Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-30
THE FULL RECORD.
Summary Of the Is waterville-
Fairfield Games.
The Fielding and Batting Averages
Ct Both Teams.
The Men Who Played the Fastest Ball
Ever Seen in Maine.
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To them now that the SMOKE Vi pdllle |
has cleared away. They are good rec
ords. too, and show the kind Of ball
that has been supported and played. A
good many believe that the high water
mark has been reached in the game
here and that there will be none next
season. But others think when thel
snow begins to melt again in the spring
and the colt teams get into action the
old spirit will revive once more and
that another fight will be on with as
good ball if not better than was seen
the past season. i
Waterville and Fairfield have played
lust 25 games in all, the former TAKING
Is and the latter TO- 1t is a remarkapie
fact that not one of these games nt'
been postponed on account OF tae
weather. Commencing July 20 a'i'
closing Sept. 26 it has been possible 10
NAV on every day selected for g game.
There was one when it rained Il Httie
but a full game was played All 'he
others have been fair although scre
have been pretty cold. This is Il re-
,narkable record for Old Probe in base
ball.
Something like so men have played
the season. Commencing win what
were ordinary Independent professional
teams the end of the season saw the
champions of the New England League
going 10 against team that was capt'-
BILE of giving them a good run 1or thelr
money and which finally won three o'lI
Of the five games played. NO one out
side the actual manag ars knows just
how much all this cost OIt 1t was
enough.
On,y two men of all who were in the
game played the whole series-Havey
and Wallace both of Fairheld-and
both were among the best. Havey
who was captain of the Bowdoin nine
for two years, played a splendid game
at first, especially toward the last OF
the season, and Wallace was ac-
knowledged to be one of the fastest
center feeders ever seen here. 1t was
about nip and tuck between nm ana
Phelan, Wallace having a little better
average at the close but with one more
game to his credit. while Phelan
pitched two games and got most OF MS
errors in that position.
There was another pretty race be-
tween Cowing and McGovern VINO did
the bulk of the catching, the former for
Waterville and the latter for Fairfield
McGovern landed the better record but
with two more games played than Cow
ing so it is just about an even thing
between them Cowing led by a good
margin in batting. McGovern las been
signed by Manager Lake for the Lowell
team, next season, and will make a
ha Ion al u
ing is a Colby College player so will
not be in a position to go into the
straight professional ranks yet awhile.
Fairfield was weak all through the
season at second base while Waterville
was unusually strong there. Little
"Billy" Corners played beautiful
game there all through and has fine
fielding record. He is plenty fast
enough for professional ranks and will
probably land there, next season. Blu:
for one rank game his average would
have been good deal better than it
is.
Fairfield leads with Rawson among
the short stops His playing has been
feature of the game all the season
and he has been one of the strongest
men in the bunch both at the bat and
in the field. II private matters would
allow he would doubtless land in the
fastest company in short order. He has
been one of the pillars of the Fairfield
team and worth all the money he has
cost.
Waterville has the best out field av-
erage in Taylor who accepted 30
chances without an error and headed
the batting list a good part of the time
he was in the game. He and Connors
both played with Fairfield. last season.
coming to Waterville. this year, with
the other men from st. John.
Among the pitchers the palm goes to
Coombs for hard clever, consistent
work He pitched more games and
won more games than any other man
who played here. Through the greater
part of the season he did the bulk of
the box work and went up against
Fairfield time and time again without
being batted very hard. 1t seemed
that his opponents must solve all his
mysteries after being up against him
SO many times but he was as effective
toward the last as at the first of the
season. He and Cowing make the star
Colby battery and have few equals in
Both will doubtless land in fast profess
sional company as soon as their college
work is finished.
Some of the other pitchers have bet
ter averages than Coombs but none of
them did the work he did and very
few of them probably could have done
it.
The champion leaguers were a disap-
pointment so far as their fielding went.
Judging from their work here alone
they were not capable of playing so
fast fielding game as the old Water
VILE team and the Fairfield team. They
were much stronger in batting and in
this were superior to the Fairfield team
they played against. But their fielding
in the five games they played here was
very tame alongside that which had
preceded it. 1t was not the clean,
fast pretty work that had been seen
just previous to their coming. 1t is
not fair perhaps to judge them by their
work here for they were probably cap
able Of much better but what they did
in the five games was not up to the