along hard behind and managed to get
across the plate all right. Then Allen
| took a dive for second and Lake threw
| to Mclaughlin to head him off and ac-
cording to Carrigan, lost him.
All this happened in much less time
| than il takes to tell how it happened.
There is no doubt that Waterville paid
| to much attention to the kick and not
| enough to the bases but there was also
| a good deal of provocation for the
kick. 1t was fast work, three of Fair
| fields best base runners being mixed
up in it but good many people still
| think that WatervilIe should have had
| Of 10 thrpn ,116a
Fairfield showed good judgment in
playing the game hard while Waterville
| was busy kicking and this may have
had some influence on the decision.
| But no one on the Waterville side of
the fence liked them all. Some picked
one and some another out of the three
to kick on while some think all three
ought to have been outs.
After the merry go round Hooker
struck out Wallace and Boardman and
| McGoVern went out on a foul fly to
Lake. But the spasm Melted three good
runs and made Fairfield's total six,
| While Waterville had but one.
Two errors by Mclaughlin and a
stolen base put BILLY" Connors around
again in the third for another one.
| Waterville took a bunch of thre inthe
ffth and things looked a good deal
| brighter just then. Hooker, the first
man up, got a walk and Hafford fol-
| lowed on n!error by Havey whose foot
slipped off the base just at the. right
time to lose the runner. Grant struck
! out and then "Cy" Coombs took a
| beautiful triple, scoring Hooker and
Hafford. $
| This 0f the nrpttjpSf hits
seen, this year, and looked like home
run when it started 1t went clean
over Wallace's head in center field, az
though he was playing pretty deep. IT
did not roll as it might be expected to
after it landed so Coombs had TO stop
at third. Merritt got a walk and Lake
poked out a fly to Allen. scoring
Coombs. Phelan killed Merritt at
| second, closing the inning.
! Boar,inan took the second triple of
4 The game in the sixth and it was almost
as pretty as COMBS although not so
| much of a smash Wallace scored
from first on this, making the last run
for Fairfield. +r .Hf ".
watervile made big 'tf,y for another
bunch of runs in the seventh and came
very near landing them. Every one
| went in for q hit and three were made
in succession. Kloby getting the last
one by batting in Phelan's place But
| Mclaughlin spoiled it all by q long fly
| TO Wallace as there were two men ont
| when the hitting commenced. After
this neither side got any more hits or
| runs. 4tr
| The score: