Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-26
Part Of It Very Good and Part
OF 1t Very Bad.
Hall Pitches Splendid Ball-l.n,t,.
Knocked Out and Replaced by Har.
rinston-HaiioweII and Win,hro,
and Augusta and Gardiner Nov, Tied

ycst,, day afternoon in a rather on,
sided game.
TIL" game was what Augusta neon,o
call 4 ''sHtisfying' One-that is II dia
once heart good to see the home tam,
hay" such Il nice little walkover and
10 take 4 great long step toward hon-
orinS some ether position than the hot
tom in the league standing.
The game was not altogether = fact
one. rs there We're errors all right, bur
that did not seem 50 bad in view of the
result. however we might view errors
in general. And besides the contest wac
really close aside from that terrible
second inning in which the Gardeners
had Il hard time in telling where thew
We're at ana wondering what would hap
pen next. Yes. this inning alone was
responsible for the one-sided score for
outside Of it Augusta Sc Ored only two
runS-both in the first-and after it we
did not score any-Which would have
made the score Il close one You see
I;ut then. We Augusta people surmiso
that we might hav" suuo eyed out a few
more of '"m if it had been absolutely
necessary, but rs we said before it was
Sdl!SlNi iS anu We Noulu IlOU nave it
otherwise if we could
For individual worl-wcll, everybody
niay"d we'll for Augusta. Hall being i'm
his usual form and doing EN- all the
time. And speaking of Hail. as a pitch
or there is one mighty good thing about
him. and trHt is that he is not n grand
stand mar. He plays ball to win all
the time and is not Il candidate to be
it. This is not always true of Young
st"rS Ind It is good to see. and we like
him for it. Gardiner got but one hit up
to III" ninth off him. and that's good
enough for anybody. The rest of tn,
team played all right. but two men
making errors. Gilley played good
game ut third. and the errors credited
10 him 4" not do him justice. as he
played n fast game. Martin was in the
game 1t short and made good at the
position. while phclan and Nichols
We're in the game in their usual form.
For Gardiner. the team seemed to be
4 little eff in the way Of errors, all but
three Of the 10 men who played con-
trihutinG to this column, and the worst
Of it 0or thelr) was that they punched
their errors in such Il way that they
came along very nicely with Augustas
hits in the second
Harrington took Lancastnr's place in
the box in tho fifth ana did good work
for the GARDENERS during the remainder
of the game. bryant, a new man playo;!
third for the Gardeners. but did not
distinguish himself in particular,
though he may do so-some other day.
AS We said before. the game was
pleasing to the Augustus and we begin
to feel that we have Sot n great team
at least it looks that way lately. Let
he COOL work go ON. Here's the WAY
it went by innings:
First inning-MunrO was safe on an
error. Martin and Gilley both trying
for the ball and beth missing. Turner
hit to right. Munro going to third. J.
Scott struck out. but the last ball was
so low that it went by and Munro
scored and Scott was safe. There was
something OF a miXup on the batting
been called on Messenger Bryant WAS
put in his place and the latter missed
the third one and was consequently
out. Turner rr1c o';t Mt the plate on
an attempt to score and j. Scott was
out playing off third.
For Augusta, Phelan drove out one
Of his two-baggers and took third or
d passed ball. Sullivan was safe on
an error at first and Phelan scored
sullivan stol. and Martin sacrificed
him to third. Moro ross hit 4 little one
t" first and sullivan scored on 4 close
call. Norcross was out playing Of
first.
Second inning-L. Scott struck out |
Henderson flied to Phelan and Har- |
rngton was out. GilIey to Nichols.
For Augusta, Wiliehan was out. |
Lancaster to Munro. Gilley hit 10 |
Mess, niger and was safe on an error |
by that gentleman. Nichols hit to sec
0nd and Giliay was safe at the bag |
Hall nit by second. Gillcv scoring
Nichols making third on an error by |
third baseman. Hall going to second. |
Pnelan hit little one and beat the bah |
out in n sprint that was an eye-opencr
Nichols scoring and Hall going to |
third on the play. Sullivan was safe |
on an error by Messenger and Martin |
WIS safe on an error ut second. Sulli- |
van going to third. Norcross hit and |
sullivan scored Jackson hit and Mar |
TN scored. W lllleHdn MT 10 bryant |
and got two bases out of the operation |
on an error. NorcroSS scoring ana |
Jackson landing on third. Giley flied |
out to short. Nichols struck out. Seven |
runs to the good for the Augustus, all |
in one inning.
Third inning-I.ancas ter flied out to |
Martin and Munro flied out to Nor |
cross Turner got base on balls and |
j. Scott was safe on an error, Turner |
reaching second. Bryant struck out. |
Hall flied out to short. Phelan went
out. second to first, and Sullivan fol-
lowed suit. short TO first.
Fourth inning--Messenger struck
out. L. Scott out. Hall to Nichols, and
Henderson famed.
Martin struck out and Norcross was
safe on an error at left. Jackson hit.
Norcross going to second. Williehan
hit to short and Norcross was out at
third. Gilley was out on an unassisted
play at first.
Fifth inning-Harrington flied out to
Williehan. Lancaster was out at first
and Munro was out. Gilley to Nichols.
Nichols flied out to left and Hen flied
out to Messenger. Phelan got hit by
I'm ood cu1liyan was safe on a hit to