Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-09
A BIG SUCCESS.
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Coombs won as usual but with n
severe handicap. In batting practice
just before the game he received a Sc
we're blow just over the heart. The ball
was net hard pitched one but glanced
from the bat just right to give him a
fierce jolt. 1t was doubtful if he could
pitch at all and only staid it out on
stimulants administered on the advice
of physicians. 1t was a pretty tough
fight for him as it was. but he managed
to prevent hits when they counted and
to win out. Under the circumstances
he pitched remarkably fine ball, as just
before he went into the box he could
hardly throw to the plate.
Boardman and McGovern We're the
only ones that gave him much trouble
ard they took six of the eight hits. The
batting of the latter was a feature of
the game. No matter how, when or
where they came he was waiting for
them and smashed out four pretty
singles out out of four times up. In the
10 games he has taken but five hits,
Three times he played two games in
succession without a hit and once
three in succession, so in nine out of
the 13 he has not made a hit. Hence,
when he banged them out one after
another in this game Fairfield could
hardly be glad enough. He has been
playing a beautiful game behind the
bat and every one was glad to see him
give his batting average good feed
even Waterville. Boardman got two
out of four times up, the others falling
to RaWson and Lord.
Seven INNINGS We're played without
an error on either side. Then Corners
made the first one on a hard ground
ball sent him by Wallace who usually
hits hard. 1t was a bad one to field
and he did not have time to recover
and threw wild to Britt, Wallace going
to third on the play. The other error
WIS made by Britt in the ninth and
was on corking grounder from Buck
nam who was hitting for blood about
that time. The first one cost run
but this one didn't amount to anything
so there really was but one real error
in the whole game, and that one that
can easily be forgotten.
Neither side scored until the third
inning when Waterville took her lead
of three, principally on Havey's wild
ness. Taylor made it mighty hot for
Waterville in the fourth, fifth and sixth
innings, striking cut five men and re-
firing the side in order each time.
Fairfield hadn't been able to get run.
although she came near it in the
fourth when Boardman and McGov-
ern both took singles.
But Fairfield cut loose in the sixth
and pulled out two runs. A walk, a
will fnb nd a
scored Wallace, and advanced Lord to
third Then a hit by McGovern scored
him. Neither side did anything in the
seventh.
Fairfield tied the score in her half of
the eighth and squared away for the
run home like a winner for fair. She
came as near pulling out the game
that any old heart on the Waterville
side probably felt about as bad as
COMBS. Wallace had scored the run
on Connor's error and RaWson's hit.
Lord hit the ball hard but landed it
suuarely in Nolan's nit. Nolan threw
bit wild to Britt to catch RaWson.
Britt lust managed to reach the pail
with his gloved hand and it stuck there
like a fly to tanglefoot. He has done
the trick many time in practice and
seldom missed on it but never before
in so tight a pinch in a game. Board
man and McGevern both hits again
but Havey sent one to Connors ana
it was all over, as it usually is when
he gets 'em.
In her half Waterville understood
that it was a case of do or die and she
did and that. too, with two men out.
Fairfield had made her try and lost
but Waterville was more fortunate
Britt and Taylor had struck out when
Coombs came to the bat. The more he
plays the better Waterville likes to
see him in tight place. In the box
or at the bat he always does his best
work when things are going DEAD
against him. He has pulled out of
small holes so often that Waterville
now rather enjoys~seeing him nave
chance to do it once more.
In this case he had the assistance OF